MIAMI, FLORIDA, May 17, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scheduled a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser at the home of Phil Frost, the executive of the company that makes the Morning After Pill, on Wednesday night. Plan B One-Step is produced by Teva Pharmaceuticals, Frost’s company.
The pharmaceutical executive’s residence was one of several stops scheduled to increase Romney’s war chest during a two-day swing through Florida.
“It’s a huge disappointment,” Brian Camenker, director of the Massachusetts-based pro-family organization MassResistance told LifeSiteNews.com. “You wouldn’t see someone who was really pro-life doing a fundraiser with somebody who helped the abortion industry.”
Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, didn’t seem troubled by the fundraiser saying, “What matters is whether a President Romney will end all taxpayer support for abortion-inducing drugs, repeal unconstitutional mandates that force private institutions to cover such drugs, and whether he will make progress in building a culture of life.” Lifesite News
Brian Burch illustrates why we get such crappy candidates. While the possibility of one candidate contributing more to the common good than the other certainly has moral weight – it does not mean putting blinders on when something seriously problematic happens. You can’t hold a candidate’s feet to the fire if you don’t even light the match. The “What matters is …” can be and has been used to justify just about anything. The Democratic Party did not start as the Party of Death and while many Democrats might have been reticent about the parties increasing pro-abortion fever, no doubt many explained it away with a “What matters is {insert favorite cause}.”
The idea that since Romney will probably do the right thing so we should ignore when he does the totally wrong thing is a really bad idea. Mitt “Believe me I am pro-life now” Romney does not exactly build credibility by having a fundraiser with Phil Frost. The ends justify the gaffe. Though this is more than just a gaffe. Giving him a free pass on this just means you better keep a pocketful of passes since you are going to need them later.
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$50,000 – A – PLATE !
They should ALL be ashamed of themselves.
Running like GODS while children go hungry.
God is not with the likes of this.
Their adrenalin rush comes not from God, but from being god.
ISAIAH. 1. 23.
Thy princes are rebellious, & companions of thieves: everyone loveth gifts, & followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Hysterical. The GOP is like the majority of the world; they don’t really care about what people do with their own bodies nor do they think fetuses babies. Bush was all “pro-life” right? Well he managed to launch two wars and countless tax cuts yet never could do anything about abortion save talk.
And you lot ate it all up and will do so again and again and again. The GOP knows they can always score your vote as long as they cluck and tsk along with you in condemning abortion.
Granted Mitt is pretty clumsy in his pandering but to be fair he’s rich and unused to having to do stuff for himself.
But he’s not Obama, who is such a liar that when he says he’ll protect women’s right he does! Consistency in thought and deed must confuse the heck out of you.
>$50,000 – A – PLATE !
I think they get some food as well and it’s actually just an excuse to donate money, I’m pretty sure the GOP does the same thing.
>They should ALL be ashamed of themselves.
>Running like GODS while children go hungry.
Um. Did you eat today while children and adults go hungry?
>God is not with the likes of this.
Couldn’t your god solve all the world’s hunger problems in a second? It doesn’t seem to care anymore than the GOP does it seems to let children die all the time, countless millions before they reach the age of 5.
Go hit his campaign website and leave him a comment (click the “contact us” link) and tell him exactly what you think about this. I just did.
Mr. Miller, is Salvage your neighbor who is mad at you for your dog pooping in his yard?
It is disappointing when people say that certain principles are “non-negiotiable”, but do plenty of negiotiating on that principle.
I knew lots of people who quoted the Catholic Answers 5 non-negiotiable pamphlet until you reminded them that Sen. McCain supported ESCR. Then they explained how they could negitiate that concern away by looking at other positions.
(((Couldn’t your god solve all the world’s hunger problems in a second? It doesn’t seem to care anymore than the GOP does it seems to let children die all the time, countless millions before they reach the age of 5.)))
That a tell them salvage and as far as “I” am concerned Victor is nothing but a troll and “I” must apologize for U>S 97% gods who’s hands have been cuffed UP in these flesh cells of Victor by “Religious idiots” and Victor won’t let U>S out to do as we want. Trust U>S salvage, we gods could solve all the worlds problems in a split second of our times. butt crazy Victor’s Jesus cells will not allow “IT” because his imaginary soul and spirit say that “IT” would be true witch crap and most of your atheist cells know that witch crap does not exist anymore than these so called 3% Jesus cells of Victor’s imaginary GOD.
Over the weekend, all Victor did was troll in his boat and
“You know what?” Victor and his so called GOD created a song for two of his grandsons and as started another song for one of his grand daughter and Victor even sings “IT” on his boat. My point is, salvage what you can and to hell with these humans cause while Victor is being lazy and brags about the fish he catches, the rest of U>S gods are entertaining aliens who care to listen to U>S like http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-18-snakehead_x.htm and http://www.ashlandcurrent.com/opinion/11/12/28/alien-invaders-battle-against-asian-carp who could help this world out of their misery if ya get my drift and “I’M” sure that your atheist cells do and we’ve spotted that from your knowledgeable writing. Anyway you know that humans can’t function on their own and they need help and have always needed alien help.
Hey Jack! I mean salvage, join U>S and we’ll show these humans that we mean business and we’ve borrowed one of their trees http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/poachers_steal_800-year-old_tree_from_provincial_park/434b7b95 cause that’s as close as we could come UP to identify with these human “Tree in ONE”and between U>S (usual socalled) gods there ain’t no “Three in ONE GOD” are there?
“I” could go on and on, on fire but my weakest strongest god of today is butt one god cell which could go on and on, on fire also, butt what’s the use? Keep UP your defence and eventually this so called Jeff the mill her will come back to U>S (usual sinners) and help explain why so many atheist are joining this Catholic Religion when they are no better than any other human religions. Right Jack?
Got to go NOW and you know what they say, if you got to go, you’ve got to go!
Hey! Don’t go sinner vic cause me, myself and i were starting to find “IT” interesting! 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0714IbwC3HA
Peace
The Distributist in me is angry that the GOP nominated Romney; at least Santorum does not have his hands dirtied by corporations directly, as he’s been in public service (law and Congress). Romney is tied too deeply to the corporate system (just like Obama) and is not committed to objective moral issues.
>at least Santorum does not have his hands dirtied by corporations directly,
Uh huh.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/pages/category-results/c/rick-santorum
Speaking of ‘dirty’ corporations let us not forget FNMA & FreddieMac,just for starters.
“What matters is whether a President Romney … will make progress in building a culture of life.”
So… are we supposed to know the answer?