Dear MassachusettsGOP,
As I'm a Catholic, many of my relatives and friends are Democrats.
For Catholics whose Catholic identity is strong, things like low taxes, individualism, making lots of money, don't necessarily rate high on the list of important values, or translate into important political principles. Thus, much of the Republican agenda is lost on these folks.
At times, the political discussions I've had with these relatives and friends has been heated. They accuse me of various things, being a greedy capitalist (guilty), being a warmonger (guilty, if that means bashing the brains out those who would attack us), etc.
Of course, as devout, reasonably conservative Catholics, my ultimate comeback is to call them supporters of baby-killers. Among devout, obedient Catholics, the accusation that one supports pro-abort politicians cuts to the bone.
Since Mario Cuomo announced in the 1980s that he was personally pro-life, but wouldn't let his own principles interfere with the "majority" view that abortion should be legal, many Catholic Democrats have tried to take refuge in the "personally pro-life, but..." scam.
For over two decades, I've taken after Democrats pretty harshly for the hypocritical, lying stance of "personally pro-life but..." I've excoriated friends and relatives for supporting such monsters. I've actually gotten a few to see the light, and vote Republican. But that's PRO-LIFE Republican.
And what I condemned in the likes of Mario Cuomo and others, I won't hesitate to condemn in the likes of Mitt Romney and other baby-killing Republicans.
Either you're adamantly for protecting the lives of unborn children in law, or you're not. I don't really give a good damn if you think of yourself as "personally pro-life, but..." That's a stinking lie, an attempt to have it both ways.
I have nothing but contempt and disgust for politicians who do that.
If a politicians wants to be in favor of legal baby-killing, he should have some balls and admit that he's a baby-killing bastard. That's one big point in favor of Mr. Giuliani. He's a baby-killing bastard and is pretty forthright about it. Good for him! It's quite easy for me to make my choice never to vote for the man for president, but I admire him for his forthright position.
He believes in Roe.
He believes in a constitutional right to abortion.
He believes in government funding of poor women's abortions.
He believes that partial birth abortion should be legal.
He doesn't dwell on some stupid, lying, hypocritical thesis that he's really pro-life, but...
I preferred Gov. Romney when he was an honest baby-killer. I preferred when he said that he's been a baby-killer since at least 1970, and that it's a matter of principle. I'd never vote for him for president, but at least he was an honest and decent baby-killer. Or so it seemed.
But this crap about "personally pro-life but..." is nothing but an attempt to hoodwink pro-lifers.
I've seen this for over 20 years among Catholic Democrats. I've seen how much they wanted to vote for folks who much more closely represented their own economic and foreign policy views, and how desperately they wanted to justify voting for pro-aborts, and how much they wanted to swallow the lying line of "personally pro-life but..."
I won't be fooled like them. I won't indulge myself in the actions that I condemn on their part.
It is sickening to me to see Republicans falling for the same lies.
sitetest
Fair enough, Good Luck.
Anyway the real question is whether Romney saw the light like I did. I find it interesteing that he used to believe what his mother taught him about abortion. And seemingly has changed his tune. It mirrors my story.
IOW, is it Romney a true convert? I'm not sure how conservative he really is. You've been burned before so I understand your sensitivity. But I am still open to the possiblity that he could change to pro-life and really mean it, politics aside. It happened to me.