And so the Republican Party prepares for Donald Trump versus Mitt Romney in 2020, with both of them on the ballot come November.
Trump has been a major donor to Planned Parenthood, while Romney derived an income from the publicly funded abortion that he had legalised in Massachusetts.
Brett Kavanaugh was unknown to the pro-life movement, but Trump simply ignored its dozens of carefully prepared potential nominees.
Republican Senators voted to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after he had promised Susan Collins that he would uphold Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and Obergefell v. Hodges. They gave her speech a standing ovation, and then they voted to confirm him on the basis of what she had just told them.
In any case, overturning those rulings would merely return the matters to the states. No state would now restrict abortion much, if at all, and there is probably now no State Legislature where anyone would even introduce a Bill to ban same-sex marriage. Certainly, no Legislature would now pass any such Bill.
By the way, Trump has been in favour of same-sex marriage since before either Barack Obama or the Clintons were. It has been a long time since Romney was last asked the question.
Welcome to the Republican Party. The party of Nixon, Ford, Reagan (who legalised abortion in California, just as Nelson Rockefeller did in New York, and who sent no fewer than three supporters of it to the Supreme Court), the Bushes, Dole, McCain, Romney, and Trump.
The truth is beginning to dawn that the people who carry on voting for it with that record are not being deceived. Those are their views. When it comes to the opposite views, then far too few people hold them to make any electoral difference.
That realisation also has profound implications for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which is determined to stop any challenge to economic and military hawkishness, and which instead gloated this week that the major arms companies were now headed by women.
What if, as all electoral results forever have strongly suggested, the Clinton Democrats' bogeyman does not exist? What if there is no Religious Right? There has never been the slightest sign of it so far.
Republican Senators voted to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after he had promised Susan Collins that he would uphold Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and Obergefell v. Hodges. They gave her speech a standing ovation, and then they voted to confirm him on the basis of what she had just told them.
In any case, overturning those rulings would merely return the matters to the states. No state would now restrict abortion much, if at all, and there is probably now no State Legislature where anyone would even introduce a Bill to ban same-sex marriage. Certainly, no Legislature would now pass any such Bill.
By the way, Trump has been in favour of same-sex marriage since before either Barack Obama or the Clintons were. It has been a long time since Romney was last asked the question.
Welcome to the Republican Party. The party of Nixon, Ford, Reagan (who legalised abortion in California, just as Nelson Rockefeller did in New York, and who sent no fewer than three supporters of it to the Supreme Court), the Bushes, Dole, McCain, Romney, and Trump.
The truth is beginning to dawn that the people who carry on voting for it with that record are not being deceived. Those are their views. When it comes to the opposite views, then far too few people hold them to make any electoral difference.
That realisation also has profound implications for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which is determined to stop any challenge to economic and military hawkishness, and which instead gloated this week that the major arms companies were now headed by women.
What if, as all electoral results forever have strongly suggested, the Clinton Democrats' bogeyman does not exist? What if there is no Religious Right? There has never been the slightest sign of it so far.
You really do have club rights at The American Conservative and the Ron Paul Institute, don't you?
ReplyDeleteI suppose so, yes.
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