It's the pro-lifers' moment

Newsday ^ | 11/25/04 | James Pinkerton

[jobim]

Truly a subject of THANKSGIVING!

[georgia peach]

Amen!!!

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "Second, Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the few pro-choice Republicans in the Senate, was threatened with the loss of his judiciary committee chairmanship - unless he pledged not to block pro-life nominees for judgeships, including for the Supreme Court."

Wheww, man oh man is this this one Kool-aide drinking victory for the Pro-life camp.

Take the rosy colored glasses off, we lost that one. And unless something changes between now and January it is time to make the GOP suffer for the betrayal. The goal is the status quo. Roe v Wade stands and the GOP pretends to hold the Pro-life banner. Gag

[Dog Gone]

[Cicero]

I opposed the appointment of Specter, but I'm willing to wait and see. I won't pull the plug until the time comes to do it.

The Republican Party is at a critical juncture. Either they will move ahead expeditiously with conservative, prolife judicial appointments, or they will lose the extraordinary momentum we have seen in the past two elections. The showdown is now, and the results will be seen in the 2006 elections.

Ordinarily, midterm elections see losses by the party in power. That wasn't true in 2002 and it won't be true in 2006 IF Bush redeems his word and appoints prolife judges. Otherwise, the next two years will be remembered as the time when the Republican party had victory in its hands and threw it away.

Karl Rove, take heed. This is not the time for wheeling and dealing and business as usual. There can be no compromise on the murder of children.

[mississippi red-neck]

You nailed it.

[nickcarraway]

Huh? Since November 3rd it's been one defeat after another for pro-lifers. Bush hasn't put one person clearly pro-life on his cabinet. And there are no consequences for Specter challenging Bush on anything.

[mississippi red-neck]

Not only that but while people run around thinking we've got a big victory, the liberal Courts are fixing to impose Gay Marriage on us just like they did abortion.

All of those large majority votes to protect traditional don't mean a thing to a black-robed Constitutional hit-man.

It's the liberal courts that's making the laws that are anti- Christian religion, anti-life, anti traditional marriage and anti- God anywhere even in the founding documents.

When they remove Him, by using another Constitutional baseless law imposed by activist judges "separation of church and state", then those documents will be useless.

The country the founding fathers envisioned will be separated not only from church, but from it's foundation and will crumble, which is the real intention of those that hate it.

[TAdams8591]

Since when have pledges and promises and a political carreer other than his own, meant anything to Arlen Specter? The author is dreaming. BTW, if Arlen truly thought he wouldn't be able to make some advances in his own agenda, he wouldn't have taken the chairmanship.

[TAdams8591]

"Take the rosy colored glasses off, we lost that one."

Very much agreed.

[TAdams8591]

There is only one positive gain I can see. Without all the ruckus, Arlen would have been a GREATER impediment. Now he'll be a bit more selective about when he'll choose to be an obstacle.

[TAdams8591]

I have been watching this guy for twenty five years (maybe longer). He is the very first politician I ever met. He grabbed my hand and shook it when I was a young teenage girl shopping for clothes (and completely oblivious to him) and he was running for DA in Philadelphia. I had no idea then who he was (until I saw a campaign sign) and could never have imagined that one day he would be one of my greatest political enemies. Since then I have come to know him rather well.

However, you are right. We have no choice but to wait and see.

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[janis]

That strip is very funny. where can I find it and what is it called? I can't make out the small print.

[Dog Gone]

It's called Pearls Before Swine, and it's relatively new. I read it in the Houston Chronicle, but it's getting picked up by more newspapers all the time.

I suggest that you ask your local paper to carry it. It can be gut-splittingly funny. The attack it carried on for a week against the New York Times after the Jayson Blair affair was awesome.

[MHGinTN]

Status quo ... I fear you are right and the Specter chairmanship will be the GOP's way of excusing the lack of movement toward ending the abortion on demand serial killing.

[Dog Gone]

[jobim]

Gratitude and hope are consequences of results of improved degree over what they might otherwise might have been.

Do you really not see the gains made for pro-life? What would be the disposition of your moods/attitudes had Kerry won?

Indicators are popping up on many fronts giving rise for hope. Do any of you actually work in the pro-life movement?

I worked here in Hawaii to get Lingle, the first Republican in over a generation, into office, and the best that could be said about her in contrast to her opponent Maize Hirono was that she favored a parental notification law. But she won, and her Lt. Gov is very pro-life. It was a step. These are all steps. Specter, Gonsales, etal may not be pro-life, but their boss is and, of course we would prefer all pro-lifers, but we fight each battle as it arises.

We need to be as persistent and forward-thinking as Margaret Sanger was, as the angels of death today are, as the homosexual lobby is. Critical, yes indeed; demanding, yes indeed. Unable to express gratitude when battles are won? NEVER!