He is distorting Ron Paul's position a little on abortion. Ron Paul defines life at conception, introduced the Sanctity of Life Act, would support a Constitutional amendment, etc. He doesn't want it to be a 10th amendment issue because life is a God given right. At least that is the way I understand Ron Paul's position.
Yes, he distorted it last night too. It would be nice if one of these nights someone called up to explain that
Ron Paul is the ONLY one who haws attempted to do ANYTHING REAL WHATSOEVER for pro-life on the national level in the past 30 years! Virtually every Republican elected in that time frame has given really good speeches about pro-life. We've got a whole treasury of speeches that social conservatives can listen to for thousands upon thousands of hours. If they're satisfied with that, cool. But if they actually want babies to STOP GETTING ABORTED, like, in real life or something, then maybe someone besides Ron Paul should have voted for his bill to remove jurisdiction for Roe vs. Wade.
But no, apparently they just want the speech treasury.
They want empty promises and far-off dreams. No hurry, after all. Just a million abortions per year, what's a few decades. Maybe we can get a President who can appoint a pro-life judge or two, IF any retire, which I'll tell you if Bachmann or Santorum are President they will NOT, and then the next President can appoint another, and in 50 years they can finally hear a case and overturn Roe vs. Wade. Or we can go through a Constitutional Amendment process that will take at least a decade. Or they could pass Paul's bill, which would take a few days. If ANY of these clowns were serious about pro-life, if any were not just using it as a cynical political get-out-the-vote ploy on gullible Christians, they would do this. A few days later, states would be free to immediately ban abortion again. But then the politicians would lose that valuable get-out-the-vote ploy. No, it's in the best interest of "pro-life" politicians to make sure Roe vs. Wade is never, ever repealed. The "pro-lifer" pols will do everything they can to make sure abortion continues.
They'll keep that speech treasury alive and growing, though, and that's all that matters. Right?
And by the way, the President has no say whatsoever in a Constitutional amendment, so even if Paul had the "wrong" position on the amendment Deace wants it would be irrelevant. But in fact he has the "right" position. So where's the big disagreement on abortion between Steve Deace and Ron Paul? All in Steve Deace's imagination and nowhere else.
