Clueless In Columbus (And In The Heart)

Michael Steele just can’t see THE restorative issue for the GOP- Life

Columbus (OH) Dispatch Senior Editor Joe Hallett casually poised the loaded question to RNC Chairman To Nowhere Michael Steele asking “if there is room in the party for a pro-abortion rights candidate”?

Clueless, and likely hopping up on the nearest table in hopes of being caught by a CNN or MSNBC camera crew, Steele emphatically responded “There absolutely is, there absolutely is… The key thing right now-and I think this is true for Republicans across the country-is to have leadership that reflects the communities I live in, where we’re from. As we get ready for the battles that lie ahead from this district to all the districts surrounding the state, that you’re going to find those candidates emerge and rise up who reflect those values in those communities, and that’s a very important step for the party to take, I think, and I’m looking forward to help lead that charge in the future.”

Now if Steele can just persuade Bob Dole to head the GOP ticket in 2012, happy days will surely be here again.

Too busy trying to out do the democrats in identity/racial politics and pandering loudly to pro-choicers, homosexual marriage activists and green kooks, chairman Michael Steele just cannot see the restorative issue for the republican party through all the mismatched trees he’s trying to drag into his “big tent”.

Life. The social justice cause of our time.

Pro-Life sentiment is escalating across the country. Emphasizing the republican party’s prominence in the struggle to save America’s unborn children from the vacuums, surgical shears and poisons of the increasingly despised abortion industry would be sound strategy from a purely political perspective. It would also be a major step in restoring the party’s former image of principle before politics.

Leading backwards
Concerns over abortion aside, clueless hardly begins to describe a party chairman seemingly intent upon repeating the failed campaign strategy of 2008 and following, virtually to the letter, the advice of his opponents in the democratic party and left wing media. Our Christian Conservative Spectator articles Time For Mr Maverick To Hit The Trail and General Colin Custer sum up the folly of Michael Steele’s ideas quite succinctly. Mr Steele would do well to read them before taking further advice from James Carvel and Rachel Maddow.

As a political issue, the struggle to protect the lives of America’s unborn is beginning to prevail as people gradually come to understand that abortion is not a women’s rights issue but a civil rights/social justice issue. Roe v Wade is unconstitutional because it denies an entire group of citizens, America’s most helpless citizens, the fundamental right to life.

Voters are beginning to realize that they have been misled by the democratic party, and it’s patrons in Abortion Incorporated, over the horrible realities of what actually happens during an abortion and the damage suffered by women who have undergone abortions. Despite the overwhelming, hard core pro-abortion stance of the entire Obama administration, polls now show that the majority of Americans, for the first time, consider themselves to be pro-life.

And with President Obama’s job approval numbers plummeting, is it not in the republican party’s best interest to offer voters clear alternatives to his policies, including Mr Obama’s rabid support for unrestricted abortion on demand?

Instead, with the country moving against the president, and in favor of life, The Chairman To Nowhere is actively pursing pro-abortion candidates to become the face of the republican party.

Leading without principle or heart
In it’s heyday, the former Grand Old Party, as the party of principle before politics, maintained a firm anti-abortion plank in the party platform. That platform, still in force by the way Mr Steele, placed republicans in the White House for 20 of the 28 years prior to 2009 and republican majorities in congress from 1994 - 2006.

Michael Steele, once thought to be a heartfelt, formidable conservative leader, now appears to be willing to abandon that proud, and successful, anti-abortion plank by promoting pro-abortion candidates for congress. In doing so, Michael Steele is degrading himself, and the republican party, by pandering for votes at the lowest level.

Increasing the pro-abortion membership, of either party, in Washington will simply work to further entrench abortion in America. It will increase the number of innocent children lost to the dumpsters of Abortion Incorporated. And the republican party will be enabling their horrifying deaths, for purely political purposes.

Placing pro-abortion republican candidates on the ballot will not win the vote of a single hard core abortion supporter. It will, however, give pause to that increasing number of independent voters who now espouse life. And further alienate an already soured traditional republican base. Such blatant abandonment of long held principle will also enhance the growing perception that the republican party has degenerated into an embarrassing rabble of Grand Old Panders, parroting liberal mantras in the hopes of garnering votes. No matter what the cost or ultimate consequence to our country.

Before continuing down this path, Chairman Steele, put politics aside for a day and stop by a Planned Parenthood “clinic”. Take the time to personally witness the procedures that pro-abortion members of congress support. Then, Mr Steele, contact members of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign and learn first hand about the long term physical damage and psychological trauma many women experience after undergoing an abortion.

Then, Mr “Chairman”, spend the rest of the day in front of a mirror.