In recent years, retired Sen. John Danforth, no fan of the “religious right” wing of the Republican party, has been a consistent disappointment to me as a Republican, culminating in his unwavering support for human cloning, ESC research and the passage of last year’s Amendment 2. Now he is spending his time encouraging like-minded moderate Republicans to run for office. Tonight he will be co-hosting a fund raising event for the Republican Leadership Council:
The money will be used, he said, to “support candidates who agree with us.”
Such candidates, said Danforth, will favor “the basic Republican principles” of smaller government, low taxes, free markets and national security.
The Republican Leadership Council isn’t taking positions on sensitive social issues like abortion, gay rights, guns and school prayer, said another council co-chair, Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey.
The views of these Republicans are similar to those supporting Giuliani’s nomination because of his liberal position in favor of homosexual and abortion rights. Giuliani himself said that Republicans need to “get beyond issues like (abortion)” in order to broaden the GOP base, or something like that.
What was most disappointing about the article, however was the statement from Paul Sloca, spokesman for the State Republican Party: “Any effort to elect Republicans to public office is a good thing.” That seems to be the mindset of much of the current mainstream Republicans.
Samuel Lee from Campaign Life Missouri, who alerted me to this article, says it best:
Regarding Missouri Republican spokesman Paul Sloca’s comment, it is a sad day in American politics when the two major political parties no longer care what a candidate or elected official believes on the important moral issues of the day, as long as he or she has an “R” or “D” after his or her name.
We don’t want to support a third party. We want Republicans to stand in support of those issues which made her so great to begin with – most importantly, the right to life of every member of our society, born and unborn.
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