They've all been sent forth to proclaim from the mountaintops that “choice” hangs in the balance on Election Day.
And they are absolutely right. He may not be on the loud speaker or hitting you over the head with it, but make no mistake — Texas Governor George W. Bush is pro-life. And, unlike his opponent, it is a position he has stuck with his entire public career. And if you have any doubts that he is committed, you can take assurance by looking at how much time and energy the pro-abortion crowd is expending on this election.
People for the American Way (PFAW) is inundating its faithful with dire warnings about the “right wing” and its electoral strategy. PFAW says: “There are more than three people running for president, yet you've hardly heard much about Pat Buchanan. Why? The Right Wing is tremendously mobilized around the issue of the Supreme Court. They want right-wing Justices on the Supreme Court, and they know that their only chance is to elect a president who has said that his models for the Supreme Court are Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.… Try to imagine an America where [this] model of Justice sits on the bench. And then, with that image in mind, vote on November 7th.”
The sentiment is shared by the whole of our fine feathered Left Wing. And the money they are spending says it all.
The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) has spent some $1.5 million solely on an anti-Ralph Nader campaign in the days leading up to the election, hoping to push him aside to secure more pro-abortion voters for Al Gore, whose candidacy Nader’s presence has hurt in the polls. In the NARAL anti-Nader ad running in Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maine this week — key battleground states for the presidential election — voters are warned that Roe v. Wade came out the way it did because of one vote on the Supreme Court.
“A single vote saved a woman's right to choose,” trembles NARAL. “As president, George Bush would reverse the court … with anti-choice justices Scalia and Thomas in control.” They warn that Bush's goal is to “end legal abortion,” adding that “voting for Ralph Nader helps elect George W. Bush.”
More Scalias and Thomases? More justices who refuse to contort the Constitution and invent new rights to privacy? I would urge the few remaining undecided voters to join enlightened celebrities like (Catholic University of America graduate) Susan Sarandon and (Notre Dame graduate) Phil Donahue and vote Nader.
In the most recent NARAL ad — this one exclusive to cyberspace — Sarah Jessica Parker, star of the HBO soft-porn hit series Sex and the City tells web surfers that they’ve probably seen her “on television talking about the lighter side of sex.” They should know, she says, that there is a “deadly serious issue coming up that we should all be thinking about.” She cautions that “most people don't know that George W. Bush supports banning abortion and opposes comprehensive sex education,” adding that “Al Gore supports family planning and a woman's right to choose.” She concludes, “If you care about the choice, learn about the candidates' positions,” imploring viewers to “forward this email to everyone you know.”
Have you seen Sex in the City lately? My favorite episode is the one in which one of the promiscuous thirtysomething stars of the show has sex with a college student. Or maybe the one in which another of the swinging singles beds down a sex-toy model while on vacation in California. Or the one … ah, you get the point. And there, alas, was Miss Parker, that shining symbol of hip indulgence, cheering on my Yankees at The Stadium during the World Series.
Is this the American way? Unfettered sex, at all times on all channels, trumpeted by the stars, reinforced in the classroom, and then surgically treated at the clinic? The fact that this is the enlightened Left’s highest priority says a lot. Call me hopelessly retro, but the abstinence-only sex-ed plan that George W. Bush unveiled in Texas last year as governor, and the moral rectitude he stands for, look pretty good in comparison.
