Letters to the Editor
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Alito
58-42? 2/3rds of those polled want Roe upheld? How can there be such a disparity between the Senate and the average American? Here's something that the GOP understand about that disparity. A HUGE chunk of that 2/3rds that "support" Roe don't "support" it with the intense single minded fervor that a Pro-Life activist "supports" overturning Roe. I've encountered enough Pro-Life members to say with a fair degree of certainty that eradicating a woman's right to choose is a fanatical obsession. So fanatical indeed, that they ARE WILLING TO GO TO THE VOTING BOOTH ON THAT ISSUE ALONE! The Republicans have been milking this ignorant species of one-issue voters for all it's been worth ever since Roe's been on the books and I think the Democrats missed a chance to take that free lunch away from them by not taking a hard line and showing that there was something they would go to the mat for. They might have been able to put a handful of these "moderate" Republicans in the corner with the light shining on them to help reveal the real truth to thier constituents that they aren't and never were moderate when it mattered. Alito getting into the end zone is one thing, but letting him score on 1st down untouched only re-enforces the stereotype that many who do and don't vote already have of the Democrats - They are weak on defense!