In Kansas, GOP abandons abortion focus
And party leaders suggest that conservative candidates do the same, saying the issue could alienate voters nowadays.
By Stephanie Simon
Los Angeles Times
It would seem an ideal time for Kansas politicians opposed to abortion to push that agenda, hard. The state's two biggest clinics are under criminal indictment, and two grand juries will soon convene to consider additional charges.
But as the political season revs up, the executive director of the Kansas Republican Party has issued a stern warning to his fellow conservatives: Abortion is not a winning issue.
"This is not something that the Kansas GOP is going to go out and lead on," Christian Morgan said.
Morgan said that he and his party remain firmly opposed to abortion. Most Republican voters in Kansas feel the same, he said. But Morgan also believes that those voters are fed up with years of fruitless political and legal maneuvering aimed at driving abortion clinics out of business. They would much prefer to see an all-out focus on curbing illegal immigration or cutting taxes, he said.
In an e-mail rebuffing an antiabortion activist who asked for more GOP support, Morgan explained: "My job is to win elections. . . . Your agenda does not fit my agenda."
(Continued here.)
By Stephanie Simon
Los Angeles Times
It would seem an ideal time for Kansas politicians opposed to abortion to push that agenda, hard. The state's two biggest clinics are under criminal indictment, and two grand juries will soon convene to consider additional charges.
But as the political season revs up, the executive director of the Kansas Republican Party has issued a stern warning to his fellow conservatives: Abortion is not a winning issue.
"This is not something that the Kansas GOP is going to go out and lead on," Christian Morgan said.
Morgan said that he and his party remain firmly opposed to abortion. Most Republican voters in Kansas feel the same, he said. But Morgan also believes that those voters are fed up with years of fruitless political and legal maneuvering aimed at driving abortion clinics out of business. They would much prefer to see an all-out focus on curbing illegal immigration or cutting taxes, he said.
In an e-mail rebuffing an antiabortion activist who asked for more GOP support, Morgan explained: "My job is to win elections. . . . Your agenda does not fit my agenda."
(Continued here.)
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FROM THE ARTICLE : voters are fed up with years of fruitless political and legal maneuvering aimed at driving abortion clinics out of business. They would much prefer to see an all-out focus on curbing illegal immigration or cutting taxes.
OK, so he’s on the right track but then leaped off another track to another losing idealogy.
The immigration problem has been around for years yet it is only in the past two years that it has been moving up the charts … but based on the inability of Congress and the President to come to an agreement it will soon join the “fruitless political” campaign issues that motivate some voters (and push some candidates (Dick Day)) to embrace it as a mega-problem … and legislation will never be enacted to satisfy the harsh critics. How is Tancredo doing in the national polls?
Cutting taxes – for whom? Gallup has been asking people about levels of taxation since 1947 and historically most people think they pay too much … but lately “about right” has been catching up to “too high”. The big issue for the 2008 election should be “Since the Bush tax cuts are set to expire, will you vote to extend them?” … I think most working families recognize that the rich got richer under the Bush cuts, the deficit grew, and income inequality widen … they will vote for candidates that say we need to roll back the tax cuts … NOT cut more taxes. What’s left to cut? Oh, that’s right the Death Tax.
The Republicans need to embrace the issues that voters care about. Where is their health care plan? Stop calling global warming a hoax, tell us a plan.
Embracing illegal immigration and tax cuts as the core issues will leave the middle class voters to abandon the Republican Party leaving it with strictly the Theo-cons.
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