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Pro-Choice "Pro-Life" candidates for Illinois Governor try to have it both ways: Sens. Murphy and Brady support GOP pro-abortion Senate colleagues for leadership positions
8/26/2009 10:44:00 PM - www.tomroeser.com
State Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine) is running as a strong social conservative for governor of Illinois-but in the company of a few other so-called "pro-lifers" he cast a vote for pro-abort Sen. Christine Radogno (R-Lagrange) as Republican leader heedless of the fact that by doing so he was consigning important life issues to the dustbin since Radogno is a wholly owned subsidiary of Terry Cosgrove's Personal PAC. The pro-life opponent to Radogno was Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale) whose anti-abortion credentials are unquestioned. Joining Murphy in voting for Radogno was State Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington)... although Brady who speaks eloquently about pro-life did a sneak trick by voting for Radogno after it was clear she was winning. Murphy at least was up front about his vote that dissed pro-lifers and turned custody of the once proudly solid pro-life Senate Republican caucus to an extremist liberal Republican up to her hips in political debt to a lobby that espouses partial birth abortion and indeed abortion until the day of birth and even beyond-depriving suffering infants born as result of botched abortions to receive nutrition or comfort in their last agonizing hours. If this is the pragmatism required for a so-called "pro-lifer" to broaden his appeal to the Left, conservative Republicans should be aware of it-in the case of Brady, certainly whose flexibility belies his wide-eyed appearing idealism but also concerning Murphy, a Catholic who touts his pro-life credentials but who hob-nobs with Radogno who has made a mockery of her religion in touting the skull and crossbones flag of death to the unborn and very recently born.
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