Catholic and Enjoying It!
One of my biggest beefs with Republicans and many Republican pro-lifers is that there seems to be almost an embarrassment over the issue of Abortion, if the audience is not already overwhelmingly pro-life. My own experience in running against a pro-life Republican was one where I was the one bringing up the issue as a pro-life Democrat, even as that was not sitting well with my own base, while my opponent seemed content to just sit back and cash in his Right to Life organizational endorsement.
Just this Sunday, I’m reading Florida Today Newspaper, and I find an interview with incoming Florida State Senate President Mike Haridopolos and one of the questions in the paper reads as follows:
“On supporting Nebraska-style abortion limits: “If this bill is pursued by a member, it will be given the normal committee structure and it will have to work through it, and get an up or down vote. But what I can promise you is that where my focus is and where Dean’s and Rick’s [Scott, new Governor of Florida] is, is on the economy.”
Golly. It’s *almost* as though GOP pols like Haridopolos say they are “pro-life” in order get the vote of pro-life suckers and then immediately walk away from the issue because they don’t really care about it.
Tim, who is a better man than I am, gives Haridopolos the benefit of the doubt. I don’t. Show me the money! Do something. Or shut up and stop lying to good people every election cycle in order to bubble them out of a vote while saying, “Don’t stand so close to me” throughout your term.
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