Read this comment on my local paper site from a republican [View all]

[proud2BlibKansan]

JoCoElephant

Must agree with the Star on this one. The Radical Right was able to keep abortion in the closet during the 2010 campaign, saying that 'fiscal issues' were more important. This gave rise to the Tea Party who were all along Pro-Life disciples.

Now, it's out finally, as many of us assumed, but dreaded, that it would be. Now, when the fiscal crisis is even worse, now that we need smart men and women in Congress to get us out of the hands of this bumbler Obama, it rears its ugly head. But it was there all along.

It was the elephant in the room that the elephant party tried its best to ignore, yet pacify. Above all else, take its money and lots of it. Truly a Faustian choice.

Now the GOP must make a choice. Are we the party that is anti-women or not? Can we as a party accept that we may, in fact lose this election because we sold out to the radical, vocal minority that has too much money behind it, but not a large enough constituency to sway a General Election? Regardless of the successes in dominating primaries with a rather passive party membership?

Perhaps we should be thankful it's come to this. Perhaps this will allow good people with reasonable hearts to repudiate the thinking that asks us to believe that every conceived fetus is a gift from God. Not just the result of our evolution as a race that has nearly over-populated the earth. The kind of thinking that condemns a woman to give birth to a child that is hated from the moment of conception due to rape, incest or genetic defect.

Can we even hope that logic and reason, along with kindness and compassion toward women will return to our party? I doubt it. Too much money to be made hating.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3772552/the-stars-editorial-gop-cant-avoid.html#storylink=cpy