November 17, 2005

  • Looks like even though they want to make voters think they want to outlaw abortions, Republicans actually have the vested interested in keeping it legal. 



    Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), "who helped guide the GOP to an expanded majority in the House three years ago," said a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade "could hurt his party's political prospects and cause a 'sea change' in suburban voting habits," reports the Boston Globe.

    Davis, who chaired the NRCC through 2002, admitted that "Republicans have a political cushion with voters as long as Roe is intact."


    Democrats on the other hand have no interest in keeping all abortions legal.  That is why on abortion restrictions, Democrats so far have only fought against legislature that doesn't have provisions for a the health and life of the woman.  Republicans have made sure that on every proposed bill, there is no provision to save the life of the woman.  That way, when if fails, they can say that all Democrats are pro-abortion, when they are really just for giving the woman the chance to make that difficult choice for themselves. 


    Since Republicans have tremendous influence over the 24hour news shows, they are often able to sucessfully reduce the broad range of intelligent and tolerant stances into their stance and the "other one" (which noone actually has).  For example:  You are either "pro-life" or you want to have as many abortions as possible.  You are either for "staying the course in Iraq" or for "Cutting and running".  You are either for the (current) president, or you are un-american.  You are either for the war in Iraq, or you are against the troops.


    If there was actually a biased liberal media, the Democrats would be framing the issues the other way.  It would be you are either against focing women to sacrifice their life or health for an unborn baby, or you are against women.  You are either for providing a series of benchmarks and estimated dates for withrawl from Iraq, or you are for leaving the troops in Iraq forever.  You either support the right to dissent even the president (like Republicans did to Clinton), or you don't believe in the constitution.  You are either for providing troops armor, goals, plans, veterans benifits, etc. or you are for sacrificing America's sons and daughters to profit Haliburton and oil companies.


    Boy, I'm glad I left the Republican party after casting only one presidential election vote for them.