Michigan Primary report: pro-choice Republican Joe Schwarz out

From GOP Progress:

In his [Schwarz's] speech, he pointed to his unwillingness to compromise his principles, when "pandering [to arch-conservatives] would have been easy."

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He said that there were no excuses for his moderate supporters not having turned out, and that Walberg had won the election in areas dominated by "hard conservatives". The loss was, he said, the result of moderates failing to come out to vote.

He pointed to the trend of the party slipping further to the right, but said that there was always a tomorrow, and ended by congratulating Tim Walberg on having won tonight by turning out his voters. [source]

The other side of this story, however, is that Joe Schwarz is a pro-abortion Republican.

His opponent who just won, Tim Walberg, says right up front on his campaign page: "I am strongly pro-life and endorsed by Right to Life of Michigan. Joe Schwarz supports abortion on demand and received $10,000 from Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider."

In an article entitled Abortion at heart of Republican race (published in the Jackson Citizen Patriot) I found this nice quote from Joe Schwarz: "I am pro-life and I am anti-abortion," Schwarz said then. "I'm a practicing Roman Catholic and a pro-life person." However, Joe also says, "in the end, in the final analysis, that decision [to abort a child] should not be made by a bunch of middle-aged, gray-haired men like myself. It should be made by the woman herself." [source.] Sorry Joe, either you are pro-life or you aren't. And you aren't.

Anyway, a step forward for the pro-life cause in Michigan, as well as the conservative side of the GOP, since parties are looking at these primaries as testing grounds for national platforms in the future.

The Lunchbox Conservative adds some more perspective: "This was one of the nation's most-watched congressional primary and saw varried speical interest groups spend more than $3 million in what was Michigan's most pitch GOP primary in some time." [sic.]

Cool. I'm glad our boy Tim Walberg came through.