“The only single issue I worry about is keeping her highness out of office.”
Fine. But if I have to choose I’m not going to pick Fred.
And his answer is disturbing to a party craving for a “solid conservative” candidate. He looked terrible on abortion this morning, to someone like me who wants to end abortion. Even his federal answer was unsatisfying because he didn’t leave it at that but went on the poo-poo states making abortion criminal. That’s how I read it.
Not a single issue voter, to be clear.
Let’s restore abortion policy to the political process. Once that’s done make the humane case for the unborn state by state in the legislatures and on the campaign trail. In the process, avoid any suggestion that your morality compels you to treat young women in difficult circumstances as serious criminals. Ending abortion will involve changing many hearts and you can’t do that if you portray yourself as viciously censorious.
Anyone who tries to claim that abortion should be criminalized as a form of manslaughter is hurting the pro-life cause. Most Americans, even in the reddest states, if forced to choose between abortion on demand and a strict regime of criminal penalties for anyone who has or performs an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, will opt for the former. Whenever the abortion debate becomes a battle of the extremes, we lose. We can’t let it be that kind of battle.
Listen to Fred; follow Fred; on abortion and on nearly every other issue he is far and away our best hope.
Fine. But if I have to choose I’m not going to pick Fred.
Are you saying you'd be happy to have Hillary win if Fred were the nominee? If so I think that attitude is just nuts. It's what cost us the House and Senate last year and gave us Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid. Hundred percenters who feel that way, who want to "punish" Republicans for not being "pure" pose a real threat to put Hillary in office, just as a lot of the same folks put Bill in back in 92 and 96.