Reply #5: And that is the plan

[kwolf68]

If they went after abortion like the right wants them, that would open up an entire new group of people to the debate. Right now, many are not overly worried. Hell, I'm not worried about the issue that much, but if they went after it then I'd immediately engage the process and work to defeat it.

But there is a greater plan at play than the Repukes knowledge that over-turning Roe simply won't fly in this nation and that is the perfect boogey-man to keep the religous radicals invovled. So long as abortion is legal then there will be millions of pro-'lifers' themselves engaged and voting. Sorta the opposite of what is going on with pro-choicers now. I'd wager a vast majority of independents, cynics, and non-voters would trend toward being pro-choice.

If Roe was turned, these people would galvanize just like the religious right has done and not only would choice be protected, but the rest of the kid-n-kabooodle would be out the door, all that corporate profiteering, resource rape, and cost externalization....voters voting on an issue of choice would send Democrats to the game and the right would be put out of business.

So the game plan is simple. If I am a Repuke I always want to keep the boogeyman (abortion) in play because Republican power is needed not for cultural issues, but for financial issues, its ALWAYS about the money and power. These social issues are just red meat for the base.

With abortion they toss in evolution, school prayer, "god" on the dollar and other assorted bullshit issues to make sure the fundies never miss a vote. That is why the day after the 2004 elections I was going around saying, "ok Repukes you got the government lets see you go after Roe V. Wade"....yet they wont touch it with a 10 foot pole. Not hard to see why.