Planned Parenthood's obscene profits (Michelle Malkin)

[Neil Peart]

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/06/04/planned_parenthoods_obscene_profits

GOP presidential candidate John McCain sounded more like a Democratic presidential candidate (a recurring trend) when he joined the Left's oil industry bashers a few weeks ago. Asked by a North Carolina voter whether he supported a Jimmy Carter-era windfall profits tax, McCain responded: "Um, I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere -- and I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax -- that's not what bothers me -- but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people or industries or corporations that are distorting the market."

Here's an idea for all the hand-wringing GOP strategists in Washington wondering what it will take to win back disgusted economic and social conservatives: How about a Republican presidential candidate who will talk about the tax-subsidized abortion industry the way McCain talks about the oil industry?

Somehow, Planned Eugenics gets a pass, while the oil companies, who provide a valuable service for us, get their legs cut out from under them.

[PrezLeefun]

Great, more stuff to help continue to make me throughly depressed.

[DeclinetoState]

Why is it that all the principled conservatives are columnists, not elected officials?

Well, to answer my own question, it's probably because it's almost impossible to be principled and elected.

[PrezLeefun]

For the most part too many conservatives are far too honest to ever be politicians.