Posted by
jjones29 on Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:00:25 PM
Well I am disappointed to once again have to out a fake conservative. The AP reports that
Mike Huckabee, once my second choice for president, decided to take
Fred Thompson to task for suggesting that the Roe v. Wade should be repealed and the regulation of abortion left to the states.
Huckabee's proposal to federalize abortion law once again points out the problem with the party, and why we must have conservative principles on every issue. Principles that don't waver or change in order to get votes. Outraged that the NRTL committee has endorsed Thompson, Huckabee says "If morality is the point here, and if it's right or wrong, not just a
political question, then you can't have 50 different versions of what's
right and what's wrong." Well that's great, but you can really spin that 100 different ways - particularly nasty socialist ways. Because once you accept that the federal government can legislate simply because something is a moral issue, you open the door to all the Democratic socialists who believe that (a) a good education (b) a good roof over your head or (c) a living wage, as just a few examples are "moral issues". If all it takes to empower the federal government to act is the declaration that something is a moral issue, look out! The Democrats must love that idea. Every wasteful, intrusive, power consolidating program that FDR, JFK and LBJ ever dreamed of can be cast as moral issues.
We can all agree that murder, theft, perjury and the like are moral issues. But we haven't federalized them. We have a system of 50 sets of criminal law, each with their own standards, that address them.
Huckabee's cheap pandering for votes, at the expense of principle, once again demonstrates what is wrong with the GOP and why someone has to say enough!!!! It is a moral issue. And state legislators have morals and can address it. Now go re-register as a Democrat, Mike. Hillary has a lot of other moral issues you can help her address.