I worked as a counselor at a Crisis Pregnancy Center for years. I volunteered to work many campaigns and sent money to various candidates and the RNC, RNCC,....I walked door to door with petitions and for candidates and causes. I now see it was for nothing. The RNC has decided they want the independents more than they want the people who worked to build up this party.
The more everyone trashes Akins, the more you will see people like me walk away from the party. Christians not welcome, correction, Christians who actually walk their faith not welcome. With the push of Romney who we know know lied again; He is not 100% pro-life like he said, he is ok with abortions for innocent babies because their bio sperm donor was a criminal and now he says gays should be allowed to adopt. A lot of people would not have voted for him had they know this during the primary. Holding his feet to the fire was just words, no one is calling for him to be what he promised to be in the primary. The worse part is yet to come if he wins. He and his campaign has made it clear by the things they have said about Christians that we are not welcome guests. (mormons are so nice you know)
The party is taking a hard left. Their is no reason to do this. Over 50% of voters are pro-life and 42% pro-abortion. Only 25% believe strongly in abortion. We could have turned this Akins issue around and reminded people about the lefts actual crimes; Clintons actual rape, Weiner on Youtube, Kennedy letting a women die,..... We could have compared making one statement to a person who thinks abortions up to 9 month and even infanticide is ok, but instead they hate this man more than they hate the left.
I have never seen worse things said by the left, then what many on the right have said about this man. I hope romney doesn't make anymore dumb mistakes or you might have to dump him too. That's right, only Christian conservatives get this treatment. Many will not follow this parties march to the left. Some here say Akins and his supporters are giving Obama the win. NO, every hateful word you say about him, about us Christians and our right to have an opinion different then yours is pushing us away from Romney. Are you sure some of you don't work the Obama campaign, because your doing a good job of knocking off potential Romney voters. The gop deserves credit for most of this though. They want the party to be more like the democrats socially than they want to be like Reagan.
25% are no exceptions, the other 25 are with some exceptions. Akin has made himself toxic to at least 75% and of the no exception types , he has tarred all of them with his idiocy. there are sane empathic no exception types who don’t go blabbering incoherently about the magic uterus and with an affect akin to Jim Jones.
I agree with you, Linda. The fact that Mitt Romney is the nominee in a party that is supposed to be conservative tells me everything I need to know about where we are as a country. Voters in this country are supremely stupid and unprincipled, and they no longer deserve a decent government or a decent country, in my opinion. Too many people think that if we can just get enough “R”s in office, everything will be OK again. Well, it won’t, and a big part of the reason is that the Rs no longer fight for principles. Without principles, it doesn’t matter which jackass is in office.