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DeSantis Spox Pushaw Attacks Pro-Life Stalwart Frank Pavone On Abortion
The National Pulse ^ | September 19, 2023 | JACK MONTGOMERY

Posted on 09/19/2023 11:59:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Ron DeSantis’s “rapid response director”, Christina Pushaw, has viciously attacked a leading pro-life campaigner – Frank Pavone – for supporting Donald Trump, saying it “makes sense” that he is no longer a priest after a campaign by the far-left saw the Vatican defrock him for being an outspoken conservative.

Pavone, 64, is one of the highest-profile pro-life campaigners in America, and as director of the Priests for Life group was one of the highest profile Catholic clergyman in America prior to being removed from the priesthood. Pushaw, despite claiming to be a pro-life Catholic, now says she had never heard of him.

Pushaw is best known for her libertarian political positions and work as a registered foreign agent for a top Zelensky ally. She is close friends with homosexual surrogate fathers Dave Rubin and his “husband” David Janet, and has declared herself as “in favor of” illegal immigrant “dreamers”. Despite this, she felt comfortable attacking Pavone for his support for Donald Trump.

The Vatican, under Jesuit liberal Pope Francis, long persecuted Pavone for his political views, ordering him to step down from the Catholics for Trump advisory board in 2020 and finally defrocking him in late 2022 for disobedience to his liberal bishop.

Pavone had often been critical of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and other allegedly Catholic Democrats who promote abortion, and has described the bishops who lobbied against him as “Democrat loyalists”. Pavone’s supporters have often compared his harsh treatment by the Vatican to that of Rev. James Martin, another Jesuit whom the Pope has repeatedly promoted despite the fact he advocates for gay marriage and other LGBTQ priorities in defiance of Catholic teaching.

Pavone explained his position on Trump’s abortion remarks at length as Pushaw and the DeSantis campaign were attacking him, observing that Trump is “running a campaign in which he’s trying to help his party, our party, speak in a politically effective way on this issue.”

“Now, I’m not saying that justifies compromising morally – it doesn’t,” he continued. “You don’t compromise morally, you become politically wise. Jesus himself said it, you’ve got to be wise as serpents… because you look at what you’re trying to accomplish, you consider where your audience is, and you say, let me talk about this persuasively to lead them from point A to point B.”

Polls show Americans oppose abortion up to birth, supported by many Democrats and legal in Democrat-led Washington D.C. and multiple Democrat-led states – but only a minority support restrictions earlier than 12 weeks with no exceptions for rape.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; bloggers; christinapushaw; desantis; fakenewsblogpimp; manyspocks; pavone; priestsforlife; prolife; pushaw; somanyspocks; teamdesantis; trump
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1 posted on 09/19/2023 11:59:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

An huugely badly written article, typical of the source. And what is “vicious” about the comments? Nothing. All that said, I have repeatedly said that foreign agent provocateur Christina Pushaw should be fired. I have actually written the campaign that I won’t donate further until she and Jeff Roe are gone.


2 posted on 09/19/2023 12:06:38 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected. No Baggage, No Drama.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Does Fr. Pavone support Trump? That’s strange, because he’s always been 100% pro-life before.


3 posted on 09/19/2023 12:07:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SoConPubbie

Deport Pushaw back to Ukraine.


4 posted on 09/19/2023 12:09:44 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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Spox Pushaw !?!


5 posted on 09/19/2023 12:09:45 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: nickcarraway
Does Fr. Pavone support Trump? That’s strange, because he’s always been 100% pro-life before.

Your problem is that your preferred candidate, DeSanctus, just signed a bill allowing for the murder of unborn babies.

Kind of leaves you without a leg to stand on, right?
6 posted on 09/19/2023 12:12:04 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Reno89519
An huugely badly written article, typical of the source. And what is “vicious” about the comments? Nothing. All that said, I have repeatedly said that foreign agent provocateur Christina Pushaw should be fired. I have actually written the campaign that I won’t donate further until she and Jeff Roe are gone.

Just another Data Point, in a long list of Data Points, proving that the False Narrative pushed by DeSanctimonious Supporters that DeSanctus would hire better people than President Trump was simply untrue!
7 posted on 09/19/2023 12:14:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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“In September 2004, Pavone addressed a group of delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York.[48] Pavone said that abortion was the “single issue” for him in the election of 2004, and indicated the politics of abortion was the reason he endorsed George W. Bush.[49]”. wiki


8 posted on 09/19/2023 12:15:20 PM PDT by TexasGator
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I never said he was my preferred candidate, and I don't have a preferred candidate. But you Scalia haters like you haver to make stuff up.

DeSanctus, just signed a bill allowing for the murder of unborn babies.

Wait, didn't your preferred candidate just slam Florida's law, because it's too pro-life?

9 posted on 09/19/2023 12:18:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“Your problem is that your preferred candidate, DeSanctus, just signed a bill allowing for the murder of unborn babies.”

ROTHFLMAO! Trump: “I am very pro-choice.”

And your preferred candidate attacked him for being too pro-life with that bill.

And your preferred candidate said he would compromise with the abortionists,


10 posted on 09/19/2023 12:19:19 PM PDT by TexasGator
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Wait, didn't your preferred candidate just slam Florida's law, because it's too pro-life?

Bragging about a bill that just murders less babies, isn't anything to brag about.

Furthermore, like most DeSanctimonious Supporters, you left out the Context of President Trump's statements, essentially making your post a lie!

President Trump was talking about that law in the context of being President and that such a law, at a national level, would inhibit and prohibit a Republican gaining the POTUS seat given the large number of Pro-Aborts in this country.

Just like in the mid-terms of 2022, when Senator Graham purposefully tanked the "Red-Wave" by publically stating the GOP was going for a complete stop of Abortion, this approach of taking a much stricter approach right now, in federal law, after he had already given the Pro-Life their most desired goal of turning back Roe vs. Wade, would be disasterous for the GOP. They would lose POTUS and both houses as a result.

Its not that he is not Pro-Life, he proved it with putting Justices on the Supreme Court that turned back Roe v. Wade.

This isn't a Theocrasy, it's a Democratic Republic, and as such, as wrong, as immoral, and as utterly ugly Abortion is, we're going to have to be Pragmatic.

Abortion is going to have to go hand-in-hand with continuing to change people's hearts on the issue first, AND THEN, AND ONLY THEN, we can kill the beast that is Abortion Legally!
11 posted on 09/19/2023 12:26:39 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: TexasGator
And your preferred candidate said he would compromise with the abortionists,

And in the process he will probably move the whole Abortion issue further to the Right.

You seem to forget that the reports were out early on in this campaign cycle that DeSanctimonious's Campaign Staff were telling everyone that DeSantis was tacking to the "Right" but, once the Primaries were over and he won the nomination, he would tack back to the center.

You don't get those kind of shenanigans and dishonesty from President Trump.
12 posted on 09/19/2023 12:29:11 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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Furthermore, like most DeSanctimonious Supporters,

I have told you many times I am not, mini KJP.

you left out the Context of President Trump's statements, essentially making your post a lie!

Every post you make critcizi9ng someone you leave out context. Why do you subsist on double standards, like a Democrat?

13 posted on 09/19/2023 12:30:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: tennmountainman

Zelensky’s plant in the Florida campaign. Maybe she needs to trot back over to Ukraine and keep Hillary from harvesting those kids.


14 posted on 09/19/2023 12:33:18 PM PDT by dforest
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To: SoConPubbie

DESANTIS NEEDS TO BID ADIEU NOW....HE IS TRULY JUST GOING AFTER ANYONE THAT BREATHS.


15 posted on 09/19/2023 12:35:29 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: SoConPubbie

Is Christina a woman or a tranny?


16 posted on 09/19/2023 12:37:04 PM PDT by dragonblustar (You best start believing in Bible prophecies, you’re in one.)
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To: nickcarraway

Slamming a law not anywhere close to SIGNING A LAW.
One is an opinion. The other a LEGAL LAW.
A legal law Ronnie signed.


17 posted on 09/19/2023 12:37:06 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: tennmountainman

So you don’t think abortion should be resctricted?


18 posted on 09/19/2023 12:39:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Does not matter what I think.
The conversation is about Trump and Ronnie.
Trump has never signed an Abortion Ban.
Ronnie has. Ronnie’s law still allows Baby Murder.


19 posted on 09/19/2023 12:46:38 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: tennmountainman

So, you are a Pharisee?


20 posted on 09/19/2023 12:48:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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