Well there are some obsessive people around here, but the "obsess" you are referring to was to you.
Being prolife is what keeps the GOP alive, it is also part of the key that we can use to try to get Catholics to switch over to the republican party.
No it isn't. First of all, I voted republican this election and every election since 1992, and not one of those votes and anything to do with pro-life or not pro-life. You might think that, but not everyone is "obsessed" with abortion.
"Romney lost an easy election, and he was the most pro-abortion republican candidate in history."
Well, I don't know if that is actually true or not, but I'll say this. Pro-lifers who stayed home refusing to vote for him now have the most pro abortion democrat in history as president, and aborted babies on demand for the next four years minimum.
Nice work.
You know, if being pro-life is what keeps the GOP alive, the GOP doesn't seem too damn successful at being pro-life now does it?
"Why do you want the pro-life movement/party/candidates to silence itself, to take less interest in ending abortion?"
I don't want it to silence itself, I want it to lead by example and the reason for that is because that is all it can do at this point. The pro-life movement has been utterly crushed by the enemy. It has failed to advance itself or its agenda.
Furthermore, the issue is used by the enemy to divide pro choice women from the party as well as pro choice men. Beyond that the pro-life movement itself uses the issue to further divide itself from anyone within its own party that may differ from them even slightly by calling them murderers and so on.
If a candidate does not recite the exact position of the pro-life movement, then the pro-life movement doesn't show up to vote, loses, claims virtue in the loss, and when the party then says they are thinking of dropping the issue altogether, the pro-life movement says we aren't going to show up and you will lose...
You know, to put it bluntly, the pro-life movement is essentially a worthless political ally. If it doesn't get exactly what it wants, it becomes a foe, and since it's never going to get exactly what it wants, what really is even the point?
Being prolife is what keeps the GOP alive, it is also part of the key that we can use to try to get Catholics to switch over to the republican party, regardless of why you vote as an individual.
Romney lost an easy election, and he was the most pro-abortion republican candidate in history. The naturally conservative, pro-life Evangelicals still voted for him by 79%, but he made zero inroads with the millions of votes that had abandoned Obama, Romney was a weak, candidate, with no real convictions to run on, and couldn’t even appeal to moderates, although he himself was moderate, he was lucky that he got your moderate vote, most social liberals are democrats.
Polls show over and over, that abortion motivates the pro-life voters, but not so much the pro-abortion voters.
If you get your wish and drive life out of the party, the GOP will die.