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"But that's not good enough for them -- they won't support that!."

I have no idea why you would make such a statement, perhaps you have information regarding the rather diverse groups of pro-life Chrisitans that I am not privy to. Dr. Dobson does not speak for all prolife Christians and I have yet to hear all of them speak in one voice.

For a commentator such as Hannity to push a candidate so early, who is anethema to our core values as is Guliani is bewildering.

I'm not referring to Dobson. I am referring to pro-life Christians who insist that their candidate be for the Federal outlawing of abortion in all 50 states, which the majority of American voters would (sadly) not support. The smarter move for pro-lifers, Christian or otherwise, would be to seek and embrace the candidate who is for overturning Roe and returning it back to the states. THAT is something the majority of voters would accept, and it would be the first step in the important process of reducing the social acceptance of abortion and in eliminiating abominable tax-funded abortions.

Pro-lifers who equate "principled" with stubbornly settling ONLY for an anti-abortion candidate, are short-sighted and destructive to their own cause. Pro-lifers who insist that the Republican party "needs them" are worse. It's they -- and all yet-to-be-born -- that need the Republican party to be the party of smaller government. They should keep the focus on voting for the primary candidate who calls for SMALLER GOVERNMENT. Only then will headway be made in the fight against abortion, social normalization of homosexuality, a badly failing education system, and pretty much all of the other issues that concern social concervatives.

The bigger the government, the less its respect for personal beliefs. The smaller the government, the more it allows for the freedom of people to follow and live their personal beliefs.

ANY voting block, Christian or Pro-Life or Anti-Gay or anything else, concerned with having their personal beliefs respected are doing it WRONG when they seek candidates that also hold those beliefs. They are doing it RIGHT when they seek candidates who stand and push for smaller government.