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Posted on 03/11/2012 3:39:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...somewhere between the baby name game and the gifts, what had been light conversation took a sharp turn toward the personal and political — specifically, the battle over access to birth control and other women’s health issues that have sprung to life on the Republican campaign trail in recent weeks.
“We all agreed that this seemed like a throwback to 40 years ago,” said Ms. Russell, 57, a retired teacher from Iowa City who describes herself as an evangelical Christian and “old school” Republican of the moderate mold.
Until the baby shower, just two weeks ago, she had favored Mitt Romney for president.
Not anymore. She said she might vote for President Obama now. “I didn’t realize I had a strong viewpoint on this until these conversations,” Ms. Russell said. As for the Republican presidential candidates, she added: “If they’re going to decide on women’s reproductive issues, I’m not going to vote for any of them. Women’s reproduction is our own business.”
.....Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania who is one of Mr. Romney’s rivals for the nomination, created a tempest late last month by speaking out against prenatal testing. Earlier comments about women in combat and the role of “radical feminism” in encouraging work outside the home also left some women ill at ease.
“Everybody is so busy telling us how we should act in the bedroom, they’re letting the country fall through the cracks,” said Fran Kelley, a retired public school worker in Seattle who voted for Senator John McCain over Mr. Obama in the 2008 election. Of the Republican candidates this year, she added, “They’re nothing but hatemongers trying to control everyone, saying, ‘Live as I live.’...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NYTimes - bunch of crap. Republicans are thrilled when dems don’t want to reproduce! Just buy your own birth control, morons. What a stupid discussion this has become.
“...Ms. Russell...”
“Ms.” says it all, right there...
Oh...You’re a “centrist”? Well isn’t that just the CUTEST thing!
What SPECIFICALLY is a “centrist” or a “moderate”, or “independent” for that matter.
What are its core values?
That they don't ever want to tick anybody off, they just want to be "nice" and gutless.
That they don't ever want to tick anybody off, they just want to be "nice" and gutless.
That's getting really tired.
Nowadays, people who are interested in politics take positions that involve combat with those on the other side all up and down the line.
Once upon a time, there was more agreement, and people fought over only a few issues (when they fought at all). Moderates are still like that.
The moderates may be wrong -- holdovers from a different era -- but if you're in the other, more polarized group, recognize that you're going to have to win over some moderates or centrists to win elections.
World’s Shortest Book - Great Moderates in History
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That was a great article! To be able to quote all these sources and statistics off the cuff is amazing. The guy is a genius.
Do they ever stop with the “I’m a lifelong republican but now I will never vote for ______” cr@p? These women were always liberals and just want something free.
No, there are states that would enact the individual mandate on their own, all the blue states would do it.
All states are free to do an individual mandate on their own NOW. That is the inevitable result of the growing medical costs on society today.
Agreed. She should be more concerned with care rationing and death panels than phony "reproductive rights" fluff.
But "centrist woman" is a code word for "easily swayed by emotional nonsense". She wouldn't be able to think her way out of a wet paper bag.
Some people are moderate about some things because they care more about other things.
In the 1940s, Churchill was a moderate on domestic policy because he knew winning the war was all-important. Eisenhower was a moderate on many domestic issues because he thought the Cold War was more important. They benefited from the fact that a lot of the things we argue about now weren't real issues.
But it's like that with most politicians in power. Reagan didn't pursue his domestic agenda aggressively because he also cared about the Cold War and made winning it a priority. And Reagan wasn't as strident about foreign policy as some of his critics wished because he sensed that the Soviet Union would crumble if we stood up to it. I'm not saying Reagan was "a moderate," but even he had his critics on the right during his time in the White House.
You can despise moderates if you like but they do have the vote and enough of them do show up at the polls to swing elections one way or the other.
It is about time for these articles to try to cant the election for the Democrats. And the media says they are not biased!
Well said! Conservative women absolutely rock! A woman saying this carries so much more power. Your girl is blessed.
Manufactured BS issue. Obama is anti Christian. No Christian man would attack the church the way he has. I say republicans should play up obama’s anti-Christian tendencies, particularly against the catholic church.
I’m a teacher and you are absolutely right. Even in Georgia (a very red state), public school teachers are disproportionately liberal. It’s because 100% of their salaries and benefits come from tax payers. There is absolutely no incentive for them to vote against SPLOSTs or any other tax for that matter. They are bought and payed for. The only people who don’t sympathize with them are people like me who worked for 13 years in the private sector before teaching. I don’t feel nearly the sense of entitlement as my co-workers do.
lol.
The MSM just won’t give it up. The lies abound.
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