Voting for Goode is a reaction to the nomination of Romney. I was all set to support Perry, Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann...any pro-life conservative.
Romney is not now, nor has he ever been, a pro-life conservative.
Funny thing that Susan B. Anthony put out a pledge that Romney refused to sign. SBA was adamant that candidates sign. Romney never signed. Bowing to political pressure, SBA turns around and violates their own insistence on the pledge.
You must consider that a little odd. I sure do. They and NRL both caved in to the “lesser of 2 evils” argument.
True pro-lifers will not. Romney is the author of the $50 abortion. He’s the man who promised the aborters that they’ll find a friend in him when he someday made inroads into the Repub party.
So, WOSG, there is thought behind our position.
Primarily, the intent is an attempt to gather conservatives for this election, and long-term to continue building a conservative party for the future.
“They and NRL both caved in to the “lesser of 2 evils” argument.”
NRL dont feel Romney is in any way ‘evil’ as he supports numerous of the prolife agenda items, like Mexico City policy that Obama undid, returning the Hyde amendment that obama gutted in Obamacare, etc. NRL feels that we need to replace Obama with Romney, who has pledge to appoint constitutionalist Justices like Scalia rather than folks like Kagan. Former prochoicer Romney will likely be as consistent to the prolife items as former prochoicer George HW Bush was when he was President. Not a true believer like Santorum would have been, but at least someone who has signed off on the prolife agenda and not on the side of shoving Planned Parenthood taxpayer money and doing everything he can against us, like Obama is. Obama’s a guy who has endorsed not just abortion but literally infanticide.
So NRL’s decision is pretty simple and obvious. A guy who since 2005 has been self-declared prolife, support and who we can hold his feet to the fire if he goes wobbly, vs a guy who is 100% totally and adamantly opposed to the values we hold.