You know, I have to wonder why, exactly, the GOP keeps pushing abortion when they haven’t done anything about abolishing it like they say they will.
I mean, if ever there was a time to do it, it would have been when they had a supermajority in Congress, W. in the White House, and a pretty conservative SCOTUS.
I mean, if I didn’t know any better, I’d start thinking that maybe they *want* to keep abortion legal simply because it gives them a ready-made issue to back with a bloc of voters who aren’t going to change their minds on it.
As for Santorum, pushing a social agenda is career suicide in this economy. People don’t have time to worry about gays in the military when they’re busy trying not to lose their houses.
Most people are quite able to be concerned about more than one thing at a time!
If a politician solves every problem, they don’t have a reason to run for office. That is why, as much as they might accomplish in office, they always leave at least one problem unsolved on a perpetual basis.
However, on the issue of abortion, I think the pro-life side is expecting too much, too soon and that is why they keep either losing or making only the smallest gains, only to lose them again.
Based on the comments I see repeatedly here, the more conservative side wants everything accomplished and everything accomplished now, while our liberal compatriots will take whatever small victories they can, however they can get it, by whomever they can get it done through.
Guess which side has been winning.