If Democrats can’t dump this numpty they need to disband and reorganize the party,
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“abortion is wrong!” became “abortion is cool, just not in my State”.
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Now we now why Robin Vos indefinitely renewed Gableman’s investigation so they could rig Johnson’s re-election.
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The seat can be had
By Us
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“It might be a little messy for some people, but abortion is not going away,” he told the Wall Street Journal this week, when asked about the impact of the precedent’s overturning in Wisconsin.
“Two words: Coat hangers. There is a future in coat hangers. Think about that. Will you think about that?”
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I can’t speak about Wisconsin, but where I am— Pennsylvania— none of this will mean much without outreach and getting people offended by the ruling to the polls. I was appalled at yesterday’s vote in the Senate. Chuck Schumer had almost two years to prepare for that moment, yet what he put forward looked like a high school junior’s term paper assembled with cut-and-pastes from the internet the night before it was due. Are the Democrats so dependent on the desk and restaurant-bound consultocracy that they can’t reach out personally to voters as Republicans do through their churches and Fox? In 1992 George Bush’s threat to abortion clinics (cutting off federal funds for family planning) was seen by Planned Parenthood and its allies as an existential threat and had no small part in the election of Bill Clinton. I neither see nor hear the same energy now, even though the threat is as dire as it gets.
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After all the outrage that led to the “partial birth abortion “ bans, I learned that the procedure was often used in cases where the fetus had lethal abnormalities because it let the parents hold their dead child once. Puts kinda a different spin on things, huh?
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Republicans have perfected the art of microtargeting the most gullible parts of their base. The latter probably do think that a doctor performing such a procedure in such an instance is out to murder a “pre-born” baby.
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According to Josh on the front page, a new poll has abortion just behind the economy as most important issue in the midterms.
Maybe you aren’t looking in the right places.
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As if Illinois is the only border State with Wisconsin.
[stands on her back deck and looks across the St. Croix river to Minnesota]
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I do not dispute it is an important issue, but that does not mean people are going to get out and vote for it. All politics is local, and the Dem mojo in PA is low. In 2020 even though Biden won, every state-wide office went to the Republicans. I read the papers (and TPM) but in PA the story in the Sente and lt. gov. primaries (Shapiro has the gubanatorial moniation wrapped up) is people looking for reasons not to vote for candidates. I have hopes that Fetterman can excite people, but the truth is in PA the R’s and anti-choicers are just more fired up. Philadelphia Dems are warning they will not show up in November if Fetterman is nominated, which right now appears likely. If Philly does not show up, Dems lose.
So RoJo was for himself before he was against himself?
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They haven’t even gotten started yet. Every day for the next six months the GOP is gonna be forced to talk about a subject on which they lose every time they open their mouths because their seething hatred of women is almost impossible to hide. By election day, I fully expect that half the GOP will be promising to execute women for having an abortion and the other half will be claiming that women who get pregnant from rape are super fortunate.
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I see RoJo is still vying for most duplicitous, smarmiest bastard on the planet.
Good luck with that, sailor. You’ve got a lot of competition.
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The easiest way for every progressive and democrat to message on this is to rightfully and truthfully claim that you are both “pro-life and pro-choice.” Period. These things are not mutually exclusive, yet the liberals let the right wing control the conversation with their appeal to people’s emotions over it. Why don’t the dems ever talk about how hard it is for the women in this kind of situation, when they’re in that positioning to be questioning in the first place? Nobody reflects or projects the emotions or any compassion back on the women who are going through the hardest thing imaginable. Republicans like “well F you for getting pregnant, go drop it off at a fire station.” It’s damn ridiculous how bad dems are at this… like usual.
They should be supporting adoption options while screaming pro-choice at the top of their lungs. You know how empowering it is to have a choice, and choose life?! Nobody ever talks about that. The choice to not choose an abortion, and also not have your decision forced on you.
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FIFY
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Well if that isn’t going to show you that people will vote on the issue, nothing will so there’s nothing I or anyone else can say to you.
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Won’t be an issue. On election day, Fetterman will personally drag each and every voter to the polls if necessary.
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