Dueling pariahs
Pro-abortion Republican and former NJ Gov. and Bush EPA head Christie Todd Whitman blamed the GOP’s election loses on us: “[T]he party was taken hostage by ‘social fundamentalists,’ the people who base their votes on such social issues as abortion.”
Now the Baltimore Sun reports Republican National Committee chair prospect Michael Steele is backing away from Whitman for the opposite reason:
Last year… Steele joined two prominent Republican moderates in announcing the revival of a centrist political organization, the Republican Leadership Council.
Now, Steele’s name has mysteriously disappeared from the RLC’s Web site.
Until recently, he was prominently listed as one of 3 co-founders… Whitman and former MO Sen. John Danforth. The change apparently happened within the past week, according to an Internet search….
There could be a practical reason for the disappearance of Steele’s footprints from the site: His link to the group, critics say, is hurting his campaign for chairman of the RNC….
Social conservatives remain a potent force inside the Republican Party, and some have sharply criticized Steele’s ties to the RLC. Steele, a former Catholic seminarian, is opposed to abortion, but Whitman has long drawn the scorn of activists for her support of abortion rights….
“It reflects the fact that it isn’t a plus for anyone seeking the RNC chairmanship to be aligned so closely with the woman who was the most pro-abortion governor in the country and raises money to elect pro-abortion Republicans to Congress,” said [Colleen] Parro [executive director for the Republican National Coalition for Life]. “It’s unfortunate that, you know, that he chose to join up with them back when.”
I don’t have much use for Danforth either. He is supposed to be pro-life but strongly supported MO’s human embryo/clone taxpayer funded initiative a couple years ago.
[Photo of Steele and Whitman courtesy of the Santa Barbara Independent]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Yeah, how dare people actually care about the slaughter of 40,000,000 Americans. We’re such an obvious drag on the party. We should just go back to our church pews and sing a bit louder to drown out the screams of our own consciences.
Praise God. Ever since Eve ate the fruit, they blame the woman.. Eve, Gov Palin, now Jill. Every time the women get blamed, there must be some male out there sinning.
I read and noticed the McCain platform was the most vivid and clear pro life and It was written before Gov Palin showed up.
The bottom line. McCain is a nice guy. He is patriotic. He did not have the chemistry that many winners have. He had voters that did not have a strong like for him. Charisma is hard to measure. Gov Palin had it in her turnouts. Obama’s peaked at the right time. Now Pelosi and Reid are dragging Obama down also. If the election were today, it would look more like the election in Georgia.
Michael Steele is a nice guy, but I think that Ken Blackwell would make a better chairman for the party.
Whitman is clueless. Doesn’t she know that BUT for the pro-life votes McCain would have had less votes?
Whitman and others like her are not ‘clueless’. She knows exactly what she is doing. She is a liberal secular humanist/feminist who knows best what is right for the republican party and for the nation.
She represents the eastern elitist establishment of the republican party who torpedoe presidential campaigns because they do not repudiate the ‘social conservatives’.
When John McCain, named Palin as his running mate, he offended the sensibilities of these erudite aristocrats. You see how they have continued the camapaign of character assasination against ms Palin.
There are two words that you will not find in the political lexicon of either the right or the left: (1) forgive, (2) forget.
Revenge is dish best served cold.
yor bro ken
While i could never stomach voting for a republican, Whitman seems as close to sane as one could expect from a party that seems to be attempting use of “faith healing” for economic recovery.
yo la’s defintion of sane.
Anyone who agrees with her/his vision of death and destruction.
About all the republicans can do is pray. The democrats have taken owneship of the problem and the solution for our present economic woes.
See how well the markets have reponded to the pronouncements of the presumptive president 0’bama (pbuh), the democrat controlled house and the democrat controlled senate.
The 0’bama (pbuh)has decreed the economic problems will get worse. How can they not? he has declared and he is never, ever wrong. The economy dare not get better.
yor bro ken
“I read and noticed the McCain platform was the most vivid and clear pro life and It was written before Gov Palin showed up.”
Hmmm…..
“If all of the above is not enough, as a senator, John McCain has repeatedly voted to fund pro-abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood with federal tax dollars. In fact, McCain has voted to use federal tax dollars to support abortion providers at home and overseas. Yes, this “pro-life” senator (along with “pro-life” President, George W. Bush) has significantly increased federal spending for abortion providers to levels eclipsing even the appropriations authorized by President Bill Clinton and his fellow Democrats.”
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin465.htm
Interesting, Josephine, you chose to quote a (former) presidential candidate (Constitution Party).
McCain was not my first choice but is far more pro-life in comparison to Obama.
Abortions did go down during George Bush’s presidency.
ken, your posts are always very insightful and profound.
The 0’bama (pbuh)has decreed the economic problems will get worse. How can they not? he has declared and he is never, ever wrong. The economy dare not get better.
Ken, markets can and will do what they want, and nobody has a crystal ball.
However, the debt levels in the US are no secret, and correcting the imbalances that exist in our system isn’t an easy process nor a short one.
I doubt you want the normal politician deal of “we’ll fix it and fix it fast”….?
Actually, sad to say, without a lot of economic pain there isn’t any “fixing” this one, not on Obama’s part nor would it have been on McCain’s part or that of anybody else.
Re: Ken – you’re not my brother so quit assuming you are. And your additional insistence that Obama is a muslim only serve to make you seem out of touch. So what if he’s a muslim!