Over the holiday, I clipped and saved Letters to the Editor (Wall Street Journal) on Tues. Dec. 29th. Of note, from Marion Zola of Beverly Hills, Ca.: “Michael Petrilli is 1000% right when he writes about the need for Republicans to embrace those who have “a progressive lifestyle but not progressive politics….I am definitely a pro-choice women. What the Republicans don’t realize is that their “base” who are anti-choice have no one else to vote for but a Republican. They are not going to go left and change parties because of this one issue.”

This is important. Ms. Zola states that she is very willing to vote Republican as an Independent despite the anti-choice issue. What she hits on is the issue of the many women who vote democrat on this “one issue” despite leaning toward center right fiscal issues. It is beyond time for the Republican party to return to its roots of the party for women’s rights. It was only a few short decades ago when reason on the issue of women's rights and equality was a Republican claim! Time was...Republicans were for the ERA while Donkeys brayed their outrage at equality for women. Then came...Roe v. Wade and... the whackyjobs Luddites who wanted to keep men's seed safe from women's rights. As If women are going back to being slaves to the seed!
Oh...wait....Obama has a Luddite anti-woman plan here: disallow abortion coverage from virtually all insurance plans and ...but I digress.

Also of note in response to the same article (Whole Foods Republicans,op/ed Dec.14th) J.J. Weinstein of New York writes: “The young urban professional shopping alongside me at a Manhattan Whole Foods is as afraid of the “Two T’s” (Taxes and Terrorism) as I am but cannot bear to vote for the party that makes issue such as abortion and gay rights as visible as issues such as our economy, or paychecks and our national security.”

Geeeeez it is so past midnight for the GOP to give up hammering women. (Trust me, the DNC has a whole Obama-borne legion of “progressives” to take that up that mantle for them!) And for good measure, lay off the gays--GOP. The worst they will do is coordinate your outfits, and if the GOP stops bashing gays (think Cheney, Ted Olson, etc.) think of all those well-paid homosexuals who will now consider voting with their wallets vs. their ostracized marital lives!

Leave bedroom patrol and uterine patrol to the wacky bedroom KGB wingnuts with 12 fingers and let fiscal soundness ring forth.
I would also make the comment that as a fiscal centrist I consider myself a progressive who thinks drag us down the hellhole of NannyState Everything is REGRESSIVE.