This statement really bothers me. Just when I wanted to return back to the RP I read crap like this. These women do not speak for me. Is this the new face of the GOP?
Elsie Hillman is big time GOP with alot of clout and money. I'm very dissapointed in her presence at this event. Come November who will she be voting for for Gov?
It will be if there are not enough Pro-life members to shout them down. We are doing our best but it seems a lot of people have deserted us for being less then 100% pure.
They do a lot of criticizing but never seem to want to help the party stand up and fight.
a.cricket
Folks should continue to stand in the gap and offer options to women...but for the sake of the greater good...i.e. keeping America from falling into the hands of the Democratic Socialist...the abortion issue should be deleted from the agenda.
For eons, if a woman wanted an abortion, whether it was legal or not, she got one...no one can stop a woman from killing her unwanted baby.
Gee. That many.
"...at Hillman's invitation for a dose of reality and a shot of adrenaline."
read: "........for a heavy dose of propaganda, outright lies, and cheerleading for the right to rip little guys limb from limb inside their mamas."
I call 'em like I see 'em, folks. F**k these people.
This is the one statement by these death-mongers that I agree with. And it is the reason abortion cannot be "taken off the table." Abnegation of responsibility for our children and the condoning of infanticide is a stone age morality unworthy of civilized people.
To those who would argue that there can be no compromise on the abortion issue, I would suggest that given the status quo (any adult can get an abortion for just about any reason at just about any stage of gestation) just about anything would be an improvement. Further, I would posit that Republicans need to recognize that a very large number of voters have a fear--irrational, but very real--that if the Republicans got a chance they would ban all abortions overnight. Since these people are voting against Republicans becuase of a fear that the Republicans would do something they couldn't do even if they wanted, Republicans should work to win their votes by allaying their fears.
If Republicans were smart, they would focus on finding agreement with the majority of Americans who would favor some restrictions on abortions, while agreeing to disagree about more severe restrictions and acknowledging that in the current political climate voting for any abortion restrictions which did not have broad public support would be political suicide.
The Republican seemed to pick up on this strategy with "partial birth abortion" ban. While I disagree with the efforts to impose such a ban by federal statute (since other types of homicide fall under state jurisdiction) the Republicans were able to pick up broad-based support for them. I just wish the Republicans could use this strategy more generally--it works wonders.