[fabian]

I am dissappointed with Fred not supporting the human life ammendment. We cannot give states the right to murder unborn children...come on! There is a good reason it’s part of the republican platform. I really like Fred and know he sees abortion as horrible, but his position doesn’t go far enough. I haven’t decided to go with him or Mitt Romney yet.

[Lexinom]

You could do the right thing (instead of what is perceived as the popular thing right now) and support Duncan Hunter.

Unless you live in Iowa or NH, however, you will probably need him to win one of those states -- unless you have the courage and fortitude to do what is right rather than follow media-driven perceptions.

Remember Elijah lamenting that none righteous were left in Israel, and God's response: "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal" (1Ki 19:18). Be one of the seven thousand in our land.

[EternalVigilance]

I’ll never cast a vote for Fred Thompson for anything. Or Rudy Giuliani. Or Mitt Romney. Or John McCain. Or Mike Huckabee. Or Ron Paul.

These men don’t even believe in the God-given, unalienable rights to life and liberty.

As the Declaration of Independence asserts, the protection of those rights is the reason we even have government.

To hell with the lot of them. And the Republican Party, if the GOP is going to tear the heart out of the Reagan platform.

[Hunton Peck]

The president has no constitutional role in amending the constitution. Amendments are ratified either by congress or by a constitutional convention, neither of which procedures requires any input by the president. He also has no veto power over an amendment. The only role the president could assume, no matter how strongly he felt about it, would be to use his bully pulpit to promote it. If there really were enough of a consensus to get an HLA ratified, the president's intervention would be nearly insignificant.

The president's primary role regarding abortion is the nomination of constitutionalist judges. As noted above, there's nobody else in the race who has as sure an understanding of how to do that as Thompson.