Posted on 10/08/2008 12:58:12 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Richmond, VA (LifeNews.com) -- Mark Warner is a former Virginia governor who is running for a U.S. Senate seat and is a strong supporter of Barack Obama. A new audio recording has surfaced showing Warner saying that pro-life advocates and other conservatives are "threatening to what it means to be an American."
The remark is making the rounds of the Internet and reminding pro-life voters of the off-putting comment Obama made in Pennsylvania earlier in the campaign that conservative and pro-life rural voters "cling to guns or religion."
Warner's Republican opponent and former Gov. Jim Gilmore has already turned the audio of the comments into a new television commercial.
The comments feature Warner talking about political opponents at a Democratic Party gathering.
"One of the things you're going to see is a coalition that has just about completely taken over the Republican Party in this state, and if they have their way they're going to take over state government," Warner says.
"It's made up of the Christian Coalition. It's made up of the right to lifers," Warner continues.
"It's made up of a coalition of people that have all sorts of different views that I think most of us in this room would find threatening to what it means to be an American," he concludes.
Ken Shepherd, a columnist with the media monitoring blog NewsBusters says it will be interesting if the media report on this gaffe and attack on pro-life and other conservative voters.
"With Virginia as a battleground state in the 2008 election and given Democrat Barack Obama's damaging gaffe earlier this year about rural voters clinging 'to guns or religion,' a new gaffe by another Democrat should be worthy of media attention,' he says.
"It remains to be seen if the mainstream media will even notice." Shepherd says.
View the comments at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpicD6UIq8A
Buzz up!
I really, really hope the RNC or a well-financed 527 can get a clean ad on the air!!
Nope ...
OTOH, pro-deathers like 0bama and Warner threaten Americans.
Which values? “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are American values which “abortion” stifles!
Mark
This really plays into Obama’s Comments about those who clings to guns and bibles. We need to get Drudge to pick this up and anyone who is blogging needs to pick up this story. Mark Warner is a big story. The guy never had a sucessful business until he got a government handout of cellphone spectrum al la connections with Chris Dodd. He also says he will not support justices like Scalia and Thomas he is no moderate.
I’d say this is much more serious than the bogus brouhaha caused by George Allen’s “macaca” comment, which cost him the senatorial election in ‘06.
Wake up, voters of VA. We expect more from the “Mother of Presidents”.
So Warner is accusing us of clinging to our Bibles, our guns, and our BABIES?
Just fired it off to Drudge as well.
That BS from ol’ horse face might play well with the latte sippers in NOVA but not out here in the rest of the state.
My Va. will go solid for McCain/Palin.....
Count on it...........:)
Gilmore was dead on arrival the moment he was nominated. Warner unfairly blamed Gilmore for the budget problems in Warner's first year in office. He whined like crazy. The press and public bought it. Gilmore's ratings went down and never recovered.
Gilmore will easily lose by 10 to 15 points and the race will be called at 7 pm sharp.
Mark Warner makes my skin crawl. There has been almost no coverage of the senate race in the Wash DC area and Gilmore has no money for ads.
The last time I checked, M. Warner had $4 million and Gilmore had $250,000. No one gives money to a candidate who is 30 points behind in the polls.
Not pessimistic. Just realistic.
Gilmore needs to make a deal of this. It can be a game-changer!
How true. If the Washington ComPost gave this just 25% of the play it gave the "macaca" story, Warner would lose 10 points.
Whoops. Disregard my last comments. Didn’t know Gilmore was using it already. My bad.
The left’s ideology violates many values, including most all of the “Big 10”.
Socialism violates proscriptions on coveting and stealing, plus lying to say that the rich got that way by taking from the poor/worker.
And of course, adultry is promoted & celebrated. As is murder, in order to avoid a consequence of adultry.
Leftists have no respect for tradition, for the founders, or for generations past - there goes the 5th!
Now, 1 through 4. No other gods, no idols, no use of the Lord’s name in vain, keep the Sabbath.... out the window!
That’s all of them! 100% Way to go lefties!
‘Mark’s Macaca Moment’ - has a nice sound to it.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, ...
THAT is what it means to be an American.
Yet this clown (Warner) is leading a Republican by 20 pts in the culturally conservative state of VA. What gives?
Reminds me of something I read over at DU once:
“Doesn’t Bush know his policies on gays, war, and abortion are killing people?”
I about fell out of my chair. Lets see 4000 soldiers died in 6 years vs 3500 babies a day. Whose policies kill?
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