Democrats Forced To Throw Up Pro-Life Candidates In 2006

Some still say the Democrats are not learning from the mistakes they made in the last 3 elections. Indeed, the bread & butter of the Democratic Party, "The Liberals" still seem to be in denial about the losses and the cause for those losses.

Recently, pro-abortion Senator from New York and new chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Charles Schumer has come under fire from his liberal constituants for supporting pro-life Democrats for spots running in the 2006 elections.

The Washington Post reports today:

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, is a close student of these events. As the new chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, his job is to elect more Democrats. He's ruffled some feathers by thinking the way Karl Rove does, searching for the strongest Democratic candidate in a contested state and trying to prevent divisive primaries.

Schumer's initial salvo, ironically, involved a quest for a candidate to run against Santorum in 2006. According to Schumer, "it turned out that the strongest candidate in Pennsylvania, according to everyone we talked to, was Bob Casey." That would be Robert Casey Jr., the state treasurer whose name may sound familiar because his father, a pro-labor liberal, became a hero to the right-to-life movement when the Democrats denied him platform time at their 1992 convention. The son, like his father (who died in 2000), is pro-life.

The article also speaks to a change of heart by the Democratic Leadership in regards to Hollywood political activism:

Enter Hollywood. Virginia Hopper, wife of actor Dennis Hopper, organized a letter with her pro-choice allies urging financial support for Brown: "This is even more important than one precious Senate seat; it is a fight to protect women and families, and a fight for the core and soul of our party." In a rather graceless warning, the Hopper letter declared that "money is the biggest and loudest message." Langevin deserves a writing Oscar for his tart reply: "I find it hard to believe people in Hollywood can relate to the struggles of working families in Rhode Island."

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