Indiana Right to Life PAC just announced that they are now barring the endorsement of Democratic candidates.
“Our leadership anguished over this decision,” notes IRTL-PAC chairman Mike Fichter. “Had Democrats like Brad Ellsworth held firm in opposing federal funding for abortion in the health care bill, we likely would have rewarded such action with a bipartisan endorsement policy. Ellsworth’s collapse under pressure from the White House and Speaker Pelosi, as well as the collapse of his colleagues Joe Donnelly and Baron Hill, leaves us with no alternative. Leadership matters, and the reality is that Democratic leaders are advancing an abortion agenda at an alarming rate that will only be checked by a Republican majority.” — CNW
That’s right, Democrats. You have your own members, in this case Brad Ellsworth, to blame. Brad Ellsworth, among others like Bart Stupak, let their masks slip a bit too far. It has now become abundantly clear that there is no such thing as a Pro-Life Democrat. Also, Democrats lie. Not only did they expose themselves, but they exposed all their fellow Democrats hiding under the “conservative Democrat” or “Pro-life Democrat” mantle.
For years, moderate Democrat candidates for the state legislature have been able to hang on in conservative districts because they have stuck to the pro-life talking points, using their Indiana Right to Life endorsement as a shield against GOP efforts to take back the majority. Even though IRL was offering meaningful support to Democrats who needed it, their agenda was routinely flushed by House Democrat leadership year in and year out.
Yeah, that cover is totally gone now.
Bart Stupak saw the writing on the wall, being exposed as a blatant liar lacking in one ounce of integrity, and he oh-so-bravely decided to turn tail and run. He’s retiring now, natch. I wonder if there is such a thing as a retirement brothel, as that is where Stupak would feel most comfortable, I assume. If, of course, selling yourself for 30 pieces of silver counts.
Let’s help Rep. Brad Ellsworth, who is now running for Evan Bayh’s senate seat, bravely run away as well. Let’s force him into early retirement. Support the GOP candidate of your choice in that Senate race. Indiana needs to say Buh-Bayh to Ellsworth as well.
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LMAO! The "pro life" dems built their house on a foundation of sand...
nessa (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 7:13PM EST (link)…and now it begins to come down around their ears!
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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Amen to that!
4life (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 7:20PM EST (link)Global Warming, the Pro Life Democrat – Sinking Sand
What’s next?
Great, great news
maggieblumenthal Friday, April 9th at 7:23PM EST (link)Another HUGE blow against the RATS and for the FACTS!
My husband is a Rabbi and he and I had a lot of talks during the run up to the Maosist takeover of our healthcare system by the incompetent, always-fail, socialist RATS. We has some big decisions to make. With 9 kids, me out of work and a condition that forces me to stay in the house for the most part (I have a colon condition which requires me to be attached to cumbersome medical equipment) we would sometimes entertain the siren songs that the communists RATS would sing in our ears,
Our medical bills are a burden, I won’t lie.
But, in the end, I knew that this issue, which seems to always come to the fore and let me know where my heart is, would guide me. As much as would have liked to believe that this legislation was designed to ease some of the burden that we felt as a lower-middle income family with mdeical bills we can’t afford, I started to see, and after a while I KNEW that the ONLY thing that this legislation was trying to do, really, was to make it miles and miles easier for women to get abortions.
And then I knew. I could never support it.
Fact: This legislation makes it 10 – 20 times easier for women to get abortions.
Fact: Under this legislation your premiums are guaranteed to fund abortions, planned parenthood and education and advertisement that supports abortions for teenagers and preteens.
Fact: It was the always the stated intention of this legislation to increase abortions as its lone goal. Look at the facts.
Fact: It is murder.
So. Much as it pained my husband and I, difficult as its going to be for us, we have cancelled our insurance policies for ourselves and for our nine children and are looking into ways to manage our care that won’t fund murder. I encourage all of you to do the same.
Painful as they are, these are the facts.
They’re all we have.
Boom.
Fact:
Hi, my name is Micah. Why do I have a different name up there? Why, that’s because I’m a troll and a fake!
Adding insult to injury
Menlo (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 5:02PM EST (link)I suppose you’ll be among those hit with the new medical device tax. I can from experience sympathize greatly with your health situation.
We may be able to refuse to buy insurance that covers abortion, but I see little way around the other new taxes and increased funding for Banned Parenthood.
“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.” -Felix Frankfurter
Comes the dawn.
DirtyDave Friday, April 9th at 7:32PM EST (link)That is just recognizing the obvious, isn’t it? Pro life, democrat. Nothing in common. Power is all. Power is all they care about and if a lot of babies have to die because of it, oh well.
Dave LeBlanc
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
- President Ronald Reagan
Uh, yeah
SunDogII Friday, April 9th at 9:46PM EST (link)“Democrats lie.”
Now do you understand?
The Obama agenda to divide people
reverelth (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 10:02PM EST (link)certainly pays strange, inadvertent divididends, doesn’t it?
http://www.libertytreehugger.com
Why focus on Stupak in particular?
othniel Friday, April 9th at 10:15PM EST (link)I’m afraid I don’t really understand why it makes sense to focus on Stupak in particular. You may not agree with Stupak’s vote, but he clearly tried hard to extract pro-life concessions. The Senate voted on the Stupak language as an amendment and it failed. Why not focus on senators who voted against the Stupak language? Surely that would be a better use of our energy, pound for pound?
My username betrays my extreme beliefs about the nation of Israel. I’m also a sockpuppet for rehoboam, because I believe that I am smarter than everybody else.
This is the Indiana Right to Life PAC, and Stupak is from Michigan
earlgrey (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 10:23PM EST (link)one of the other 57 states.
Don't bother. Progressive anti-Israel troll.
Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 10:27PM EST (link)Name’s a reference to some recent ‘settler’ issues in Hebron.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
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My (combined) wish list.
Isn't that a Biblical person?
rehoboam (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 12:27AM EST (link)n/t
Yup. Also, the site of some recent unpleasantness...
Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 1:27AM EST (link)…involving settlers in Hebron. Plus, a couple of tells that I have absolutely no intention of revealing.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://moelane.com/filthy-lucre-filthy-lucre/
http://twitter.com/moelane
My (combined) wish list.
Have to say: that was a fairly original username, troll.
Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 10:26PM EST (link)Did you giggle and think that nobody would recognize the reference to the recent troubles in Israel?
But don’t worry: we have plenty of time to defeat more Democrats than Stupak. A lot more, Sparky.
Shalom.
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My (combined) wish list.
I also like the new signature line.
ceili_dancer (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 10:23AM EST (link)Thanks Moe for pointing it out.
Stupak himself voted against the Stupak language when they had the reconsideration vote
JSobieski (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 2:08AM EST (link)so Stupak deserves every bit of scorn that he gets.
He didn’t extract any concessions, and voted in favor anyway.
I have more respect for the pro-aborts who stuck to their “principles” than the Stupak crowd.
Two annectdotal observations about “moderate” politicians:
A Republican who is liberal on social issues ends up being pretty gosh darn liberal on fiscal issues as well.
A Democrat who is liberal on economic issues (see Stupak) ends up throwing social issues under the bus, and is going to end us as liberal on social issues as well.
Relatively few people are liberal in one respect and conservative in another, and those folks tend not run for or win elected office.
My rules of the road for primary season.
Rule #1: Vote for YOUR first choice in the primaries
Rule #2: Vote for the R in the general.
Rule #3: Don’t let anyone convince you to violate Rule #1 or Rule #2
Rule #4: When in a center-right argument, reaffirm Rules #1-#3–it will help us all to get along better.
Rule #5: If you are using the language of the left, you probably aren’t furthering conservativism
Rule #6: The priority is issues first, candidates second, and supporters third. Nobody is bigger than the issues. Conversely, if you spend your time focusing on supporters, you are wasting everyone’s time.
STOP THE MADNESS!
A reduction in the rate of spending increases is NOT a cut!
In-state tuition for illegals is NOT amnesty!
Requiring someone to pay their medical bills is NOT an individual mandate!
Reducing tax rates is NOT a tax increase!
Thank you Barack and Nancy and Harry
DerKrieger (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 10:50PM EST (link)Your aggressive push for full socialism has exposed your agenda to a public that has been for too long minding its own business. Your radicalism has been unmasked, the public is awake, and you are doomed.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
Driehaus also lied...
jcincy Friday, April 9th at 11:33PM EST (link)Steve Driehaus won District One of Ohio in 2008. He ran as a “pro-life” democrat. He lied. He’s still lying.
God have mercy on this nation.
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” — John Jay
Men and women of little faith
wilfranc Saturday, April 10th at 12:01AM EST (link)I don’t know why the press seems to think it necessary to demonize priests and the pope when the current crop of Catholic Democrats are doing such a good job of destroying the faith.
I don’t understand the church’s tolerance of those public faces of the church. You cannot seperate a person’s faith with his actions, especially political. If anything, the complexity and size of government moving into individual’s lives should mean that the politicians faith becomes a major campaign and governing issue.
Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith was a huge issue last time around, and it is too bad that all politicians are not confident enough to be ready to defend their faiths. Even atheists have moral reasoning and values that they adhere to and are important.
Same as Acorn
frammis3001 Saturday, April 10th at 12:26AM EST (link)Something to think about…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/07/acorn-sting-tape-edited-r_n_528556.html
I was pretending to be one of you. Most of you didn’t buy it, though.
no such thing
kyle8 (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 7:36AM EST (link)as an honest democrat either. WELL, ok, maybe some are just stupid as rocks.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I would like to respectfully suggest
NoDoze Saturday, April 10th at 1:50PM EST (link)that we avoid painting all Democrats as dishonest and unprincipled. There are Democrats who are becoming very active in the Tea Party movement, because they are not like other Democrats.
I know it is hard to always use disclaimers in what we say, but we might use “Democrat leaders,” “Progressive Democrats,” or, “Leftist Democrats,” so as to not drive away some good people who are learning the errors inherent in the Democrat Party agenda.
I think he met elected D politicians in Washington DC
JSobieski (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 1:52PM EST (link)nt
My rules of the road for primary season.
Rule #1: Vote for YOUR first choice in the primaries
Rule #2: Vote for the R in the general.
Rule #3: Don’t let anyone convince you to violate Rule #1 or Rule #2
Rule #4: When in a center-right argument, reaffirm Rules #1-#3–it will help us all to get along better.
Rule #5: If you are using the language of the left, you probably aren’t furthering conservativism
Rule #6: The priority is issues first, candidates second, and supporters third. Nobody is bigger than the issues. Conversely, if you spend your time focusing on supporters, you are wasting everyone’s time.
STOP THE MADNESS!
A reduction in the rate of spending increases is NOT a cut!
In-state tuition for illegals is NOT amnesty!
Requiring someone to pay their medical bills is NOT an individual mandate!
Reducing tax rates is NOT a tax increase!
If he meant elected D politicians in DC
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 2:56PM EST (link)his construction is altogether too narrow. It absolutely applies to Ds up and down the line and ALL who support them.
What about people who in the past sometimes voted democrat?
JSobieski (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 4:29PM EST (link)Do you really want to be to broadly insulting?
My rules of the road for primary season.
Rule #1: Vote for YOUR first choice in the primaries
Rule #2: Vote for the R in the general.
Rule #3: Don’t let anyone convince you to violate Rule #1 or Rule #2
Rule #4: When in a center-right argument, reaffirm Rules #1-#3–it will help us all to get along better.
Rule #5: If you are using the language of the left, you probably aren’t furthering conservativism
Rule #6: The priority is issues first, candidates second, and supporters third. Nobody is bigger than the issues. Conversely, if you spend your time focusing on supporters, you are wasting everyone’s time.
STOP THE MADNESS!
A reduction in the rate of spending increases is NOT a cut!
In-state tuition for illegals is NOT amnesty!
Requiring someone to pay their medical bills is NOT an individual mandate!
Reducing tax rates is NOT a tax increase!
If they have seen the Democratic Party for what they are
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 7:09PM EST (link)The Party of Death, the Party of Evil, the Party of Surrender…
then no, I have no problem with them. If they haven’t then they are fully a part of the problem not part of the solution.
NoDoze, then they are no longer Democrats
peg_c (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 2:46PM EST (link)but can’t or won’t give up the big D. One cannot remain a Democrat with the big D and side with tea partiers and conservatives. Not and be intellectually and ideologically honest.
I say this as a conservative who was a big D Democrat for 26 years, until 1998.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Good points from someone who knows.
NoDoze Saturday, April 10th at 3:15PM EST (link)My interest is in converting more big D Democrats to the Conservative cause, not in compromising with Democrat ideology.
NoDoze it works like this. Democrats and those who support them are
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 2:55PM EST (link)1. Dishonest to their core.
2. Liars on any and all subjects of substance.
3. Card carrying members of the Party of Death.
4. Absolutely un-American to their core.
5. Racist.
There are no exceptions. If they have a problem with reality then they need to leave the party and stop supporting the Democratic Marxist platform. If you think that somehow there are “errors” in the Democratic platform you’re a fool. That platform is a thoroughly well planned and constructed document. It’s their Mein Kampf.
“Democrats” and “good people” is the ultimate oxymoron.
Are we talking about Democrat politicians or ALL Democrats?
NoDoze Saturday, April 10th at 3:22PM EST (link)“Democrats” and “good people” is the ultimate oxymoron.
If there were no Democrats who are basically good, honest people, then we would not expect to see any Democrat come over to the Conservative side.
Peg_C above is a case in point.
It doesn't seem like there are very many "good Democrats"
earlgrey (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 3:49PM EST (link)What else does Obama have to do or say to make these people realize this is NOT a good thing (to misquote Martha Stewart). I still can’t believe some people drive around with their Obama bumper stickers on their cars. I would have tried to fix that by now.
I am talking about anyone who supports Democrats.
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 7:44PM EST (link)Supporting evil, supporting the surrender of fundamental American values, supporting the Party of Death is, in fact evil. Evil actions make the people who do them AND the people who support them evil.
That does not mean that they need remain in that condition. In point of fact, the Republican Party and Conservatism are the points of hope and light for those who have indentured themselves to evil. They can walk away at any time and they will find themselves very welcome among many of us who have made the same long walk.
I agree with that.
NoDoze Sunday, April 11th at 8:38AM EST (link)Dr. Sanity: http://drsanity.blogspot.com/ makes an excellent case psychologically, that Leftist/Socialist/Democrats are psychotic. One must reconnect their thinking with reality before they can overcome their psychosis. It can be done, but it is rare, but if people who understand reality keep the pressure on — in a constructive way — those who don’t, there is a glimmer of hope for a few of them.
My favorite, "moderate" or "centrist" Democrats.
johnt Saturday, April 10th at 11:01AM EST (link)What a joke. There are degrees of extremism, greed, and power lust, that’s it.
Words enter the common discourse and you now have even conservatives referring to the above non-existent creatures. I guess people don’t reflect on the words they use, but it bothers coming from the Right.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Long overdue
Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, April 11th at 2:49AM EST (link)From the 1992 Democratic Convention, where Casey, Sr. wasn’t allowed to speak (the spin about him not having endorsed is a dodge, as is the example of other pro-life Democrats who were allowed to speak – just not about life issues). The Platform Committee hearings made clear that no dissent on abortion was to be tolerated, and from that day forward anyone who claimed to be pro-life and a Democrat was hedging at best.
Leadership has always allowed members from competitive districts to vote against them on key issues when those votes did not affect the outcome, but never if it meant anything. The Stupak Amendment passed the House, but Pelosi would never have allowed a vote on it if she didn’t need its supporters to vote to pass ObamaCare.
Pelosi has sealed the deal – no pro-life Democrat has a prayer of being heard. These days it is merely electoral puffery for a Democrat to claim even to favor some restrictions on abortion.