This post is dedicated to the South Dakota country club blue-blooded GOP MAINstream Coalition:
RUSH: The Gallup poll has the most interesting result out today. "More Americans 'Pro-Life' Than 'Pro-Choice' for First Time -- Also, fewer think abortion should be legal 'under any circumstances' -- A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves 'pro-life' on the issue of abortion and 42% 'pro-choice.' This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995." Now, look at me. The Republican Party, at this very moment, is in a tug-of-war between the country club blue-blood Rockefeller types (made up a lot of people bunch of wealthy country club types) who want the Republican Party to get abortion out of the party. They don't want it to be an issue. They don't like the Christians being in the party. I've told you the stories.
I don't need to repeat 'em, but I've told you the stories how in New York in the nineties, all these well-to-do Republicans would come up to me and say, "What are you going to do about the Christians and abortion issue? It's killing us." When I was out in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, three weeks ago from a Milken Institute Forum, prior to going out on stage in the greenroom, I was talking to a bunch of Republican types who said that they had gone to a cocktail reception the night before at the home of a wealthy Republican in Beverly Hills, and the entire subject matter was devoted to how the party has got to get rid of abortion if it is going to have any chance of coming back and beating Democrats.
So what is the Republican Party going to do now with this news? And what are these country club blue-blooders going to do with this news? And why do you think this is happening in the first place? See, I've always known that abortion was a 50-50 issue. I don't think it was ever an 80-20 pro-choice majority. It never was. Just like there were never three million homeless. But the number was out there, and the assumption -- because the Drive-Bys and the Democrats dominated news cycles, the assumption was -- that everybody that was "enlightened" and everybody that was informed and educated and sophisticated was pro-choice. And make no mistake about it: pro-choice means pro-abort.
All you have to do is tell a pro-choicer that you're pro-choice, too, "I just choose life," and they won't let you in. The label matters. The label means something. So now, what are all these Wizards of Smart in the Republican Party going to do? All these people say at the Beverly Hills cocktail parties lamenting and complaining and whining that abortion -- the "social issues" is the code word for that, by the way -- that the "social issues" are killing the Republican Party. I'll tell you what's happening in America right now. We watch what's happening to Carrie Prejean. We watch how a gay judge asks a question, to which she answers very un-offensively. She apologized even before she answered.
She apologized for offending. She said she believes that marriage is between a man and a woman -- and there was a Gestapo unleashed against her. The liberal Taliban, essentially, was unleashed against her. And then they dug deep and tried to come up with photos saying that she did not meet the requirements of a Miss California. And all she did was state that her beliefs come from the Bible and religion. That's the way she was raised, that marriage is between a man and a woman -- which, by the way, it is. If we get to the point that when you're asked if you're married, and you have to say, "Yeah, I'm married: opposite sex married;" if we get to the point where you have to specify that you're opposite-sex married, well, you're going to get a backlash and a revolution, and it's already happening.
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