Brewha wrote:Back to the OP - what is the Right selling as their platform?
Besides taking away our social security?
I'm not the OP, but will give it a shot and only with one issue for now. I'll take Abortion for 500.
Blue & Red both want to "win" the Culture Wars battles, so assuming any type of compromise seems highly improbable.
Before you can find the middle, you have to look at both extremes of the parties.
Republican Extreme: No abortion, no exceptions, period.
Well, when there is no period, if you know what I mean.Democratic Extreme: Birth Mother can choose to have an abortion from the moment of male ejaculation until the child's 18th birthday. *Maybe that is extreme and actually ends when a needle goes into the crowning head of the baby on his her or theys birthday.
So where is the midpoint? The span of ejacu-moment through a normal birth date is 40 weeks.
Would either side agree that 20 weeks? That would be a compromise.
The woman still has a choice up until then. Anti Abortion folks get to end later and late term abortions.
Am thrilled I'm not a woman. Periods, cramping, bloating, child birthing. Plus the pressure of remembering to take birth control pill either every day or have some other spermicides cream, condom or diaphragm with me.
Do you know who loves abortions? Drunk college guys, regardless of how they feel about abortion when they are sober.
Personally, I am unholier than though. Am a Christian, while failing every day, my stand on abortion might put me in hot water as my resume gets reviewed for consideration at the pearly gates. Here goes...
An abortion is something which is the worst thing a woman can do, but should legally be allowed to do it. In the end, it is between her and her maker. Much like me, she'll have to explain it.
That isn't the Republican platform (you asked their platform on this and I can't tell you what it is). There would would be a lot of wringing of hands and shouting with the GOP in order to get to that destination. It would drive a far number of Independents and certainly gain support from some Dem voters who are looking for a reasonable alternative to what the blue team is selling.
And to Bucky's point, it is a moot point because the Supremes have decided it is left to the states to decide.
To bring it home to a similar issue which was hot 15 years or so ago, I see a parallel with Smoking Bans.
Don't want a cigar? Don't Smoke it. But don't tell me
I can't. You don't agree with me? Great. Pass the beer nuts.