Posted on 03/13/2009 1:32:40 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
How is it that you can understand the 13th Amendment, but fail to understand the Constitution's own statement of purpose and the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments?
Since you seem to possess reading comprehension skills, I'm tempted to think this is a case of unwillingness to understand, not inability.
With Hillary Clinton doing the same exact things that Barack Obama is presently doing instead! The “fix was in” for leftist anyways on November 4, 2008, thanks to the leftist ongoing creation and worsening of worldwide political correctness and everything associated with worldwide political correctness and the GOP’s ongoing move towards “leftist-lite”! At the same time, there were also way too many “Republican haters”, “President George W. Bush haters”, “politically ignorant voters”, “politically stupid voters”, and “conservative haters” that voted on November 4 against both Republicans and conservatives to have any serious chance for “big time victory” for both.
Now that's just wrong! Steele is a Roman Catholic. As a Marylander who supported Steele when he ran for the Senate seat now held by the leftist gay-marriage-supporter Ben Cardin, I resent your categorical vituperation against Steele.
Backwards. The United States Constitution was not intended to eliminate state powers and establish a national hegemony, as you mistakenly believe.
and the Fifth
Non sequitur.
and the Fourteenth Amendments?
The 14th Amendment has not yet been given blanket incorporation, despite the desperate efforts of the left to destroy the 10th Amendment.
Did anyone check Steele’s Party Affiliation before he was selected RNC chair?
Are babies persons?
Even the author of Roe vs. Wade, in the text of the decision, admitted that if the unborn were persons, they are protected by the clear provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.
And, the Reagan plank in the GOP platform since 1984 asserts the personhood of the unborn and their protection by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Someone might want to check that particular ID on most of the GOP’s “leadership.”
That's ridiculous. The Fourteenth has explicit language that binds the states. No "incorporation" needed. Just basic reading comprehension skills.
“No State shall...deprive any person of life...without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” - Fourteenth Amendment
I totally agree. And to give him (her?) the benefit of the doubt, I think that if EternalVigilance were sent as a missionary to a remote jungle where abortion was practiced, he would work patiently with people to first gain their trust and attention, and then lay the foundations of a moral system, and eventually introduce positive improvements like the benefits of marriage and preparing for children and forming an economy to support them.
What he fails to recognize is that our population is now largely peopled by youths who have been culturally deprived of a moral education and environment. They need a long, patient reeducation; they need inspiration and a much more comprehensive view than merely overturning a long-established law, however heinous, can possibly provide.
It's easy to forget that it took a bloody Civil War and millions of wounded or dead to even begin to overturn slavery; then the Confederacy had to be occupied by the Union and kept down economically for an entire century before our country had the strength to fight the second phase of civil rights for blacks, an end to Jim Crow.
Supporters of abortion have demonstrated not only their ignorance and venality, but their absolute determination to fight to the death even of our country and our freedoms to defend it -- why? Because the fight is not about abortion, but against principalities and powers. We can't be so naive as to think that overturning Roe is going to settle a fight that has already taken up nearly half a century and millions of fetal lives.
Conservatives must regard themselves as missionaries who will work patiently with the ignorant and deluded youth of our nation. Only when the Abolitionists convinced a majority that slavery's moral wrongs outweighed the potential losses of a Civil War could the battle be engaged. The price was horrific and lingers to this day. A president lost his life, and his moderating hand on the horrors of Reconstruction was lost. The price of cleansing our nation from this sin may also be substantial.
Matthew 24:19 (KJV)
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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Talk is cheap. Obama already had a huge, well-financed machine behind him. The party that put Keyes forward thought his eloquence combined with his skin color would do the trick.
“You can’t stop a holocaust by compromising with it.”
No one suggested we do otherwise. I’m merely suggesting a means to an end we both agree on. You want to work very hard. I’d rather work very smart.
Steel can do the job if he just keeps quiet and stays out of the limelight.
He's not a rino or a problem - Not every one can stand up to the pressure of big media.....
Yes. Is the federal government God?
Even the author of Roe vs. Wade, in the text of the decision, admitted that if the unborn were persons, they are protected by the clear provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.
You're citing the "reasoning" of the worst and most dishonestly reasoned decision in the history of the Supreme Court as the basis for your position for transferring state police powers to the federal government for definition and protection? You're proposing to bolster the very decision that has killed millions of babies.
See post 91.
Horse manure. And unquoted, naturally.
He’s certainly brilliant. And no one can argue the pro-life issue more lucidly, whether it’s abortion or assisted suicide he’s discussing. Politically, he’s too strident. When he talks about abortion, he gets that edge in his voice that turns people off. I think he could get elected if he would just tone it down a bit.
I agree that we're on a socialist tilting slope though. Rs moving left thinking they need to be nanny-staters to get elected and the lap dog media obfuscating the oppressive agenda of the neo-comms in the (D) party.
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