Month: September 2010
New Crop of GOP-Tea Party Senate Candidates Holds Radical View on Abortion: Believe Govt Should Enforce Births by Rape, Incest Victims
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On her MSNBC show last night, Rachel Maddow reported that, with addition of Christine O’Donnell to the 2010 roster of U.S. Senate candidates, there are now five GOP-tea party candidates who oppose abortion, even in the cases of rape and incest.
The others are Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Joe Miller of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Except for Buck, these radical GOP candidates were all endorsed by tea party leader Sarah Palin, who also shares this radical view — even though she once told an audience she considered aborting her fifth child, who was born with Down Syndrome.
Maddow also points to the inconsistency in this position and the tea party’s lip service to libertarian belief in limited government.
What these Republican candidates are talking about is the federal government not only monitoring every pregancy in the country to ensure it ends the way the government prefers, which is a live birth, but they’re also saying that the government should force rape victims — the government should force rape victims, under pain of criminal prosecution, to give birth to their rapist’s baby. The government must force that [outcome] any time someone becomes pregnant because of rape.
If you are 14-year-old girl who is raped by your uncle or your father, the government will force you, as a 14-year-old, to give birth to the child that is the product of incestuous rape.
Remember, this is the year of small-government conservatives. Getting government out of your life. Government just small enough to … [drown in a bathtub].
Most Think Republicans are More Conservative Than Two Years Ago
54 percent
Americans who say the Republican Party has become more conservative since Barack Obama took office.
CA Sen: Boxer’s ‘Blistering’ Ad Spotlights Fiorina’s Tripling Own Salary While Laying off 30k Workers
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer released a blistering new ad Wednesday that accused rival Carly Fiorina of enriching herself as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard while presiding over thousands of layoffs and the relocation of American jobs overseas.
The 30-second ad, airing on broadcast and cable channels in California’s four largest media markets, hews to the central theme that Boxer has tried to drive on the campaign trail: that Republican nominee Fiorina was an unfeeling CEO who valued personal ambition over the jobs of average workers.
“Fiorina shipped jobs to China and while Californians lost their jobs, Fiorina tripled her salary and bought a million-dollar yacht,” the narrator says. “Carly Fiorina. Outsourcing jobs. Out for herself.”
Poll: Congressional GOP Approval at 20%, Statistical Tie in House Generic – Enthusiam Gap Among INDs Could Spell Trouble for GOP
In spite of the media’s set-in-stone narrative about the 2010 midterms that Republicans are ascendant, a new CBS poll finds that just 20 percent of voters approve of the job Republicans in Congress are doing, while over two-thirds — 68 percent — disapprove.
The depressed enthusiasm among independents is significant because they tend to lean Republican in red states, and nearly all of the 70 or so contested Democratic House seats are in districts where McCain-Palin won in 2008.
Conversely, approval of the Democrats’ performance in Congress is at 30 percent, with 58 percent disapproving.
The poll found a statistically even split in the generic House race question, with 40 percent saying they would vote for the generic Republican and 38 percent saying they’d vote for the Democrat.
Pundits have also been flogging away at the enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats — but if you factor in those who say they are “more enthusiastic” with those who say they are equally as enthusiastic now as they were in 2008, the gap narrows to 6 points.
Christine O’Donnell’s Twitter Hash Tag
#41yearoldvirgin An acceptable Twitter hash tag when referring to Christine O’Donnell, the abstinence advocate who is running as the GOP-tea party candidate from Delaware for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Chris Coon. (Credit: RudePundit.)
Verbatim
This president writes books and the last one probably never read one.
Pensito Review reader Sebastian, commenting on the news that Pres. Obama will release a children’s book just in time for Christmas.
Gov for Sale
Californians, you are cool and hip;
You have granola and relationships.
But would one of you please tell
For how much you plan to sell
Meg Whitman the governorship?
