Just please assure me that your statements apply to the primaries only, not the general election.
Absolutely. I'm a team player. I think it's foolhardy to threaten to stay home or vote third party if the candidate is not up to our personal standards. Any Republican is better than any Democrat. We must fight our battles in the primaries.
There are millions of Republicans who will not vote for a pro-abort, period, ever, primary or general election.
I'm one.
And I'm pretty representative of the makeup of the Republican nominating electorate.
So take all the pro-aborts in your list, and throw them away. They're not going anywhere in 2008 but home. And if they somehow did win the GOP nomination, they would lose the general election badly.
Such a scenario would mark the beginning of the unraveling of the Republican governing coalition that so many have worked so long and hard to build.