Quote Originally Posted by merl View Post
Well you see, some people do care. If it was not effective it would not keep coming up, much like "They are gonna take your guns."
That's the $64 question though ... is it effective? If hanging the pro-life lable around the necks of Republicans like an albatross actually worked then how did the recalls win? The attacks on Herpin and Rivera were almost entirely built around the "these guys are pro-life so they hate women and are too extreme for Colorado" bs.

Also if so many people (especially dems and indys) made their decision based on abortion then why did Ritter win?

Polls show that abortion is pretty much a 50/50 issue in America now, and the people that are moved by the issue have pretty much already made up their minds which way their voting already (party lines) so I don't think the issue carries nearly the weight it used to (nor does it carry the same weight as "They're gonna take your guns!").

But all that still doesn't address my original point and that is if every Republican decided to never mention abortion again and the GOP removed any reference to it from their platform all they would really do is alienate their base and not gain a single vote from so-called independents and Democrats would still act like banning abortion (and by extension ending women's suffrage, and making women into second class citizens chained to the kitchen counter, barefoot and pregnant) is the only thing that Republicans want to do and that simply electing one Republican will cause it to happen (along with the establishment of a radical Christian Theocracy that makes the Taliban look like moderate secularists).

In other words the Democrats and the media (redundant) are going to lie. Period.