Posted on 02/05/2008 1:50:13 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 02/05/2008 2:11:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
The good news about this primary season is the pro abortion rights, pro gay rights, pro illegal alien rights, anti gun rights Rudy Giuliani was soundly rejected by the Republican primary voters!
Hurrah!
As Rudy was being actively promoted by the mass media and the liberal/moderate wing of the Republican party and for many months was billed as the so-called GOP "front runner," this was a great victory for the pro life and liberty conservative wing of the party!
Hurrah!
At least the previously {cough} pro abortion former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was politically astute enough to realize that a pro abortion candidate cannot win the Republican nomination, so, wisely, some say cunningly, adjusted his core bedrock principles accordingly.
Thank God!
Vote as if your life depends upon it!
It does.
Vote to secure the Blessings of Life and Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!
Now thar’s some shaky stools!
I wouldn’t want to milk ol’ Bossie sittin’ on one of those!
Newt is one of the establishment Republicans. He’s pro-amnesty. Of course, he’ll back McHuckabee.
If the GOP nominates a pro-amnesty candidate, they are setting the stage for their eventual downfall, which will inevitably drag the pro-life cause along with it.
Thanks for voting your conscience.
Oh man, you guys need to stop this anti-McCain stuff. Let’s be rational and realize that Senator McCain is running as a conservative.
Romney is no better than Giuliani.
He will move the party to the left to keep the respect of “his good friends”. Although he has voted pro-life, it is not an issue he has any great passion for or commitment to. John McCain has neither the temperament nor the deep loyalty to conservative principles to be a good president.
Well said.
That's a nice dream.
But in reality, if there WAS one who wanted to be President, he (or she) would already have let be known.
Even if there is a possible candidate, that person would never generate enough support, or money, between Sept.1 and Nov. 5 to stand a snowball's chance against the well-funded, head-of-steam Democrat whether bomb-o brack-a or Hilary.
The entire GOP would be so demoralized over a 'forced' convention candidate that the GOP would get smeared.
Romney is the candidate who promotes conservatism. Romney is the candidate who can best build the wall, generate economic stimulus, and identify conservative Judges for SCOTUS.
No, it’s a prayer.
You don’t want to know my opinion of Romney.
Jerry, you're sadly mistaken.
President Reagan implemented the Mexico City policy, and George W. reinstated it in 2001 (after Clinton rescinded it) that kept $ going into the international abortion industry coffers. Then in the early 80s, Reagan came out with a book, Abortion: The Conscience of a Nation...showing an American president could use his bully pulpit to favor life in the womb!
You can elect the most anti-abortion, pro-life candidate in the nation and he is powerless to do anything.
I wouldn't call the Mexico City policy implementations "powerless." I wouldn't call a POTUS hitting up some of the funding of the domestic side of the abortion industry powerless, either--something within the reach of a POTUS. Also, a pro-life POTUS even working with a Democratic Congress can keep radical pro-abort justices off of the Supreme Court.
“Abortion should be a non-issue in presidential politics.”
The purpose of government is to ensure our rights, chief of which is the “unalienable” right to life.
The 5th amendment’s Due Process clause and the 14th amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection clauses REQUIRE the federal and state governments to protect innocent human life.
Abortion, and defending innocent human life, are presidential “issues.”
The president can do more than promote a human life amendment. He can advocate for, and sign, the Right to Life Amendment. It is his duty.
Abortion should be a non-issue in presidential politics. The White House can’t do anything about abortion. You can elect the most anti-abortion, pro-life candidate in the nation and he is powerless to do anything. Sure he can appoint judges, but with a Democrat congress? They will never allow a judge to be confirmed that support abolishing Roe vs Wade.
But then, the president can simply leave the position vacant - which would leave the libs in a position to be able to get a tie, at best, when Kennedy votes with them. Which would leave the lower court's ruling in place, so worst case the libs only win half the time that Kennedy goes with them. And since abortion actually cuts electorally in favor of conservatives, it should be possible to make electoral hay out of it.Problem is, of course, that McCain is out for McCain and not for the Republican Party.
But it's moot since there won't be a McCain Administration. Either on the day of his nomination, or in October at the latest, Big Journalism will suddenly notice that McCain is old, ugly, Keating-5 corrupt, and ill-tempered. And we'll look back fondly on 1996 when we had a candidate who had a chance . . .
Mike Huckabee and John McCain are just what this country needs! Pro-amnesty, anti-Gitmo, pro-tax, pro-campaign finance reform, anti-conservative SC judges, anti-ANWR, anti-energy independence! What a platform!
... all for what? A single issue, which Mitt Romney has made a switch on, but does represent the conservative view.
This wasn’t a victory for liberty or life. This was a victory for the simple-minded and single issue voters and it won’t be a victory for any of us in November.
In your opinion.
Romney is winning in http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/expediency
Romney's legacy: Subsidized, mandated, tyrannical RomneyCare ® with its Planned Parenthood $50 co-pay abortions, gay marriage, liberal judges.
But it's NOT his fault. The liberals made him do it. ®
Huckster’s legacy is liable to be a McCain nomination and a Democrat in the White House.
I’d say that’s the late GOP’s legacy. Just keep pushing those RINOs.
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