Here's a curious fact: Not once was the word abortion mentioned from the dais of the Democratic convention in 2004. That convention seemed, at times, about nothing except embryonic stem cell research, as speaker after speaker denounced the Luddite Republican opposition to all things scientific. But the Democrats at the time clearly did not see the defense of Roe v. Wade as a winning issue. ...And so in 2008, the Democratic Party adopting a more emphatic platform ("The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right"). Likewise, Senator Obama has repeatedly proclaimed his "unyielding" support for "choice", and warning Americans -- in recent radio advertisements -- that “as president, John McCain will make abortion illegal."Then came the Democratic victories in the 2006 midterm elections and the collapse of public approval ratings for President Bush--followed by polls early in 2008 that suggested anyone from a blind monkey to Che Guevara, if he ran as a Democrat, would win the 2008 presidential election. Conservative positions were so unpopular, the left decided, that concessions (like the one that forced them to support the self-declared pro-life Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the 2008 Pennsylvania Senate race) no longer needed to be made.
As Jody observes, the Democratic Party's vocality on abortion has put Catholic Democrats like Biden and Pelosi in something of a bind: "So what's Joe Biden to do? What, for that matter, is any Catholic supporter of Obama to do? The ledge on which they are trying to stand is crumbling beneath their feet ... [they] were reduced to the idiocy of trying to argue theology on the Sunday morning shows" -- arguing for a morally-incomprehensible and scientifically-preposterous position against the Catholic Church.
The Democrats anticipated an election in which the national conversation would be dominated by material concerns -- economics, health care, foreign policy; in which the American people would dismiss what Senator Biden condescendingly refers to as "the wedge issues." Instead, they've resurrected the so-called "culture war" -- and Biden and Pelosi by their loud-yet-feeble excuses have managed to rally the Bishops, individually and collectively, against them.
Related
- Obama's Catholic Problem, by Gary Bauer. Human Events 9/19/08
6 comments:
You know, I totally agree with the premise of this blog, but honestly, after the last 48 hours, I'm thinking we should be for Joe Biden, gaffe-tastic comedy gold that he is. I'm sure Axelrod is tearing his hair out.
"So what's Joe Biden to do? What, for that matter, is any Catholic supporter of Obama to do?
What will they do? They'll lie, of course.
They'll lie about what the Church teaches. They'll lie about when they think life begins. They'll lie about science. They'll lie about morality. They'll lie about medicine. They may even lie about their own position. They'll tell lie after lie.
Just as pro-aborts always do.
To ditto Paul,
if you believe killing the unborn is moral, then what's a lie?
During the VP debate, Biden said that the Constitution offered protection for couples in a "homosexual marriage." Later he stated that he thinks it would have been terrible if Bork had been confirmed because he would have helped to overturn important cases "like Roe v. Wade."
It was BREATH-TAKING that a professed Catholic uttered those phrases. I was speechless! I told my husband that I thought my head might explode.
Catholics suck biden rocks
Catholics suck biden rocks
Sadly, this is an example of some of the more charitable discourse coming from that camp.
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