Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Pro-lifers are single-issue people? Would that were the case
The more pro-life conservatives expound on other issues the more I wish they would just stick to pro-life. Dr. Laura, a stalwart pro-life conservative woman on the radio giving traditional moral advice to the confused until one day she wrote that women should look at a man's bank account prior to making a decision to go out with him, in short the moral case for golddigging, and now where is she? I mean why sour your base with a materialistic crapshoot of a point, and then there's National Review's Rich Lowry, more useful than she but who never met a Big Business practice he didn't like and then there's that hot Asian babe, the Malkin chick, who pretty much thinks the whole anti-war movement is about giving Michael Moore a rimjob. Laura Ingraham, same deal. Now Malkin, Lowry and Ingraham are the best in the pro-life biz as far as I'm concerned, their argumentation is fresh and vital to a debate that George Will considers stale but it's the other stuff, like Laura once pooh-poohing studies that show Americans are in a blue funk mood because they're overworked and don't have enough leisure time.
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Conservatives are pro-lifers natural allies with their strict contructionist jurisprudence at a minimum, bottom line is the lifers have nowhere else to go and so have to put up with hearing alot of right-wing crap. Sometimes introspection among the talking heads would be the wiser course of action in the interest of unity. The righties can unwittingly have the effect of turning off even the lifers with their myriad views.
ReplyDeleteWhen Dr. Laura was under siege from the gay activists for saying homosexuality was against nature well she didn't have me and hundreds of other conservative men backing her up because of her defense of golddiggers, how does that make the average man feel, and so nobody really wants her any more, she burned her bridges, the gay bridge of course but also the average guy bridge who may be hard-working and have good values but his boss underpays him. Way to go!
I feel I have a core set of values, and I don't mind being challenged. I don't see libs as being open minded though. I suppose when in the public eye, you have to maintain a consistent position lest you be called a flip flopper. Sometimes I wish one of them would say to the other side, "you know, you've got a point there". I ain't holding my breath though.
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