Betrayal (Are Republicans bidding farewell to pro-life supporters?)

National Catholic Register ^ | June 12-18, 2005

[cpforlife.org]

FOS -- Full of sagacity?

[oceanview]

what do these pro-lifers expect is going to happen? we don't have the votes, we can't even get a UN ambassador appointed. even if Gary Bauer were elected president, he could not overturn Roe given the current political reality and makeup of the senate.

[Bar-Face]

Close but no cigar.
I would vote for Condoleezza Rice, but there is no way I would vote for Rudy Giuliani, and Arnold Schwarzeneggar is ineligible.
My guess is Giuliani and/or McCain will be the nominee. If so my vote goes to the Constitution party or Libertarian party candidate.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Just remember, they are sometimes allies but they aren't really friends.

[wyattearp]

If Gore were a serious pro-lifer and pledged to overturn Roe, he'd be president.

Because the pro-lifers would vote for him. A socialist, and they would vote for him. An eco-nazi, and they would vote for him. An oxygen theiving waste of skin that would use the Constitution and Bill of Rights to wipe his butt, and they would vote for him.

That is exactly why the pro-lifers don't have any business calling themselves Republicans, and it is exactly why the Republican party cannot trust them. It is also why I have no respect for them, at all.

[cwb]

"George Bush is no Christian"

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And who are you to make such declarations without knowing what's in the man's heart? Hell, the Left acts as if Bush is the first and only religious president we've ever had...who's leading us towards a theocratic state; while people like you disparage him for not being religious enough. Sometimes you just can't win.

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

People should know by now...the GOP always hurts the ones they claim to love....They always walk away from conservative principles and then want us to run to the polls to vote for them....It's getting a little worn....

[linkinpunk]

Of course in this case, the president cannot remove the senators.

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

Does that mean that there is room for "pro-slavery" and "pro-segregation" supporters in the GOP?...Face it, for conservatives the GOP is a failure...

[cpforlife.org]

He should have avoided the cancerous and moral relativistic "Thou Shalt Not Undercut Incumbents in Your Party's Caucus." and supported Toomey over Spector, for starters. Imagine what THAT would have done. It would have been HUGE. Would have changed, possible ended the dynamic of lip service.

He could have made abortion more of the issue from within his own ranks, instead, I'll say it yet again: The GOP White House and GOP controlled Congress increased Title X funding for abortion EVERY year since Bush took office.

He could of line item vetoed that! He has not. Not once.

I designed VOTE PRO-LIFE yard signs FOR BUSH. Over 30,000 were distributed between the 2000 and 2004 elections in heavily Pro-Life Louisiana.

I now think Bush is not as Pro-Life as we were told he was, and that the GOP owns Pro-Lifers like the DNC owns welfare recipients.

It's a sham bigger than I first imagined.

[cpforlife.org]

So murdering unborn Americans is OK with you?

[COEXERJ145]

Basically, GWB has accomplished NADA (Spanish for zilch, he speaks illegal)...

So Newbie, what name did you use here before?

[COEXERJ145]

George Bush is no Christian...

And you're clueless unless you think the only way for him to "prove" he is a Christian is by becoming a dictator and outlawing everything that you don't like.

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

Why shouldn't conservatives trash the GOP when it walks away from everything it claims to believe...and the most talked about "candidates" for President are such buffoons like Rice, Guiliani and ANOLD....give me a break...

[cpforlife.org]

He could have "removed" Spector and "replaced" him with Pro-Life Toomey.

Why didn't he?

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

the GOP and the Democrats..both committed to foreign interventionism abroad and big government at home...not much of a choice...

[linkinpunk]

the most talked about "candidates" for President are such buffoons like Rice, Guiliani and ANOLD

The most talked about by whom?

Katie Couric? Dan Rather? Al Franken?

[Tribune7]

Because the pro-lifers would vote for him. A socialist, and they would vote for him.

Well, not all pro-lifers, obviously, but there those who vote pro-life despite not agreeing with you on guns, unions, taxes etc. that would have easily giving Florida to Gore if they hadn't held their noses & pulled the R lever.

That is exactly why the pro-lifers don't have any business calling themselves Republicans, and it is exactly why the Republican party cannot trust them.

The feeling is more than mutal, trust me.

[linkinpunk]

Just becaue we got lucky by getting rid of a bad Republican like Bob Smith and getting a good one line Sununu, does not mean that removing an incumbent is always a good idea.

Chances are that Toomey would have lost Pennsylvania, a state carried by John Kerry.