Why NARAL's endorsement of Obama matters to me...
Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/15/2008 3:07 PM 
Categories: My shade of PURPLE,2008 Election,All Posts
Categories: My shade of PURPLE,2008 Election,All Posts
The NARAL endorsement of Obama means a lot to me. This post might not make sense in the beginning but hopefully it will at the end.
When I was on the Republican team for every election cycle from '88 through the Republican primary in '00, I had to swallow my own belief, put it up on a shelf, the belief that government has no right over my body (particularly a woman's right to choose), and fight a good fight. And I did. My former colleagues and I roughed up President Clinton pretty good (with a little help from a White House intern) from '97 through the end of his term to set the stage for a Republican to come in and show you how it's done. McCain was my man in 2000 and I truly believed in him back then but then it went to South Carolina and I couldn't stomach their (Rove and Company's) tactics anymore. And what did we get? We got George W. Bush. Combined with the wild card of 9/11/01, the stage was set. The Neocons got their perfect opportunity to invade Iraq; Cheney, Addington and Libby got their game on to expand the President's authority at their hearts content under the Theory of Unitary Executive; Rove was able to try and implement his "permanent majority" for Republicans by using the Justice Department, the State Department, the Pentagon, and every other arm of the government as his personal PR departments; And the President... well, what did President Bush 2.0 get? I guess he got a front row seat of the dismantling of what I believed the Republican party to be.
I saw up close and personal the Neocons licking their chops in '98 looking for a reason to invade Iraq and I had obviously run up against Rove and his peeps in South Carolina in 2000 when I was on McCain's team but after 9/11, after Afghanistan (which I have always supported), in the summer of '02 when I knew we were going to war based on the statements and PR Bush 2.0 was pushing, I thought about that belief I had put on the shelf a long time ago. A libertarian view on abortion, a belief I had put on that shelf to be a part of the Republican party. A party that I didn't recognize anymore.
So I left, I left the Republican party and I wasn't going back. Don't get me wrong, I am for Obama and have been ever since his convention speech in '04 but I am not a Democrat. I am and Independent, I'm Little Ms. Purple. What hasn't changed through all of that, even if I wasn't able to openly show it, is my support for NARAL and what they stand for. With that, below is Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, endorsing Senator Obama for President and I couldn't be happier about that:
When I was on the Republican team for every election cycle from '88 through the Republican primary in '00, I had to swallow my own belief, put it up on a shelf, the belief that government has no right over my body (particularly a woman's right to choose), and fight a good fight. And I did. My former colleagues and I roughed up President Clinton pretty good (with a little help from a White House intern) from '97 through the end of his term to set the stage for a Republican to come in and show you how it's done. McCain was my man in 2000 and I truly believed in him back then but then it went to South Carolina and I couldn't stomach their (Rove and Company's) tactics anymore. And what did we get? We got George W. Bush. Combined with the wild card of 9/11/01, the stage was set. The Neocons got their perfect opportunity to invade Iraq; Cheney, Addington and Libby got their game on to expand the President's authority at their hearts content under the Theory of Unitary Executive; Rove was able to try and implement his "permanent majority" for Republicans by using the Justice Department, the State Department, the Pentagon, and every other arm of the government as his personal PR departments; And the President... well, what did President Bush 2.0 get? I guess he got a front row seat of the dismantling of what I believed the Republican party to be.
I saw up close and personal the Neocons licking their chops in '98 looking for a reason to invade Iraq and I had obviously run up against Rove and his peeps in South Carolina in 2000 when I was on McCain's team but after 9/11, after Afghanistan (which I have always supported), in the summer of '02 when I knew we were going to war based on the statements and PR Bush 2.0 was pushing, I thought about that belief I had put on the shelf a long time ago. A libertarian view on abortion, a belief I had put on that shelf to be a part of the Republican party. A party that I didn't recognize anymore.
So I left, I left the Republican party and I wasn't going back. Don't get me wrong, I am for Obama and have been ever since his convention speech in '04 but I am not a Democrat. I am and Independent, I'm Little Ms. Purple. What hasn't changed through all of that, even if I wasn't able to openly show it, is my support for NARAL and what they stand for. With that, below is Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, endorsing Senator Obama for President and I couldn't be happier about that:
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