I have never heard of Margaret Hoover, the pro-choice Republican I just saw interviewed by Laura Ingraham on the O'Reilly Factor, but she is absolutely wrong to say that evangelical pro-lifers will not abandon McCain in numbers to impact the election if McCain changed his views on abortion. Many of those pro-life evangelicals and pro-life Catholics who vote republican do so only because of Republican candidate's opposition to abortion and the culture of death. They hold their noses at other republican policies. To abandon the pro-life view would be suicidal. This is one pro-lifer who would sit out the election if McCain changed his pro-life views. Fortunately he won't.
Hoover also said abortion wasn't a big issue and that it wasn't in the last couple elections. She even said if a VP candidate supported partial birth abortion it wouldn't matter. Ingraham was right, the pro-life issue made a huge impact in 2000 and 2004. If Bush had not been pro-life, Al Gore or John Kerry would have been president. It's incompetence that she said it wasn't an important issue.
If the republicans had treated the other part of the base as well as they have treated pro-lifers-the fiscal conservatives, they would be a dominant party.
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