[Blue Highway]

Thmopson has it all, and strangely enough Pat Robertson endorsed Rooty Mc Fruity. When Thompson wins, it will be sickening to see all these people that supported Rooty try to cozy up to Thompson, and maybe he will tell them all where they can stick it.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

FRED....PING!!

[kevkrom]

At least one right to life leader has his head on straight.

[Politicalmom]

PING!! (Don't forget to vote for FRed in the FR poll!!)

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[ari-freedom]

the president doesn’t have a vote but he does have a voice. we need to hear that voice on this issue

[traderrob6]

Wow a realist,how refreshing!

[ejonesie22]

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!

IT’S A LIE!

Everyone knows that since James Bopp backed Mitt, Romney is the ONLY candidate the NRL will support...

/really really big S

[ellery]

It’s pretty easy and risk-free to endorse a human life amendment — it gives credibility to those with weak records on the issue, with no follow-through results required.

Thompson voted with Jesse Helms on abortion 100% of the time in the senate, and he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. The fact that he’s not endorsing a Constitutional amendment, given that there would be no downside in doing so, gives him more credibility in my view.

[Horusra]

Fred’s voting record is Pro-life. Constitutional amendments don’t just “happen” and in the political climate of today, I am not sure they can happen anymore. The country seems just too polarized.

[Grunthor]

But I was JUST TOLD a day or two ago on this very forum by fine, upstanding Trudy Rooters that Fred and Rudy are virtually the SAME on the issue.

Them fine folks wouldn’t have possibly been LYING would they?

[Reagan Man]

For the better part of the last 35 years, we pro-lifers have been pushing for a right to life amendment that would protect the unborn under law. There have been over 300 right to life proposals for an amendment to the Constitution since 1973.

In 1983 a proposal called, the Hatch-Eagleton Human Life Federalism Amendment, came the closet to getting through the first step in a very difficult constitutional process. It failed to get the 67 votes required, going down 49 votes in favor to 50 votes against.

At the same time, pro-lifers have been working to get Roe v Wade overturned. This would require at least five pro-life/anti-Roe votes on the SCOTUS to accomplish. Right now, we are one vote shy. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about abortion, or a woman having a right to have an abortion. As J. Byron White said, RvW was an act of "raw judical power". The SCOTUS passed RvW as judicial fiat. The American people never had an opportunity to vote on RvW and its provision for abortion on demand. Nor was RvW ever voted on by any legislature.

At this point, passage of a right to life amendment may happen some day. Just not right now. Fred Thompson has it right. Overturn RvW, send the issue back to the states where it resided for 200 years. Allow federalism to work. Stop abortion on demand as the national policy of the US governemnt. Allow the people in each state to vote on the issue. This will bring down the number of abortions and set the stage for a Reagan style Human Life Amendment at some future date.

[davidlachnicht]

[daylilly]

I wish there was more emphasis on the concept expressed in your post, that the president does not have a vote. Congress does and the state legislatures do. It is going to take a huge change in congress before the marriage amendment or the human life amendment could possibly be passed.

Your post also points out that these ideas are long term goals. I’ve heard Richard Land, Shannon Royce and Fred talk about these ideas. Some people can’t get these concepts through their heads.

Fred’s ideas are the best IMHO for where we are now and what we are able to do now and would push us toward the eventual goal of fixing these problems.

I’m not disagreeing with anything in this post or what was said, but I wish more people would talk about it and get the point across and more people would understand what it all means.

[Bull Market]

I can’t wait for all the Duncan Donuts to roll in here and accuse Mr Osteen of being “pro-death”.

[DesScorp]

Unlike anyone else but Rudy, Fred is trying to appeal to the general voter, as well as the GOP base. The difference is, he doesn’t have to nuance his position. He’s well and truly a federalist, and has long been an advocate of returning some rightful power back to the states, as the 10th Amendment proscribes.

[Spiff]

The founding President of National Right to Life Committee, the "father of the pro-life movement", Dr. John Willke has endorsed Mitt Romney.

Further, the National Right to Life Committee's OWN pro-life ratings does not make Thompson look all that good:

His voting record, according to Project Vote Smart's list of his ratings from National Right to Life, are:

• 1996 86%
• 1997 83%
• 1998 87%
• 1999 75%
• 2000 77%

And according to National Right to Life Committee's own ratings:

• 105th Congress 87%
• 106th Congress 78%
• 107th Congress 33%

If you average the ratings reported by Project Vote Smart, you get only an 81.6% pro-life rating.

If you average the ratings reported directly by the National Right to Life Commitee, you get only a 66% rating.

[trisham]

"I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with."

~Fred Thompson~

Go Fred!