Komen official quits Planned Parenthood dispute

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67. Well, then, there's your answer.

We have the bottom line here. brinker is NOT one of the good guys. I kinda knew she was a republi-CON already but I also thought her motivations might be more pure because it was her sister after all, and that her focus was strictly the fight against cancer - and no politics. SOME people can still function on that level. But evidently there was indeed an agenda driving all this. Hiring ari fleischer??? Hiring him to recruit a deliberate partisan like karen handel??? This was very certainly NOT accidental. So it strongly suggests to me that there isn't any actual repentance here, or change of heart.

I suspect it's not gonna open her eyes and make her change her opinion on choice. It may change her thinking on how one best infiltrates, or attempts to stack the deck to further the "cause." Maybe she'll try something more stealthy next time. The folks on this side are unrelenting, and they do learn from their mistakes (unfortunately they don't learn the lesson we would hope they would - that maybe they need to reexamine their ideology or at least keep that ideology OUT of their business ops). I doubt she'll learn that particular lesson, especially if she fervently believes against the right to choose, and thinks WE're the ones who are wrong and she isn't.

This kind of setback will do what it always does with people like this. That overriding partisan agenda will not change. Its believers will simply

1) go underground and keep working
2) not admit defeat or a willingness to accept the victorious opponent's point of view, and keep working
3) go underground and wait it out, planning carefully and working under the radar for when they think the opponent's guard is down and the opponent believes it's all settled and over-and-done-with. THEN they crank it back up.
4) chart out other overt ways to go about it, or around it, or head it off, and keep working.

These bastards DO NOT give up. They do what WE need to do: NEVER GIVE UP, and NEVER STOP WORKING!!!! We've seen this too many times. We win a battle and think it's settled and the other side will be gentlemanly and present their swords for the surrender ceremony and that will simply be that. It's over. It's done. Get over it and move on.

But they DON'T!!!!

HOW MANY TIMES have we asked ourselves in frustration and disgust and bewilderment, here and elsewhere, some version of "I cannot believe we're still fighting this battle! I can't believe we are STILL having to fight this! This was settled long ago! This is the 21st CENTURY forcryingoutloud!!! WHY are we still fighting this battle?" I've certainly vented about this in posts of my own - and not only here on DU.

Take a page from this. Know thine enemy. They've vowed to keep fighting, defying, pushing, haranguing, REGARDLESS. And they've vowed to do that in perpetuity. Whatever it takes, and however long it takes. Doesn't matter. If it takes 20 years they're gonna stay on it. If it takes 20 CENTURIES they're gonna stay on it. They think God is on their side and that this is some religious crusade, so they are NOT gonna just suddenly see it our way, or admit defeat and give up and get on with their lives. They're just simply NOT gonna give up. And they're NEVER gonna take "no" for an answer.

So we can't, either. That's what this means. Our hands are tied. We can NEVER give up. Never let up. Never roll over and go back to sleep and assume that a win is a win. ANY win we score is perceived by the enemy as merely a temporary setback, not game-over. WE think it's checkmate time. I mean, we took Roe v Wade all the way to the frickin' Supreme Court forcryingoutloud, and we won. That should be it, correct? Game over. We won. That's that. The ruling of the judges is final. Correct? Well, not with these people.

They don't just not see it that way. They actively and defiantly REFUSE to see it that way. There's a difference. And that's why we can NEVER let up, either. WE dare not roll over and go back to sleep after we've "won." Not until the enemy does. And the enemy's in no mood to do that, ever.

Therefore we can't, either.

It's like Mad-Eye Moody warned Harry Potter - "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!"