The outrage over this is proof to me that even some conservatives are not capable of listening to a coherent discussion of someone’s position. Seems they, too, are driven by the sound bite. I thought we were better than that, and am terribly disappointed to learn that so many conservatives are as incapable of rational thought as liberals.
I hope you guys find a guy with the right sound bites you can support. Bomb throwers always appeal to some. I’ll continue to support the most thoughtful candidate in the primaries, Fred Thompson.
You mean people should read more than a headline and read more than one source to form an opinion? What a novel idea.
The outrage over this is proof to me that even some conservatives are not capable of listening to a coherent discussion of someone’s position.
President 2008
Republicans:
Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) may have seriously wounded himself with his handling of the abortion issue on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” Thompson unequivocally stated he opposed a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution, which is a plank in the Republican platform. Without prompting, he then attacked the idea of “criminalizing” abortion and locking up mothers who procure abortions — images that are used as scare tactics by the pro-choice lobby. Throughout the long discussion of the topic, Thompson was incoherent at best and thoroughly objectionable to his party’s pro-life base at worst. He backed away from his firm opposition to the platform, but he never quite set himself right on the whole issue.
You call that coherent?
Amen. I just sent his campaign more money this morning. I hope thousands of others do the same, and I wish and pray that Thompson wins the primaries and the general election. Should Roe V Wade be overturned (and far and away the BEST chance of that happening is with Thompson), millions of the unborn will live. Those Republicans who STUPIDLY insist instead on all-or-nothing in terms of voting ONLY for a candidate who claims to seek a Federal prohibition on abortion, which the candidate will know full well has virtually zero approach of succeeding, will have the blood of millions of the unborn on their hands.
Some might even say those "pure" moral voters will have as much to answer for before God as stupid girls and women who get pregnant and opt for abortions and the doctors who presume that helping them is kindness. These holier-than-thou types will yelp and scream and protest loudly at the thought that they, too, are guilty of sin through the deaths that result from their own pride and arrogance. But maybe a few will heed the warning, look inward, and do the right thing -- vote for a Republican who espouses overturning Roe V Wade.
I remember reading somewhere that one of the most admirable things about the Amish was that they focused not on changing the world, but on changing themselves with regard to God's word. I like that. I wish self-proclaimed Rightous "Moral" Christians who ridiculously prattle that Thompson is "Pro-Abortion" would start focusing more on how to change and improve themselves and change others by their own good example, and LESS on using the Federal Governnment to try to prevent people from sinning.
Neither I nor anyone else on this forum has any place at all in what goes on between the heart of a sinner and God. Nor does the Federal government. Abortion is one of those things, and so-called "conservative" Christians who want to use the government to poke their judgememental noses into other people's relationships with their Maker are NOT politically conservative, and they hurt Christianity all around, IMO. The Founders came from an England where church attendance was mandated. Clearly they founded the U.S. on a premise that respects the truth that the government has zero place in trying to manipulate the sinner's someday answering to God for sins of stupidity, youth, rebellion, laziness, or plain wickedness.