One of my favorite “conservative” journalists is Nolan
Finley of the Detroit News. I may not agree with everything he says but I do
respect his “common sense” approach to issues including political issues as
well as social issues.
Today’s column was titled: ABORTION FOCUS WILL COST GOP MICHIGAN .
He states that Republicans won the majority in Michigan
because Michiganians were concerned about our dire economy and wanted to vote
in Republicans who would make the hard choices to fix our economy while the
spend like a drunken sailor Democrats would predictably raise taxes to keep the
entitlement programs running.
The Democrats have also shown themselves as union stooges
and could not be counted on to cut exorbitant union benefits and power, to make
the state more attractive to businesses thinking of locating in the state.
But as Republican economic values and philosophy trump that
of the Democrats as far as the voters are concerned, their views on social
issues are backward and belong in the dark ages.
Our Republican governor is hard at work bringing Michigan back economically by creating a job producing
environment; Republican legislators in our state capital are busy introducing
bills dealing with their need to make abortion illegal in Michigan or at least so regulated as to stop
abortion providers from doing business.
Nolan is worried that his party (GOP) does not want the
moniker JOB CREATORS but rather CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS and that will not serve
them well among Michigan voters looking for fiscal responsibility.
Nolan states that it is the job of churches / religions to
promote Christian values and not politicians but if politicians want to
concentrate on the abortion issue, they should join a religious group and leave
politicking to real politicians.
He feels that since Roe vs. Wade (abortion right) is a
constitutional right, trying to dismantle it through back doors is dishonest at
the least; the law has been on the books for 40 years after all.
Nolan’s fear is that, as the article title indicates, the GOP in Michigan will piss
people off (especially women) by screwing around with abortion instead of doing
their jobs of enhancing Michigan’s economy and that will let the Democrats come
back into a majority and bring back all those bad Democratic ideas like
unionism and uncontrolled spending.
Too bad the LIBERTARIANS are not attractive enough to voters
as they would bring fiscal responsibility and absolutely no meddling in social
issues.
I hope Republicans read Finley’s article and take it to
heart but they probably will not as they
feel being anti-choice is what gets them elected…we will see next year!
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