Posted on 03/07/2006 3:15:02 PM PST by Paladin2b
So, a friend and I get talking yesterday. He’s a lefty, kind of. Actually, he insists he’s a middle, maybe even slightly right-shaded social democrat sort of person, and in any sensible country (like, say, Luxembourg or Denmark) he would be recognized as the moderate conservative centrist he is. Anyway, he writes like an angel and knows the political left in this country well, and he suggested we get together because—well, because he and I are friends, and he wanted to give me a friendly warning while there was still maybe time.
The facts, he said, are these: President Bush has approval ratings so low he makes Harry Truman and Richard Nixon look like prom kings. The war in Iraq is lost, and the best scenario involves its becoming basically a client state of Iran, which hates the United States even more than Saddam Hussein did.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are circling for the kill, and they are entirely serious about impeachment if they gain the House and Senate—and jail time for everybody in the Bush administration if they win the presidential election in 2008. The Patriot Act and other assertions of executive power have put power in the hands of the White House, and there will be no hesitation to use it against political enemies when the Democrats regain the presidency and a thug like—perhaps I shouldn’t name him, but it doesn’t matter: imagine any of a dozen well-known Democratic party operatives here—is made chief of staff to a Democratic president.
Add it all up, and the Republicans are going down. In fact, they’re going down for a generation, and their opponents will be moving brutally against everybody who has had anything to do with them. So what is the pro-life movement doing associating with these guys?
Sure, sure—he waved away my grimace—you gotta dance with the one who brung you to the dance. But the dance has turned into a lynching party, and they’ve got the rope around the neck of your partner. Now, he said, would be a really good time for you to start looking for somebody else to take you home.
The warning came from a friend, and he was serious—not just because he is a friend but also because, without being opposed to abortion himself, he respects the few pro-lifers he knows: their passion, their dedication, their insistence that politics be moved by moral affairs.
Start making Democratic friends as fast as you can, he advised. Give money, intellectual analysis, and political commitment to a couple that seem plausible, and boom them as hard as you can—for things could break so hard against you that your only chance to have influence for years, and maybe to stay out of jail, is to have some elected Democrats on your side.
Well, the political situation is wildly exaggerated, of course, but some of these facts are not exaggerated at all: The Left in this country is more furious than it’s been since 1974, and they do believe there is blood in the water.
What’s more, if they should gain massive political power, their anger would probably spill over into criminalization of as much of the pro-life movement as they could reach. At the very least, they would end any hope of overturning Roe v. Wade, and the more they can tar the pro-life movement with what they believe is a criminal Republican administration, the more abortion is guaranteed as a permanent part of the American landscape.
I still believe that the Iraq situation is winnable, and I still hold that what I called the new fusionism between neoconservatives and social conservatives has deep and perduring roots, and I still think the initial invasion of Iraq was a moral thing to do. But suppose that my friend is right about the political future of America. What ought the pro-life movement to do—now—about it?
"...The war in Iraq is lost, and the best scenario involves its becoming basically a client state of Iran..."
Won't this guy be surprised when Iran gets a dose of regime change, which is about to occur in as short a time as a few weeks. They and the Taliban will be fighting for cave space in the border areas.
Sounds like more rantings from a MOONBAT!!!
Actually, only untested speculation suggests this. While plausible, it has never happened, and we won't know how the abortion issue plays out in a post-Roe world until we get there. I expect that the issue will become huge but have a minimal net impact as a furious race begins to win over state legislatures.
For now, we know that abortion is a winner for pro-lifers in the current atmosphere.
Bricks are cheaper. ;-)
Sigh. "Vote Democrat and die." Again. The last argument of a feckless Republican party.
Picture Waco. Many Wacos.
No, I don't think the dems are going to "win big" anytime soon. And it's not because they don't have their act togather. In fact, if they really came out 100% with what they truly believe, they'd discover just how unpopular they really are. I mean the first questions will stump them...."Mr.Liberal, what's your exact plan for the WOT?... what's your solution to Iraq?....why, exactly shoud the American people trust you to keep them safe?", etc.
If the Democrats have the House and the Presidency after 08, expect the prices of used guns to skyrocket as they were doing in 94 right up to the election. New weapons will be harder to get and there will be waiting periods as demand for many models outstrips production. The 94 elections produced a sigh of relief almost audible through the country and used gun prices collapsed back to normal.
Always keep Iran in mind. Sooner or later we have to do something about Iran and Bush right now seems to be methodically getting our international ducks all in that row for something definitive.
Right...
Get the socialists in power so they can destroy the economy.
Then go try to round up 10 million really pissed off, unemployed conservatives who are sitting on arsenals.
Sounds like a plan. Good luck, dopey.
Heh, there is that, too.
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