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Governor Palin, President Obama, and the Life-and-Death Issue that Defines Them

By: jorgie714 (Diary)  |  December 9th, 2010 at 07:01 AM  | 

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Of all the potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin provides the starkest contrast to President Obama. With the debut of the TLC series ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’, America is getting an in-depth look at the former First Family of Alaska. This includes the newest additions, son Trig Palin and grandson Tripp Johnston—and therein lies the rub. Trig Palin has Down syndrome, and Tripp Johnston is the son of a single mother. So what would the Obama family do if faced with similar circumstances?

As an Illinois state senator, Barrack Obama opposed a bill that would have prevented the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. As Illinois Senator, he opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion. And at a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in March of 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate Barrack Obama stated, “… I got two daughters … if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” I’ll leave it to you to speculate on Obama’s family decisions and his chances of surviving any primary challenges, but if the 2012 presidential campaign comes down to Palin vs Obama, life and death issues will once again take center stage—the life and death issues of unborn babies.

Jeff Jorgensen
Treynor, IA

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  • twig76

    Clear, concise and free of ambiguity! Two excellent paragraphs!

  • wonkish1

    I think the election cycle that will be largely the culmination of a several decade fight on abortion will be 2016 and not 2012.

    The issues in 2012 will likely be Inflation, Spending, and probably “Unemployment is coming down to slowly”. In that environment it is just very unlikely pro lifers will be able to get much air time in on the issue.

    Now if Breyer and Ginsburg don’t retire in the next 2 years than a fundamental change in the seating of the Supreme Court could happen after the 2012 election. That would likely lead to Supreme Court decisions that thrust abortion legislation to the front and center for the 2016 election.

    Also, usually when you get to the 60% threshold on an issue is when it starts being a big player for an election cycle. Following these trends it points to 2016. http://www.gallup.com/poll/118399/more-americans-pro-life-than-pro-choice-first-time.aspx

    The smart play is to focusing on persuading the electorate for the next couple of years and stock pile money for the 2016 fight and subsequent months. Welfare reform took 30 years from when it became popular policy in GOP circles to a reality. And the abortion issue is pointing to 2016 as first year where the odds are starting to look more in our favor.

  • http://www.flaliberty.org scorpio0679

    But there is (almost) nothing legislatively that can be done. It is all about controlling the presidency so you can make the judicial replacements. If we can replace A SINGLE LIBERAL on the Supreme Court, we will likely reverse Roe v. Wade.

    But it is more than that — there are scores of liberal precedent that will be overturned if we can replace but ONE liberal Supreme Court Justice. We MUST control the presidency.

  • http://westforwestwing2012.com westforwestwing2012

    Thank you! I’m always so gratified to find other people out there who CARE about this issue. You put it well, too. Only thing I’d have done differently is put scare quotes around “mistakenly”! But we know what you mean.

    I wrote endless op-eds and blog comments and flyers on this very subject back in 2008 — all to no avail, not even to much avail with my fellow Catholics. Everyone was so tired of the Iraq war that they wanted to vote for Obama no matter what. When I told them that Obama in the Illinois Senate had voted not once, not twice, but had on FOUR occasions opposed basic care for born-alive infants, the story sounded so outrageous that they simply wouldn’t believe me. Kind of like when escapees from Nazi Germany tried to wake up the world; the story of deliberate-extermination death camps was so outrageous they couldn’t get people to believe them!

    People, unfortunately, believe what they want to believe and easily go into denial about the rest.

    Sarah and her family, however, are living, breathing, flesh-and-blood, in-your-face testimony to the goodness of life. For me they represent innocence, health, love, life, wholesomeness.

    If you haven’t seen it yet, do take 30 minutes — you won’t regret it! — and watch Sarah’s speech earlier this year at the Susan B. Anthony List “Celebration of Life” Breakfast. In my opinion, it’s one of those speeches that historians will look back on as seminal. In it, she RECLAIMS authentic feminism–what she calls “pioneer feminism” (think Mama Grizzlies) from the warped baby-killers who have hijacked it these last 40 years!
    http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2010/05/c-span-video-sarah-palins-remarks-to.html
    Obama is a monster.