Marjorie Dannenfelser outlines her strategy for turning the ObamaCare fiasco into an opportunity for the pro-life movement. The core ideas: punish people who sell out (think Stupak), favor people who remain faithful (think Michelle Bachman), and build on the fact that the American people are growing in their opposition to federal funding for abortion, reaching 72% in November 2009 Quinnipiac poll.
The battle to dismantle this atrocity and to build a true Culture of Life is now underway, and a reckoning must happen for those Democrats – from old hands like Stupak and former House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Alan Mollohan to new turncoats like Dahlkemper and Driehaus.
On May 10, Rep. Mollohan became the first leading House Democrat to understand that we mean business. Pro-life Americans have a vision to see Roe v. Wade reversed and babies in the womb protected in law, but we will never accept a government that would plunge our tax dollars into the abortion trade.
The SBA List poured $78,000 into West Virginia’s first district educating voters on Mollohan’s vote for ObamaCare, using television ads, radio spots, and automated phone calls. This is just the first part of a $1 million effort to ensure that true pro-life leaders are elected in the districts of the so-called “pro-life” Democrats.
This is all well and good: but now, they have to win. Mollohan has to be defeated.
I must say, though, that I am continually amazed at how unwilling the Republican party faithful and movement conservatives
are to give credit to social conservative issues as winning issues. They seem to be working pretty well. NOM knocked Tom Campbell out of the running for the CA Senate race (didn’t care whether Carly or DeVore won: just wanted anti-prop 8 guy Campbell to lose.) But no one seems to give social conservative voters the time of day.
Go figure.