Rand Paul to Media: You Should Grill Dems about abortion, too

CNN ^ | 04/08/2015 | Eric Bradner

[SeekAndFind]

Rand Paul says he doesn't want to be grilled about abortion until Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz answers similarly tough questions.

And Wasserman Schultz is hitting back -- highlighting Paul's testy interviews with female television anchors, too, by saying she hopes he can "respond without 'shushing' me."

Paul, the Kentucky Republican senator who launched his 2016 presidential campaign this week, bristled at a question about abortion while talking with reporters in New Hampshire on Wednesday.

"Why don't you ask the DNC, 'Is it OK to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus?'" Paul said.

His comment came after The Associated Press published a report that said Paul had ducked questions about his views on what exceptions -- if any -- he'd support if abortion were to be banned. Paul has previously supported measures that included exceptions for situations like rape and incest, as well as measures without those exceptions.

In a press conference shortly after the AP's story was published, Paul said discussions of abortion focus too much on "exact details" on the right, and that Democrats should face similarly complex questions.

"We always seem to have the debate way over here on what are the exact details on exceptions or when it starts," Paul said.

He said reporters should go to Wasserman Schultz with similar questions -- and then ask him again.

"You go back and you ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she's okay with killing a seven pound baby that is just not yet born yet. Ask her when life begins, and you ask Debbie when she's willing to protect life," he said. "When you get an answer from Debbie, come back to me."

[Norseman]

>>Governors are people who set policy, organize huge bureaucracies, run their state national guard, propose budgets, run their state police, establish university policies, oversee highway projects....senators are people who vote aye or nay on things that other people do.<<

And yet there are very bad governors. I’ll take a Senator of the right persuasion over one of those any day.

[Norseman]

>>When is Rand Paul going to figure out that the MSM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC? <<

It seems obvious, to me anyway, that he’s already figured that out. What would lead you to think differently?

In fact, it appears to be that he’s the only candidate so far who’s willing to give them some push back. Might be a mistake, or it might pay dividends. He did get the media to ask her the question and in doing so might have damaged the Democrat brand a bit. Not every person who votes Democrat reflexively is comfortable with aborting a nearly full term baby, after all.

And, face it, no media figure would put that question to her without Paul’s framing it first. Now she’s on record on how she feels about the rights of a 7 pound fetus. Again, the MSM would not have requested that of her, ever.

[terycarl]

And yet there are very bad governors. I’ll take a Senator of the right persuasion over one of those any day.

There are terrible governors...don't elect them.

Governors have executive experience, senators have none, governors establish policy, senators don't...look at the jackass that we have as president now....a senator....Kennedy was a senator...they just don't have the background to run an organization. Think of sitting, day after day in the senate chamber and listening to proposals that others have made and all you get to do is vote yes or no....and you usually vote the way that your party does!! You have accomplished nothing.