Pro-life and conservative overtures

A major reason for selecting Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate may have been to alleviate the worries pro-life and conservative voters who continued to regard McCain as insincere in his pro-life and conservative overtures. But after the election, the self-proclaimed pro-life Republican Governor went on to appoint a former Planned Parenthood board member, Judge Morgan Christen, to Alaska's Supreme Court. This happened in March of 2009, about the same time that Brownback escorted Kathleen Seblius through a safe confirmation process


The efforts of the so-called pro-life Republicans are laughable because it is so transparently insincere. That's also what makes it so appalling. How, then, are we to take these people seriously when they say they are debating the question of government funded abortion?


I look at the debates staged by Politicians as mere shadows on the walls of Plato's Cave. As the Political Class continues to distract us in the Private Class by waving their arms in front of the fire (television cameras), and casting images on the wall (our living rooms), many people don't think to look at what's happening right outside in the real world. Or at least, that's what the politicians are hoping. Personally, I think more people understand exactly what's happening than the clueless fools in Versailles D.C. realize.

It is because I am pro-life that I find it contemptible when members of the Political Class use the abortion issue to pander to the emotions of the Private Class, and to attempt to distract us. People who take this issue seriously, on either side of the debate, should be deeply angered and offended at every one of the politicians in Washington. Shame on them!