{"id":3050,"date":"2008-01-09T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T18:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/01\/09\/knock-yourself-out\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T18:16:42","slug":"knock-yourself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/01\/knock-yourself-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock yourself out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul at Thoughts of a Regular Guy writes<\/a>:
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…My analysis is that crying didn’t get Sen. Clinton more than just a few new votes. What put Clinton over the top in New Hampshire yesterday was that she cast doubt on Sen. Obama’s pro-abortion credentials. Less than with Republicans, abortion is the still THE litmus-test issue for Democrats. They may forgive a vote for "Mr. Bush’s War", but they’ll never forgive a lapse in promoting or defending abortion.<\/p>\n

No doubt that among so many Democrat voters that protecting abortion is such a major concern for them. I for one would like to see this as an issue between Senators Hillary and Obama in the primaries since what they say can hurt themselves in the general election. Sen. Hillary has already started making this an issue with push calls and bringing it up in her stump speeches. Though I guess a stump speeches is an ironically important place for referring to the right to dismember babies.<\/p>\n

Over the last two years Sen. Hillary has tried to move to the middle on abortion by saying such things as "abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many<\/a>" and holding to her husbands line about wishing for the day "when abortion is truly safe, legal, and rare." They never explain though how a "right" can be tragic and should be made rare. Though there has never been much frankness in support of abortion in the Democratic Party with much obfuscation such as "personally opposed", etc. Out of the current slate of Democratic Presidential Candidates only Bill Richardson is "personally opposed" to abortion this time. I guess it is only Catholic Democrats that have to add the "personally opposed" caveat which in itself is rather interesting that other candidates who say they are Christian feel no need to use such a modifier. This election though we have a strange switch with a Catholic who is a Democrat saying that he is personally opposed but will support abortion and a Republican who is Catholic saying he is personally for, but will vote against it.<\/p>\n

In the general election though ardent support of abortion is an albatross so I say let the Democrats knock themselves out in portraying their loyalty to abortion in the primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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