I'm so frustrated with the Republican party today. Okay, I'm frustrated with it on most days, but today it really disappointed me. First of all, a Republican in New Mexico tried to pass legislation that would make abortion after a rape or incest a felony because it destroyed evidence of a crime. I hope this woman feels me rolling my eyes from here. Seriously? Tampering with evidence? Is there some way in which the rapist can't be determined by looking at the aborted tissue? It's not like they flush these things down the toilet.
It also seems that many states are trying to get laws passed to where electoral votes are dolled out according to congressional districts and not just on a state by state basis. The GOP feels that this will cause them to win elections from now on, instead of other people winning. Now granted, they would have won the last election had this been the case, but that's not to say it would ever work in the future.
What frustrates me about both of these examples is that they are underhanded and lazy. It's underhanded to try and pass laws just to get your way. Laws, and this goes for both parties and all various groups of crazies concerned, should be passed to benefit all people in the country, not just you and your group. They should be designed with the principles of this nation and reflect the ideas of freedom and our Constitution.
As far as the lazy part of this is concerned, I think in both of these cases, a lot of mental laziness is happening. Many other countries have legal abortion and yet have far fewer abortions happening. Why is that? Has this been studied by the anti-choice people? Have any of you sat down and thought about the fact that 40 years after Roe vs. Wade, 7 your tactics aren't working? Have you considered maybe you're going about this all wrong?
As far as the GOP and winning elections is concerned, passing laws to make it easier for you to win is just lazy to the core. If you want to win elections, take a good, honest, hard look at what you are saying and how look. Decide what is truly important to you and start asking yourselves what you are willing to let go of to get the big important stuff accomplished. Oh. And stop letting your crazies talk. That would help a lot.
What the GOP needs is more people to vote in its direction. You're not going to get those voters by doing underhanded and lazy things. It won't happen. You need to start accepting the fact that people didn't vote for Obama because they thought he would give them free stuff. People voted for Obama because they didn't trust Romney and all their conservative Facebook friends were annoying.
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