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From Students for Life of America

People who refuse to support pro-abortion candidates for public office often get a bum-rap as narrow and unsophisticated. Today, my sister wrote an articulate defense of these “single-issue” voters on her blog:

A pro-life friend recently mentioned that she was voting for Obama in spite of his pro-choice stance because she wasn’t just a single-issue voter.

My first thought upon hearing this was to defend my support for McCain by explaining that Obama’s pro-abortion stance would affect so many other areas . . . . But really, deep-down, I am a single-issue voter. While being a pro-life candidate alone won’t earn my vote, being pro-abortion automatically DISQUALIFIES them from my consideration.

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The fact that Obama wants to not only continue the brutal killing of unborn children, but also eliminate all laws that deter this injustice disqualifies him from my support. If abortion isn’t a defining moral issue, what is?

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(graph courtesy NationalPost.com)

As we can see from the above graph, white people have saved the earth by buying Toyota Priuses (Prii?). Either that, or maybe climate change wasn’t quite so man-made after all.

Climate change has never really been about “the science;” it is a method for turning the guilt people feel for living in the wealthiest civilization the world has ever known into votes for the political left.

The indispensible Mark Styen found a great quote from James Delingpole which expresses this truth in the context of the current economic downturn:

Global warming anxiety was a Nineties and early Noughties fad — the product of a too affluent age in search of a hair-shirt religion to assuage its guilt at having had it so good. Now that everyone has something real to worry about, cutting carbon emissions seems about as relevant as the Jitterbug or the Rubik’s Cube.

So far, depressingly few of our politicians have understood this.

Steyn laments just how correct Mr. Delingpole is:

Gosh, wouldn’t it be nice in a two-party system to have maybe one candidate who said stuff like that? I suspect that, were it not for the sadly dated obsessions of her chief, it’s the line Sarah Palin would have given when Joe Biden said anyone but a fool knows the impending eco-apocalypse is all man’s fault.