Remaining pro-life Democrats driven from party by Obama

[renard_ruse]

The Tragic Extinction of the Pro-Life Democrats-

By Jonathan Last

Four years ago in Denver, the group Democrats for Life hosted an event. A tiny cadre of pro-life Democrats assembled in a hotel conference room and were treated to a hopeful talk led by Senator Bob Casey and Representatives Lincoln Davis and Heath Shuler. The pro-life caucus was a minority in the party, they realized, but it was a crucial bloc and it would not be left behind by a President Obama, he of the purple states and the hope and change. A new era for pro-life Democrats was just around the corner.

It turns out, they were right about it being a new epoch. Except that instead of making a place in the sun for pro-life Democrats, the Obama presidency was more like a meteor-strike, triggering an ice age and driving the species to extinction.

So when Democrats for Life rallied in Charlotte [at this year's convention], it was striking that the group couldn’t muster a single sympathetic office-holder. The panel consisted of two representatives who were ousted in 2010 (Bart Stupak and Kathy Dahlkemper) and two academics (Catholic University’s Stephen Schneck and St. Thomas’s Thomas Berg). It was a sad, but revealing, presentation...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/tragic-extinction-pro-life-democrats_651700.html

 

[RobDownSouth]

Buh-bye.

 

[renard_ruse]

Its mere coincidence that the Democrat platform adopted the most extreme pro-abortion policy plank in American history this year, or was Obama Himself the one pushing for it?

 

[renard_ruse]

Buh-bye.

The tolerant and diverse Democratic party, huh? You're proud of this?

 

[renard_ruse]

Unlike the Democrats, the GOP welcomes a range of views on this issue and every other.

Democrats: "tow the party line or get the @#%$ out!"

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The Tragic Extinction of the Pro-Life Democrats-

By Jonathan Last

Four years ago in Denver, the group Democrats for Life hosted an event. A tiny cadre of pro-life Democrats assembled in a hotel conference room and were treated to a hopeful talk led by Senator Bob Casey and Representatives Lincoln Davis and Heath Shuler. The pro-life caucus was a minority in the party, they realized, but it was a crucial bloc and it would not be left behind by a President Obama, he of the purple states and the hope and change. A new era for pro-life Democrats was just around the corner.

It turns out, they were right about it being a new epoch. Except that instead of making a place in the sun for pro-life Democrats, the Obama presidency was more like a meteor-strike, triggering an ice age and driving the species to extinction.

So when Democrats for Life rallied in Charlotte [at this year's convention], it was striking that the group couldn’t muster a single sympathetic office-holder. The panel consisted of two representatives who were ousted in 2010 (Bart Stupak and Kathy Dahlkemper) and two academics (Catholic University’s Stephen Schneck and St. Thomas’s Thomas Berg). It was a sad, but revealing, presentation...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/tragic-extinction-pro-life-democrats_651700.html

Interesting. I've never met a person of any political affiliation who wasn't pro-life. I'm wondering where these reports are actually coming from.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Unlike the Democrats, the GOP welcomes a range of views on this issue and every other.

Democrats: "tow the party line or get the @#%$ out!"

Again, Really? Which GOP candidate is running with a platform of sensible birth control?

 

[RobDownSouth]

The tolerant and diverse Democratic party, huh? You're proud of this?

Very proud. Anti-choice/Anti-woman misogyny and/or bigotry has no place in a tolerant and diverse party.

I thank the Rapepublican party for accepting our castoffs, just as they accepted our racist rejects in 1980.

 

[phrodeau]

Unlike the Democrats, the GOP welcomes a range of views on this issue and every other.

Democrats: "tow the party line or get the @#%$ out!"

You cannot be serious.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't know why people respond to Renard_Ruse threads, this might be the least retarded one he's made.

 

[renard_ruse]

Very proud. Anti-choice/Anti-woman misogyny and/or bigotry has no place in a tolerant and diverse party.

I thank the Rapepublican party for accepting our castoffs, just as they accepted our racist rejects in 1980.

Wow, just wow. You are one absolutely sick individual.

You were unborn once. Would you have wanted to be "aborted"?

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't know why people respond to Renard_Ruse threads, this might be the least retarded one he's made.

Holy Damning-them-with-faint-praise, Batman!

 

[renard_ruse]

I don't know why people respond to Renard_Ruse threads, this might be the least retarded one he's made.

You know that this hurts the Democrats and has hurt them for decades. That party has driven people away over this one issue for years. Only the most committed on other issues have stayed anyway and now even they are being told to leave. Its wrong.

 

[renard_ruse]

You cannot be serious.

There are a range of views on nearly every issue in the GOP, as opposed to the increasingly narrow and strident orthodoxy in the Democrat "small tent."

 

[RobDownSouth]

You know that this hurts the Democrats and has hurt them for decades. That party has driven people away over this one issue for years. Only the most committed on other issues have stayed anyway and now even they are being told to leave. Its wrong.

That's why the Democrats have won the popular vote in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and are heavy favorites to win here in 2012.

Derp.

 

[renard_ruse]

That's why the Democrats have won the popular vote in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and are heavy favorites to win here in 2012.

Derp.

And it wouldn't even have been close if they hadn't driven a large part of their traditional base away.

They controlled Congress for what was it, something like 60 years. They owned that place for decades.

Double Derp.

 

[Adre]

There are a range of views on nearly every issue in the GOP, as opposed to the increasingly narrow and strident orthodoxy in the Democrat "small tent."

Just to be clear, are you referring to the Republican Party in the United States of America, Planet Earth, the Universe, in 2012?

 

[Phelia]

I know this is a renard_ruse thread, so responding to it seriously is like trying to tell water not to be so wet, but I've been thinking: I'm pro-life. Of course I am. I'm sure 95% of people are. Of course I want a world with less abortions, but I think we should reduce abortions by increasing safe sex education and access to birth control and not legislating control over women's bodies. I hate the pro-life label and I find it very manipulative. There's way too much marketing in politics.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

There are a range of views on nearly every issue in the GOP, as opposed to the increasingly narrow and strident orthodoxy in the Democrat "small tent."

Still can't find any GOP'ers for sensible birth control? You must be so busy including others you forgot to look.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Wow, just wow. You are one absolutely sick individual.

I get accused of that quite often.

You were unborn once. Would you have wanted to be "aborted"?

Your "appeal to emotion" diatribes are weak. May I suggest some one-on-one counseling with AJ or Miles. Zipman can help you polish up the sanctimony.

 

[renard_ruse]

I know this is a renard_ruse thread, so responding to it seriously is like trying to tell water not to be so wet, but I've been thinking: I'm pro-life. Of course I am. I'm sure 95% of people are. Of course I want a world with less abortions, but I think we should reduce abortions by increasing safe sex education and access to birth control and not legislating control over women's bodies. I hate the pro-life label and I find it very manipulative. There's way too much marketing in politics.

I hate the pro-"choice" label. Stop using the pro-"choice" label and we can discuss the use of pro-life.

As for "women's bodies" there are hundreds, even thousands of things, people including women are prevented from doing with "their bodies." For example, women can't even put penicillin into "their bodies" without a prescription.

 

[unregistered]

 

[renard_ruse]

...
As for "women's bodies" there are hundreds, even thousands of things, people including women are prevented from doing with "their bodies." For example, women can't even put penicillin into "their bodies" without a prescription.

Hey, Rory, I spelled penicillin right and I didn't even look it up first.

As a public school graduate, I surprised myself on that one.

 

[phrodeau]

How many conservatives are there in the Democrat Party?

You mean people who promote conservation? I think there are a few.

 

[Adre]

How many conservatives are there in the Democrat Party?

Probably equal to the number of moderates in the GOP.