What was it like to work for Ronald Reagan?  Find out in my interview with Peggy Noonan.

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AUDIO CLIP: My Interview with Sara A. Carter of the Washington Examiner – Feb 28, 2009

Read My Op-Ed in this week’s Washington Examiner: Hollywood’s iron ideology of the Left smothered the Iron Lady:

“Like millions of Americans, I watched the Academy Awards Sunday night, and, also like millions of Americans, I expected actress Meryl Streep to win the Oscar for her mesmerizing portrayal of Margaret Thatcher.

Streep is a classy, considerate woman and America’s most brilliant actress. She embodies her characters on the screen with a richness and respect that defies nature.

Curious, then, was her lack of any reference to Thatcher in her acceptance speech. Winners often make mistakes such as when director Michel Hazanavicius forgot to thank his talented wife, the star of “The Artist.” (He made up for it when he accepted the Oscar for Best Picture.”)….”

Read More Here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/2012/02/hollywood%E2%80%99s-iron-ideology-left-smothered-iron-lady/320121

Pro Life?  Anti-Single Mom?  Listen to my chat with Andrea Tantaros from “The Five” on Fox News.

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How can Republicans win the culture war that we seem to find ourselves in?  Guests:  Andrea Tantaros, Peggy Noonan, Mark Joeseph, Mike Jones, David Greenblatt.

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In case you missed the show, here is my interview with Grover Norquist.

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In case you missed the show, here is my interview with Dr. Craig Mitchell.

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In case you missed the show, here is my interview with Congressman Pete Sessions.

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In case you missed the show, here is my interview with Tucker Carlson.

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During this election year, when it is imperative that conservatives garner every vote from Obama, it seems prudent to step back and access the mixed message conservatives serve to women in the media.

Conservatives struggle with ideals of limited government, moral rectitude, and pro-life missions. They want both sides of the argument to be their victory and yet, it cannot be. There is a dichotomy in the works, a clash of ideals.

Even though statistics prove that social issues win elections for conservatives, the party of “father knows best” still needs to bridge the gender gap to win in 2012. This is proving to be complex. The pressing issue is the pro-life stance and the single mother taboo.

How can one simultaneously be pro-life and support single mothers while appeasing the principles of the party? Single mothers, after all are touted as an irresponsible drag on society both morally and financially.

Herein lies the conundrum. Conservatives who are pro-life seek to show pregnant women the ultra sound of the babies, prodding them to keep the God given miracle, but they do nothing to combat a public relations campaign that condemns the single mothers of these children as Godless and immoral.

They cradle the mother until she cradles the child and then let her walk into the world where she has to hear the bullet fire of grim statistics and sure-fire damnation shouted from none other than – conservatives.

This blatant disregard for the life of the woman who chooses life, and for the life of her child, is duplicitous. Do conservatives not see that they are sending less brave pregnant women and terrified pregnant girls straight to Planned Parenthood for an abortion?

Conservative doublespeak in the media regarding the pro-life stance sends women running to the less judgmental Democratic party. This begs the question, where are the pro-life men and women in the media who should be defending the brave single mothers who choose life?

Though many conservatives work behind the scenes to support these single mothers, in front of the camera they close up like a clam.

This is why so many women choose abortion. They are afraid of the stigma. They hear conservative men and women spouting off statistics about how their children will be strippers, drug addicts and incarcerated and how they, the mothers who birthed the child, are distained by society.

Conservative candidates do occasionally pander to the single mother as heroic but then spout words like “child out of wedlock” and “illegitimate” in the next sentence accompanied by the woes the world has to offer her and her child. They insinuate her immorality as part of “deviant modern times.”

Not every pregnant woman is simply looking for a handout. Not every single mother wants to live off of the government. Not every single mother is amoral and ignorant. Not every single mother seeks a life without the father. Not every single mother is faithless.

Speaking of the father. Where is he? He is relatively blameless in the press – blithely carefree and unscathed.

Are conservatives considering the political ramifications, if not the moral ones? Their message in the media can be summed up as this, “I am pro-life. Abortion is a sin, yet woe to the single mother and her child. She is a modern amoral matriarch and her child’s life is doomed.”

This is the paradox presented to the conservative movement. Morally, how does one support the child yet alienate the mother who supports the child? How does one who cares for life, set that life up to fail from the very beginning?

Politically, the conservative movement cannot win the women’s vote with a message such as this.

For those who are pro-life, the message of hope and emotional support should not stop within the private walls of the shelter. The burden is on the pregnant woman who has to walk out into the world and hold her head high and it is on the child, destined by God to be here, who has to prove his/her condemners wrong.

Like Jesus’ message of love, a language of compassion does not endorse alternative lifestyles. An act of public support simply blesses the “life”, the child conservatives sought to bring to fruition, and the mother with an act of inspiration and hope.

To win elections and to win with life, the pro-life conservatives in the press shouldn’t consistently drop the single mother and her child into a pronounced destiny of despair and ill repute –  no matter what the statistics.

If they continue to condemn, then they are promoting pro-life in the womb, but not pro-life in the world.

Janine Turner

Actress, Radio Talk Show Host and Author of “Holding Her Head High” about single mothers.

http://www.janineturner.com