Election Day offers voters clear choices on a variety of important issues. The election will determine whether we as a country continue to head down the road toward European socialism or instead embrace free markets; whether we have a smaller or larger federal government; and whether we embrace a confident foreign policy or continue to surrender to the jihadists.

But at least as important is the decision about whether we will continue to slaughter millions of innocents or welcome them into the world and protect them under the law.

~ Gary Bauer, Human Events, November 5

I awakened today to this song playing in my head…

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Hallelujah. No matter what happens today,

Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come,
With all creation I sing:
Praise to the King of Kings!
You are my everything,
And – I – will – adore YOU

Dear God,

Please have mercy on us. We don’t deserve it. But please help us. Please stop the angel of death who currently occupies the White House, who supports the unfettered murders of little babies made in Your image, and who shows contempt for your first chosen people, Israel.

That said, whatever outcome of the election You decide today I accept is the best decision, according to Your plan. I trust You. I love you.

Jill

A rereleased video from 2007 that shows a clearly incensed Mitt Romney giving Iowa Newsradio WHO talk show host Jan Mickelsons an off-air piece of his mind has “become a viral sensation,” garnering over 1.8 million hits in just five days.

Romney, then a presidential candidate in the 2008 election cycle, took offense to questions during the interview about his Mormon faith and converting from pro-abortion to pro-life.

Headlines since yesterday are focused on how “testy” Romney became about the tenets of Mormonism. My take-away was, “Wow, this guy is passionately pro-life”….

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Romney later said he did not know he was being videotaped. I found his description of the Second Coming fascinating, but here were the key excerpts on the life issue:

Romney: But you’re not giving me the opportunity to explain to you that my faith has very strong beliefs that if I commit an abortion, encourage an abortion… I was beaten up in Boston because I pointed out time and again that I encouraged girls not to get abortions, that I told them to have adoptions. I have never done anything that in any way violates the principles of my Church -  in that regard, I’ve made other mistakes – but in that regard.

But the Church does not say that a member of our Church has to be apposed to allowing choice in society. It does not say that. And therefore, there are Mormon Democrats. There’s a Democratic party in Massa… in Utah, filled with Mormons, and the Church doesn’t say they’re wrong, they’re being excommunicated. No, it says, look, we are vehemently apposed to abortion, ourselves, and for ourselves. But we allow other people to make their own choice. I disagree with that view. Politically, I looked and said, you know what, that’s wrong.  And its not a Mormon thing, it’s a secular position to say you know what, I was wrong, we should have as a society a prohibition on abortion in the following circumstances. But its not violating my faith, let me assure you.

Mickelson: I hope we can do this, and we we can spend some quality time on the air rather than the sound bites.

Romney: No, I mean I don’t like coming  on the air, and having you go after my Church, and me and my-

Mickelson: I’m not going after your Church.

Romney: I know, that’s right, but I’m not running as a Mormon. And I get a little tired of coming on a show like yours and having it all about Mormon.

Mickelson: See, I don’t mind it being about that.

Romney: I do. I do.

Mickelson: I agree with the ethics of your Church, for Pete’s sake.

Romney, getting up to leave: So do I. So do I.

Mickelson: I was trying…

Romney: No you’re trying to tell me that I’m not a faithful Mormon or that I’m not [inaudible] my Church.

Mickelson: No I’m trying to get you to reconcile what I think is a disparity.

Romney: And have a great discussion about Mormonism, and the Mormon Church, and reading the doctrines of the Church, and where my view is, and you know what, I’m not running to talk about Mormonism.

Mickelson: Yeah, but the point is the people who are likely to vote, don’t want to elect a Ted Kennedy, who comes back – or a Senator Harkin – who comes here to Dowling, and comes here to Iowa, and says, “I’m pro-life,” and then when he gets to Washington stands up and becomes pro-choice.

Romney: Here is your opportunity to have that settled in your mind. I was governor four years. This is not just what I’m talking about. I was governor  four years. I had a number of pieces of legislation that came to my desk that dealt with abortion, abstinence education, RU-486, and so forth. I vetoed any bill that was in favor of choice. I was entirely consistent in favor of life. And so it’s not just my word that you have to take. Look at my record.

Internal polling must be showing that Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin has a good shot of beating the odds and defeating Claire McCaskill, because altogether Republicans are pouring $2 million into end game ads for the beleaguered pro-life candidate.

Of course, had Republicans not freaked out and abandoned him, would be in a much better place following his unfortunate explanation on August 19 as to why he opposed a rape/incest exception.

The establishment hurt him two ways: bad-mouthing him publicly and withdrawing financial help. By so doing they shot themselves in the foot by weakening their changes of retaking the Senate.

Nevertheless, in the 2-1/2 months Akin has had to go it alone, he hasn’t drowned. The last pre-election poll taken, by Public Policy Polling on November 4, has him down by only 4 points – on an upward trend:

PPP’s final Missouri poll finds Claire McCaskill holding on to a narrow lead over Todd Akin, 48-44. Libertarian Jonathan Dine is polling at 6%. Since our last poll two weeks ago McCaskill’s gained 2 points, while Akin’s seen a 4 point increase in his support.

by LauraLoo

Meet William, an African-American Christian whose strong convictions against the murder of innocent life through abortion and “the #1 kill of African-Americans,” make it impossible for him to vote for President Obama.

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“Mr. President, I have to side with the Bible… I have a higher allegiance to Jesus than I do to the Democratic Party.”

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Jill]

News reports are noting only one item of interest from President Obama’s campaign stop in Cincinnati yesterday, one of the “precious few” stops he has left before tomorrow, Election Day.

And that is a pro-life heckler who “totally hijacked” the rally, followed by another one. As a result, “Barack Obama was totally thrown off his game.”

No justice, no peace. Let that reminder of the gravity of this election stick in the minds of voters going to the polls tomorrow.

From The Blaze:

The chaos unfolded when a man began shouting from the rafters moments after the president commenced his speech… [A]s he shouted, the man held up a sign that featured graphic anti-abortion images.

Continued Yahoo News:

[B]ut the crowd of 13,500 drowned him out with a chant of “Four more years!” The incident forced the president to stop his speech and the man continued shouting until five police offers hauled him out of the arena. When Obama began speaking again, another man on the other side of the arena tried to shout him down again, but was quickly escorted out.

“These might have been some Tennessee Titans fans who were mad about the Bears beating them really badly today,” Obama joked, before resuming his speech.

Seems to me Obama had to have known what the protest was about and chose to totally ignore it.

Here’s the video:

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More from Yahoo:

While he played the piano, [Stevie] Wonder went on to discuss abortion policy before continuing his set.

“Men are making an issue about the woman’s body,” Wonder said. “The reality is, I know – and all us men in here know – that if women were taking control of our bodies making decisions, we wouldn’t like that. Is this too real or can you handle it?”

With that, he and his band perform “A Time to Love.”

Ah, the voice of reason and love. Let we men get women pregnant and then abdicate responsibility for the created child to let her murder it. That’s indeed love.

Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice published a truly frightening post at Breitbart.com on November 3, “Obama Supreme Court is the stuff of nightmares.” Levey is an attorney and an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court.

While attention has been given to the consequences of an Obama re-election to the Supreme Court, Levey lays out the actual future, and it would be devastating. The America we are trying to hold on to would be gone.

Levey spells it out:

Here are the sobering facts. There are already four solid liberals among the nine Justices on the Court.  Of the five center-right Justices, two – Kennedy and Scalia – will turn 80 in the final year of a second Obama term.  Should either retire or die, Obama will put a reliable liberal on the Court (no Democratic president has failed to do so since JFK).  The result will be a liberal majority on the Court that can do whatever it wants, unrestrained by the precedent and constitutional text that conservative judges look to….

Think about it: if Obama is re-elected, there’s a 75% chance of a return to the ultra-liberal Warren Court era that began with Earl Warren’s appointment as Chief Justice and persisted, past Warren’s 1969 retirement, into the 1970’s.  During that time, the Supreme Court gave us Roe v. Wade, school busing, a ban on the death penalty, and a radical separation of church and state, to name just a few of the Court’s activist excesses.  The Obama Court would probably be like the Warren Court on steroids….

To give people a better feel for what this would mean for America, I looked at the sort of decisions an Obama Supreme Court might issue.  I narrowed them down to the ten worst rulings we might plausibly see:

TOP TEN WORST SUPREME COURT RULINGS IF OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED

#10 – A ban on voter ID laws, making it impossible to stop voter fraud.

#9 – Carte blanche for hate-speech laws that ban videos and other expression deemed offensive to Muslims and other minorities.

#8 – Abolition of the death penalty.

#7 – A prohibition on tuition vouchers being used for religious schools, crippling the school choice movement.

#6 – Elimination of all legal limits on racial preferences for minorities.

#5 – A requirement for taxpayer-funding of abortions through the third trimester of pregnancy.

#4 – Invention of a constitutional right to gay marriage that would trump all state laws and religious objections.

#3 – Striking down, as unconstitutional discrimination, any serious attempt to curtail the flow of illegal immigrants into the country or to deny them government benefits.

#2 – Elimination of an individual right to possess firearms.

#1 – Enshrinement of welfare and government-provided healthcare as constitutional rights, thus fulfilling Barack Obama’s dream of a Supreme Court willing to bring about “redistribution of wealth” by “break[ing] free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.” (quoting 2001 PBS interview with Obama)]

[Top photo via Breitbart.com]

Cher: Honestly this is sick stuff. Richard Mourdock thinks pregnancy resulting from rape is a gift from God…. So ladies in Des Moines, voters in Madison, voters in Portsmouth, voters in Fort Lauderdale, voters in Cleveland, we need you to do something for your country. We need you to come together, protect women’s rights. So on November 6, go and vote….

Griffin: I mean, this is Cher, b****es, do what she says! And God bless America.

~ Celebrity Kathy Griffin alongside Cher, pleading with viewers to help save abortion by voting for Barack Obama, Actually, November 2. View video at link.

[HT: Hot Air]