Posted on 01/24/2005 9:02:24 AM PST by TBP
Arlen Specter is installed as Judiciary chairman and proceeds to hire a liberal pro-abort from the NAACP to be his guy on judicial nominations after promising that he wouldn't use his committee to block the President's nominees. Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales, who had a pro-abortion record on the Texas Supreme Court, says he does not think Roe vs. Wade should be disturbed.
Why do pro-lifers continue supporting a party that gives them nothing but rhetoric and never intends to give them anything but rhetoric?
Why do lying liberals, Democrats and Libertarians always feel the need to pretend they are conservatives?
Americans are not quitters! I'm positive that we can break the current murder rate by abortion if Americans work together! C'mon! Let's go for 90 million people killed! We can do it! /"it's a human stupid" (dripping sarcasm off)
And conservatives pussyfoot to libs?
As much as the Republicans have.
Why do Republicans always feel the need to pretend they are conservatives?
Many if not most of them are! So what is your point?
No one is saying that. Wht is being said, if you would stop being a Republibot for a moment and read the article, is that we need to build a party that is genuinely committed to protecting life.
oh really? there are a few conservatives but unfortunately the republican party seems to being taken over by big government rinos. can you explain to me why our government has expanded more in the past 4 years then it ever has? can you tell me how a prescription drug plan of that magnitude got passed with a republican majorities in the house and senate? dont be disillusioned. there are plenty of liberals in the republican party.
Many if not most of them are! So what is your point?
Thney certainly don't vote like they are. We get all the rhetoric, but then we get the largest entitlement program in almost 40 years, no effort to stop abortion, de facto amnesty for illegal aliens, increasing (and unconstitutional) Federal spending on education (without even so much as a school choice plan), a massive boost in agriculture subsidies, the unconstitutional "campaign finance reform" bill, an apology to Red China after THEY shot down OUR plane, not a single veto, and so many other policies that do not in any way resemble conservatism.
Then conservatives come along and say, "Well, we have to support them because the Democrats are worse." Oh, so it's better to lose slowly.
To achieve victory, first you must seek it.
I stand corrected. As a Catholic, I've had that form of discussion with too many Democrat "Catholics" who will justify their voting on this premise and thus I am a little sensitive to this topic. I apologize.
I haven't looked yet, but I'll just bet this is article is an advertisement for the Peroutskites.
Sorry, but puppies, manatees, seals, whales, snail darters, etc., don't qualify as humans...
Someone up there fleshed out the source label. You'd have won that bet.
Let me propose a new acronym: PLINO (Pro-Life In Name Only). A "pro-life" Senator or Representative who does not favor the use of Article 3 of the Constitution to remove abortion from the purview of the Supreme Court is a PLINO. Wringing his hands and pretending that nothing can be done until (at some indeterminate point) the makeup of the Court is changed (and PLINOs often vote for pro-abortion Justices BTW) may make good political cover (his goal), but it essentially makes his claim to be "pro-life" a lie, in the same manner as if I were to claim to be "anti-rape" but then looked on and did nothing while a woman was being attacked.
And, at the State level, open defiance of the Supreme Court must be left in the playbook. One individual state won't be enough, but imagine if an entire swatch of the country, from North Dakota to Texas, decided to legislate against abortion anyway and simply told the Fed gubmint to go to h*ll. Any State "pro-life" legislator who insists on absolute fealty to the Supreme Court (as though it were God) is also a PLINO.
And the Republicans haven't done a single thing to protect unborn humans, either. That was what I meant when I said they've done as much as the Democrats. Neither party has done anything to advance the pro-life cause, and it's time one of them did.
And what difference does it make anyway? What he says is correct.
Bob smith was right about the Republicans.
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