Abortion Still A Hot Button Issue

Well, President Obama spoke at Notre Dame today. I didn't watch all of it, but I read enough/saw enough clips to make me a little disappointed. Now, make no mistake about it, I am pro-life. However with that said, I wasn't happy about all of the rudeness and rallying outside of the commencement ceremonies. Obama didn't FORCE Notre Dame to invite him to speak. Notre Dame did that on their own. Rallying outside and getting arrested proved nothing to nobody and made conservatives like me look like an a**hole. I laugh at organizations like Code Pink and PETA that do outlandish things in order to try and get a little bit of press coverage! All that those people managed to do was to damage the pro-life movement by resorting to the same tactics that a majority of the population snicker at. It was tacky and degenerative to the cause.

I've talked about this on my show to some length about the negative effects of running a strictly pro-life platform on social conservatism without any real substance or solutions to problems except for turning over Roe vs. Wade. In order to understand what needs to happen to push any comprehensive pro-life laws what-so-ever, all you have to do is steal a page out of the Democratic handbook. The Democrats don't go after the prize at the end of the rainbow, the big fish, the big Lebowski, no no. The Dems methodically and persistently pick away until they achieve what it is they really want. Rarely does an opportunity like Roe vs. Wade come around, and the outcome in that case was more luck than anything for them. But back to the main point. The Dems push for little laws that move towards their goal. We'll use gun rights as an example. It starts with banning explosives. I mean come on! Who needs rocket launchers, right? Then automatic rifles. Then semi-automatic. Then clips that are only allowed to carry so many bullets, and so on and so forth until guns are banned. It is malicious, it is underhanded...and it is genius. I'm not going to suggest that we start using this strategy for everything, however I think with abortion it would work a lot better than just going after Roe vs. Wade.

First, what needs to happen, is that the grass-roots of the party in their respective states push to have a bill be put on the ballet. Kind of like how California did with gay marriage, but with abortion. And you don't start with strictly outlawing abortion. Push for a strict 1st trimester rule with little wiggle room. A great majority of the states would pass those laws with an overwhelmingly high percentage. And they would also be STATE laws. The federal government wouldn't be able to mess with them (in theory) without looking like fascists. Then continue the process until abortion is (basically) illegal again. I know it sounds like an evil plot to dupe America, but if you look at the recent Gallup polls that were released today, over half the population is pro-life, and many of the rest won't admit to being pro-life just because they disagree with it in theory.

What it comes down to is instead of taking a strict religious approach and trying to overturn a years old case with a party that already has an image problem, take it to the people. People are typically very conservative and the last poll I saw was that 80% were God fearing. However even when somebody is a christian of some sort, whether it be Catholic, Protestant, etc., few people like to feel like they are being preached to (unless you're a preacher...then I got nothing). Quite telling people how horrible abortion is! Plop it on a ballot, publicize the hell out of it, and watch the states drop abortion one by one. I was at a young Republicans call out the other day, and had a very good time. However one girl there, during the period where we were talking about different ways of recruiting members and getting the Republican brand out there, spoke up and asked (this isn't an exact quote) "Is this what were here to do? Try and publicize our self?" And I said: "Heck yeah! The Republican name isn't doing to hot right now, and we need to repackage (in some cases re find, but that's an entirely different subject) our conservative brand and show why it's better for our country and our people than the liberal one." And I think especially with a President who was the only person in the Senate (ONLY PERSON) who voted against a bill that would require doctors to care for a child born during a failed saline abortion. OH?! You didn't hear about the Great One's ultra liberal voting record? I'm shocked. Really. See how shocked I am?