I wasn't sure that I'd ever see the day.

But it's finally happened.  A pro-life politician is being given the
nod to run as a DEMOCRAT!  The leftwingnut pro-infanticide monolith
has cracked.

We must be getting closer to the day!  We must be getting closer to
the day when baby-killers like Ray Fischer go to prison for their
crimes.

Everyone knows that child abusers are on the low end of the food chain
in prison.

So we must be getting closer to the day when sadistic inmates and even
sadistic prison guards get the opportunity to suck Ray Fischer's
brains out with a vacuum.  Or to stick surgical instruments into any
one of a number of his crevices (or to manufacture new crevices for
him).

Or to hit him over the head with a sledgehammer as he exits from an
enclosure.  And to say to him, "This is what those babies felt."

And, of course, getting to punish THE WOMEN for killing their young is
going to be even MORE FUN!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050306/ap_on_re_us/pennsylvania_democrats_6

Anti-Abortion Dem. to Seek Pa. Nomination 



By PETER JACKSON, Associated Press Writer 

HARRISBURG, Pa. - State Treasurer Robert P. Casey Jr., the son of a
former governor, entered the race for the Democratic nomination to
oppose Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record), the Senate's No.
3 leader and a rising Republican star. 


National Democratic leaders had recruited Casey, whose father, the
late governor Robert P. Casey, had clashed with the national party
over his anti-abortion views. The younger Casey also opposes abortion.


Polls indicate Casey is the party's best hope for unseating the
conservative Santorum, who is expected to seek a third six-year term
next year. 


"As senator, I will fight every day to put middle-class families
first," Casey said Friday. 


Gov. Ed Rendell, who beat Casey in the 2002 gubernatorial primary,
endorsed his former foe after helping to clear the field of major
opposition by shooing away a competitor. 


"It was always his goal to try to have a united front," said Penny
Lee, Rendell's communication director. 


Casey's father, who died in 2000, made headlines when Democratic
leaders prevented him from speaking on his anti-abortion views at the
party's national conventions in 1992 and 1996. 


But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and some other Democratic
abortion foes are urging the party to take a more conciliatory stance
on abortion. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) recently
made a high-profile appeal for common ground, and she and Reid are
among the sponsors of a bill seeking to reduce the number of abortions
by increasing spending on family-planning clinics, among other things.


Casey had not seriously considered running for Senate until Reid and
other party leaders urged him to run. 


His predecessor as treasurer, Barbara Hafer, said Wednesday that she
planned to run, raising the specter of a primary fight, but on Friday
said she changed her mind at Rendell's request. 


Former U.S. Rep. Joe Hoeffel, who unsuccessfully challenged Republican
Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) last year and had said
he was contemplating a bid against Santorum, said he also agreed not
to run after talking with Casey. 


"I really want to see Rick Santorum defeated, and it seems to me that
Bob Casey has the best chance to do that," Hoeffel said Friday 


Casey, 44, was sworn into a four-year term as state treasurer just two
months ago. He served two four-year terms as auditor general and lost
to Rendell in 2002. He received the most votes of any candidate in
state history in his landslide victory in the treasurer's race in
November. 


In a statement issued by his Senate office, Santorum said he looks
forward to "a spirited debate" on issues. 


An independent poll in mid-February showed Casey as the only
prospective Democratic candidate with an apparent lead over Santorum,
46 percent to 41 percent. 


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On the Net: 

   



Casey: http://www.bobcaseyforpa.com 

Santorum: http://santorum.senate.gov/ 

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"Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo."(The people
hiss at me, but I am well satisfied with myself).

    - Horace, the Roman poet


Logical positivism, dominant in American and
British universities, is suicidally bent upon
establishing the impossibility of knowing any-
thing.  (As Wyndham Lewis suggested in "Self
Condemned", the neo-positivist pedant reduces
himself to a mosquito, able to wound, nearly
invulnerable to counter-assault - but only an
insect, not a man).

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