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Home Front: Politix

Brownback says abortion rights nominee unlikely

2007-05-13

Senator Sam Brownback says an abortion rights candidate will have trouble winning the Republican presidential nomination. Brownback, who is seeking the G-O-P nomination, says any dispute over abortion rights within the party have been resolved and that it is unlikely an abortion rights candidate could win the nomination.

Polls show that Rudy Giuliani, who is an abortion rights candidate, on top of most polls of Republican presidential hopefuls. Brownback that status will change as hard-core party activists begin to focus on the race. Brownback also criticized former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who took an abortion rights stance as governor but has switched to anti-abortion in his bid for the G-O-P nomination. Brownback says much changes will be a deal breaker for voters.
I have an opinion on abortion: I'm 51 percent against it, meaning that on very close balance I'm against it but I can see the arguments in its favor on the other side and accept the fact that it might be necessary occasionally. I am incapable of obsessing over the issue; it simply doesn't mean enough to me. Even though I don't consider it to be a good thing for society, I don't lie awake at night thinking about it.

What I do lie awake thinking about sometimes is the survival of the West, and particularly the survival of the U.S.A. I have visions of the great nations of the West being overrun by beturbanned hordes of primitives who will force out grandchildren to bow down toward Mecca five times a day and slice the pubic lips off our women. Next to the survival of the very concepts of individual liberty, freedom from oppression, and the culture we've painfully built since 476 A.D., "a woman's right to choose" wouldn't appear to mean squat. If we lose, our granddaughters will have to go to the local holy man to have an abortion approved. We can guess how well that'll work.

I hereby withdraw my personal approval from any politician who puts the trivial, whether it's Britney's haircut, Anna Nicole's laundry list of lovers, or abortion, before the survival of our culture.

Posted by:Fred

#2 This is "Culture of Life" vs "Culture of Death".

Its part and parcel of why the liberals promote abortion, open borders, tolerance of islamofascism, deny anything other than relativistic morals, etc, and the conservatives are against abortion, for protected borders, and call Islamofascism a threat, and speak out on truly evil things being evil, etc.

They are all part of the same fabric.

The trick is finding a politician who appeals to social and economic conservatives, who is also strong on defense and terror, and very clear about the moral dimensions of all of those subjects - and who, unlike Bush, can communicate all of these things to the public at large and bring them to consensus on the correct side of things.

Reagan did so - remember how he was cutting taxes, was socially conservative speaking openly about hte evils of liberalism, staunchly anti-Communist he was, how he called the Soviet Union the EVIL EMPIRE openly and plainly, challenged them to tear down the wall, and stood stong against the press and liberals - and convinced America it was not just the thing we must do, but what we morally were obligated to do. And he set us a beacon - that "Shining City on a Hill".

THAT is what the next Republican candidate needs to be able to do: stand firm on conservative principles, defend them well and in good spirit, and be genuinely optimistic about America and communicate it to all the people of the nation - while delivering clear warnings to our enemies, marking it as a clearly moral struggle.

(And yes I think Fred Thompson can do that, Rudy cannot).

Posted by: OldSpook 2007-05-13 23:56

#1 Well put Fred. These pols need to get their pencil brains focused on what counts. We're tired of the drivel. Get onto the big topics. How are you gonna protect the USA for our children and grand children. Quit diplo dipshit speak. Talk clearly about Islamo threat to western civilization.

Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-13 01:09

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