Posted on 02/23/2015 8:29:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* In October the Wisconsin governor pledged to support legislation focused on 'safety' during abortions
* 'The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor,' he said in a campaign ad
* This month he's telling potential donors that he supports a 'personhood' amendment, which insists that life begins at conception
* He boasted in January that he had 'defunded Planned Parenthood,' America's wealthiest and most politically savvy chain of abortion clinics
* Walker is busy beefing up his conservative bona fides in advance of a brusiing GOP presidential primary that may not favor blue-state moderates
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is learning that major leagues pitchers throw harder than in the minors, as journalists are piling on the newly minted Republican front-runner – first with gotcha questions and now with questions about an abortion flip-flop over a period of just four months.
The New York Times highlighted on Monday a campaign ad Walker made in October as he fought through a tough re-election contest.
'I'm pro-life,' he says in the video, but Walker also announced his support for 'legislation to increase safety, and to provide more information to a woman considering her options. The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor.'(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They seem quite a bit more able and willing to write real news stories than our press on this side of the ocean, although that’s a pretty low bar, isn’t it?
For those who don’t know, it was Mitt Romney that for years tried to create a new myth about Reagan, that he was “adamantly pro-choice”.
It was a 100% Romney creation, and he spread it on TV and and in radio interviews, and kept it up long after people told him it was a lie.
Romney had always been passionately pro-abortion (he says since 1963), and he left the party in 1979 because of Reagan and his conservatism, and eventually came to support only democrats and did fund raising both for Planned Parenthood, and as a democrat.
I’m not implying that he was pro-choice. I realize Reagan regretted his signing of that bill but the point is he signed it. He also signed an amnesty bill too as president. We revere Reagan but some of you guys don’t want to admit that he made some regrettable choices too in his political career.
You guys, it never changes, you go after Reagan.
So now we have to debunk your Reagan attacks just like we did during the years of Romney?
Is this an endless loop with you guys?
"Some of you guys"? Who? I don't see anyone here who is failing to make that factual admission.
In any case, Reagan's shortcomings are no excuse for the surrender of the fundamental moral questions of our day.
Especially in light of the innocent shed blood of more than fifty million babies since Reagan signed that awful bill.
Let's not forget....that Reagan was saddled with a Democrat-controlled House of Reps his entire presidency. And with a Democrat-controlled house and senate in his last two years. Sure, he had to make some distasteful choices due to that fact. He couldn't just veto everything put before him.... like Obama is now going to do. Democrats set the precedents that future law-makers get to live by. Unless they are spineless establishment GOPers, that is.
You ain’t seen nothing yet
Unless it’s Cruz or Palin
Freepers will destroy them here
But you criticize either of those at your peril
But it can all turn on a dime
So be cautious
Porterhouse one day
Dogfood the next
By the way, Walker was later asked if he wrote that ad, and he responded that they were his own words. Just an fyi.
I agree.
What are people going to do if Walker is the nominee?
Reagan signed California’s “Therapeutic Abortion Act” as governor.
Please tell me exactly why changing his positions to reflect those of his voters is bad?
The whole idea of our system is that politicians should reflect the will of the voters. When they don't, conservatives complain louder and longer than anyone else. But now, when a politician listens to the will of the voters, you complain.
Which voters is Walker appealing to?
It almost seems like he is trying to appeal to conservatives with fiscal issues and moderates with social issues.
This is the GOPE talking, not the conservative base of the GOP.
The whole idea of our system is that politicians should reflect principle first, whether the people likes it or not.
We're a free republic - a nation of laws, not of men - not a democracy.
So what will his position be if he wins the primary, or if he wins office? It would be good to know now.
All we have been fed so far is that he beat the unions and he won a couple of elections... not much else. We don't know what his stand was on a lot of key issues including obamacare, privacy rights, overreach by certain agencies e.t.c.
As to social issues, we already know he is not much of a fighter when it comes to marriage as it should be.
Its amazing to read these bizzarro world descriptions of pro-abortion Walker. Its like reading Superman comics on a bad day.
He’s never been anything but pro-life. You can tell he’s been pro-life all along by the attacks from the pro-abortion crowd during his elections.
According to Right to Life Wisconsin, on Jan. 7, 2013 (inaugural day of the legislative term here in Wisconsin), Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a proclamation declaring Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 (the anniversary of Roe v. Wade) “Protect Life Day:”
http://monologuesofdissent.blogspot.com/2013/01/walker-secretly-declares-jan-22-anti.html
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker spent this week trying to convince women voters that he isn’t as extreme on reproductive rights as his record shows.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/6-anti-woman-policies-scott-walker
Ahead of Recall Walker Signs Anti-Women Bills
By Associated Press
07 April 12
Gov. Scott Walker quietly signed a set of contentious GOP bills barring abortion coverage through health insurance exchanges, requiring doctors to consult privately with women seeking abortions and mandating sex education teachers stress abstinence.
AND REMEMBER THIS FROM DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULZ????
“What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch,” Wasserman Schultz said.
According to the paper, Wasserman Schultz also criticized Walker for his stance on the minimum wage and abortion restrictions.
Here’s what Walker has said all along….
I believe government has no higher purpose than protecting its citizens, particularly those that cannot fight for themselves like the unborn and elderly.
I am 100% pro-life and believe in protecting life from conception to natural death. As governor, I will protect the sanctity of all human life.
I am proud to be endorsed by Wisconsin Right to Life, which noted that my election “would greatly contribute to building a culture of life.”
Source: Campaign website, scottwalker.org, “Issues” , Nov 2, 2010
Walker says less and accomplishes more to protect the unborn.
Find a few truthful ways to attack Walker, this one isn’t among them.
There is a decided difference between Walker supporters and Cruz supporters.
Cruz guys are ‘burn it all to the ground’ kind of people.
Doesn’t say much for Cruz himself if that the kind he attracts.
Thank you very much, EV!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.