Yeah, you're going to make a lot of headway calling the overwhelming majority of the Republican party extremists.
Fact is, if Condi's the nominee, we lose. Pro abort Republicans cannot win national elections. Evangelicals will stay home in droves. You can talk about the politcs of it all until you're blue in the face.... they're still going to stay home.
Nominating Condi is suicide, IMO.
I disagree with you, WPTG, that Condi's posistion on abortion as stated so far is at odds with pro-Lifers.
IF she is a strong state's rights proponent (would seem so but further clarification needed), against partial birth, for parental notification, against government funding of abortions, believes abortion shouldn't be encouraged...well, it's certainly an issue worth debate. In essence we'd be on the same side, if not necessarily entirely same personal view.
"Yeah, you're going to make a lot of headway calling the overwhelming majority of the Republican party extremists."
You guys need some reading skills and/or a thicker skin.
When I used the phrase "pro-life extremists" you could infer either that:
A) all people who are "pro-life" are "extreme"
B) there are *some* people in the set of "pro-life" people who are "extreme", and I'm referring to that proper subset.
The very fact that you jump to inference A) is exactly the kind of problem I'm talking about. In fact, I don't think it's even reasonable, in the context of a Republican oriented site, to do anything other than infer B).
I have *seen* the kind of people I'm talking about here before-- possibly I'm talking about you two, in fact-- people who say "if he's not pro-life, then I don't care if he is Republican-- he has to go". THAT is the problem.
"You" guys-- the ones willing to fracture the Republican party over ideological purity-- are the people I'm talking about.
In case there's still any confusion, I am NOT saying that to be "pro-life" is to be "extreme". For God's sake, peeps. I am saying that you don't influence policy by losing elections-- you don't serve "our" best interest by fracturing the *majority* over *one issue*. I am saying that if "rare but legal" is not good enough for you, then it damn well should be, or you're not helping reduce the number of abortions if Condi is willing to run. OK?
Nominating Condi is very likely suicide --- for racial reasons as well as the abortion issue. I think, however, that a semi -pro -abortion candidate could, if need be, couch their position on abortion in purely legal terminology and likewise find success as a republican candidate.
What worries me more is the unlikely prospect that America will elect a black president at this point in time.
Condi Rice has the best bead on the abortion issue I've seen articulated yet.
The *only* thing left for her to do is to remand the issue back to the states *after* she's been elected President and then selected as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.