Breaking rank

I would personally love to see some leading Demos break rank with the party line. Their stubborn adherence to defending death is only offset by the stupidity and gross overspending of the Republicans.Why Pro-Choice Is a Bad Choice for Democrats - New York Times via Mark Shea

Over 18 months, I traveled to 20 states listening to women of all ages, races, tax brackets and points of view speak at length on the issues they care about heading into ’08. They convinced me that the conventional wisdom was wrong about the last presidential contest, that Democrats did not lose support among women because “security moms” saw President Bush as the better protector against terrorism. What first-time defectors mentioned most often was abortion.

Wow, you mean when Hillary, Obama and others defend the infanticide known as Partial Birth Abortion, it drives people away?

Again and again, these voters said Democrats are too unwilling to tolerate dissent on abortion. It is a point of orthodoxy no more open to debate within the party than the ordination of women is in Rome.

For people who claim to be liberal, they sure are hardheaded.