When you cut through all the verbiage, the bedrock point of this piece is Sarah’s pro-life position is more squishy now that she’s no longer a Roman Catholic, which she was born into, but a church-hopping Protestant...
And THAT more than anything else is why she didn’t stress it as much as the writer wished she had stressed it during the campaign.
Let me say, if the writer just wanted her to stress it more just because of it’s importance to him and certain others, that’s one thing.
But if he wanted her to stress it more, thinking it would’ve helped the McCain-Palin ticket win, that’s very different.
Of course it wouldn’t have, because hammering away at that particular issue wouldn’t have helped people go vote for them who already knew and didn’t turn out.
And that’s what we had.
The Dems held a turnout election and the Republicans held an election.
Studies show a few mil Conservative voters didn’t vote.
There’s no way Sarah harping on pro-life more would have stirred ‘em when they were bound to have known already about the Supreme Court picks at stake and Obama and Dems devotion to pro-death.
You don’t need harping. You just need to decide, do I vote at all when I’m unhappy with the choice of McCain, given what’s at stake if the other guy wins.
Which is what they decided.
I’m Roman Catholic, and the RCC is itself squishy on being Pro-life. Not the Pope, but some of the Bishops and the priests are horrible. I’ve heard 50% of American Bishops voted for Obama.
So they neglected their sacred duty; they’ll have to answer to God for giving away our country to the Evil One.
If Democrat: Don't say "I want to ban guns"
If Republican: Don't say "I want to ban abortion"
Either case, you end up preaching to the choir.