What to say about the Democratic Party’s convention problems?
Specifically their infamous decision to remove the word God from
their official party platform? It’s hard to say which is more
risible; their sloughing the whole thing off by calling it an
oversight, or the raucous floor vote to correct the supposed faux
pas, which proved to anyone with eyes and ears that it was no such
thing.
Of course we’ve been told by countless liberal flacks that party
platforms aren’t really important and certainly not binding on
those at the top of the ticket; quite a difference from the
brouhaha over the pro-life language in the plank put forth by the
GOP, for which Mitt Romney was held eminently
accountable by the mainstream media. No, the Dems will have a
hard time covering up this instance of being caught with their
pants down.
To no one’s surprise, the two conventions were vastly different
in both scope and content. The Republicans in Tampa conducted what
you would expect: a thorough, though maybe a tad uninspiring litany
of the failings of the incumbent president and the plans to rectify
same. But in Charlotte, lacking any successful Obama
accomplishments on which to hang their hats, Democrats resorted
instead to a celebration of what they feel are their finest
attributes; a compilation of their greatest hits, so to speak,
which consisted mainly of these: diversity, inordinate love for
government, support for homosexual marriage and their overwhelming
desire that all women should have paid coverage to escape the
consequences of whatever sexual escapades in which they care to
indulge.
Yes, the Democratic convention was chock full of heartwarming
testimonies; from a supposedly impoverished college woman who needs
our dough to pay for her contraception, to the president of Planned
Parenthood, an organization that needs our dough to murder children
in the womb. How wonderful it was to hear these paeans to the
culture of death from the mouths of wives, mothers and
grandmothers!
But the image that will last is the video of the floor
vote to restore to the party platform a mention of God and the
recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This
demonstration of Democrat values, complete with its angry gestures
and booing, was on display for all to see as even most of the
networks could not avoid showing the obvious disdain emanating from
many of the delegates.
What all broadcast and cable networks, save Fox News, did
not show of course, was the closing benediction from
Timothy Cardinal Dolan who, to the initial dismay of many faithful
Catholics, myself included, waded into the belly of the beast in
Charlotte to deliver
this prayer to God in the midst of the party of abortion: “Thus
do we praise you for the gift of life. Grant us the courage to
defend it, life, without which no other rights are secure. We ask
your benediction on those waiting to be born, that they may be
welcomed and protected.”
But sheer audacity ruled the day in Charlotte, as the powers
that be saw fit to parade a plethora of Catholics—forbidden
by the Church to support abortion—to give tacit and not-so-tacit
approval of their most cherished desire to rid the nation of
unwanted children. Caroline Kennedy, who quizzically said, “As a
Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously,” is the
latest poster child for Catholics who put party first and God
second. But couple the onerous HHS contraception mandate with the
incessant abortion drumbeating, and you find Obama losing support
among
Catholics and
women, two of his most crucial voting blocs.
If you think these are merely the wishful ravings of a committed
right-winger, consider the following: Cokie Roberts on ABC’s
This Week
opined: “I think this Democratic Convention was really over the
top in terms of abortion. Every single speaker talked about
abortion. And you know at some point you start to alienate people.”
And then there was longtime lefty Margaret Carlson
weighing in with:
Last week, Democrats feasted on the extreme positions of Rep.
Todd Akin of Missouri during the Republican National Convention.
Yet Democrats have gone too far in the other direction, threatening
their hold on the great American middle. Abortion is a more
delicate subject than our fierce, partisan arguments would have
it.… Abortion won’t be a defining issue for Democrats this
election, but the party’s more militant posture guarantees that
bipartisanship is still a long way off. On this issue, we can’t get
along. But it wouldn’t hurt to put the word “rare” back in the
platform.
If even diehard Democrat women like Carlson and Roberts agree
that there was too much emphasis on abortion, you know that this is
undeniably true. Add to this the palpable aversion to the God of
creation and the glorification of the gods of government and you
get an idea of the priorities of the Democrat Party. Yet it appears
that the liberal plan to win the hearts and minds of Americans,
particularly American women, is to ignore their economic woes and
fiscal fears, and to concentrate on what they believe is vitally
important: killing unborn children and ensuring that their fellow
gals be compensated for their sex lives. Brilliant.
