To: wagglebee
Having a pro-abortion Republican running against a pro-abortion Democrat for POTUS would be a disaster.
This is true. The above scenario is one better suited for the Bizarro World of SNL fame.
However, I don't think heckling Giuliani with epithets like "baby killer" really does much to advance the pro-life cause in America. Does he consider the ongoing slaughter of the unborn to be a matter of personal decision--one that's constitutionally guaranteed? He does, and it is sickening. Giuliani expects this and can simply write pro-life activists off as extremists; a number of mainstream GOPers would probably agree. Nothing was advanced, no one gave their own beliefs and presuppositions a second look--i.e., nothing was gained. Show's over, nuthin' to see here.
There really are better, more effective ways to do activism. Let's not take the low road on something this important.
52 posted on
01/05/2008 6:35:57 PM PST by
Das Outsider
("Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."--G.K. Chesterton)
To: Das Outsider
There really are better, more effective ways to do activism.
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What do you recommend that would be better and more effective?
53 posted on
01/05/2008 6:40:12 PM PST by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
To: Das Outsider
However, I don't think heckling Giuliani with epithets like "baby killer" really does much to advance the pro-life cause in America. Phooey! Sure it does. It makes the people who will sit and calmly discuss the pro-life position seem more reasonable in the eyes of their opponents.
The Left uses this tactic with the environmentalists all the time. They have the way out whackos parading in the streets, and calmly say 'Now, let's be reasonable, compromise...' and the whole time the wackos are drawing the 'center' off to the left.
As for me, I find it more than a wee bit 'off' that people can sit and calmly discuss sending another million babies through the shredder...
142 posted on
01/06/2008 12:31:45 PM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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