While floating on my raft through the Beltway these past few weeks, I've noticed a rather odd trend of ostensibly Christian conservative groups siding with Republican candidates who do not--to put it mildly--stand for the compassionate Christian political agenda.
From Pat Robertson's handshake with the pro-abortion Rudy Giuliani, to the California Republican Assembly's surprisingly strong endorsement of Mitt Romney, to the leaked announcement that Fred Thompson will be endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee...it seems that social conservatives are stumbling all over themselves to back the so-called front runners in the Republican field.
The absurdity of the Reverend Robertson's endorsement of Giuliani (which Rudy apologists defend on the merits that President Giuliani will appease pro-lifers by appointing justices who disagree with Rudy's reading of the Constitution) has been discussed to no end in the blogosphere, the MSM, the water cooler at my office and discussions with my roommate (GWU's Student for Chris Dodd).
But what about the pro-life movement's decision to embrace Federalist Fred?
Now, I'm not one of those who will go out on a limb and argue that Freddie Dalton is pro-abortion himself, but Thompson's past statements, in 1994, 1996 and the times he's been sighted on the campaign trail in '08, all line up to show that the good Senator is not amenable to federal laws banning abortion and he knocked the pro-life movement by accusing us of wanting to criminalize young girls as murderers and her doctor and parents as aiders and abettors.
No doubt, from a pro-life perspective, Senator Thompson's record is preferable to Rudy's or Romney's, but why is the Huckster being frozen out by the NRLC?
Even Huckabee foes will admit that the Governor's anti-abortion stance is firm and clear. This week, Thompson and the Club for Growth's Pat Toomey took shots at the Guv by calling him a "pro-life liberal". Mike Huckabee has a long, strong record on the life issue, and certainly deserves the official nod of the head by the anti-abortion lobby--at least more than a man who would be okay with fifty different standards for when abortion is illegal or not.
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