GOP: Steele Yourselves For A Kaining

Right Democrat reports that Democrats for Life of America writes via Booker Rising:

"The RNC's new Chairman, Michael Steele recently said to GQ Magazine that he supports a pro-choice position. Former Arkansas Governor and candidate for President Mike Huckabee predicted that this comment will lead to pro-life Republicans leaving their party. DFLA sees this as an opportunity to expand the big tent of the Democratic Party by accepting more pro-life views. We believe that many Republicans are only there because it is a more hospitable environment for pro-life Americans. With that now changing, we hope that new DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, himself a pro-life Democrat, will openly invite them to join the pro-life Democratic community across the country."

RD goes on:

Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor, proved that he means business about his pro-life convictions by signing a state law banning embryonic stem cell research funding and legislation authorizing a Choose Life license plate.

Bill Lambrecht of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau reprts:

Kaine, once a Catholic missionary in Central America, talks freely about faith and carries the credentials to open doors at evangelical gatherings.

He is doing double duty now both as governor and Democratic national chairman, and it was noteworthy today that he split with Harvard pal Obama on a matter that has divided Democrats before.

Kaine signed legislation in his state banning the use of state funds for embryonic stem cell research. He approved the prohibition just three weeks after Obama got out his pen to sign an executive order reversing George W. Bush’s ban on federal funds for stem cell research.

Kaine enacted the law the same day he approved legislation permiting “Choose Life” license tags in the Virginia. You may not see him at the spring get-togethers of the abortion-rights groups.

Kaine’s view toward stem cells would seem to contradict the most recent Democratic Party platform which vows to change course.

It reads: “President Bush has rejected the calls from Nancy Reagan, Christopher Reeve and Americans across the land for assistance with embryonic stem cell research. We will reverse his wrongheaded policy. Stem cell therapy offers hope to more than 100 million Americans …”

A spokeswoman for Kaine told CNN that Kaine’s decision was “in keeping with his faith and his personal beliefs.”

Tim Kaine's record is additional proof that being a pro-life Democrat is not an oxymoron. While not following a single issue agenda, Kaine has the resolve to stand by his convictions despite intense pressure from pro-choice activists to do otherwise.