I hate the term Pro life,so why are people who are against a woman's right to choose not in the GOP

[LovinLife]

This is why I think the Democratic party doesn't even exist anymore. Someone needs to clean the party out and run and implement real liberal policies.

[Vincardog]

1. Every time I say something like that some robotard tells me I want pony, I want to purify the party

and guarantee Failin Pailin the presidency
or I can not see into the great man's mind

The answer is they are Democrats because a Republican can't get elected to be dog catcher.

[NJmaverick]

2. The term pro-life is as dishonest as the term pro-war

[mzteris]

4. and most "pro-lifers" are

pro-death penalty. And they don't see the hypocrisy in that.

[NJmaverick]

5. As a comedian once said, "it's all in the timing".

[jwirr]

3. I voted for John F. Kennedy for my first vote and I remember FDR.

There has never been a time when there were not both pro-life and pro-choice people in the party. This is not a purity test we want to exercise. Not unless we want to really split the party.

[themaguffin]

6. healthcare, education, as well economic and foreign polices are matters of life

[Tumbulu]

7. stop using the term in all of your posts here- we need to call them what they are

pro patriarchy or pro forced incubators or---can't someone clever around here come up with a better word or phrase? And then we use that when describing them. the wrong wing is very good at this and we better get better at it. Go offensive rather than defensive. Start demanding male paternity bonds for instance.

I want to hear every "pro forced incubation" politician having to answer where his bill to require "5 million Paternity Bonds" is. When will it be coming up for a vote? Turn it on them and hard and fast. Get them scared that they will have to pony up some money for all this grandiose talk of "responsibility".

[NJmaverick]

8. forced birthers always had a pretty good ring to it

[Orangepeel]

9. Maybe they support gay rights, or unions, or the environment or affirmative action

Or anything else that the democratic party is marginally better on.

[TexasProgresive]

10. There is only one way to purge a party

Have totalitarian authority and make liberal use of the guillotine. Throwing out everyone you don't agree with will give you a party of one. You are endanger of becoming what you oppose.

The following is a good definition o fanaticism from a paper:

An excerpt from: Modern Judaism and the Haredim – Charles D. Isbell, on

“Fanaticism” might be used alongside of “Fundamentalism” as a proper description of the haredi groups as well. In the apt description of Paul Tillich, a prospective member for such a group may be seeking to escape, “from his freedom of asking and answering for himself to a situation in which no further questions can be asked and the answers to previous questions are imposed on him authoritatively.”7 That is why members of such
73 groups often appear to be so harsh and unbending to anyone outside their group, yet understand each other perfectly well. They have all accepted the same absolute authority. But there is another product of such groups. Here is Tillich again:
Fanaticism is the correlate to spiritual self-surrender: it shows the anxiety which it was supposed to conquer, by attacking with disproportionate violence those who disagree and who demonstrate by their disagreement elements in the spiritual life of the fanatic which he must suppress in himself. Because he must suppress them in himself he must suppress them in others. His anxiety forces him to persecute dissenters.8
Now Tillich was not describing any particular fanatical group, but fanaticism in general. But we will see that this general description may be applied appropriately to haredi Jewish fanatics in the twentieth-century as well as to some of their classical predecessors. We must also remember that Tillich, a Christian theologian, knew about fanaticism from first hand experience in his native Germany, where he was the first non-Jewish Professor to be dismissed from a German university because of his vehement opposition to nazism.

http://www.umass.edu/judaic/anniversaryvolume/articles/06-A4-Isbell.pdf

[whistler162]

11. jawohl!!!

If they don't agree with your EXACT beliefs they MUST be purged from the party for the greater good!