[NittanyLion]

I didn't say I didn't want to make abortion illegal.

At Post 35 you said, "While I personally would never have an abortion for my own moral reasons, I won't impose it on anyone else."

How do you reconcile your two statements?

[Kate of Spice Island]

I understand that I am not congress and I am not the supreme court adn I am not the Presidnet. I can't change the law. Currently, the law allows it and I see no point in having the mental battle between my ears over something that is not my mental battle(as in I am not pregnant and not seeking an abortion and not debating if it is right or wrong for me personally). I don't run all three branches of the legislature and I can't make it illegal of my own volition.

So for now, I don't choose a candidate based upon that and that alone.

If I were a democrat and had to choose based on smoking or not, Obama would be out and shrillary would get a two thumbs up. Ditto if it came down to where parents sent the candidates to school as children.

The fact is, the voting doesn't happen for over a year and here we are with the same silly and stupid mudfight that we watched the democrats perform with such finesse and style just over three years ago.

It would behoove us as a party to figure out just as quickly this time around as we did last.

If you don't recall, our party was so organized that our President and VP announced their dynamic duo plans a full year before the mud slinging in the democrats amp started.

It really would serve us all better to try a different strategy.

Why not make it known who you would prefer for the top two spots in government and share that? It appears far more organized than to open the doors to the mud fight that the democrats do so well?