Posted on 06/30/2011 3:42:37 AM PDT by rhema
When Womenwinning - then the Minnesota Women's Campaign Fund - organized the first of its renowned annual fundraising luncheons 29 years ago, the thought that a Minnesota woman might someday be a major-party contender for the presidency was a remote dream.
That dream came true Monday with Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's candidacy declaration - but it seemed more like a nightmare to the 1,200 women "and a few good men" who assembled Tuesday at the Milwaukee Depot to fatten Womenwinning's coffers.
Bachmann's brand of social conservatism is anathema to an organization founded by both Republicans and DFLers in 1982 with the express purpose of recruiting, training and financing female pro-choice candidates for every level of elective office.
"I'm Minnesota's other congresswoman, the one born in Minneapolis," DFL U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum of the Fourth District said. The allusion to her Sixth District neighbor, who has been making much of her Iowa roots, evoked titters and groans.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
On a regular basis, Lori Sturdevant might be the most ill-informed columnist at the Minneapolis Red=Star Tribune. And that’s saying something.
Some people always bitch about their home team
Who asked them what they think, who cares?
Once again proving that for some, the phrase “freedom of choice” means “freedom to abort”.
. . . unless the home-team liberal feminist is pro-abortion Betty McCollum, possessor of a 100 percent NARAL rating, and NASCAR-defunding noodge.
Garrison Keillor would vie for the most-invincibly-benighted-columnist crown if he were a regular.
Womenwinning is just another lefty front group. It seeks to create group identity in an effort to advance the entire lefty agenda from Abortion to Zero-Sum. Women winning has nothing to do with it.
Clearly, what Bachmann says doesn’t sit well with liberals.
But the big guns of the Democrat party, and the cowardly enemies of this nation, are really only afraid of one presidential contender.
And it’s not Bachmann.
Women candidates who don't toe the abortion-uber-alles line of the Party of Death won't ever see a nickel from this take-no-unborn-prisoners group.
The only words imprtant to note here
Clearly, what Bachmann says doesn’t sit well with liberals.
But the big guns of the Democrat party, and the cowardly enemies of this nation, are really only afraid of one presidential contender.
And it’s not Bachmann.
But for now, anyway, we'll revel in their teeth-grinding consternation at watching an unabashedly, resoundingly pro-life woman become Minnesota's first female presidential candidate.
From The Hill: 2007 Speech
Speaking to the St. Cloud Times about her growing role on the national stage, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) references her past as a diehard Carter-Mondale supporter:
Q: You’ve been described as Democrats’ Public Enemy No. 1. How do you feel about being a target?
A: In being forceful and fighting for the positions that I’m standing for, I obviously must pose a threat for liberals advancing their agenda. I say that because I grew up a Democrat in a Democrat family. My husband and I both worked on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign. The first time I ever came to Washington was to dance at Walter Mondale’s inaugural ball. It was a thrill for my husband and me, and we were both happy to work on behalf of Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter. We really believed in them when we were in college. SO IN SOME WAYS I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WOULD BE OPPOSED TO ME, BECAUSE I STAND FOR THE SAME VALUES THAT MY PARENTS STOOD FOR WHEN WE WERE DEMOCRATS”.
And for any candidate who seeks Womynwinning's endorsement and campaign cash, the Abortionspeak translation of "pro-choice" is, of course, "unswerving, obsequious fealty to NOW/NARAL/Planned Parenthood."
That was before the Democrats made the Mephistophelean transaction to become the Party of Death.
Jesse Jackson knows something about selling one's soul to be an acceptable Democrat candidate: "It is the dehumanization of the unborn child that allows the slaughter to continue," the once pro-life Rev. Jesse Jackson said. “Those advocates of taking life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder, they call it abortion. [They say] ‘fetus’ [because fetus] sounds less than human and therefore abortion can be justified.”
She was a dim in 1980... her parents were dims in 1980... she and her husband worked for jimmy carter in 1980... and their value system was expressed in the 1980 democrat party paltform.
Remember... this is only two chapters of the 1980 democrat platform, which is the democrat value system she says that she still supports.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29607#axzz1QX0p0wCi
Here is Chapter ONE:
“Chapter I: The Economy A Commitment to Economic Fairness
The Democratic Party will take no action whose effect will be a significant increase in unemployment—no fiscal action, no monetary action, no budgetary action—if it is the assessment of either the Council of Economic Advisers or the Congressional Budget Office that such action will cause significantly greater unemployment.
In all of our economic programs, the one overriding principle must be fairness. All Americans must bear a fair share of our economic burdens and reap a fair share of our economic benefits.
High interest rates impose an unfair burden—on farmers, small businesses, and younger families buying homes. Recession imposes an unfair burden on those least able to bear it. Democratic economic policy must assure fairness for workers, the elderly, women, the poor, minorities and the majority who are middle class.”
I will include a snippet from Chapter Two... but if you stand for the values espoused in Chapter One... then one stands for the marxist policies of wealth redistribution.
“Chapter Two
Health
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To meet the goals of a program that will control costs and provide health coverage to every American, the Democratic Party pledges to seek a national health insurance program with the following features:
—Universal coverage, without regard to place of employment, sex, age, marital status, or any other factor;
—Comprehensive medical benefits, including preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, health maintenance and rehabilitation services, and complete coverage of the costs of catastrophic illness or injury;
—Aggressive cost containment provisions along with provisions to strengthen competitive forces in the market place;
—Enhancement of the quality of care;
—An end to the widespread use of exclusions that disadvantage women and that charge proportionately higher premiums to women;
—Reform of the health care system, including encouragement of health maintenance organizations and other alternative delivery systems;
—Building on the private health care delivery sector and preservation of the physician-patient relationship; —
Provision for maximum individual choice of physician, other provider, and insurer;
—Maintenance of the private insurance industry with appropriate public regulation;”
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“In the 1980s we must move beyond these existing health care initiatives and tackle other problems as well. Long-Term Care—
We must develop a new policy on long-term care for our elderly and disabled populations that controls the cost explosion and at the same time provides more humane care.
We must establish alternatives to the present provisions for long-term care, including adequate support systems and physical and occupational therapy in the home arid the community, to make it unnecessary to institutionalize people who could lead productive lives at home.
We must support legislation to expand home health care services under Medicare and other health programs. Visits from doctors, nurses and other health personnel are a cost-effective and necessary program for the elderly who often cannot travel to medical facilities. Without home health services, many elderly citizens would be forced to give up their homes and shift their lives to institutions. Multilingual Needs—
We must support the utilization of bilingual interpreters in English-Spanish and other appropriate languages at federal and state-supported health care facilities. In addition, we support broader, more comprehensive health care for migrants.
These programs must increase the presence of men and minorities in nursing, and must be targeted toward women and minorities in other health professions. Minority and Women Health Care Professionals—
We recognize the need for a significant increase in the number of minority and women health care professionals. We are committed to placing greater emphasis on enrollment and retention of minorities and women in medical schools and related health education professional programs. We are also committed to placing a greater emphasis on medical research and services to meet the needs of minorities, women and children. Reproductive Rights—
We fully recognize the religious and ethical concerns which many Americans have about abortion. We also recognize the belief of many Americans that a woman has a right to choose whether and when to have a child. The Democratic Party supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion rights as the law of the land and opposes any constitutional amendment to restrict or overturn that decision. Furthermore, we pledge to support the right to be free of environmental and worksite hazards to reproductive health of women and men. We further pledge to work for programs to improve the health and safety of pregnancy and childbirth, including adequate prenatal care, family planning, counseling, and services with special care to the needs of the poor, the isolated, the rural, and the young. Financially Distressed Public Hospitals—
Frequently, the only sources of medical care for much of the inner city population is the public general hospital. The ever-increasing costs of providing high quality hospital services and the lack of insurance coverage for many of the patients served have jeopardized the financial stability of these institutions. Immediate support is required for financially distressed public hospitals that provide a major community service in urban and rural areas. In underserved areas where public hospitals have already been closed because of financial difficulty, we must explore methods for returning the needed hospitals to active service. We must develop financial stability for these hospitals. Our approach should stress system reforms to assure that more primary medical care is provided in free-standing community centers, while the hospital is used for referral services and hospitalization. Medicaid Reimbursement—
The Democratic Party supports programs to make the Medicaid reimbursement formulae more equitable. Unnecessary Prescriptions—”
I don’t see any of the current candidates beating Obama . Not only because of their baggage ; lack of charisma ; inexperience ; whatever ...The people who bought and paid for 2008 have more use for the long legged Mac Daddy ...They will stop at nothing to re-elect him - nothing .
She certainly doesn't subscribe to them, and she hasn't voted with them.
100 percent pro-life voting record
Citizens Against Government Waste rating
I’m pretty sure that “Minnesota feminists” are pretty darn near the bottom of the list of people who matter about anything.
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