An LA Times/Bloomberg survey asked Republican voters about supporting a GOP candidate who didn’t agree with their view on abortion:
About 30 percent of GOP voters in each state said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their views and about 60 percent in each state said they would be willing to consider a candidate who takes a different stand.
Now, I am presuming that the majority of these GOP voters are pro-life, or at least anti-abortion. And if that’s the case, this poll is a little disconcerting. Will the Republican party keep it’s pro-life platform? If Rudy Giuliani continues to be a leading candidate and, God forbid, receives the presidential nomination (which many still consider a possibility), pro-lifers may have to look elsewhere for a party truly committed to building a culture of life.
Perhaps the Constitution Party? We’ll see how this election goes.
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Dear Chelsea,
I just found your blog, from your comment at this blog entry. I was very heartened to see your remarks… And I’m disappointed at Mike’s response posted there, and the overall reactions of many “conservative” bloggers, and conservatives & Republicans overall, to the Rudy Giuliani candidacy. Giuliani isn’t just “pro-choice” – his position on abortion (re: his support of partial-birth abortion) is more radical than even many of the Democrat Party leaders in Congress, many of whom voted to ban that atrocious practice when the bills came up, during the Clinton and Bush administrations.
THANK YOU so much for what you are doing for the pro-life cause. Pro-life weblogs are very much needed in the Blogosphere, especially since so much of it seems to be consumed with lockstep partisanship and support for neoconservatism, on domestic and foreign policy matters. Please continue blogging about the life issue, for a long time to come.
The prospect of Rudy as our party’s nominee is truly scary.
You have no idea how much I appreciate this comment! I was very worried after posting that comment and, to be honest, I haven’t even checked the comments since I posted mine because I know that most of the people who probably read her blog (especially those who comment) are those exact Republicans you mentioned in your second paragraph. I understand that fighting terrorism and defeating Democrats is important, but we are still killing over 1 million of our own children here every year! Some principles are too important to compromise, even if it means losing an election. I cannot stomach any sort of rationalization for supporting Rudy by people who consider themselves conservative – especially those who consider themselves “pro-life” – who honestly do not think that a pro-abortion Republican will do anything to threaten the pro-life platform of the GOP (like the delusional, or perhaps purposely deceptive, “SoCons for Rudy”). What they don’t realize is that much of the Republican support for a Giuliani presidency is from economic and business Republicans who actually want to see the GOP DROP it’s pro-life platform.
Thank you so much for your support, it helps me keep going. Please keep an eye on my blog as I will definitely continue, hopefully successfully, to try to articulate the importance of sticking to our pro-life principles when it comes to voting, even, as I said, if it means losing some elections. If the Republican party abandons its pro-life platform there will be no one left to speak for us (and the unborn) – unless we successfully build up a third party (?), the concept of which is looking more and more appealing to me as I become increasingly disappointed with mainstream Republicans.
I forgot to mention that Rudy himself also wants Republicans to “get beyond” issues like abortion and marriage, or really any socially conservative issues.
There’s no doubt that the nomination of Rudy Giuliani (and moreso if he’s elected) will mean the end of the Republican Party as a pro-life party for many years to come. The pro-life core of the party will find itself without a political home, and will be forced to find — or make — a new one.
I don’t believe that there’s a pro-abortion, pro-war cohort of voters out there to replace pro-lifers in the GOP after Giuliani drives us out.