Take A Good Look, America

Madame President

That she's leading the polls means nothing at this point, but it's highly disturbing that she raised more money last quarter than the top two Repubs combined. Faced with the imminent blow-out of the Republican party at every level of government, our leaders are re-doubling their efforts to defeat her, right? No, they're going to found impotent 3rd parties, lose, and then spend 4 or 8 years moaning about how bad the culture is. People! Bill Clinton got in on a plurarity vote --the majority of the American people very sensibly voted against him. Don't make the same mistake with his wife.

At least Prof. K. is asking the right question:

eight years of the first Clinton gave us Breyer, Ginsburg, and the evolution of Anthony Kennedy. Is anyone really prepared for the judicial nominees HRC will send up to the Senate and for the damage they can do for the next thirty years?

Does no one on the pro-life/ family values side recall the Clinton years? Does no one understand that the fight for life --and marriage-- takes place in the courts and not the Congress & White House? That's the main point.


But then it's not just the judges, it's every agency of our bureaucracy staffed top to bottom with hateful, petty, two-bit "activists" like Roberta Achtenberg --so that absolutely every issue becomes a life or marriage question: Boy Scouts couldn't camp in federal parks because they're anti-homosexual bigots, remember that? Remember the effort to force any faith-based group to remove all references to religious roots (such as a cross or a star of David) in their advertising and names, lest they create a "hostile atmosphere" for the unreligious? Remember the constant probing to have non-profit status removed from pro-life and pro-family Churches? In the UN, we tied all our aid to 3rd world nations to abortion policy, remember that? Remember 5 terrible abortion-related executive orders the day of the March for Life --just to thumb it in our eyes that extra little bit?


I am in no way pleased with the Republican field. There's not one candidate whose heart resonates with the life/"values" issues or has any vision in that regard. But benign neglect in the White House and a commitment to originalism in judges (which all three R front-runners have) will be infinitely better for actual innocent lives than three branches of government staffed top to bottom with people who live to defeat the traditional family and stay up at night cooking up ways to do so.


Think about the health care debate we're having right now. The actuarial tables and the birth dearth mean any government health care program will be forced to allocate treatment on a strict cost/benefit basis. I think we are only an election away from the days when you will not have the choice of bringing your handicapped or Down Syndrome child to term --that child will have a "pre-existing condition," and if you don't abort, he'll be eligible for no health benefits. We're already seeing cases of hospitals refusing to allow Grandma to die naturally, but wanting to dehydrate her to death to free up the bed, against the family's wishes. Cases like this are going to come before our courts in the next couple of years and decisions will last for generations. The Senate is probably a lost cause for Republicans. If you care about life & marriage, you cannot allow President Hillary. Unless, of course, your secret plan is to bring about the Tribulation. That's the only logic I can find in such a strategy.

Update: From this morning's WaTi.

Religious conservative leaders say they don't expect to win if they carry through with preparations to run their own presidential candidate next year. Instead, their goal would be to hurt the Republicans if Rudolph W. Giuliani becomes the Republican Party's standard-bearer.

I thought revenge was a sin. More to the point, no primary has yet been held -- rally around someone else and get him nominated, for heaven's sake. But announcing "unless you vote our way, we plan to deliberately sink the country" is in no way an admirable policy, nor in any way persuasive. There is never going to be a political saint who can heal the culture in one fell swoop. You have to keep plugging away at your issues locally and heart by heart --and elect people who will do the most to advance your issues (or least to set you back). The ball right now is the courts, courts, courts. Let's keep our eye on it.