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The Supreme Court That Barack Obama Will Give Us
Laura Echevarria has made available a transcript from Barack Obama's speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Here is an excerpt:
I have worked on these issues for decades now. I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught Constitutional Law. Not simply as a case about privacy but as part of the broader struggle for women’s equality. Steve and Pam will tell you that we fought together in the Illinois State Senate against restrictive choice legislation—laws just like the federal abortion laws, the federal abortion bans that are cropping up. I’ve stood up for the freedom of choice in the United States Senate and I stand by my votes against the confirmation of Judge Roberts and Samuel Alito.
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Pure Barry Goldwater Conservativism?
By Kevin Stilley
“We need to return to pure Barry Goldwater conservatism.” That is what one radio talk-show host had to say this week. To most of the listeners that probably sounded pretty innocuous. However, it speaks volumes to the struggle that has taken place in the Republican primary this election cycle.
Since the Reagan Revolution the Republican party’s strength has been the coalition between economic conservatives, national security conservatives, and social conservatives. Would a “return to pure Barry Goldwater conservatism” maintain this coalition? You decide after reading the following quote of Barry Goldwater.
“And I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C,’ and ‘D.” Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
“And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate.”
The Roman Empire could not tolerate Christianity because it had an absolute standard by which it could judge Roman culture. The Republican Empire has grown weary of Evangelicals because they have an absolute standard by which they can judge Republican culture.
The stability of Reagan’s three-legged stool has been tested this election cycle. However, it has not been, as some suggested, the Evangelicals who have tried to reduce it to a two-legged stool. Most Evangelicals are not only social conservatives, but economic and national security conservatives, as well. However, Evangelicals have an absolute standard by which to judge economic conservatism when it becomes little more than greed, and Evangelicals have an absolute standard by which to judge national security conservatism when it becomes little more than hatred. Economic and national security conservatives, like Barry Goldwater, have grown weary with social conservatives who “presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs,” and this election cycle economic and national security conservatives have used their control of print media like National Review magazine, radio media like Clear Channel, and television media like Fox News to fight back the tide of social conservatives who have mistakenly believed that they had a chair at the Republican table.
As one radio talk-show host put it, they think “We need to return to pure Barry Goldwater conservatism” — a conservatism that does not include Evangelicals. If they get their wish, it will be a long time before there is a Republican in the White House or before Republicans gain control of either house of Congress.
New York Times Boosts McCain Support
The New York Times did McCain a huge favor by printing spurious innuendo which implied that John McCain had been involved in an inappropriate relationship. Conservatives who had themselves been attacking McCain's conservative credentials quickly came to McCain's defense. McCain needs to send the New York Times a thank you note for helping unite feuding Republicans.
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