A month or so ago, I commented here on the choice of Michael Steele as chairman of the RNC. I made the case that he was a reasonable man, with moderate views, from a State where political compromise was not uncommon. He was a good choice for leadership of his party but an unrealistic one, for exactly those reasons.
He is pro life in the sense that he is personally apposed to abortion. I do not believe he is lying about this. He believes that Roe versus Wade is bad law and that legality of abortion is appropriately better left to voters at the State and local level. If Roe is ever reversed by the Supreme Court, it will undoubtedly be on this basis and not because of some Christ-o-ramic cavalcade of fetal person hood, dog and pony show, sponsored by the Vatican and performed by Pentecostals .
His temperate nature and the sensibility of his beliefs, make him unsuitable for leadership in the Republican Party. If the Democrats were the party they claimed to be, there would be room for him in their tent. There isn't now. Not only is this a mistake, it shames them.
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