Democratic leaders look to downplay abortion issue

From The State (South Carolina), though actually it comes originally from The New York Times.

Once again, the Democrats know that the Republicans handed them their heads in this last election over the issue of abortion. Yet look closely:

1. "[C]andidates should make abortion a less central focus of future campaigns." In other words: don't ask, don't tell.
2. "[T]hey [are] not abandoning their fundamental support for abortion rights." Well, I never thought they ever would. And yet:
3. "Democrats should consider accepting some restrictions that enjoy popular support--like parental notification when teenagers receive abortions." All right, let's test that: If that is where you now stand, then sit down and shut up and vote "Aye" on President Bush's judicial nominations--and renominations.
4. Check this out from Donna Brazile: "Even I have trouble explaining to my family that we are not about killing babies." That's because that is exactly what you are about, and I'll thank you to stop lying to the American public--and more to the point, get your mind right.
5. Or check this out from Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA): "Republicans have been successful at painting the view of the pro-choice movement as abortion-on-demand--and nothing can be farther from the truth."Senator, that's another lie--and illustrates perfectly why Committees on Standards of Official Conduct are largely jokes. If such Committees (a.k.a. "Ethics Committees") had truth-in-speechmaking clauses, then Senator Feinstein would have been thrown out of the Senate a long time ago.

Of course, from the pro-abortion lobbies who have the perennial seats at the table--Nancy Keenan of NARAL (I refuse to use that ridiculous new name of theirs) and Gloria Feldt of Planned [Non-]Parenthood--are already telling the DNC that any revision in their stance is a no-no. I have to respect them for their brass, because I always respect brass over hypocrisy any day. What they both say, in essence, is that we are the extremists, because we regard abortion as murder. Of course, their positions are morally untenable--and Feldt especially has it all wrong, talking about "unintended pregnancies." To begin with, Planned Parenthood began with a Nazi sympathizer who wanted to con the blacks and other minorities into not reproducing themselves. Furthermore, as Steve Sailer has shown, they've conned themselves into not reproducing, and the next generation of voters is likely to outvote them even worse next time around.

I prredict that the Democrats will end up falling right into line. The test will come when Bush's twenty previously blocked judicial nominees come up for debate in the Senate. The Democrats will fail that test, and we'll be back in the Election of 2006--mark my words.