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To: JediJones

have you noticed how the dems stay as far away from the gun control issue as they can during elections? It is because it a losing issue for them.

Likewise, as long as the GOP makes abortion and other social issues a central part of public campaigning, we will lose. the abortion issue is a losing issue during elections.

I am not saying we shouldn’t try to reverse Roe v Wade, we should, but the GOP must do everything it can to keep the issue out of consideration during a campaign.

When will the GOP learn the pragmatic lesson that the dems have already learned? Certain issues are best dealt with between campaigns not during them.


56 posted on 11/08/2012 2:59:32 PM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: txnativegop
When will the GOP learn the pragmatic lesson that the dems have already learned? Certain issues are best dealt with between campaigns not during them.

It's not the GOP that brings up the issues. They were not a central part of this campaign. It's people like George Snuffaluppagus who ask about birth control in the debates on their own accord. They don't ask Dems about gun control because of what you said. We're going to be asked about it so we need to have good answers ready.

It's either that or you capitulate and flip-flop on what you think are "losing issues." That would mean you would have to agree that churches should be forced to give Sandra Flake her free birth control.

58 posted on 11/08/2012 3:44:33 PM PST by JediJones (Newt Gingrich warned us that the "King of Bain" was unelectable. Did you listen?)
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