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Hey, I'm with you on the show. I'm one of the earliest to point out a Townhall story on McConnell punting this from the highway bill, where it might actually have passed. That post was eight days ago.

I think the public has slowly been drifting away from abortion for some time now. These videos are about attacking the Left's culture of death by exposing what happens after the abortion. I don't think the videos were about directly stopping abortion, they were about going after a liberal sacred cow, Planned Parenthood, the way O'Keefe and Giles went after Acorn. They weren't going to stop vote fraud, they were exposing the Left's vote fraud machine.

As with the Acorn videos, they were also about shaming Congress into action. Unlike the era of the 2009 Acorn videos, Obama has successfully introduced the concept of "doubling down" in politics. Whereas in 2008 and prior politicians would rush to act on public outrage (running to the front of the parade), today they "double down" on outrageous acts, entrench, show no remorse, and shrug off public opinion.

This arrogance in the face of negative public opinion may have been born out of a history of weak Republican resistance to the "First Black President," but the lesson the Republicans seem to have learned is not how to fight it, but how to emulate it.

That's why I think any strategy has to include throwing off the Old Guard.

-PJ

Well, I'm willing to try it. But culturally I think we're cemented into a 52%-48% anti-abortion majority that is seeing no movement among that 48%, even with these videos. As Rush says, SOMEDAY some people will wake up (just like in Nazi Germany) and say "What are we doing?" But just as then, it will be too late to really affect the process.

That is why I think it has to come from exec orders (as Bush did with military bases & federal property), but with someone who would be even more aggressive than Bush. Trump HAS that aggressiveness, but I don't know about his commitment to this subject. He has 100% avoided discussion of these videos.

That's not a knock on him, as I'm sure the large majority of his supporters want him to "stay away from the social issues." Now, most of us at FR know ultimately you cannot---that right to life precedes right to property everywhere, so eventually he will have to deal with it for good or bad. I'm just saying that of all the candidates, I think he is uniquely capable of making a substantial impact if he chooses.