The first constituency it takes very seriously.
The second constituency is little more than a necessary inconvenience. Without it, of course, Republicans couldn't get elected; so they have to PRETEND to take these people [us] seriously.
But they do little more than throw crumbs from the table to Prolifers-- for instance, We are appeased by symbolic actions and by a minor victory here and there. But even though they control the House and the White House and nearly control the Senate, they can't make any headway on defunding Planned Parenthood. That really ticks me off.
Unless the war keeps going until November 2002 when patriotic fervor cools down, voters will notice that the GOP has spent the last two years doing little domestically, And then, with the liberals and Dems in control of Congress, the diet of crumbs that the prolife people have been subsisting on will be transformed into a diet of absolute starvation.
I am tired of inaction on pro-life issues and I'm tired of ceding ground.
The Republicans, despite all their prolife talk, are, playing prolifers for suckers.
Just curious - where are you losing ground?
Actual number of abortions peaked in 1990 and have dropped steadily since.
Legally, Roe v. Wade has been cut back significantly (in 1993 I beleive). The number of anti-abortion - pro abortion judges have remained fairly constant on the appellate courts.
Assuming that abortion is never going to be made illegal in our lifetime, where is ground being ceded?