1) Aborting the baby?
2) Deciding to have the baby?

If the choice is made to have the baby, what comes after that?

1) Father skips out of the picture and mom goes on welfare?
2) Father marries mom and works his ass off to support the wife and child?

From my experience, conservatives work hard to convince women to keep their children (or allow them to be adopted) and for the man to step up to the plate and be a husband and father. We used to call them shotgun weddings.

Teen pregnancy is certainly an issue for conservatives, but the majority of social and economic problems result from children being brought up without fathers. Some would go so far as to claim that it is the single most important factor in determining life outcomes.

–The New Centrist

This is like how come Americans don’t use suicide tactics to kill civilians and why our rules of engagement doesn’t permit the torture and summary executions of people we find on the battlefield.

Winning the war between two different factions that use two different means of warfare, that has nothing to do with it.

The important issue is ensuring that one side gets all the advantages while the other side gets all the criticisms and NONE of the advantages. In fact, they will get the criticism for a tactic but get none of the advantages from that tactic at the same time, while the other side gets none of the criticism but all of the advantages.

That’s the goal. The goal isn’t to help America win. The goal is to beat us.

Nick, as Obama attacked his opponents in HIS acceptance speech, he didn’t follow your advice. Any comments? Or is it that Democrats are permitted to attack, but not Republicans?

Such as the Obama bundler who attempted to storm the stage during Palin’s speech? Any such equivalent behavior from Republicans during Obama’s speech? Hell, no.

My take at this point: The right is praying she’s a Gipper and not a Quayle. The left will hammer at her carefully, but the intent is to really characterize McCain as foolish and incompetent. They want to keep this election about McCain and Obama. If the GOP continues to characterize Palin as a populous hero, the Dems are in trouble.

As a Republican, I would now like to declare, “We have Sarah, and they don’t!”

… that is how many of us independent-minded people think and we’d take the centrist part of RNC and DNC with us…. I urge everyone to look at non-partisan analyses of our candidates economic, foreign policy, and social/societal plans. Reread the Constitution and see who is upholding it. Forget the Hannity’s and Olbermann’s of the world and decide for yourself.

You won’t see that kind of behaviour broadly adopted without media literacy, media reform, and a massive change agenda shared by government and citizen groups.

Check out the Lincoln-Douglas debates from 1858 and the substantive content (even in the heckles from the floor). Why were debates 150 years ago so much more substantive than they are today?

btw, BVCurtis, NeoNeocon is a media pundit…