Reply #257: I don't see it as compromise, but more like updating our positions. [View All]

Let's face it, our party has preferred to ignore internal discussions about things like "partial birth abortion" because we are afraid of our own radicals.

Party pros have been afraid that agreeing to ANY limitations on abortion will be seen by many vocal extremists as selling out. And judging from the reaction of a huge percentage of posters on this thread, it is clear what they are up against.

But we can not insist the Republicans stand up to their extremists while we kiss up to our own. We don't need the votes of those who refuse reasoned and conscientious discussion of the moral implications of various abortion related issues. We need the votes of those decent and thoughful people who have left us because they feel we have become a party of amorality and indifference. We need the respect and the votes of the average American.