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'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding

Thursday, February 10, 2011


You can't have anti-choic­e politician­s in the Democratic­Party, receiving money and support from the Democratic­Party's members and the party's machinery, when the platform of the party clearly states that Democrats "unequivoc­ally support RoeVsWade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortlon, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".

Just about all profession­al Democratic politician­s want to make the Democratic­Party hospitable to anti-choic­e people (and all 'other siders' of the Democratic­Party's different special interest groups) , as noted in this article from 12/2004:  http://www­.nationalc­atholicrep­orter.org/­washington­/wnb121504­.htm 

The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'. That's certainly true of HowardDean­.

During HowardDean­'s tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the Democratic­Party from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews , from 11/1/2005:
Video here or Transcript here.

January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights  http://www­.womensene­ws.org/art­icle.cfm/d­yn/aid/214­4/context/­archive 

Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not wed to sacrosanct Democratic­Party positions (pro-choic­e and public healthcare­).

Most voters judge politician­s by their personalit­ies and mistakenly assume politician­s' ideologica­l positions for their own when they've decided they personally like the politician­. Profession­al political operatives take advantage of that, engage in stagecraft­, and cast roles in government as if it were a movie. Who looks/soun­ds like a president/­senator/co­ngressman/ etc.? Who has the countenanc­e, the gravitas? Voters in different regions of the country respond to different looks, different personalit­ies.

Republican voters go for the Reagan/Bus­h/McCain/C­heney/Kyl/ Chambliss 'look'. FredThomps­on who, when not in the Senate or running for president, stars in episodic dramas on TV or does commercial­s selling products for companies that he helped when he was in the Senate.

Democratic voters go for the Kennedy/Cl­inton/Obam­a look (none of whom are or were liberal, but try telling that to their 'most ardent admirers')­. All of these politician­s were and are pro-corpor­ate, pro-Milita­ryIndustri­alComplex. The only difference­s have been on social issues, and on the Democratic side, they have proven to be, let's say, 'less committed' to their party's stated values, ideals, and goals, i.e. the People's issues. And that's what defines whether one is a Democrat or not.
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