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.
Yer so cute!
Such the sputterer...
LOL
I FR mailed you a napkin to whipe your chin with...
"By the way, the nation will never adopt the catholic view on contraception - please don't try to push that."
Until 80 years ago or so, it was the dominant view of both America and all of Christendom. Ditto the "Catholic" view of divorce. Why do you INSIST that we will NEVER return to those Christian values upon which this country was founded?
Said presentation and challenge is the major reason the thread has turned into a flame war, pitting FReeper against FReeper, when in the end, most of us would like the same result.
Hi, Daughter,
I thought you might like to see where Synchro is mocking you rather than admit he's being childish and obnoxious....
Which of course is even more childish and obnoxious than the original behaviour he was accused of....and he doesn't even have the courtesy to ping you when he talks about you.
Regards,
Amelia
You recently posted:
Post 1593, by Howlin. "The vast majority of pro-life people that you and I know and work with are just like you are; the ones on these threads are a small minority. Unfortunately, they give the rest a bad name."
I notice that you say "you" instead of "we". Finally your true position is shown...
You RINOs are on the edge of political extinction...you just don't know it yet...
I would say that people who advocate the killing of babies give HUMANS a "bad name"...
Dick Cheney used considerable harsher language than "Screw you" on the floor of the Senate to Pat Leahy. Is Dick Cheney not a Christian?
Harry S. Truman used "colorful" language all the time, was he not a Christian? Are there no career Christians in the Army or the Navy? Or coaching football at Notre Dame?
"Screw us and we will screw you" is exactly the right sentiment. If it is a sin to give people a sharp kick when they're heading onto the rocks, mea culpa. I don't read "Thou shalt not tell it like it is" anywhere in the Bible, but if it's there, mea culpa, mea culpa. I'll go confess my potty mouth.
Now let's face the impending disaster in the Senate, and avert it by sending Arlen Specter to a different post.
*Said presentation and challenge is the major reason the thread has turned into a flame war, pitting FReeper against FReeper, when in the end, most of us would like the same result*
Well-stated, and exactly right.
Sorry dude, it exists...perhaps one day you will read it...it's called the Bible, and I'm pretty sure its still in print...
The truth hurts, doesn't it? I submit that your guilt does not come from your association with those who respect the sanctity of life but from elsewhere.
Huh? I posted pictures of live, beautiful babies. How can that do more harm than good? I did not post pictures of aborted babies - bloody and torn. Those photos were taken in the womb.
Should children who suffered molestation by freezing as zygotes have the right to sue their parents for same? Assume we can find no evidence of physical damage.
The parents were allowed to draw breath, their offspring must be allowed to continue along the natural path to drawing breath as well.
Not a natural path I posited, but rather a fertility clinic.
If you believe differently, that's your right. No point going round and round on this, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I still don't know if you would prosecute, for murder, the destroyers of one celled zygotes, so I don't know that we disagree on that one.
I love the smell of demographic shifts the morning after an election!
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