Posted on 07/02/2013 12:27:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The liberal side of the Texas abortion showdown has the two most powerful Democrats in Washington squarely in its corner: Barack Obama and Harry Reid — not to mention a Dixie Chick.
On the right: Rick Perry’s holding down the fort without much obvious help from national Republicans.
The RNC hasn’t latched onto the fight. Few national Republicans have weighed in. And a key party official in Texas acknowledged there’s no behind-the-scenes help coming, though he says he doesn’t need it.
Republicans will talk about the abortion bill when they’re asked about it, but they aren’t swooping into the fight with the same enthusiasm as liberals.
The mismatch makes sense: Even abortion bills that poll well, like the one in Texas does, open the door to the kinds of comments that have hurt national Republicans repeatedly — from Rep. Trent Franks’s comments last month on the “very low” number of rape-related pregnancies to Todd Akin blowing his shot at a Senate seat over his “legitimate rape” remarks in 2012. But that political calculus doesn’t do much for anti-abortion activists who are glad to see their issue front and center.
“You either fight and ask your leaders to fight on an issue that cuts your way or you just fold up and go home, which is what the national party wants to do,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. “It really is fear. It really is simply, ‘We’re not going to go there.’”
“Now, you’ve got an issue that’s in your platform, that cuts your way with big margins. To be silent is a mistake,” Dannenfelser said.
In contrast, Democrats couldn’t be happier with the way the issue is energizing their supporters.
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The Democrats are energizing their base by lying and fearmongering as usual.
Politico’s a whore.
After having a 2012 platform that rejected religion and Israel, the people need to understand what the Democrat party position on the issues really is.
Shoving it in as a rewrite over the dominant objections of the Party was a truth telling moment.
The religious left is a lie. It has been the secret to DNC victories since 2006.
I don’t know what that post is about.
““Now, you’ve got an issue that’s in your platform, that cuts your way with big margins. To be silent is a mistake,”
To be silent, in God’s eyes, is to agree.
Whigs lack courage and convictions.
Yes, that too.
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