Matt Lewis: Santorum is right to focus on social issues

I enjoy reading and following Matt Lewis and agree with his column 

Why Republicans usually win on social issues (and why this helps Rick Santorum)

On CNN Sunday morning, Rep. Ron Paul, who — for all the “small-government” conservative talk — harbors an odd infatuation for Mitt Romney — implied that social issues are “a losing position.” In this regard, Paul, a paleoconservative (a nearly-extinct species most known for losing national elections), seems to have a short memory.

As Jeffrey Bell’s forthcoming book (per the Wall Street Journal’s review) notes,

Social issues were nonexistent in the period 1932 to 1964. … The Republican Party won two presidential elections out of nine, and they had the Congress for all of four years in that entire period.
. . . When social issues came into the mix—I would date it from the 1968 election . . . the Republican Party won seven out of 11 presidential elections.

Abortion in WA   laments  that the Republican party  and other conservatives are encouraging us to ignore social issues such as abortion in a down economy." These people never say just exactly when we'll know the voting masses will be able to handle social issues so that the pro-lifers can come back out of the closet. Is there some magical GDP number that means we can start protecting unborn children from genocide?"

Perhaps our national conscience has been pricked enough and we are ready to stand up to this injustice. The talking heads on TV are certainly advising him to avoid talking about these issues but I support Santorum and when he talks about the down side of the sexual revolution, he speaks the truth no matter how hard it is for us to hear. I am old enough to have witnessed it and what he says is 100% accurate. We have more sexually transmitted diseases (1 out of 4 infected) epidemic levels, more unplanned pregnancies, more abortions, more broken homes. Are we happier? Not by a long shot. Truth hurts sometimes.   This is why Santorum is ahead because he is saying what we know to be true even if some of us were late to the understanding.

Common Sense Commentary: No Truce On Abortion Debate

 Amazing, Daniels is not backing away from this statement but per Weekly Standard article is doubling down on it......Well let's see how far this gets him. We are all concerned about the economy but throwing  babies under the bus is not an option.




Scott Hennen  •  June 17, 2010
SayAnthingBlog.com

Let’s “agree to disagree”; that’s the request from Indiana Governor and possible 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitch Daniels,(pictured left) on perhaps the most contentious issue in contemporary American politics: life… and ending it through abortion. Citing economic concerns as the more important challenge, Daniels wants both sides of the aisle to call a “truce” on abortion, at least until we get our financial house in order. But how can you compromise on a fundamentally uncompromising issue?

Should conservatives declare a truce on abortion? That’s the question for today’s Common Sense Caucus. This, after Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels suggested it’s high time we stop defending innocent life and focus on bigger concerns…like the state of the US economy. In his own words,
“I really believe, that for the first time, the future of the American experiment is at risk… I picked the word ‘truce’ because no one has to change their point of view, no one has to surrender.”
In other words, you can still believe in the sanctity of life, but you shouldn’t decide to defend it. At least not in a manner that interferes with the spirit of bipartisanship needed to restore our economy.
So how are we to take Mr. Daniels message? This is no slip of the tongue; it’s a deliberate choice of words attempting to appeal to both sides of the debate. At its best? It’s a feeble plea for you to be silent. At its worst? It’s tantamount to cowardice.
After all, we’re not talking about some marginal issue. This isn’t campaign finance reform, or tax codes; this is a matter of life or death. This is a moral issue, and compromising morality for some misguided notion that leftists will stop the expansion of government because we punted on the most important social issue of our time is a recipe for disaster. As Edmund Burke once said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Even in this economy, where of course so much is at stake, conservatives will not forfeit their passion to defend innocent life.