Let’s see I believe Robert Bird is still in the senate.
Look by not voting for Brown all one does is GUARANTEE that The One’s health care gets passed. That GUARANTEES that abortions will be paid for by the US taxpayer. Why not take a class in logic so you can see some depth to your positions
“Look by not voting for Brown all one does is GUARANTEE that The One’s health care gets passed. That GUARANTEES that abortions will be paid for by the US taxpayer. Why not take a class in logic so you can see some depth to your positions”
Nonsense. Your argument is based only on that groundless belief that real conservatives are unelectable, and you just don’t get further from logic than that.
Listen, for many it is a matter of conscience to refuse to vote for any pro-choice candidate, especially those who for whatever reason have been personally affected by abortion. I appreciate how God in his providence has used such a person to derail Obamacare. I am as delighted as anyone else to see this happen. And I am grateful to the people of MA who did vote for him on grounds of liberty.
But life and the sanctity of it should not ever be a political bargaining chip. The sanctity of a human life is the logical basis of conservative philosophy in toto. What is this freedom we cling to so hard, over which we fought so hard with respect to Obamacare? It is, ultimately, an expression of respect for an individual’s life, the right and the power to have and use that life as one sees fit, without interference from tyrants or boors. Once we cross the threshold and say, freedom is good, but only if you manage to get out of your mother’s womb all in one piece, we are logically a step closer to saying what the left says, that freedom is good, but only under the terms and conditions determined by the state.
Without sanctity of life at it’s core, conservatism becomes like the empty skin of a grasshopper, convincingly carrying the form of the thing that once lived within, and able to fool those seeing it at a distance, but devoid of an inner life, and prone to blow with the strongest wind that comes along. Semi-conservatives like Brown are better than pseudo-conservatives, but they lack root, and will disappoint us later. Guaranteed. It’s in the logic.
And...what did voting for Brown do?