Are These "Babies", Too, Mrs. Clinton?

This one I don't need to link you to.

Presumably you have all followed, or been exposed to, the very interesting exchange between Donald Trump and a questioner in his audience last week about "anchor babies", the babies born in the USA to illegal aliens in an effort to claim citizenship for the baby (in a specific, but challenge-worthy interpretation of the 14th Amendment) and oblige the Government not to deport their parents on niceness grounds.

The questioner asked him if he would not use the term "anchor babies", as some people, he said, found the term "offensive."  Trump, in his inimitable way, asked the fellow what he would call anchor babies instead.  I won't use quotes because I haven't the time or inclination to look it up, but the fellow answered something like "U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants."  Trump paused ever so briefly and, implying that was far too wordy, replied that he would continue to say "anchor babies."

Hillary Clinton, never missing a chance to reply with a snide tweet and never remembering that tweets expose her hypocrisy, tweeted out "They're called babies."

Ah, Mrs. C.  So they're called "babies."  So, Hillary, the children born in this country for the purpose of illegally going around immigration law and anchoring a family unwilling to go through the legal process for entering the United States, and becoming citizens legally, well, they're "babies."

Of course they are.  And their parents are "illegally in the country" and should be deported.  And their children are indeed "babies."

So what, Hillary, do you call the children that Planned Parenthood kills by crushing them, harvesting their organs and selling at a profit?  You know, the Planned Parenthood so heavily supporting your campaign, and whose contributions you readily accept despite the fact that they make some of that money by killing and selling the parts of ...

"Babies"?

They're also called "babies", Mrs. Clinton.  Now, I've repeatedly insisted that I don't have a hard opinion on the topic of abortion.  I certainly don't have it in the top 25 topics among those I care about in determining candidates to vote for.  Abortion is a moral issue, and moral issues are the purview of the states and local governments.  The Federal government should neither prevent nor subsidize the practice.

What I do reject is hypocrisy, and it is hypocritical to care more about babies who are created solely to get around and willfully violate immigration law, than about babies created for no greater purpose, being killed and having their organs harvested for profit.  Mrs. Clinton cannot possibly reconcile those two views, and she certainly can't wipe it clean, not with a cloth and not with a tweet.

Is it so darned hard to find political candidates on the left with a single, cohesive set of principles?

Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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