A fiddle? You go too far.

Again, I do not disagree with your perspective in principle. But you are not wholly correct. Taking your abortion issue, just to cite one. The vast and overwhelming majority of Republicans, even those "controlling christians", have an understanding when it comes to the life of the mother. The vast reasoned so-called middle of America support, at the very least, saving the life of the mother. As for the ethics of "convience" abortion: Must we go deeper? I'll not do it here. The more polarized group on this is the Democrats with the all-or-nothing approach. Here is polling data galore: http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm

While looking at the stats keep in mind that the U.S. is pretty much 50-50 Gop-Dem and that puts the general Republican impression of abortion into perspective.


Partial Birth Abortion Ban of 2003: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquer...:@@@D&summ2=m&

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit any physician or other individual from knowingly performing a partial-birth abortion, except when necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury.

Defines a "partial-birth abortion" as an abortion in which the person performing the abortion: (1) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the mother's body, or, in the case of a breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the mother's body; and (2) performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus.
Here is how the vote went down:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...n=1&vote=00051

Vote Counts:
YEAs 64
NAYs 33
Not Voting 3
The Nays (2 Republicans voted nay):

NAYs ---33
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Collins (R-ME)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (D-FL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

So here is an issue where the a human child is killed as it is born and there is no danger to the mother. The Republicans want to ban JUST THAT, and what do the majority of Dems think? *Ahem* *Cough cough*

Don't tell me the Republicans are polarized issue by issue. If anyone is being claimed by the fiddle, is is our prestigious Godfather. This liberal media machine is wrappings its dirty little claws around good conservatives and it makes me sick.