After the Republican defeats in 2006 and 2008, many people both inside and outside the party are attempting to sideline and remove the social conservative principles and even the members who hold them the most important in the party. Although I am not a social conservative myself, I do not agree that social conservatives should be caged up and belittled. Social conservative principles are just as important to the survival of the Republican party and this nation as fiscal conservative and “national defense conservative” principles. The party and its philosophy is big enough for all of us.

This attempts to make a solid, comprehensive case for the future of the “pro-life” movement that can appeal to both older Americans who have been involved with the pro-life movement and young Americans who are looking for new over-arching principles that are free of what has so far turned them off from the pro-life movement. It does deviate from traditional pro-life principles in some major ways, but it does so to try to create a broad “umbrella platform” that can be applied to a range of issues and excite a new generation of pro-life advocates.

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I have come across a new website that aims to track public sentiment on various questions and issues via twitter tags as well as more detailed posts directly to the site itself. Their first “issue” is about Obama coming into office and Bush leaving, allowing people to state exactly what their sentiments are.

Public Sentiment - Farewell to Bush

It is quite interesting to see that almost as many as a third to a half of the comments are positive or at least sympathetic. I found this site through a techie blog, not a conservative political blog. This might be an indicator that George W Bush’s image as a President may very well improve after a few years have passed and emotions wane. A lot of people seem to recognize that he accomplished his #1 duty of keeping us safe.