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Dean Aborts Roemer (Democrat pro-life gestures prove short-lived.)
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7743 ^ | 2/9/2005 | George Neumayr

Posted on 02/08/2005 9:55:52 PM PST by nickcarraway

At the very moment Democrats are claiming to distance themselves from abortion, they run back towards it by making Howard Dean -- a former doctor for Planned Parenthood -- their public face. Though the press almost never mentions it, Dean did an OB/GYN rotation for Planned Parenthood in the 1970s and later served as an executive board member of Planned Parenthood New England, meaning that he directly oversaw the largest abortion provider in the region. Were the Democrats sincerely moving to the middle on abortion, selecting a former overseer of abortion would have been the last thing to do.

Now they have managed to lash themselves to abortion even tighter by turning a Planned Parenthood alumnus and mascot -- Dean received the organization's Margaret Sanger award -- into the party's chief spokesman. Yes, like Hillary Clinton, Dean will try and call a few audibles on his old colleagues and friends at Planned Parenthood. But that won't work. In politics, past is prologue and perception.

Dean will repeat his line, "We're not the party of abortion," but who will believe him? After all, he said last year that he represents the "Democratic wing of the Democratic party," by which he obviously meant the pro-abortion wing of the party, such a point of pride to him during the primaries that he retailed stories about referring teens for abortion back in his days as a pediatrician.

Who came up with the idea of "$5 copay" abortions? Dr. Dean. Vermont had the highest rate of abortion in the country under him, averaging 359 abortions for every 1,000 live births. Vermont pro-lifers laugh aloud at the media's lazy description of Dean as a moderate willing to make overtures to pro-lifers. That's not the Howard Dean they remember. On a radio talk show, Dean once referred to pro-lifers in the state as common criminals. He was so pro-abortion he concocted a macabre scheme to let low-income "mothers" claim their unborn children for eligibility in his "Dr. Dynasaur" program, then once they were eligible he gave them state monies with which to abort that same child.

Short of elevating an outright abortionist to head up the Democratic party, Howard Dean is about as bad a choice as the Democrats could make to serve their purported goal of appealing to Middle America. Choosing a former Planned Parenthood doctor and board member to woo the Red States is the equivalent of the Republican National Committee selecting Jerry Falwell to court coastal elites.

Even the manner in which Dean maneuvered into the DNC chair illustrates his contempt for Middle America: he had to torpedo the campaign of Hoosier Democrat Tim Roemer through a smear campaign that raked up Roemer's cautious pro-life voting record as well as other innocuous votes. "One day I received by messenger a dirty and smudged envelope with no return address," reports Ryan Lizza of the New Republic. "Inside were five pages of anti-Roemer opposition research about his positions on everything from Israel and abortion to labor and Social Security."

Dean's bloggers spent days devouring Roemer. Stung, Roemer struggled through an interview with George Stephanopoulos, reports Lizza, "defensively responding to bloggers he had clearly never heard of, like MyDD.com and the Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum. 'The bloggers, the Internet is a very, very useful tool for us to communicate with voters, ideas. I'm very excited about it, but it can also misinterpret a vote,' he complained."

Lizza reports that Roemer "never recovered." At a DNC candidate forum, Roemer "rose, and glaring at Dean and candidate Simon Rosenberg, lashed out at the 'secret e-mails' that were circulating about him." At another candidate forum, Roemer said, "We shouldn't let a special interest group decide our view on choice." The pro-Dean crowd hissed.

Even tepidly pro-life views are contemptible to Dean Democrats. Nancy Keenan, the new president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, spoke out of school recently when she chided John Kerry for his "judgmental" comments about abortion. (Kerry had merely rolled out his old cop-out position that he was "personally opposed" to abortion but wouldn't impose that view on anyone else.) What Keenan blurted out is what Dean Democrats really think: anyone who questions abortion is "judgmental" and unworthy of Democratic leadership status.

After they drove him out of the DNC race, Roemer said Democrats were "losing ground with some of our core constituencies on values and faith issues. If we do not have a serious conversation within our party about how to reach out to those who are leaving us, we will be doomed to minority party status."

The conversation, Mr. Roemer, has already been held. It ended with a hiss.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Indiana; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: abortion; dean; democrats; dnc; dncchairman; plannedparenthood; prolife; prolifedems

1 posted on 02/08/2005 9:55:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Lancey Howard; maryz

George Neumayr Ping


2 posted on 02/08/2005 9:56:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I see the Democratic Party is opening their arms to red state America...


3 posted on 02/08/2005 10:00:27 PM PST by Simmy2.5 (DUmmies in mourning. World is a better place.)
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To: nickcarraway
Speaking of Planned Parenthood:

According to David M. Kennedy, author of Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, by the early 1930s, Sanger had become convinced that seventy percent of the U.S. population had an intellectual level of less than fifteen years. Fearing that these "feeble minded" people might organize a revolution against the more superior native-born white Americans -- as she regarded herself and others -- Sanger outlined her "Plan for Peace" in the April 1932 issue of the Birth Control Review. It included the following elements:

A. To keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as the feebleminded.
B. To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
C. To insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents by pensioning all persons with transmissible diseases who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
D. To give dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
E. To apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for their entire lives.
F. To take an inventory of the secondary group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends; classify them in special departments under government-medical protection, and segregate them on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct. Having corralled this enormous part of our population and placed it [i.e., segregated it] on a basis of health instead of punishment, it is safe to say that fifteen or twenty millions of our population would then be organized into soldiers of defense defending the unborn against their own disabilities.

The New American Jan. 20, 1986
4 posted on 02/08/2005 10:10:21 PM PST by w6ai5q37b
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To: nickcarraway
It ended with a hiss.

Nassssty hobbitssss....

6 posted on 02/08/2005 10:14:58 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Freedom. Brought to you by the grace of God and the Red, White and Blue...)
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To: nickcarraway

BUMP


7 posted on 02/08/2005 10:16:59 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: nickcarraway; Coleus; cpforlife.org

**Howard Dean -- a former doctor for Planned Parenthood -- their public face. **

Oh my goodness! Of this I was totally unaware! Alert!


8 posted on 02/08/2005 10:17:00 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: nickcarraway

George Neumayr is as good as it gets. He is just great.


9 posted on 02/08/2005 10:17:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: EternalVigilance
Nassssty hobbitssss....

"And we wept to be so alone..."
-- Democratic presidential nominee, circa 2024

10 posted on 02/08/2005 10:18:58 PM PST by SedVictaCatoni (<><)
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To: w6ai5q37b; hellbilly; SedVictaCatoni; Salvation; nickcarraway; NYer; Coleus
The star of TAS does it again!

Brilliant piece.

With respect to Mr. Dean's sordid past, anyone who doesn't believe Howard has performed (numerous) abortions in his profession is operating in a fog.

Claiming that Howard Dean was not an abortionist is the equivalent of asserting that Wayne LaPierre has never fired off a shotgun, because there is no photographic evidence to document such an event.

11 posted on 02/08/2005 11:24:17 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("There is some sugar...It's harder in the case of fires. The tariffs are too high!")
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

I just wonder if he "brags" about having performed abortions when he is speaking to certain audiences.


12 posted on 02/09/2005 12:29:57 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I don't think Dr. Doom would be quite that stupid.

Though, if I were to be asked, "Do you think this guy is a dunderhead", I would probably be forced to respond in the affirmative.

13 posted on 02/09/2005 12:40:10 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("There is some sugar...It's harder in the case of fires. The tariffs are too high!")
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To: nickcarraway

14 posted on 02/09/2005 7:00:51 AM PST by Rodger Schultz (curmudgeonly&skeptical)
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Massachusetts Dem Opposes Roemer DNC Bid
Fox News | January 10, 2005
Posted on 01/11/2005 2:37:03 AM PST by paudio
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318313/posts

Roemer Lashes Out In DNC Chairman Race
CNN | Sunday, January 16, 2005
Posted on 01/16/2005 2:38:13 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322060/posts


15 posted on 02/12/2005 7:31:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
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