Wow Michael Steele is an idiot
Per HuffPo:
L: How much of your pro-life stance, for you, is informed not just by your catholic faith, but by the fact that you were adopted?
M: Oh, a lot. Absolutely. I see the power of life in that. I mean, and the power of choice! The thing to keep in mind about it, uh, you know, I think as a country we get off on these misguided conversations that throw around terms that really misrepresent truth.L: Explain that.
M: The choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life or you can choose abortion. You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think the power of the argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other.
L: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?
M: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.
Oops. Problem is Republicans are supposed to believe that abortion is not an individual choice. Quite the opposite.
March 12th, 2009 15:14
Yeah, his understanding of choice comes too late in the analysis. The choice in 99% of abortion cases is whether to have sex or not. Once life is created, that is the only choice.
March 12th, 2009 15:15
It would be nice if the supposed head of the Republican party was well-versed in these issues, would it not?
March 12th, 2009 16:16
are you nominating me to the head of the Republican party? Thanks!
March 12th, 2009 16:21
You’d be better at it than Steele.
March 12th, 2009 16:47
Mike Huckabee moves in for the kill…
Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics.
Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life. We have supported a Constitutional amendment to protect life and the party has taken the position that no one individual has the supreme right to own another person in totality including the right to take that life. For Chairman Steele to even infer that taking a life is totally left up to the individual is not only a reversal of Republican policy and principle, but it’s a violation of the most basic of human rights—the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
His statement today helps, but doesn’t explain why he would ever say what he did in the first place.