The Breathtaking Losers of the Mid-term Elections

Did you catch it? or did you miss it?  Democrat candidate for Texas Governor Wendy Davis and Democrat Senator for Colorado Mark Udall both ran on extreme abortion platforms … and they lost horribly.

 

Davis, a Democratic Texas State Senator, gained overnight fame for trying to filibuster a life-saving bill that would ban abortions at 5-months – the time at which unborn babies can feel pain.  Feminist and liberal groups glorified her as a hero for her late-term abortion agenda.  They even decided to run her against Republican Greg Abbott in Texas’s gubernatorial race.

 

How did that go?  Not well.  Her pro-life GOP opponent Greg Abbott won a majority of the female vote.

 

Then there’s Colorado, where Democrat Senator Mark Udall was just as keen on promoting late-term abortion.  His race also didn’t go his way.

 

In addition to these two races, the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) sent out a joyful email to supporters celebrating four other wins in which they had invested: Arkansas, North Carolina, Iowa and Kansas.

 

So, despite liberals desperately trying to keep their “war on women” strategy alive, which Charles Krauthammer went as far as to say had been “discredited,” voters clearly ignored these misleading campaign ads.  The mid-term election was a resounding victory for the pro-life movement.

 

The presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already announced he would push through the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act through Congress – a bill which would ban abortions after 5-months … the very kind of legislation Wendy Davis was trying to keep alive.

 

SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser released this statement heralding the news:

 

“Tonight’s overwhelming victory for pro-life candidates signals the fact that the bottom has fallen out of the abortion-centered ‘war on women’ strategy.  We are encouraged with the new pro-life Senate and look forward to a vote on our top legislative priority, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.  This compassionate, popular legislation will protect the lives of more than 18,000 unborn children per year.”

 

In the words of Townhall.com web editor Cortney O’Brien, “Clearly, the SBA List is way more election savvy than the pro-abortion Cosmopolitan magazine, which endorsed a string of losing candidates.”

 

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel