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NARAL Ad Attacking McCain, Palin on Abortion May Backfire, Rally Pro-Lifers
Life News ^ | 10/2/08 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 10/02/2008 3:48:59 PM PDT by wagglebee

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- One of the leading pro-abortion groups in the nation has a new web site ad it is running on news web sites in battleground states. However, the NARAL commercial may backfire and energize pro-life voters behind John McCain and Sarah Palin because it highlights their pro-life views.

The ad isn't what political observers might expect from NARAL -- with something akin to the ads the Obama campaign aired saying McCain is too extreme and featuring little in the way of the candidates' own words.

NARAL includes eerie music and claims that McCain and Palin are extreme on abortion. It focuses on the candidates' opposition to Roe v. Wade, the case that allowed virtually unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy, and Palin's opposition to abortion in cases of rape and incest.

But most of the ad allows the candidates to tout their pro-life views -- which could come back to haunt the pro-abortion group.

The ad begins with music that appears to come from any B-rated horror flick and calls McCain and Palin, "dangerous, extreme and radical" on abortion. It then features a montage of the two explaining their pro-life views.

"I favor the ultimate repeal of Roe v. Wade," McCain says in one clip.

"I'm proud of my pro-life record of 24 years," he adds in another videotape.

"I will be a pro-life president and this presidency will have pro-life policies," McCain says in a third clip.

In another, Palin, the Alaska governor, says she would be delighted to support a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortions.

"I would, I would. And it's not secret that I am pro-life, I don't try to hide that nor am I ashamed of that. And, yes, a proposal like that I would stand by it," Palin says.

The spot attacks Palin for opposing abortion in cases of rape or incest and features a spot from her 2006 gubernatorial campaign where Palin answers a question about what she would do if her daughter were a victim of sexual abuse.

"Again, I would choose life," Palin says.

The montage also features a quote from Palin during her gubernatorial campaign saying she as "pro-life as any candidate can be."

The NARAL spot finishes with pictures of the candidates and a graphic saying McCain and Palin are "dangerously out of touch."

"Exercise your right to choose: Stop McCain-Palin," the NARAL spot concludes.

NARAL president Nancy Keenan says more than 30,000 people have viewed the ad on YouTube or news web sites and she sent a fundraising appeal on Thursday to her supporters asking for more money to play the ad on more web sites.

Keenan tells her members, "We hope to keep this video up in swing states like Pennsylvania, Colorado, and North Carolina where the race it too close to call."

With such a high percentage of the ad appealing to pro-life voters, playing it in key battleground states may backfire and rally pro-life voters behind McCain and Palin and against pro-abortion candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

View the NARAL ad at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WL_MvRu6S



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; ads; backfire; moralabsolutes; obamatruthfile; prolife; prolifevote
Keenan tells her members, "We hope to keep this video up in swing states like Pennsylvania, Colorado, and North Carolina where the race it too close to call."

Play it as much as you can, people in "flyover country" LOVE to hear how important the "right" to kill children is.

1 posted on 10/02/2008 3:49:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 10/02/2008 3:49:30 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 10/02/2008 3:50:01 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Many young adults, too. They’re very aware that any of them could have been aborted. It’s a whole different generation coming up where this is concerned.


4 posted on 10/02/2008 3:53:12 PM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Praise God and pass the ammunition!)
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I was born a few years before legalized infanticide, but I’ve talked to many people a little younger than me who are acutely aware that a large portion of their generation was murdered in utero.


5 posted on 10/02/2008 3:56:17 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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NARAL wouldn't be trashing Governor Palin so much if she had just aborted her Down’s Syndrome child.I mean....what woman *wouldn't* abort such a child? They're so.....TROUBLESOME!
6 posted on 10/02/2008 3:58:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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“Many young adults, too. They’re very aware that any of them could have been aborted. It’s a whole different generation coming up where this is concerned.”


True, the “Ultrasound Generation” is much more pro-life than their parents.


7 posted on 10/02/2008 4:02:21 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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Yes, what an enemy, those small infants.
8 posted on 10/02/2008 4:25:36 PM PDT by elk
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9 posted on 10/02/2008 9:09:45 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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10 posted on 10/03/2008 1:31:18 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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NARAL hates Sarah.

People with hearts love Sarah.

11 posted on 10/03/2008 12:19:21 PM PDT by TheFourthMagi
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It's time for the life issue to become a battle cry!

Creator-endowed right to life and liberty is the foundation upon which this nation was founded.

If a nation devalues that concept, basing an individual's right to life and liberty on judicial fiat and a woman or girl's decision, then where is the security for liberty for any?

The elephant in the room in this election is the Radical Left's absolute determination that it, alone, will decide who sits on the Supreme Court of the United States! They talk about "change," they talk about war, they talk about everything else, but the "elephant" is the question of the unfettered right of a woman to destroy her unborn child. To the Left, this is a declared war on all opposition.

Yes, it is time for John McCain to take off the gloves on exposing the real culprits in the government who forced banks to make risky loans to unqualified people, but for the sake of liberty for generations yet unborn, it is far more important that he clarify the importance of the life issue, and the threat to liberty if Obama carries out the Left's agenda. Soft pedaling this issue, as if it is just a personal preference, overlooks a far more significant principle.

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."- Thomas Jefferson

"The world is different now. . . . And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forefathers fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."- JFK, Inaugural 1961

12 posted on 10/04/2008 7:50:24 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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