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<\/a>It was… (sigh) It was depravity. They wouldn\u2019t respond to it because they didn\u2019t want to sully the great office of the presidency by taking it into the gutter of politics, and so the media and the left pretty much had free rein. They were allowed to attack and say whatever they wanted to about Bush — and, by extension, us, voters. We were never defended, either. I\u2019ll give you another example. Do you remember the construction of, “Well, I am a social liberal but a fiscal conservative.”<\/p>\nRemember that, by people on our side — and who was it saying that? Well, the so-called moderates who are embarrassed by pro-lifers and conservatives. So these were the people constantly bellyaching. (impression) “You\u2019ve gotta stop talking about abortion! We\u2019re losing! We\u2019re getting our butts kicked! Abortion? Just get rid of it! It\u2019s never gonna change anyway. You gotta stop!” These guys, their wives were nagging them and all. These were moderate so-called Republicans. Hell, I ran into it all the time.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t tell you the number of moderate — so-called moderate — Republican women who wouldn\u2019t know fighting back against the Democrats if their kid lives depended on it, coming up to me, “You gotta stop talking about abortion and you gotta get them to stop! It\u2019s killing us. We\u2019re never gonna win a thing.” So the thinking was that if we would just stop talking about “the social issues,” which is where we were losing everything! That\u2019s where the culture war was taking, was where we were losing our society, losing our morality, losing our culture.<\/p>\n
And our side has this massive contingent that wanted to give it up, not fight for it because fiscal conservatism, money, the economy. “That\u2019s how people won elections, not on this social stuff.” So the great moderates on our side were constantly advocating, “Forget the social issues. Don\u2019t talk about abortion. It embarrasses me. It embarrasses us. We have to go to convention and hang around those people. We need to focus on the economy. We need to focus on telling people we\u2019re best for their back pockets.” So that the left was never engaged, folks, except from the sidelines by us.<\/p>\n
The left was never engaged, and they still aren\u2019t being, other than by Trump, as they attempt to essentially destroy — literally blow up — the moral foundation of the founding of this country. While the left is largely to blame for it because of what they\u2019ve done, by the same token, Never-Trump conservatives and Republican moderates are also responsible for the state of it because they have not done anything to stop it. Years and years and years of not resisting it, not fighting back, acquiescing. “Yeah, I\u2019m a social liberal but a fiscal conservative.”<\/p>\n
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They were this demanding we not push back, not even on abortion! Demanding we forget that so as not to lose the moderates in the upcoming election. Well, guess what\u2019s happened? The left has now bullied and conquered all the moderates and turned them into budding young leftists. There aren\u2019t any moderates anymore, have you noticed? There\u2019s a greater partisan divide now than there was even in the 1960s. My point is, the left in this country has not had any political opposition. They\u2019ve had media opposition from us on the sidelines, but we\u2019re not on the field.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m not making excuses. I\u2019m suggesting to you that we have not had… The left looks like they\u2019ve steamrollered us like a hot knife through butter. It\u2019s only because nobody has ever attempted to stop \u2019em, except maybe on the pages of magazines or in policy papers published by think tanks that nobody reads. But in terms of actually fighting back on the specifics and on the aggression of the left? It\u2019s not even a matter of fighting back. They haven\u2019t even been on the field.<\/p>\n
Only conservative media — alternative media, it\u2019s called — has been opposed. But we\u2019re not on the playing field, folks, honest to God. Because, you know, we\u2019re not seeking office, getting votes. We don\u2019t have offices there and votes, and so we\u2019re not there. All we can do is try to rev up as many voters as we can to oppose the left but we\u2019re doing it alone — and let me tell you how it manifests itself. Are you aware of the…? What is the name of this bill? It\u2019s something passed in New York. It is the…<\/p>\n
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Well, I don\u2019t know the name of the bill. But this was in the New York Senate yesterday. Ready for this? “By a vote of 38-24, abortion was voted on in the New York Senate to be added to the New York Constitution as a constitutional right.” But wait. We\u2019re just getting started. The New York State Senate yesterday voted 38-24 “to allow nonphysicians to perform abortions.” The New York State Senate voted yesterday 38-24 “to allow abortion through the third trimester.”<\/p>\n
But the pure evil is in the last part of the bill. The New York State Senate voted 38-24 yesterday “to repeal protections for babies that survive abortions.” The abortion business in New York has just been voted on as constitutional by the New York State Senate. Now, here in Florida, I could be minding my own business and a cop can come to my front gate and demand to come into my backyard and check my lights if there is an allegation that one turtle egg might hatch and not go to the ocean.<\/p>\n
I can be… Any of us here who live on the coast, for eight months a year are threatened with all kinds of punishment. We\u2019re reminded constantly every February, \u2019cause the restrictions go into place on March 1st. One turtle egg hatches, and the little turtle hatchling goes the wrong direction, and we are guilty of a crime if we\u2019ve had our lights on too powerfully. But killing a baby in New York after it survives an abortion is legal — and was applauded in a standing ovation in the New York State Senate chamber.<\/p>\n
They were celebrating. I think the move is that you can now get a legal abortion in New York up to your due date. Now, this is the Senate. This is just the State Senate vote we\u2019re talking about. This is what happens when there\u2019s no pushback, and our side was telling us to abandon this! It was the focal point and the crux of the culture war. The entire fight over the value of life, the value of human life — which has now, on the left, becomes secondary in status to turtle eggs in south Florida or to any number of other of animals in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n
The ability to go ahead and kill a child that survives an abortion gets a standing ovation. Now, we\u2019re told years ago that the Republican Party\u2019s killing itself by resisting this and trying to oppose this. “Just forget it! Let\u2019s focus on our fiscal conservatism. That\u2019s how we\u2019ll win elections, \u2019cause there\u2019s all kinds of moderates out there. They care about their back pockets more than they do abortion. We\u2019re scaring \u2019em off talk about abortion. We need to focus on the economy.” So now we\u2019ve got an entire so-called conservative movement which doesn\u2019t resist anything.<\/p>\n
And in fact, its first inclination is to side with the left rather than be embarrassed and oppose the left. In a late-term abortion, which New York has just legalized in the State Senate, the baby\u2019s killed. Delivery is induced. They deliver the child anyway after they have terminated life. My question, why bother with it? If you can legally kill a fetus after it\u2019s born, then why not just wait to do that? Why go through this whole abortion business in the first place?<\/p>\n
I mean, this law\u2019s allowing doctors to deliver the child and then end its life, if that was the intention. And then you suggest, “Hey, if you\u2019re gonna do that be deliver the child, put it up for adoption.” “Get outta here! No way. You don\u2019t have the right to tell us about adoption.” They\u2019ll shoot down adoption as an option faster than you can bring it up. What kind of people cheer this? But you should see \u2019em. There\u2019s a little video, a looped gif file, that shows standing ovations throughout the New York State Senate chamber when all this was announced.<\/p>\n
\nBREAKING: New York State Senate just made HISTORY and passed the Reproductive Health Act on the anniversary of #RoevWade<\/a>! pic.twitter.com\/u2diMzgSQW<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 ? PPNYC Action Fund (@PPNYCAction) January 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n