Tea Party Activists Tell Republicans to Avoid Abortion

LifeNews.com ^ | November 15, 2010 | Steven Ertelt

[julieee]

Tea Party Activists Tell Republicans to Avoid Abortion

Washington, DC -- The fiscally conservative tea party activists were crucial to electing pro-life candidates in the 2010 mid-term elections, but now they are calling on Republicans in Congress to avoid social issues like abortion.

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[EternalVigilance]

People seem to forget that the GOP had control of the House for over a decade and the Senate for most of that time. During much of this period we even had a GOP president.

And, please don't forget, seven out of nine "justices" on the Supreme Court, none of which was, or is, fully pro-life.

[EternalVigilance]

The GOP platform itself is Pro-Life, and calls for appropriate action on the issues as a Party.

The Reagan GOP plank - which has been there since 1984 - recognizes the personhood of the unborn child and their protection by the Fourteenth Amendment.

If only they had any interest whatsoever in following it.

[metmom]

THAT’S FUNNY!!!!!

[metmom]

Ranting, ranting, sorry...but I just think if we can’t argue against killing babies, we might as well just forget the whole deal, because we won’t have a society that deserves preservation.

Don't apologize. YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!

Someone has to rant for the unborn.

[MacombBob]

The Republican Party wins based on a three legged stool. Strong national defense, fiscal integrity and conservative social values. One or more might predominate in a given cycle, and it is not a perfect fit for all. But, this combination is basically sound and gives us a workking majority.

Interestingly, you seldom see social conservatives say we should ignore economic conservatives and they often hold their noses and vote for some of the more liberal Republicans on social matters. Yet, the economic conservatives are very ready to abandon social conservatives. Get a grip, we are all in this together.

[metmom]

Good God, the utter insanity of some "libertarian" thinking. And libertarians think they're the "intellectuals" of the right....

Another winner.

You'll like this one, lj.

[BlackElk]

How many electoral votes did Ron (abortion is really none of his chosen business except when he poses for holy pictures to gull the suckers) Paul get? He claims to be pro-life but just cannot bring himself to DO anything about it because well, the constitution yadayadayada, although the fact that babykilling was rammed down our nation's throat by SCOTUS doesn't seem to phase him enough to DO anything about the American Holocaust which has claimed more than 50 million sliced, diced and hamburgerized innocent babies. There can never be a RIGHT to commit such perverted and mass homicidal acts. If the Ron Paul types want to walk away over their protection of the slaughter of babies: Sayonara! Ciaio! Arreverderci! I will personally volunteer to drive each one to an airport that will deliver them one way to Islamistan. Especially, as part of a van load of Planned Barrenhood types and vote alikes.

You can see how well your agenda of avoiding social issues works by looking at Connecticut and Massachusetts and California. Take the social issues off the table and we will be fighting over whether the public should be electing Santa Claus or the Grinch that Stole Christmas. There are a lot more socially conservative Reagan Democrats and Unaffiliated and Republicans than ever there will be followers of PaleoPaulie and his eccentric fiscal and foreign cowardice notions. Whatever Michael Medved's contributions, he is no political strategist either.

Your proposal may satisfy mindless Muffy and Skipper down at the polo club/yacht basin/Junior League but the general public? Not so much. And it is an absolutely sure loser in conservative circles and GOP primaries. Now and forever.

How many percent of the vote did the paleosurrenderman get as a Libertarian nominee for POTUS (and that was before anyone knew he wanted to have his belly auto-scratched by Al Qaeda as their faux GOP lapdog)?

[little jeremiah]

Abortion was illegal in Romania???? Romania when under the domination of the USSR had one of the highest, if not THE highest, abortion rate in Europe.

[little jeremiah]

LIbertarianism = yet another impossible utopian pipe dream in a long line of impossible utopian pipe dreams. And when these utopian pipe dreams are ever tried, they invariably result in hell on earth.

Their unspoken motto:

“If only everything was all different, everything would be - all different!”

(The Laws of Nature need to be repealed in order for Libertarianism to “work”).

[ichabod1]

There is no such thing as a Tea Party. Any “group” that says their is is either undermining or co-opting. Standard US American political tactics.

MOVEMENTS can succeed in US American Politics. Third parties do not.

[Responsibility2nd]

Yes abortion is murder, but, its murder done in someone else's family, not mine 

If ever I've heard a more morally depraved and socially ignorant comment in a long time; I can't remember when

 

IBTZ, troll.

[BlackElk]

We have "infiltrators" on FR as well. When they are well-enough identified, management tends to remove them quite efficiently. I am a Catholic. My Church should excommunicate publicly each and every publicly identified pro-abort but the bishops move with far less efficiency than does FR management. In any event each pro-abort "Catholic" is self-excommunicated by Canon Law. Purging each pro-abort in the GOP (a verrrrry worthwhile idea) is yet more difficult because in states like Illinois there is no party registration and in other states, there would be interminable and expensive lawsuits. One joins the NRA by filling out a membership application and sending in the dues. Purging the NRA membership is an impossibly complex task. Change the NRA rules, put Larry Pratt (Gun Owners of America) in complete charge of NRA and I bet he would make progress efficiently.

Capturing the presidency, the House and the 60 or more Senate seats requires engaged social conservatives who are the base of this movement. Give them no reason to expect progress on social issues and you can kiss those goals and your tax cuts goodbye.

It is not a voice of reason to tolerate the continued slaughter of the unborn. We are conservatives. We are not mere shifty amoral opportunists. If we stomp on those who are, then that stomping is part of who we are and hopefully always shall be. AND there is no moral equivalency between DU and FR. When people are stomped or even purged here, it is because they are resisting what is objectively good and true and right. At DU, they stomp the good, the true and the right.

How's this for a mote in the eye of every American? 50+ million slaughtered innocent babies. If we are not about removing that mote from the eye of our nation, then we deserve to be destroyed.

That none of the tasks you propose (purging this, that, and the other) is likely to be achieved is the key to your suggestion which amounts to: Until we have succeeded in making a square circle, we must not yet save any babies or continue tMo press the issue which may upset the baby killers. Poor dears!!! Message to Obamao and to you: we are not bitter clingers and we are not a flat earth society. We pro-lifers (and social conservatives) are normal people who have our priorities in proper order. Social issues are highly important and more so than mere money issues. It may well be that your personal taxes are an injustice. Nonetheless, the brutal slaughter of even one innocent child with the slaughter being protected by gummint in our name is an infamita! Money can wait and will be back on the table for review after each and every election and indeed with the consideration of each and every budget, federal, state and local. We will survive but, if we leave the abortionists to their grisly work, the babies will not survive. Those aborted are dead to this earth now and for as long as the earth shall last, a bit more drastic injustice than even big bracket tax rates.

[Mr. Silverback]

I’d just like to note that your tagline and your comments in post 77 directed at a U.S Navy veteran make a very special picture together.

Good riddance, eugenics apologist.

[Mr. Silverback]

Only an idiot believes conservatism or the Constitution is neutral on the violent death of 40 million small American children. You getting the zot has certainly raised the average IQ here at FR.

[Darksheare]

You sure know alot about Hamm’s, freudian slip there?

[Shimmer1]

I had a 25 week preemie who is 23 now and serves in the U.S. Navy. You kill 6 mo babies, you kill those who would live.

[Godebert]

"One of the fundamental rights (with which we are endowed by our Creator, by the way) is life. Abortion isn't just a "moral issue". It's a subversion of one of the most basic of rights upon which the Constitution is built."

Yes!

[rob777]

"The issue is that the Tea Party was NOT formed based on social issues."


That may be true, but it is totally irrelevant to the current discussion. The letter is not making the case that the Tea Party should stay away from social issues, but that the incoming GOP Congress should. If the Tea Party movement wants to make that decision for itself, that is fine. It is quite another matter when it comes to the recently elected officials, many of whom were supporters of the Tea Party movement AND social conservatism. Making such a suggestion is about as useful as it would be had social conservative groups called for the newly elected Congress to ignore the fiscal issues and stick to the social ones.

[wagglebee]

My brother was about 28 weeks when he was born in 1970 (that was REALLY YOUNG then), was All-American track in high school, ROTC in college and went through Ranger school.

[Alamo-Girl]

It seems to me that argument would only hold weight IF the authors of the Constitution believed the Republic would quickly fail. If they did not, and truly hoped not, then they would have specifically desired to secure blessings that had substance for the very real posterity who would succeed them and their generation.

Indeed. Thank you for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!