GOP Counts on Pro-Life Vote
Obama Looks to Solidify West
By Richard Martin, 6-10-08
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Will Amendment 48, the pro-life ballot measure that will be voted on in the November election, cost Barack Obama Colorado?
That’s one possibility raised in recent days by local politicos eyeing the fall presidential race. , At the same time we are witnessing what the Grand Junction Sentinel calls “a fundamental realignment of the formerly reliably Republican Rocky Mountain West.”
Brought to the ballot by abortion foes centered in Colorado Springs, Amendment 48 would revise the state constitution to define life as starting at conception. The measure could “bring out conservatives in droves, possibly spoiling the electorate’s recent Democratic tendencies.”
The region’s GOP is also hoping to capitalize on Obama’s misstep in characterizing rural voters earlier in the primary campaign as bitter and “clinging to religion and guns.” “We know of the disparaging way he thinks of rural voters,” state GOP chairman Dick Wadhams told the Denver Post. “We know he wants to tax and spend Americans to death.
In a region undergoing swift changes that include an influx of wealthy liberals and moderates and an energy boom, that old saw may not fly. More than any candidate in recent memory, Obama has the money and the enthusiastic supporters to mount a sweeping field campaign in states like Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico.
“You’ll see a [Democratic] presidential field operation in Mesa County for the first time I can remember,” Democratic consultant Steve Welchert told the Post.
And Obama’s coattails could help continue the leftward tilt that has seen moderate Democrats capture statehouses across the Rocky Mountain West. Colorado Pols has the major congressional races in the state tilting toward the Dems, including the Fourth District House seat now held by firebrand conservative Marilyn Musgrave.
“Two months ago [Musgrave] looked fine,” the political blog comments, “but after GOP losses in Red states she must be worried.”
[End of article]In 2007, Obama voted to continue allowing partial birth abortions. http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Perhaps that vote will energize the pro-life people.
In the interest of truth in advertising, I suggest New West writers stop using the phrase "pro-life." A more accurate term is anti-abortion, anti-contraception.
It is not my experience that "pro-life" people are pro-life across the board. Many are enthusiastically in favor of the death penalty, the right of deadly force in self-defense and in favor of sending other people's kids off to fight Bush's wars. Not too many pro-lifers give a rodent's patootie for the born, when you're emphatically on your own, bunkie.
If Coloradoans wake up and realize that passage of Amendment 48 would not only mean the end of abortion, but also of artificial contraception, the rationalists will out-vote the fundamentalists and Obama should win with that heightened awareness.
People will vote for restricting abortions for others, but not for inconveniencing themselves by losing the Pill.
Pro-Lifers: Note Craig Moore's indifference.
He, like the Republican Party, doesn't give a damn if abortion or even partial birth abortion is ever outlawed (in fact the Republican Party has a vested interest in it always being legal).
All the Republicans want is the wedge issue. They want you go to the polls again and again and vote pro-Life, only you never get pro-Life. All you ever get is more of the same.
So go ahead, vote pro-Life - get tax cuts for the rich.
Vote to define marriage between a man and woman - get the Iraq War.
Vote family values, get oil dependence.
'just another life,' scrape yourself off the ceiling. This column, not me, raises the issue of Obama and abortion couched in the discussion on Amendment 48.
From the article: "Will Amendment 48, the pro-life ballot measure that will be voted on in the November election, cost Barack Obama Colorado?"
Tad bit sensitive Craig?
I didn't accuse you of anything, only noted your indifference.
Yes you did accuse me. Your own words, "Pro-Lifers: Note Craig Moore's indifference. He, like the Republican Party, doesn't give a damn..."
You don't know a thing about me to make such a remark. However, it is quite revealing that your best response is a personal attack. Tough talk from someone who cowardly hides behind a nom de guerre to attack others.
Here we go again.
Yeah, "..Obama’s coattails could help continue the leftward tilt that has seen moderate Democrats capture ..." Colorado.
On the other hand, there might not be enough moneyed-movie-star-grease on those coattails to accomplish that feat. Some of those moderate Democrats and independent-minded voters just might take the time to read and learn a whole big bunch about Obama that no amount of money can continue to hide from the public.
So is McCain the lesser of the evils? Who knows.
But there just MIGHT be a couple/three voters left in Colorado who just MIGHT find out through their own *independent research* that not all of those "old saw(s)", as Richard calls them in this article, are either untrue or ones they wish to flush down the toilet quite yet.
There are many ways to separate truth from fiction ... but finding it encompassed in an article promoting Obama ain't one of 'em.
... or so it seems to me ...
It looks like Hillary Clinton people are not happy. See: justsaynodeal.com/index.html
Comment By Horst Wagner, 6-11-08It strikes me that Craig Moore may simply be antagonistically anti.
Comment By Craig Moore, 6-11-08Horst, that makes me chuckle. Neither this column nor Obama's challenges in the West are about me. His life, his record, and his positions are what's important to western interests and whether they match with western values and goals.
Comment By just another wedge, 6-11-08your indifference is there in black and white Craig. you made the comment, not me.
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Nader has been working for us all his life. It is time we support him. Independents can do this because half of the Republicans do not like McCain and half of the Democrats do not like Obama.
Vote for Nader
Pro-choice is really a pro-life position. Pro-choice means that rationalists understand the reality that there are ultimate limits to everything, including human numbers. Humans numbers can be controlled humanely through family planning or inhumanely thru famine, disease & wars. The pro-life position, without family planning, condems millions to stavation. In other words, if the earth were flat the pro-life position would make sense because, as everyone knows, flat earth's would have no beginning or end. But unfortunately the earth is a sphere and as humans continue to breed we are going to run into each other on the other side of the planet.
Comment By Joe, 6-17-08Here are a few things Obama has done since he became the nominee.
I was reading an article on Topix.com that said Obama was monitoring the internet for rumors about him. (In other words, people telling it like it really is).
I read the article and then posted a comment that was not complimentary to Obama. Directly after that I got an email from the Obama camp wanting me to contribute to his campaign. I had never received an email from him before this. Since then my computer has not been able to get on the internet effectively. I just thought it was my computer, but then I ran into another person On USATODAY who is also having trouble with their computers.(They have four computers).They also read the Topix article on Obama monitoring the internet.
This is taking away freedom of speech. I have heard that Obama also took Larry Sinclairs web page off the internet, but didn't think anything of it until this happened. If he is doing this now what can we expect if he becomes President.
He has also talked the DNC into move their operation to his offices in Chicago. The DNC needs money and I guess Obama has plenty of it.
Has everyone been following the Rezco case in Chicago?