tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post6902841694367202214..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Abortion and Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional RacesDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-65234861995997201902012-10-22T19:29:36.247-04:002012-10-22T19:29:36.247-04:00Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York
------...Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York<br />---------------------------<br />Moynihan is perhaps the archetypal moderate Democrat, or neo-con. He talked a good game. One of the earliest to connect welfare state apparatus to family destruction. But, on that score, as on many others, when it came time to vote (for reform in 1996) he said nyet. In regard to talking without the walking, see also that Liberal with Sanity, Mayor Koch. While libs complain about the Republican Party having shifted to the extreme right, a point not without some truth, the Dems have moved way to the left.<br />-------------------<br />When liberals at the ‘72 Democratic National Convention—many of them McGovern delegates—tried to add a strong pro-choice plank to the party platform, the presidential nominee balked. McGovern’s first pick for vice president, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, was pro-life. So was his second, Sargent Shriver, after controversy forced Eagleton to bow out.<br /><br />Shriver and Eagleton were the last openly pro-life candidates on a national Democratic ticket. Jimmy Carter had to mute his antiabortion sympathies; Al Gore and Joe Biden had to repudiate theirs. In his book The Party of Death, pro-life author Ramesh Ponnuru described McGovern as “not very pro-abortion.”<br /><br />Yet McGovern did inadvertently play a key role in making the Democratic Party more accepting of abortion. He chaired a 1968 commission bearing his name that sought to “democratize” the process by which delegates to the party’s national convention were selected. The idea was to reduce the power of the party bosses and remaining urban political machines.<br /><br />The local party bosses were replaced with effective quotas for women, minorities, and young people, who in some cases were able to supplant the old machines and create new ones. Whether this new process was more democratic was open to debate—quotas suggest the outcomes were at least partially ordained and the old machines at least answered to bigger, more representative constituencies than the ideological activists who supplanted them—but the practical impact was to dilute the power of Northeastern ethnics and Southern Protestants for the benefit of secularists and feminists.<br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/george-mcgoverns-pro-life-paradox/peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-42907576774553886002012-10-21T19:04:32.156-04:002012-10-21T19:04:32.156-04:00There is no real separation between social and fis...There is no real separation between social and fiscal issues. The only path to true fiscal independence for individuals, is via boosterism and support for the traditional nuclear family.<br /><br />The two are inextricable and lead to each other, just as fatherless families and welfare dependency are inextricable and lead to each other.<br /><br />The left already knows this and has made it an ugly unfashionable act for our side to give voice to the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com