Posted on 04/01/2014 12:23:24 PM PDT by cotton1706
Fort Worth, TX – The Madison Project PAC released the following statement in response to Senator Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) misleading TV ad portraying himself as 100% pro-life and pro-second amendment rights:
“Like every liberal Republican ashamed of his voting record, Senator Cochran is campaigning as a born-again conservative, instead of defending his record,” said Daniel Horowitz of the Madison Project. “He obfuscates the fact that he helped sabotage the effort to defund Obamacare. With regards to life, he is actually one of the few Republicans who has voted for an anti-life agenda on numerous occasions. And with regards to guns, Cochran is hoping that the lack of votes on Second Amendment issues in recent years will erase his past history of voting to ban guns. The voters of Mississippi deserve honesty from Cochran who should be defending his true record instead of obfuscating the truth.”
Here are the facts:
Life: •Voted for Medicaid funding for abortions [Roll Call #132, May 21, 1981] •Voted to table the amendment to bar the use of federal District of Columbia funds to pay for abortions, except to save the life of the mother [Roll Call #291, November 7, 1985] •Voted for federally funded research on embryonic stem cells [Roll Call #206, July 18, 2006 Roll Call #127, April 11, 2007] •Voted against straightening laws to circumvent taking minors across state lines for abortions without parental notification [Roll Call #71, March 13, 2008]
Guns: •Voted for then-Senator Joe Biden’s massive gun control bill, which banned numerous firearms and created undue burdens and waiting periods on purchasers [Roll Call #125, July 11. 1991]
(Excerpt) Read more at madisonproject.com ...
Few people remember Jimmy Carter ran as a born again Christian.
The good news here is that people think they need to run as conservative to be elected.
But its amazing how they can fool people.
Democrats used to do that down South a lot.
Republicans do it everywhere.
My last two GOP congressman and the new one have been paraded by the GOPe and the GOPe affiliated National Right To Life at “Pro-Life” when they all did things that were “Pro-Abortion”.
The two ex ones always voted for Planned Parenthood funding and I think its because the richest Republican billionaire in the district is a patron of PP.
Over here folks!
Why am I not surprised.
Because, unlike others, you pay attention?
I first noticed his leftwardness when he voted for the latest incarnation of the START treaty. The one that lets Russian inspectors in our most sensitive sites to ‘inspect’ our compliance with the treaty.
I read that he also voted for the last 11 consecutive statutory debt ceiling increases. Fiscal conservative my aching a$$! He says he has no clue what the Tea Party is. He is about to find out.
Chris McDaniel for the U.S. Senate!!
We've tHAD enough!
tHAD enough ping
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