Posted on 12/05/2015 9:09:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential candidate Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took a bold step away from many in the pro-life camp Thursday when taking aim at his rival for the White House, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), over his allegedly extreme stance against abortion.
The South Carolina senator indicated that taking a hardline pro-life stance, in essence, will preclude any presidential candidate from winning the 2016 election.
“You can be pro-life and win an election, but if you’re going to tell a woman who’s been raped she has to carry the child of the rapist, you’re losing most Americans,†Graham argued.
The 60-year-old GOP member took specific aim at Cruz, telling the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) that his conservative rival for the Republican ticket is not appealing to the mainstream American woman, asserting that if Cruz beat out other GOP members going into the November 2016 election, he would surely fall to his Democratic contender....
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So, Lindsey is saying he is ‘pro-death’?
Who is this person speaking to us as if we needed her advice?
Every time he opens his mouth all I hear is big case of non-stop stupid.
This jerk’s numbers are lower than a rounding error, and he’s lecturing Cruz?
Public Policy Polling has Linseed and Jim Gilmore at less than one per cent in New Hampshire.
That’s too bad.
Who continues to interview this loser?
There’s the difference between Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham. One is a grassroots conservative candidate willing to listen to and represent his constituents. The other is a candidate conservative whose politics are dictated by the latests polls and party platform, not his constituents.
I believe whoever supports abortion except in the defense of the mother’s life commits murder of an innocent life so I cannot agree with Lindsey Graham.
Ted Cruz is the best candidate for me because we share a lot of the same values and beliefs. So I will vote for Cruz or maybe Trump to represent me, but not another Graham or candidate conservative type.
Of course Ted’s pro-life stance is not doing well, Lindsay; that’s why Cruz is at 23% and you’re at 3%.
He’s seen his polling, but unfortunately does not know how to read scientific notation, so he thinks he’s doing OK.
“SC, why?” I often ask myself the same question. Wonder what demographic is voting for him.
Worthy of its own thread if not only to get it out in the eyes of the lurkers.
I don’t care how “pro-life” this or that candidate says he is. I absolutely don’t care how “personally opposed” a candidate is.
I want to know ONE THING:
WHAT WILL YOU DO to get a bill through Congress removing abortion from the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
This is the question every “conservative” talker should be asking the Republican candidates. And if any candidate launches into a generic, poll-tested answer about the preciousness of human life and ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes, cut him off!
I’d love to see Nancy Pelosi just bitch slap this punk Graham.
“SC Why?”
I ask myself that same question. SC is such a nice place with friendly people, great weather and BEAUTIFUL ladies (”from memories as a young man. Don’t tell Mrs Hero!”)
But LG is just such a D-Bag . . .
Hard to reconcile.
Lindsey Graham: Cruz’s pro-life stance not electable...
sez Mr. <1%
The baby didn’t commit rape. Somebody should ask linda what the innocent baby did to deserve death?
I live in SC...I don’t get it either. I asked a friend who voted for him...why? Answer, we didn’t want the Democrats to win. (Huh?) But we had fine conservative candidates running...and they split each others’ votes ...and Lindsey was left standing. He is a result of egos ... Had 2 of the three dropped out, he would have been handily beaten. I always will wonder if some of his PAC money supported MULTIPLE opponents.
Cruz’s position is one of the few that matches my own on this barbaric issue.
McCain and Graham are so out to lunch that they think if not for Cruz they would surge to near the top.
Graham is Not pro life he just told us. He also shows himself a loser by referring to ISIS as ISIL
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