Loose Lips Sink Ships …
Posted by: Blue Collar Muse in 2008 election season, Individual Responsibility, PoliticsPolitics is not for the faint of heart. It is a long, difficult and brutally Darwinian process from filing your paperwork, to the campaign trail, to the primary and finally to election day. As in nature, it is only the strong that survive. But stating that some might survive implies others may not.
For a variety of reasons, we are beginning to see some of the more prominent names in the national political herd stumble and slow down a bit. Again, the nature metaphor springs to mind as I recall what happens to slow or sick herd animals in the wild that fall behind. Let’s just say it isn’t a sight for those with weak stomachs.
The first to falter was John McCain. After a disastrous miscalculation in siding with the ‘Gang of 14′ over the issue of the President’s judicial nominees, the good Senator saw fit to snub Conservatives last month at CPAC. As the kids on the court say, “Not a good career move, Senator!” It is unlikely any GOP candidate can win without appealing to the Conservatives in and out of the party.
I wondered who would be next. I didn’t think it would be Rudy but this isn’t the first time I’ve been wrong. America’s Mayor has gone from ‘Hizz’oner’ to dishonor in just a few words. While first spoken to warn about the consequences of careless speech during WWII, the phrase 
‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’ is just as applicable to the shark infested waters of today’s campaign trail.
So, what did Rudy say that was so horrible? As reported at LifeNews.com
After getting national attention last week with comments supporting taxpayer funding abortions and calling the funding a “right,” Rudy Giuliani thumbed his nose at the pro-life movement further over the weekend telling them to get over the issue of abortion.
Though merely admitting to a disagreement on the issue before, Giuliani went further this weekend, telling an Iowa newspaper that pro-life advocates should get over the contentious issue.
“Our party has to get beyond issues like that,” he told the Des Moines Register newspaper.
He also appeared to indicate that the Republican Party won’t gain supporters if it retains its pro-life position.
“Our party is going to grow, and we are going to win in 2008 if we are a party characterized by what we’re for, not if we’re a party that’s known for what we’re against,” he said.
It is hard to imagine just how badly this could hurt the Mayor.
We are not against abortion as if it were simply one of several morally neutral menu options at a burger joint. Perhaps Rudy missed the ‘pro’ part of ‘pro-life’. We are passionately FOR life because we believe abortion is the murder of a human being. We believe what happened at Virginia Tech is horrible. But we also believe that horror is played out by an increased factor of over 100 each and every day in America’s abortion mills.
Those of us who are pro-life react to Rudy’s statements as you might imagine the public would if Rudy were to suggest the Virginia Tech community just ‘get over’ their massacre and stop being against things like bringing the term ‘killer exam’ to life.
This blunt talk by Rudy may be an attempt to identify himself for the electorate. It may be a ploy to get attention as he sees his momentum slipping away in Fred Thompson’s direction. It may be simply what he really believes coming out at an inopportune moment.
One thing is for sure, regardless of why he said it. Just like McCain cannot win without Conservatives, Rudy can’t win without Evangelicals and other pro-lifers. Up until yesterday, many on the Right were content to support Rudy, even knowing he was pro-abortion (Hey - he wants to talk about what he’s for - I’ll let him). It was the Conservative equivalent of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’. But to openly criticize and impugn pro-lifers crosses a line that one doesn’t just hop back across while calling out “Do over!”
I think Rudy has talked and revealed the direction in which he intends to sail. His enemies now know just where he’ll be so they can torpedo him. He may make it back to port to be repaired and sail another day. But he’s out of this fight and he has no one to blame but himself.
Thinking that Bible statement about being “Slow to speak …” might have some merit after all …
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April 19th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Rudy “seems” to be the kind of guy that you would like to have as President and in the contest between the lesser of two evils (Rudy v. Hillary) he would be a slightly better choice. And, you have to give Rudy credit for being honest. He knows that what he is saying is going to cause him big problems with all of us “extra chromosome” pro-lifers, but he is honestly telling us what he thinks. There are many RINOS who will tell Conservative what they want to hear and then govern far differently.
Having said that, you could not be more right (unless you were me, but I digress) and you have penned another excellent article. The “moderates” always seem to miss that human life is a non-negotiable, this isn’t a highway appropriations bill where we can all win a little and lose a little and then shake hands for the cameras. This is life and death, with the lives of millions of pre-born human beings hanging in the balance; not to mention the less than desirable consequences of disobeying God. (He’s been on that whole “Thou shalt not kill” thing for the past 6,000 years and He just doesn’t seem to want to compromise on that)
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
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