While tripping merrily through the mail, Robert Plett was overheard
 RP> The Republican National Committee, by a vote of 114 to 43, rejected a
 RP> resolution that the Republican Party deny funding to any candidate who
 RP> does not support outlawing Partial Birth Abortion.  The rejection of
 RP> that resolution was supported by party leaders including RNC chairman
 RP> Nicholson, Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, Phil Gramm, George Bush Jr., John
 RP> Kasich, Henry Hyde, and Newt Gingrich, to name but a few.
 RP> By so doing, the Republican party stands clearly revealed as a party
 RP> that no more opposes abortion than does the Democrat party or the
 RP> Libertarian party.  Further, it stands revealed as a party that is
 RP> incapable of standing firmly on principle, whether it be a moral one,
 RP> or any other.  As noted by many others, its claim that a litmus test on
 RP> any issue is inappropriate flies directly in the face of its past
 RP> refusal to support the candidacy of the likes of David Duke.
Unfortunately, standing on Principle on one issue does NOT win elections.
Pragmatism wins elections.  I would vote Libertarian if I thought they
had a snowball's cahnce in you-know-where of winning, but since they
don't, I have to go with the lesser of two evils.
Don
... How is this for diplomacy----Shoot them all!
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