Thompson: Late-Term Abortion Is ‚Äö√Ñ√≤Infanticide,’ Roe v. Wade Most Harmful Court Case In 40 Years
In statements made this week, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) has staked out several radical positions on abortion rights and reproductive health issues, positions that are far more conservative than even those of President Bush. In an interview with the Hoover Institution, Thompson argued that Roe v. Wade is the most harmful Supreme Court decision in 40 years and should be overturned. Thompson called the decision “bad law” and “bad medicine,” and appeared to agree with Robert Bork, the notorious far-right judge whose Supreme Court nomination was rejected, that Roe v. Wade contains “not a single sentence of legal reasoning.”
I don’t know why, but every four years I stand in utter amazement at the gap between Republican primary politics and reality. And it’s not as if there’s a slight disconnect; the difference is nothing if not crevasse-like. Republicans spends months pandering to the farthest of the Far Right in order to have any hope of winning the GOP nomination, and then they have to figure out how to drift back to moderation for the general election without looking like a total hypocrite. Then again, some candidates just abandon any pretense and look like hypocrites during primary season.
During primary season, Republicans engaged in a race to the Right jump headlong into re meat issues: terrorism, abortion, school vouchers, abortion, prayer in schools, abortion…ANYTHING that will stir up the bile among True Believers. Of course, after winning the GOP nomination, then the clowns have to figure out how to appeal to more moderate voters who care about more prosaic issues: the economy, education, foreign policy, and who’s winning on American Idol.
GOP primary votes have only a few basic questions:
- Are you going to criminalize abortion?
- Are you going to outlaw Brown People?
- When are you going to bomb Iran?
- Why do Liberals hate America?
- Why can’t the Bible be taught as literal truth in our public schools?
- Are you going to criminalize abortion?
- Why can’t we forcibly convert nonbelievers to Christianity?
These folks don’t ask for much- just absolute dominion over American public and private life and the ability to force their beliefs upon those not fortunate enough to have seen the light and accept their version of Jesus Christ as their personal Lord, Savior, and kick-ass Superhero.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — One of the front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination told a crowd of anti-abortion activists Friday that his previous abortion-rights position was a mistake.
“I was wrong,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney admitted to several hundred at the National Right to Life Conference at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center hotel….
“I proudly follow a long line of converts: George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Reagan and (former U.S. Rep.) Henry Hyde,” he said of other politicians who had switched from favoring abortion rights to opposing them. “I’m evidence that your work, your relentless campaign to promote the sanctity of human life, bears fruit.”
Translation: “Uh, yeah, it suddenly dawned on me that there’s no way in Hell I’m going to be able to win the GOP nomination with taking you troglodytes along for the ride. Sure, I was for abortion before I was against it, but this is all about pragmatism and winning. Hey, if George W. Bush can claim to be a uniter, I can flip on abortion.”
Amazing, isn’t it? GOP primary season is an opportunity to determine who can best pander to those neanderthals who actually represent a miniscule portion of the electorate. ‘Course, these are the folks who actually vote in Republican primaries. During the general election, the troglodytes are far outnumbered by more moderate Republicans, but by then the damage has already been done.
Fred Thompson is the type of Republican who realistically only appeals to primary voters. His charm and his acting skill will certainly help smooth over some of his rough edges and fool moderate Republicans into thinking he’s one of them. Mitt Romney and John McCain will do and say whatever is necessary in order to get elected. Sam Brownback, Duncan Hunter, and Tom Tancredo are knuckle-draggers of the first order, willing to use religion, fear, hatred of Brown People, and any other divisive issue they can manipulate to their advantage. Ron Paul is the only true Conservative, but he is to the GOP what Dennis Kucinich is to Democrats- a cute novelty with no lasting value. Tommy Thompson is…well, who IS this Thompson, anyway…besides a bigot and a world-class fool?
There may actually be a couple of other mental and philosophical midgets I’ve neglected to run down, but you probably get the point. If you’re a Republican, it’s not about ideology, philosophy, or even policy. It’s about winning, and until and unless you can win you’re not going to be able to shove your agenda down the throats of the majority of Americans who don’t believe as you do.
Stay tuned. The fun has only just begun….
