I think we are still allowed to defend conservative and pro-life organizations when they are attacked.
National Right-to-Life isn’t God. It’s a human organization, run by flawed humans. It is political, and therefore makes political calculations. I’ve seen the state organizations endorse pro-life democrat incumbents against better pro-life republican challengers, simply because they wanted to encourage pro-life democrats, knowing that a democrat majority was bad for the pro-life movement.
But they are a good group, and they have sound reasons for their endorsements.
Yeah, Romney bought them off like he does with everything else. There is NOTHING good about them. RTL supports pro homo pro abortion mitt - they are frauds and a laughing stock now and what they will reap will be worse.
We agree.
The NRA, National Right-to-Life, and similar organizations are single-issue advocacy groups. Sometimes a long-term Democrat incumbent can be very effective on gun issues or abortion or whatever. I don't dispute that — pro-gun Democrats have historically been critical to killing anti-gun legislation and there was a point that pro-life Democrats were providing necessary majorities to keep important legislation from being derailed by Democratic Party leaders. It's pretty hard for the Senate or House leadership to keep a bill bottled up in committee when it's not just Republicans but also high-level Democrats who are demanding a vote.
But Romney has a track record of telling abortionists and homosexual marriage advocates that he wanted their endorsement because he'd be an effective advocate for their views in the Republican Party!
Also, we're not talking about the general election. I can understand why NRTL might back Romney over Obama there as the “least bad” candidate. But somebody explain to me why these organizations decided to back Mitt Romney when 1) he probably doesn't need their endorsement in the primary, and 2) the nomination fight isn't over yet.
I'm not happy at all about the National Right to Life endorsement. I believe all it did was antagonize conservatives by giving “cover” to Mitt Romney. and for no good reason since at this point there's a good chance he's going to win the nomination anyway without their help.
I really can't see any good reason for this Right-to-Life endorsement of Romney at this point. It seems like the endorsement risks damaging the organizations without providing meaningful help to the candidate they're endorsing.
Did Newt Gingrich do something decades ago to torque off Right to Life and the anti-homosexual marriage lobby? I can see no good reason for this endorsement, even from a single-issue perspective.