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Entry: Why Michael Mukasey? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/why_michael_mukasey#5821 Post contents: "Did anyone ever think Bush was a true believer in pro-life?" Apparently, enough people did to win him two elections. Even a number of commenters on this site have said that they did--and some continue to do so. That is, after all, the unstated belief of anyone who thinks that you have to vote for a Republican to avoid a pro-abortion Democrat taking office. And such people constantly attack those of us who claimed, from the beginning, that Bush et al. were not pro-life. (See my piece on James Hitchcock.) Today, we have two pro-abortion parties. The Democratic Party is pro-abortion in principle and in practice. The Republican Party is anti-abortion (for the most part) in principle, but it is pro-abortion in practice. And if you don't put your principles into practice, then it's the practice that counts. That's why men such as Joe Sobran have claimed that abortion has become an irrelevant issue at the national level. Pro-life positions are used simply to win elections; they are never put into practice. Recognizing that reality does not mean, as Hitchcock and others claim, that the person who recognizes it is pro-abortion. Rather, it means (as it has meant for Joe and me and an increasing number of other pro-lifers) that national electoral politics can, and must, be about more than abortion today. Sent at: 2008 07 24