I have made no secrets that I find conservative columnist and pundit Cal Thomas particularly repugnant. What bothers me most about him is that conservatives pass the guy off as some kind of reasonable intellectual, and Cal, himself, often passes himself off as an elite conservative rather than the religious whack-job that he really is.

It should have come as no surprise, then, when I saw his most recent column in my local paper, yesterday, peddling him same old smug and repugnant bullshit, but he never ceases to amaze me in this regard.

In this most recent column, he goes about painting socially liberal pro-choicers are guilt-ridden baby killers, and thus since even social liberals supposedly have guilt about abortion that that morally precludes President Obama from rescinding a Bush-era regulation that allows doctors to refuse abortions based on their religious faith. I'm not so much put-off by his stance (though, it's completely off-putting all by itself) as I am his style, tone, and the overall hypocrisy of the conservative "pro-life" stance:

For social liberals, what is it about abortion that makes some of them consider it a sacrificial rite through which only the killing of an unborn child can truly liberate a woman from the clutches of paternalism?

Really, what do I need to say to that?

No politician can be found who admits to favoring abortion. To acknowledge moral misgivings means that you are at least acknowledging that the beating heart and brain waves extinguished during an abortion are of greater significance than, say, the removal of an appendix or a tumor. Infected appendices can burst, killing the individual. A tumor can grow, become malignant and cause death. A growing unborn child can be born and contribute not only to the betterment of the country, but if you’re utilitarian about it, increase the tax base. Abortion kills a potential taxpayer, which ought to override every other consideration for liberal politicians who are constantly looking for new sources of revenue.

Apparently, all pro-choice politicians are secretly guilt-ridden. What I find more dishonest is the last two sentences, which I call the "there is no unwanted child" argument. These potential humans would probably be many more times likely to become burdens on the system, and wards of the state, than they ever could become likely taxpayers. If he really wants to be 'utilitarian' about it, he'd not use such disingenuous arguments. I'd like to invite Mr. Thomas down to my neck of the woods to see the results of unwanted and uncared for children. I'd like to invited Mr. Thomas to a prison, or tour a foster care system. Does Mr. Thomas really want to make a utilitarian argument?

Why do social liberals say they want to make abortion “safe, legal and rare,” but then spend all their time on the first two and none on the third?

Because, liberal-supported organizations like Planned Parenthood are nothing more than baby-killing abortion factories that are adverse to making known to those that need and use them all of the other educational and health services they offer, right? Give me a f%ckin' break.

To repeal the conscience rule is an affront to ever American who believes government ought to be under God, not play God. It is an insult to religious faith and to pro-lifers of no religious faith who see the danger of rendering one category of human life as having less value than another.

And, here, Thomas reveals his winger status. This Islamophobe, who recently argued that American mosque be monitored and no new ones allowed to open, says that a government should exist under his God. Hypocrite says what?

How did we ever let conservatives get away with planting their flag in the culture of life? How did we ever let them get away with calling themselves "pro-life"? The anti-choice-lead GOP is not the party of life; they are the party of long, dragged out deaths, mental, spiritual, physical and everything in between, from lives spent on death row, to Terri Schiavo, to suppressed human lives lived under their very own terrible oppression.

I hope Cal Thomas, and all of his ilk, fail. I hope they fail epically.