> More importantly, if the Republican Party made abortion illegal in all
> cases, it would not only lose a valuable wedge issue that it could
> keep using every two years but also ignite a powerful social movement.
> Far better to save Roe v. Wade and push for more and more
> restrictions on abortion at the state and federal levels than kill the
> goose that lays the electoral golden eggs.
This is basically what Thomas Frank argues in "What's the Matter with Kansas?". The GOP doesn't want these "moral issues" to actually accomplish their putative goals; it's playing the religious right for suckers.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams")