DENYING ALL THAT STANDS IN THE WAY DOWN THE SLOPE:

Kathleen Parker Retreats But Still Blames Pro-Life Advocates for Election Loss (Steven Ertelt, December 5, 2008, LifeNews.com)

Nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker made herself the scourge of the pro-life community when she blamed emphasis of pro-life issues for allowing Barack Obama to win the presidential election. In a new article, Parker is backing down slightly from those arguments, but still bungles the facts.

Parker drew guffaws originally for blaming the presidential election loss on "oogedy-boogedy" pro-life advocates.

In her new column she urges the evangelical and conservative Catholic pro-life advocates to give up their religious-based pro-life arguments and tells them to "take a cue from Nat Hentoff, a self-described Jewish atheist, who has written as eloquently as anyone about the 'indivisibility of life' and the slippery slope down which abortion leads."

"Hentoff's arguments, and others on related issues, ultimately may fail. But at least they will fail for reasons other than that oogedy-boogedy got in the way," she says.

Two big problems for Ms Parker (well, one big, the other, Big): (1) not only is the GOP the party of Oggedy-Boogedy, but most Americans believe in Him; (2) if there is no Oogedy-Boogedy then there is no argument on behalf of life, which is why the Hentoff path does fail.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 7, 2008 7:19 PM