Posted on 03/03/2016 7:42:46 AM PST by Kaslin
I want to thank Kaslin for posting every single article Townhall produces, that way you can read the story without providing them ad revenue.
Precisely. It is unfathomable. Trump apparently has never taken the time to actually understand PP or the Pro-Life people who oppose it. This tells me he doesn’t care about the issue all that much, at the very least.
80% of something is better then 100% of nothing. This is one of the reason "Conservatives" continually fail. If you don't get 100% of what you want, you would rather get 100% of what you absolutely oppose with Hillary "Cult of Sanger and Abortion" Clinton.
That’s about the gist of it. Excerpt teasers and a Townhall.com link. NO comments, ideas or thoughts.
Townhall should lobby Drudge for a quick link on his page instead of depending on the OP to parrot a half dozen links every day.
Trump :“What I would do when the time came, I’d look at the individual things they (PP) do, and maybe some of the individual things they do are good. I know a lot of the things are bad. But certainly the abortion aspect of it should not be funded by government, absolutely.”
80% of something is better then 100% of nothing. This is one of the reason “Conservatives” continually fail. If you don't get 100% of what you want, you would rather get 100% of what you absolutely oppose with Hillary “Cult of Sanger and Abortion” Clinton.
If you want to be president and effect change you must innoculate yourself from attacks. The primary is over, Trump is running to win. Does PP do anything else besides abortions? Yes, they do. Why not acknowledge that? Did he change his mind on the abortion issue? Nope, he did not. TDS on full display here.
“I’m very pro choice”.
Depends. My mother died from breast cancer that spread and her friend from cervical cancer. If they are offering these others services to low income women, it is admirable.
We get it, Trump is Hitler, Hitler is Trump.
Another pathetic argument put forth by another so-called “conservative” who hasn’t conserved anything.
What has the “conservative movement” or “movement conservatives” actually conserved, and what do they actually want? I’ve also read lately about the “features of the Republican principals,” but there is no there there.
The conservative movement has devolved from wanting to improve the lot of the American people thru hard work, personal responsibility, and capitalism (sure, there is some of that left, but it’s fading fast) to something more like Open Borders, Cheap Labor, Endless Wars in the Middle East, and the hell with fly over country, they’re only a bunch of redneck racists and boobs, so who needs them?
“cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative”
Common-sense conservative = RINO
Get rid of the abortion funding now. Deal with the non killing baby aspects later.
If you are actually pro life you will take that option. Not get in a personal vendetta war with PP as a whole, only to get stiffer resistance and then mired-down in “War on Women” crap, to then lose momentum, to then lose the whole battle, with them STILL getting abortion funding.
It isn’t about YOU, it’s about the babies.
Then you say you are "pro-life" when you run in "closed" primaries.
That's "The Donald's" way...........
Trump knows how to make deals. That’s what’s needed.
How has the standard GOP all-or-nothing approach worked out for us this far? Every time we try to shut down PP, they lament the fact that they “do much more than just provide abortions.” It’s a defense which has served them well.
Trump is playing their game, and will use it to defund them.
I’m all for the approach.
Lame excuse. Face it. Maybe he is trying to triangulate the issue. If so, even worse.
Not unfathomable at all.... Trump clearly differentiated between the two different sides of PP.
He also stated that regardless of any good the women’s health side does that PP must be fully de-funded.....
Yes, indeed PP does do things other than abortion, and what is good about pedaling birth control to teenagers? Planned Parenthood has never diagnosed one case of breast cancer...and the reason why we have cervical cancer is because Planned parenthood takes tax payer money to give contraceptives to women that do nothing to prevent STDs. Tell me again about all the wonderful things this organization uses my tax money for?
The “game” fails to do the one thing most needed: take an open, unambiguous, principled stand for all to see. This, not gamesmanship or “deals”, is the only thing that has resulted in progress on public support of the pro-life position in the past. Its not rocket science.
Trump’s plan is pretty simple.
1. Defund Planned Parenthood if it doesn’t stop doing abortions.
2. Fund Planned Parenthood if it DOES stop doing abortions, because funding pap smears, STD info, etc. is not funding any abortion.
Would you say the same thing about the immigration issue?
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