Posted on 11/13/2004 6:05:41 AM PST by cpforlife.org
PRO-LIFE WARNING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
We believe that abortion is infanticide, and that a holocaust of infants is taking place. We do not believe that there is any other issue on Earth that compares with abortion in moral import. And therefore, there is no policy or combination of policies you Republicans can offer, including perfect tax policies, tort reform, and every other thing that is near and dear to Republican hearts, that matters a damn if abortion is overlooked and allowed to slide by.
We know that this issue has to be settled in the Supreme Court, nowhere else. And we know that the opportunity to put new justices on the court comes once in a decade, maybe, and that the current opportunity to alter the complexion of the court is not going to come again for a generation. Therefore, the real possibility exists that abortion can finally be seriously curtailed, soon, by the Supreme Court changing Roe v. Wade or eliminating it...IF, and ONLY IF, we can get pro-life judges on that court.
To do that, we have trusted the Republicans for years. We just came out and voted for you again this time, in unprecedented numbers, because we are not stupid and we know what is at stake. Not just evangelicals either. The religious CATHOLIC vote went Republican in 2004, and they didn't do it because of trade policy or even gay marriage. Their issue is abortion.
And the overriding issue is abortion.
So, if the Republicans allow Senator Specter to get the Chair of the Judiciary Committee and he blocks pro-life nominees, or if the Republicans do not use the nuclear option to override Democrat filibusters of pro-life nominees, THIS TIME there is no place for Republicans to hide. WE KNOW that you have the power, now, because WE just voted to give it to you. We understand that you can block Specter. And we understand the nuclear option.
And therefore, we most certainly will understand that if you allow the pro-life judges to be blocked, that it will be your political CHOICE to have done so. You CAN put pro-life judges on the bench, if you expend a lot of political capital. This will offend some people - a lot of people. And that is the price you HAVE to pay to get our votes next time. You have to be willing to bet the whole house to end infanticide.
If not, we will not vote for you. We won't go running to vote for the Democrats: they're pro-abortion. We won't go out and form a third party: we're not stupid and know that won't work. We'll just stay home, just like we did in 2000. Except that in 2000 it was out of frustration and neglect, and the lack of belief that anything will change. There was no organized campaign to keep the pro-life vote home in 2000.
This time, it's different. We understand the system, and we know that you have the power. And we demand that you use the power straight down the line to fill the high court and the appellate courts with judges who will protect the lives of babies. Period. This is not negotiable. At all. This is why we voted for you. You have nothing with which to bargain with us, and if you screw us, we will stay organized and we will stay home purposely to destroy the Republican party. Because if you do not protect the babies when you have the power to do it, you are no better than the Democrats...and worse, you will have lied to us.
This means, in effect, that all of those things YOU care most about: taxation, immigration, trade and business policy, deregulation - all of those core issues that come as an economic package, are held hostage to our issue: babies. If you will not protect the babies, we will stay home and let the Democrats destroy everything that YOU believe in.
This is called "Chicken". It is called a "Mexican Standoff". And since we are fired up by the certitude that we are doing God's work in defending babies, we cannot be bought, and you cannot win so much as an election for dog catcher in this country without us.
Therefore, the solution is simple and obvious: give us what we voted for you to do. Give us pro-life judges. Use all of your power to do it. Sweep Specter out of the way: is he worth losing all the rest of your agenda? - because we really will stay home and throw the country to the Democrats if you're no better than they are on abortion, just to punish YOU for having betrayed us. When the filibusters come, and they will come, use the nuclear option to override them. That will poison the Senate, yes. So what? We are talking about babies here. And with our votes, militantly mobilized because we are winning, alongside of yours, in 2006 and 2008 and beyond, even if the Senate is poisoned, you will be able to replace it with a more Republican one.
That there is even a debate going on as to what to do with Specter is alarming, but we have had our hearts broken before, so we'll sit and pray and trust President Bush and Senator Frist and the Republicans to do the right thing.
Screw us, though, and we will turn on you and your whole agenda will go down the drain with the blood of the babies you wouldn't put your power on the line to save.
The easy solution, the win-win solution, is to BE as pro-life as you campaigned as being. Just do it.
I apologize for the length of this post. But it needed to be said. The Republicans do not seem to get it. They need to understand that we are more committed to saving babies than we are to the fortunes of the Republican Party. That Specter is still in play demonstrates that too many of them do not take this seriously.
Rather than test us, what you guys should do is simply cave, now, and give us what we want. Do that, and you wont hear from us again - there will be no creeping theocracy in America - because this is about the only religious issue that Catholics and Orthodox and Evangelicals AGREE on.
How did you obtain my pic? :)
LOL!
Actually it matters quite a bit. You se the oveririding decision in Scott was that Taney and friends decided that the Constituion forced slavery onto Missouri when Missouri wanted to expand the rights of blacks. Sound familiar?
Actually it matters quite a bit. You se the oveririding decision in Scott was that Taney and friends decided that the Constituion forced slavery onto Missouri when Missouri wanted to expand the rights of blacks. Sound familiar?
Gosh, you have recorded me too. It must be via those thingies being put into drugs now by the feds, or so Drudge tell us. God how I love this site, and those like you who make it lovable. LOL.
not a trick question, a simple one and you gave the wrong answer. States are free to expand rights for all, equally, no pig is more equal than the next pig. Simple.
Mom has a right to life and so does Junior, inside the womb or not.
They still have Arkansas mucked up from the Civil war split between the Northern and Southern parts of the state.
We have a yankee section to this day.
It will be the English equivalent of murder. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have told you it was.
You don't need me to do your research for you.
And BTW, it wasn't "what I determined", it was from proper research.
It has nothing to do with me or you.
Right, whatever you say.
For example, a word in Hebrew cannot possibly mean the exact same thing as a word coined in English many hundreds or even a couple thousands of years apart.
Although I understand the argument, don't ask me to buy it hook line and sinker. I cannot imagine words like these to be identical in meaning. And close gets you no cigars when dealing with religion.
These translation bots and what not for religious text give you the closest word in English. The precise definition always varies and Hebrew is not the most descriptive of language.
That word may very well mean kill without permission, or without blessings of the elder which is a far cry from murder in the legal sense.
It is this sort of thing that really gets me going. So best to leave it be for this topic.
I am a FReeper! :-)(am am naturally divisive and impossible)And, it is late.
Don't believ me, ask Norma McCorvey and any number of liberal legal scholars. Hell, ask Torie.
I personally want it overturned because I believe unborn babies are entitled to the right to life and because courts taking making new law out of whole cloth simply poisons the public square resulting in enmity and culture wars. Inevitably, the animus rises when activist courts make bad law based o their own mores, or sometimes Europes, rather than letting the matters be decided where they should be, in the public square and thorugh our elected representatives.
The mechanism to overtunr bad law is two fold, either through a strong Cngress or by states expanding rights and testing those rights in SCOTUS while moving public opinio away from idiotic opinions like Roe.
Its all happening and sooer or later you'll say, uhhuh.
I can't believe I just wasted my time on this post.
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So now you can attack me if you like. It seems to make you feel better.
Knock yourself out!
I cuss like a sailor!
I will tell you why I think why. Because it was unprincipled - an abuse of judicial power - judicial overreach - a manufacturing of one right out of thin air which trumps another, the another being a right with considerably more settled tradition as one which the states had a right to protect as they saw fit. And because it of course has poisoned the public square, poisoned the process of selecting and confirming judicial nominees, deflected us from fairly considering other important issues because we are imprisoned by the judicial overreach, and now are each emblazoned with a scarlet letter on our chest, one way or the other, and thus the decision, Roe v Wade, from a public policy standpoint, has proven a disaster, no matter what you view, or how you cut it. What is so horrible about thrashing this issue out at the ballot box?
What is so noble about the toxic penumbra of this abuse of judicial power, this pall, this traducing of the democratic spirit, and enervating of the American spirit? It's evil, period, in its practical effect. About that, this aging man can bear witness.
Since Roe, the States have lost more than I ever thought possible.
They tried to fix something they saw as broken.
One thing certain, if it is repealed, we will find out if it was indeed broken or not.
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