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Ralph Reed: Values Voters Are the Key to a Republican Comeback

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Then stop trying to push the "Abstinence Only" education onto public schools. Arkansas had that law on their books and after five years they found that teen pregnancy had tripled. It doesn't work. So got off your prudish, double standard (having Bristol Palin as an advocate for abstinence education is the ultimate joke) high-horse and start having some common sense. Put tax dollars into real sex education (and getting condoms, birth control and morning-after pills out to teenagers) and then you won't have to EVER worry about tax dollars going to fund abortions or sexually transmitted diseases. You'll save fetuses and save health care money! Think with your heads instead just doing what Lyndon Larouche tells you to do.

Robert of AR 5:42PM September 18, 2009

Abortion is not health care. It is a slaughter of 3200 unborn babies a DAY, 96,000 a MONTH, and 1.2 Million a year in America.
This is a slaughter of the least of our people (poorest, weakest, most dependant, and least of our people).
Say NO to the free slaughter without a chance to respect and protect the lives of both the mother and the child.
Respect Life.
Protect Life.
Protect Love.
Love Life.

ComPassion of IN 10:51PM August 29, 2009

I see that Ralph Reed is up to his traditional deceptions, misleading comments, outright lies, and obfuscation of basic value issues in the USA.
The only question here is: Who is paying him to be lying to us this time?

Asinus Gravis of TX 11:45AM August 26, 2009

Since Roe v Wade in l973, Americans have been able to abort at least some of the millions of "special needs" conceptions that would have been born. Did you know the family of each Downs child is eligible for millions of dollars of tax paid care all its life? That's the kind of care "faith-based groups" are getting taxes "to provide." Historically, the Catholic Church created paupers by making couples have big families they can't afford. Then they say the Church exists "to help the poor." The usual set up is to have a cathedral, and nice housing with cooks and house-keepers for priests, and nearby a Catholic school, and a workhouse. in the country, working free, would be nunnery celibates and monastery celibates. It has always been an abnormal kind of religious society, contravening Constitutional freedom.

auradawnveirs of CA 2:48PM August 21, 2009

" ... Obama's plan, including taxpayer-funded abortion, rationing of care for the elderly, and mandatory "end of life" counseling." None of which happen to be in any version of health care reform being considered in the House or Senate.
I quit the Republicans because I was tired of hanging out with racists, fear mongers, and proud ignoramuses. Looks like I won't be coming back any time soon.

John of NC 2:23PM August 21, 2009

Most things we do are done for 'value' reasons, from our choice of clothes to our views on abortion. Every point of view is a self-centered, God based or society based value. People keep talking about values without acknowledging the unprovable assumptions that are their basic assumptions. Then they seldom cite the source of the evidence they use, such as: empirical, historical, or from some sort of authority. The best exposition of these basics I have seen is in Book 4 of --In Search of Utopia-- at http://andgulliverreturns.info
The book clearly shows how people can be pro or con relative to about any value question. But it seems to me that most people calling for 'values' are merely calling for everyone else to accept their values without understanding their underpinnings.

Dr. Bob O'Connor of CA 2:15PM August 21, 2009

I would just like to also point out that all the Republicans have to do to get control of the house and senate in 2010 is keeping feeding the rope to the Democrats. Lets face it, every day that goes by Pelosi, Reed, Obama, and other Dems say or do something that not only upsets the majority of Americans but also a majority of their constituents. So give them the microphone more, put them on TV, let them do what they want for the next few months. When the American people see what these guys are really after, what they really believe in, and what they stand for, the American people will toss these guys out so fast they may get whiplash. Look at the polls, most of them have already lost re-election.
Looks like we will be drilling our own oil in 2012.

Mark Zimmerstien of ID 1:18PM August 21, 2009