On the Moral Issues
Deborah Venable
11/10/07
The
firestorm consuming the Republican Party as it prepares to put forth a credible
candidate for next year’s presidential bid will end up burning any candidate
without a clear moral view of the leading domestic issues. That is a given. We may be coerced into believing that such issues will not stand
in the way of electing an alternative to Hillary Clinton, but the dirty little
secret is that a Republican failure to see the real truth will end up with the
Clinton victory, no matter how appalling that would be to any Republican voter.
National
security will sustain a devastating blow if we decide to depend solely on a
candidate’s potential to steer the Ship Of State through the enemy-filled
waters of foreign affairs and war without deference to his opinions on the
moral compass of the American people.
That
brings us to the current front-runner, Rudy Giuliani. His credentials of executive experience with handling the fiscal
and legal challenges of a multimillion population community may well be
adequate qualifications for running the country, but his failures to land on
the right side of moral issues cannot and will not be ignored. These are basic Constitutional issues, the
likes of which have held this country together since its conception. The issues of morality cannot be aborted in
favor of political party gain without irreparable damage to the host. Most Republicans that are still in touch
with the planks of their party platform must realize this.
Republicans
must stop trading conservative values for the promise of political assets. Conservatives ARE held to a higher standard
than are liberals and so-called moderates.
I am truly tired of hearing the rationalizations of would-be
conservatives defending the act of acquiescence on such issues as abortion, gun
control, and tolerance for dismantling traditional heritage.
Abortion
is morally and constitutionally wrong.
I must believe that eventually the sanity of this will be returned to
the courts of the land and stop the carnage of human life that has far
outnumbered the loss of life through any other means for thirty-plus years
now.
Gun
control is morally and constitutionally wrong.
I must believe that sanity will prevail on this one before revolution
must force the issue. The size of a
population has absolutely no bearing on whether government should attempt to
control the citizenry’s right for personal protection.
The
basic building block of any society is the protection and promotion of the traditional
family unit. It is morally and
constitutionally wrong to allow the welfare of an aberrant few to dictate a
tolerance that would dismantle the keystone of our heritage. We must be able to define normal from
abnormal even as we tolerate the existence of both. They need not be heralded as “equal.”
If
Mr. Giuliani’s record is thoroughly reviewed, I believe you will find that I
have not misrepresented his position on these issues. While he is certainly not alone in the Republican Party with his
position on these issues, he is the only one currently seeking the office of
the most powerful and influential person in the world. His candidacy in the general election would
polarize members of his party, conservatives in general, and frustrated “independents”
and unsatisfied members of other parties as well.
Make no mistake, if it comes down to Giuliani against ANY of the Democrat front-runners, I will not shirk my responsibility to vote for the lesser of the evils, (for he is most assuredly that), but I would sincerely hope that my party will give me a more conscionable choice to make.