I bet many conservatives have a message for Kathleen Parker, too...

...but it probably couldn't be printed in a family newspaper...

It has long been a problem for the GOP that some of the party’s cherished positions are embraced most enthusiastically by people whose grip on reality is sometimes ... tenuous. This is especially true with regard to abortion.
There are certainly compelling secular arguments against abortion that one might be perfectly willing to hear. Then Randall Terry shows up. Terry, the colorful founder of Operation Rescue, doesn’t represent the Republican Party, but he is nevertheless the most familiar face of the anti-abortion movement. When President Barack Obama recently gave the commencement address at Notre Dame, who showed up to lead the protest but Terry and the equally odd carnival performer Alan Keyes.

Wow. Alan Keyes, arguably among the top-five principled Republicans in the party, is an "odd carnival performer"? I thought it was just rabid lefties who resorted to that sort of baseless demagoguery, but then I guess it's only natural that Kathleen Parker, who tries to position herself as some sort of "sensible moderate," would co-opt some of the tactics of the other side. I don't agree with some of the things Alan Keyes has said either, but I think on the whole he'd make a hell of a lot better president than Obama. And do you know WHY Randall Terry is the "most familiar face of the anti-abortion movement"? Because Kathleen Parker and her fellow media hacks have made him so. "Still fresh in our minds is the last presidential election"? Hey Kathleen, you mean the one where the Republicans ran perhaps the second-most-milquetoast moderate they could find, arguably only because it was "his turn," and STILL came up short? Good grief, Parker, just sit down and shut up, already.