Posted on 08/30/2012 6:10:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Abortion, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, fails to make the cut among the top 10 issues important to voters.
Yet, because of the GOP opposition to abortion, the mainscream media insist that Republicans suffer from a voter "gender gap," with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney down 8 percentage points among women. Fifty percent of men support Romney, but only 42 percent of women do so.
Funny, just two years ago in the 2010 off-year elections, Republicans took the female vote for the first time in nearly 30 years. There are big differences in the way married women vote versus unmarried women. Married women vote Republican, as do their husbands.
Non-married women are more likely dependent on government either through welfare, Social Security, Medicare or some other "social safety net." Their reliance on government makes them vote for the party that promises to "save the social safety net" rather than the party that attacks the size and scope of government. They vote Democratic, but it is not because of their ovaries.
On the supposed "women's issue" of abortion, polls show them evenly split, with a recent Gallup poll finding 44 percent of women describe themselves as "pro-choice" versus 46 percent who call themselves pro-life. Furthermore, a majority of Americans not only oppose third-trimester abortions, but also second-trimester abortions -- which is a more restrictive position than Roe v. Wade.
The 2012 GOP platform abortion plank provides no exception for rape or incest. But neither did the 2000, 2004 or 2008 Republican Party platforms. This is simply offensive to many in the media. The Todd Akin gaffe presented them an irresistible opportunity to switch topics from the economy to something far more manageable -- attacking Republicans on social issues. A 1985 Los Angeles Times poll of newspaper journalists found that 82 percent of them favor "abortion rights."
Does this affect their work?
An internal memo in 2003 by then-Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll looked at a front-page abortion story and called out his own paper for bias. He wrote: "I'm concerned about the perception -- and the occasional reality -- that the Times is a liberal, 'politically correct' newspaper. Generally speaking, this is an inaccurate view, but occasionally we prove our critics right. We did so today with the front-page story on the bill in Texas that would require abortion doctors to counsel patients that they may be risking breast cancer.
"The apparent bias of the writer and/or the desk reveals itself in the third paragraph, which characterizes such bills in Texas and elsewhere as requiring 'so-called counseling of patients.' I don't think people on the anti-abortion side would consider it 'so-called,' a phrase that is loaded with derision."
Carroll quoted several other examples of obvious bias in the article and wrote: "The reason I'm sending this note to all section editors is that I want everyone to understand how serious I am about purging all political bias from our coverage. We may happen to live in a political atmosphere that is suffused with liberal values (and is unreflective of the nation as a whole), but we are not going to push a liberal agenda in the news pages of the Times."
Meanwhile, The New York Times' ombudsman recently characterized the paper as biased in favor of the left -- especially on social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Arthur S. Brisbane wrote: "Across the paper's many departments ... so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism -- for lack of a better term -- that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.
"As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects."
The Washington Post, too, 'fessed up to its bias during the 2008 election. The Post's ombudsperson, Deborah Howell, tracked its presidential campaign stories, front-page coverage and use of photos covering the period from Obama's nomination on June 4, 2008, to Election Day that year.
Howell wrote: "The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32, and Obama got the editorial board's endorsement. ...
"Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Reporters, photographers and editors found the candidacy of Obama, the first African American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic. ...
"But Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a teenager. ...
"When Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, reporters were booking the next flight to Alaska. Some readers thought The Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected (Joe) Biden. They are right."
We face high unemployment, sluggish growth and rapidly increasing debt. But the GOP "gender gap" and the "war on women" are more vital issues -- to Obama-embracing/Republican-hating left-wing "journalists."
Judging by the discussions on abortion here at FR over the years, if it isn’t the issue, it’s definitely way up at the top of the list.
Judging by the discussions on abortion here at FR over the years, if it isn’t the issue, it’s definitely way up at the top of the list.
Good let it be the Issue. America at some point must come to terms with the barbarity of forty million killings. Let some pro life PAC air a commercial with Obama , the enthusiastic supporter of grisly third trimester abortions, dressed as a blood stained abortionist with a massacred torn apart baby at his feet. This is the man who is now President of the United States. This shame can never be expunged.
The media only cares in so far as they think they can frame it in a way to hurt Republicans.
There will be no stories about Obama and the Democrat’s extreme position of abortion on demand (at taxpayer’s expense if necessary) imposed by the Sup Court. The truth is that the platfrom position of both parties is out of step with the majority views of Americans, but the media will only focus on one side of it.
Simply start saying Obama aborted the economy.
The Democrats want the earth’s population to decline to 30 million people....abortion and homosexuality are two of their tactics to achieve this goal.
You’re right.
They’re communists, and communists use any issue or cause they can to advance their agenda, even, or especially, if these causes are in total opposition to each other, yet can advance communism.
They’d embrace biblical Christianity, for a time, if it advanced their cause.
Do you have a problem with that?
Not at all.
Good luck with that.
Since 2010, 32 states have restricted abortions
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57500585/since-2010-32-states-have-restricted-abortions/
Abortion = Killing a baby for someone elses crime or mistake.
The GOP candidates need to redirect the topic to zero and the democrat failures every time the subject comes up.
Do not do an akin.
Abortion = Killing a baby for someone elses crime or mistake.
Can I borrow that? I want to make a bumper sticker.
Like when Stalin embraced the church to save Mother Russia?
Please do. Tell us how to make too.
Do not do an akin.
Too many people on the right act like many liberals do, attack a mistake and won't forgive or WON"T LET IT GO. Think about it-war on women and they won't let it go. They think we have to put THEIR priorities first, instead of ours. He did not commit a sin, he made a mistake, but too many on the right as well as the gop want to make a mountain out of a molehill because he is so unromney-not liberal and that makes romney look bad and will make it harder for him to get away with his liberal ways. Remember “forgive us our trespasses as (you might think he sinned) WE forgive those who trespass against us. You want to be forgiven? You won't be if you can't forgive. I do not care what politically correct focus groups or political advisors say we should do.
If you are not a Christian, then understand what many of us believe and know we are praying and working against the evil that have been foisted on this nation. We are asking God heal our nation from the inside out. Sometimes that means God will allow people to get to the ends of their rope so they see their great need for Him. Hard times.
How about we republicans get our house in order (I don't know how we can get rid of Romney, but we should if we could) We can only do this by admitting what we have a problem and need to start doing what is right. Maybe you don't believe in God, but many believe God will not bless this country if we acting like the left. Some are saying money is the most important in your life. They are wrong. Maybe God is allowing us to have money problems, so we call out to Him and do HIS will.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The reprobate, corrupt, abortion party, that's all it is.
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