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GOP’s Weld says he’s most pro-choice candidate in 2020 race
Associated Press ^ | May 18, 2019 | Hunter Woodall

Posted on 05/18/2019 7:50:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Donald Trump’s only major Republican primary challenger said Saturday that the recent spate of abortion laws being passed in states like Alabama has him feeling “terrible,” and declared that abortion is a decision the government should not come anywhere near.

At a campaign stop in Exeter, New Hampshire, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld told a crowd of voters he’s “the most pro-choice person you’re ever going to meet.”

“The way I look at it, it’s kind of a power issue,” Weld said. “And who wants a lot of big, fat, white guys who live in Washington 700 miles away making the decision about what’s going to happen about a family pregnancy where the family has basis for some views and maybe wants to terminate the pregnancy.”

Weld’s stance places him far to the left of the mainstream Republican Party and Trump, whose base is often dedicated to anti-abortion measures. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020; abortion; babykillers; billweld; defactodemocrat; episcopalian; gop; gopestablishment; heretic; libertarian; losertarian; prochoice; rino; superrino; tds; uniparty; weld; williamweld
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1 posted on 05/18/2019 7:50:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’m so sick of the baby butchers using words like choice and reproductive rights to defend their position. Brit Hume in a Tweet absolutely nailed it. If they’re so passionate about their position, why do they have to cloak it?


2 posted on 05/18/2019 7:52:16 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: Olog-hai

Whoopee doo.


3 posted on 05/18/2019 7:52:17 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Olog-hai

Weld is “more pro Choice?” That’s going to win votes from whom, exactly?

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


4 posted on 05/18/2019 7:54:51 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Poster child for post birth abortion. FO Weld


5 posted on 05/18/2019 7:56:55 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: Steely Tom

He says he’s “the most”, not merely “more”. Which means he’s claiming to be further to the left than the twenty-something Democrats on this issue, now. (And I’ve heard claims about libertarians being the “real conservatives” in the USA; this simply must be proof of that.)


6 posted on 05/18/2019 7:58:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Anyone Republican who wins election in Massachusetts is suspect, at best.


7 posted on 05/18/2019 7:59:28 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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How is he going to prove that? Beat a baby to death on stage?


8 posted on 05/18/2019 8:07:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Steely Tom
Demorats Primary is all about playing....

....“Let's throw 'everyone' on the wall and see if it sticks!"...


9 posted on 05/18/2019 8:12:58 PM PDT by caww
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To: All

10 posted on 05/18/2019 8:15:03 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, la-de-dah. Good for him. He should run as the democrat he is and always has been. No more fake Republicans.


11 posted on 05/18/2019 8:15:58 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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Bill Weld previously was the 2016 Vice Presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party on the Gary Johnson ticket.

I wonder if he smokes pot too?

12 posted on 05/18/2019 8:18:20 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Mr. Rabbit
No more fake Republicans.

Weld already ran as a fake Libertarian. He really should run as a Democrat, thereby fulfilling the Trifecta of fakery.

13 posted on 05/18/2019 8:19:40 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Olog-hai
Weld, even though he is a bit of an idiot, did unintentionally make a pretty good point:

“The way I look at it, it’s kind of a power issue,” Weld said. “And who wants a lot of big, fat, white guys who live in Washington 700 miles away making the decision about what’s going to happen about a family pregnancy where the family has basis for some views and maybe wants to terminate the pregnancy any issue in society.”

Wouldn't we all be better off if the federal government did less and let us make decisions locally? And wouldn't his logic imply state regulation of abortion is better than federal level control via law or court cases?

14 posted on 05/18/2019 8:24:41 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Olog-hai; LS; Impy; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; SunkenCiv; dp0622

Weld will perform a live-birth abortion in front of a studio audience.

(Yes, he’s just that sick and evil)


15 posted on 05/18/2019 8:26:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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To: freeandfreezing

He couldn’t run as a Demonrat (which he actually is - a huge Clintonista), because the jig would be up.


16 posted on 05/18/2019 8:27:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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I would not be surprised to see a candidate doing just that (or perhaps holding a newborn’s face down in salt water) within my relatively short remaining lifetime. That is how rapidly this malign evil has advanced in America.


17 posted on 05/18/2019 8:33:20 PM PDT by madprof98
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For Weld to be the most pro-abortion candidate, he would pretty much have to want to make it mandatory for everyone, since all the others want it to be ‘free’ and available to everyone, and many of them want it to be done even after birth.


18 posted on 05/18/2019 8:35:34 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: madprof98

Used to be a time when pols or candidates would brag about how many criminals they could or would execute. Now it will be a contest amongst the pro-abort loons (mostly Demonrat) bragging about how many women they “empowered” to kill their unborn.


19 posted on 05/18/2019 8:37:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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“And who wants a lot of big, fat, white guys ...”

So tell us, Bill, are you a pandering turd or a self-loathing turd - or perhaps both?


20 posted on 05/18/2019 8:59:52 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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