Posted by
Sanity 102 on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:16:41 AM
The following is a reply to Steve at
http://camp2008victorya.blogspot.com/ Steve, a Palin supporter has been hard at work trying to get people to consider Palin and what will probably be the GOP headliner on the presidental ticket. In so doing, he's had great discussions with a number of bloggers. One has a problem with Rudy for the same reason I do...Rudy's pro-abortion stand. Steve's latest post is to question the validity of the pro-life criteria after 30 years of very little progress.
I once warned him to be very careful in destroying one of the GOP's voting blocks. Pro-lifers cross party lines and has been credited with breaking the Democratic 40 year strong hold in the 3 powers of government. "Do you REALLY want to tell pro-lifers that the GOP has done little or nothing for them?" I asked.
I do understand where Steve is coming from...we can NOT allow the Dems to occupy the White House...not while this nation is at war. Rudy is shaping up to be the only candidate that has a chance to stop that from happening.
As Jim (a poster) wrote...no GOP...no fighting the war.
Unfortunately, we are running out of time. We cannot spend any more effort trying to convince people that the WOT is the most important issue and should be the only consideration in the 2008 election. If they do not get that by now, they probably won't until the bombs start dropping.
After a couple of exchanges, this is what I wrote to Steve:
I think you're a wonderful person too but Steve you're going about this the wrong way.
The question you seem to be asking people is why CAN'T they vote for a Rudy/Sarah ticket.
You're going to get a dozen or more answers--and there is no way you're going to make a Rudy/Sarah ticket acceptable UNLESS the War on Terror is the person's primary issue.
You can't down size the importance of abortion to a pro-lifer...or border security to "no amnesty" absolutist...or gun rights to a 2nd ammendment dogmatist.
No matter how many times you point out that half a loaf is better than none...or that you'll never get more than crumbs...you will not convince them to abandon their "cause" because true believers ultimately believe in miracles.
Sorry.
But you can give them something else to focus on...where they won't feel they are "giving up their beliefs and their principles".
We are a nation at war Steve. Tell them...don't wait until the bombs have fallen for us to focus on winning that war.
Everything else can wait...everything else we can make right again.