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.”
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Perhaps that vote will energize the pro-life people.
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.
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.
From the article: "Will Amendment 48, the pro-life ballot measure that will be voted on in the November election, cost Barack Obama Colorado?"
I didn't accuse you of anything, only noted your indifference.
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.
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 ...
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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?