In any event, I stated my opinion on abortion, and consider it middle of the road. Of course, you have this tendency to view what is in the middle of the road as the functional equivalent of the other side of the road.
How in the world did you ever acquire such highly honed diplomacy skills?
You may make whatever claims you like as to polling data, suggesting the iron moral law of whatever 50% plus 1 may prefer (if we believe you, if we believe it was polling information, if we believe the pollster, if we believe the sample is representative, etc.).
Nonetheless, the Republican Party has an actual pro-life platform, not a speculated one, and there are practical political reasons as well as principled reasons for that pro-life platform. Muffy and Skipper may squirm but that's a fact and will continue to be so long as the GOP wishes to be viable.
So you are a middle-of-the-road advocate of the slaughter of 45 million unborn babies and counting? Tres chic! How very moderate you must be! I think I recognize what is on the other side of the road as being on the other side of the road. What is in the middle of the road is formerly equivocating road kill.
Just how do "middle of the road" California progressives view homosexual "marriage"? Will they change what passes for their minds next year? Why should the GOP conform to abortion or gay "marriage"?
As to my "peremptory tone," the fact that you imagine that you have a reasonable position on abortion, does not mean that you do, as is evident.
We've had a few nice chats--but I'm not sure I understand "middle"...
Seems to me that the baby is either dead or alive. In techie chat, that's 0 or 1. In chess chat, it's black or white.
Dead/alive. Black/white. 0/1. On/0ff.
Hmmmmm. So where's the middle?