Starlifter wrote on 01/10/09 at 08:12:11:(1)... why do most pro-lifers ... LOVE capital punishment?
(2)How do totally unqualified idiots like bush & palin ever become governors?
(3) how many functionally illiterate, bona fide insane senators, congress folks, and governors ARE there?
1. Capitalization matters -- pro-life people are for-life and against capital punishment. Most people are pro-life. "Pro-Life" as in the political movement, is anti
legal abortion. They are of the authorative bent and want abortion illegal as a punishment for wonton sex. Or something like that; they are obviously not against abortion itself as their policies promote more abortions.
2. Can you say "figurehead" or "puppet"? They are just the sweet talking front men for the hidden seat of power.
3. That, along with what goes into sausages, is something you really do not want to know. I would place money on "majority" and would not be surprised at "vast majority."
This country is actually NOT run by our elected officials. It is run by the huge faceless Bureaucracy.