Posted on 09/25/2012 2:04:40 PM PDT by NYer
The Planned Parenthood abortion business officially begins its ad campaign today attacking Mitt Romney — spending millions to attack the candidate supported by pro-life groups to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political arm of the company that does more than 300,000 abortions annually and has endorsed Obama, plans to spend more than $3 million to target voters in the battleground states of Ohio and Virginia with ads bashing Romney for wanting to cut its taxpayer funding. The $3.2 million campaign will feature everything from online ads to old-fashioned door to door politics.
The Virginia ads begin this week, while the Ohio commercials start next week.
The new ad, called “Cynthia’s Story,” features a woman who claims Planned Parenthood helped her survive a battle with cancer, even though Planned Parenthood’s abortions increase the risk of breast cancer and no Planned Parenthood abortion centers provide mammograms.
“I could feel a lump in my abdomen. I was very scared. Planned Parenthood saved my life with an early diagnosis of cancer,” the woman, Cynthia Wilson, says in the ad.
The ads also blast Romney’s comments saying he would “get rid of” taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
“When Mitt Romney says ‘Planned Parenthood, we’re going to get rid of that,’ he really doesn’t understand how many women depend on Planned Parenthood,” Wilson says. “We’re talking about real lives here. I believe Mitt Romney is out of touch. I think he just does not have any idea how many lives he’s devastating.”
Planned Parenthood itself has admitted that it does not perform mammograms for women — something the Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity confirmed last year.
Romney has been endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee and the Susan B. Anthony List.
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=37590
Why? Because you said, “ Funny, I used to get that thrown at me about Regan all the time.” I can’t think of an issue that Regan was accused of flip flopping on, in fact I don’t believe that term was even during Regan’s campaigns. You can clarify your statement to prove your point. Where did I claim to be a mentalist? Yes people can change but when they change from week to week it is hard to believe what they say.
“Yes people can change but when they change from week to week it is hard to believe what they say.”
Like I said, what makes you the arbiter of who can or can’t change?
Reagan a Conservative hero? NOT! you must be thinking of our Founding Fathers.
That is an idiotic thing to say, and it only shows your ignorance and shallow thinking, it is also the strangest defense of the anti-Reagan liberal Mitt Romney that we see here at FR.
Many of us remember Reagan from even the 1960s and from when he was our Governor, and we heavily supported his presidential run, and some, like me, even went back into military service because of Reagan. Reagan is not a theory to us, something that you can speculate on how we would have reacted to him, we already lived through that, and already reacted to him.
Romney's reaction to Reagan, was to leave the republican party though, to eventually become a campaign supporter for democrats, and even a democrat fund raiser and democrat voter.
Yeah, your lame attempt as fantasy was really absurd.
Yes Reagan is a conservative hero and a hero to freedom loving humans all over the globe, you may want to read something occasionally, Reagan and conservatism has been mentioned a lot.
Actually it shows nothing of the kind, but your response does show poor reading comprehension. I didn't say what you may or may not have done decades ago, I said if Reagan were running TODAY with his history....
Just the fact that he was a Democrat into his 50's would have increased the 'RINO' name-calling rate here astronomically. Folks comparing a mostly life-long Democrat, Hollywood comedy star, abortion-bill signing governor to a "pure" Tom Hoefling would be chanting GOPe and no-voting-for-the-lesser-than-two-evils until their keyboards were smoking. And then they would be twisting and distorting every detail of Reagan's history into the worst possible light to gather support for their anti-establishment 3rd party hero.
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No, you just doubled down on idiotic, you cannot create such a bizarre personal fantasy about a reality that is an important part of another poster’s adult life and military service, who you don’t even know.
Reagan was no mystery to anyone, we knew who he was and his life story in 1980, he had even been my Governor for awhile, did you read post 29 for some facts on Reagan?
Most of the older conservatives here were die hard fans of Reagan, for you to erase our lives, even our military service, in service to that scum bag, the Reagan hating Romney, is disgusting, but we have seen much of that kind of tripe from his anti-Reagan devotees, knocking and attacking Reagan is a staple of Romney supporters, and many have been told to knock it off by JR.
Your bizarre mention of Tom Hoefling in regards to me, is more proof of your ignorance and shallow thinking, you know nothing, and are just spitting out emotional outbursts, with no regard to truth, or reality.
You are an idiot too, telling people about their own lives, their own adulthood, their own lifelong politics, man, Romney has the worst followers that we have seen, he attracts people like himself evidently, dishonest, unrestrained by reality and conservatism.
Your man Romney has in recent weeks, rejected the republican, pro-life, party platform.
Romney is still pro-abortion.
Try again and make some sense. Work with facts, not opinion. You are not the only person in the world that has knowledge of Ronald Reagan or Mitt Romney.
You did get the memo that Jim Robinson is voting for Romney, correct? And I never said Romney was Reagan, there will never be another Ronald Reagan.
I made total sense, you tried that romneybot method of insulting freerepublic for being too conservative, by agreeing with the premise that Reagan would be considered by the freepers, even the ones that voted for him, and served under him, and hold him in such high esteem, as being too liberal, like Romney.
It is a troll’s way of mocking FR.
Romney was anti-Reagan, read post 29 for some information.
Reagan was human, and fantastic, and learned from his mistakes like everyone else does. Yeah, I agree with some that posted how in some respects Romney followed a path similar to Reagan's in their conversion to the Republican party. So be it. I'd still take Reagan over Romney any day. Never equated them as equal. If Romney hated Reagan in 1980, so be it, that was 32 years ago. Reagan changed a lot in 32 years. Look at the Ronald Reagan of 1937 and the Ronald Reagan of 1969. Big difference.
Is the owner of this site now a Romneybot because he realized we need to get rid of Obama and is voting Romney? You never seem to answer that one.
Thank you! And me, too, always will... our country and the entire free world were both so blessed to have him in the White House.
Good heavens, you responses are a bit over the top... I’m trying to erase your military service? LOL
Since I don’t enjoy debating with posters who engage so heavily on childish name-calling, I won’t respond further and just stand by my previous statements.
Have a good day.
Your idiotic attempt to tell conservatives that they don’t remember their own relationship with Reagan, their own intensity in their commitment to him and his conservatism, the intensity of them sharing his goals, in my case to the point of me going back into the military because of his Cold War efforts, shows your ignorance and shallowness.
Your back handed insult to freerepublic, as a bunch of conservatives that would not be for Reagan because they are against your anti-Reagan liberal, is the kind of anti-Reaganism, anti-FR, troll words that we have been hearing from romneybots for 6 years.
Yes you are an anti-Reagan romneybot, this thread proves what you are today, and you are evidently as ignorant as most romneybots.
Romney did not convert to the GOP, his father was a sitting republican governor when he and Mitt (who was already a republican intern in the governor's office) stormed off the convention floor to protest the nomination of Goldwater in 1964. Mitt's father, in his second term as a republican governor, ran as the liberal, anti war republican presidential candidate (Mitt was also an anti-war, anti-military, lefty), in 1970 Mitt's mother ran as the liberal, pro-abortion republican senatorial candidate, Mitt was a lifelong republican, and a draft evading, anti-conservative pro-abortion liberal.
Romney left the GOP because of Reagan and the ascendancy of conservatism, for awhile he supported liberal republican candidates, but when Reagan's veep was elected in 1988, Mitt ended even that rino support.
Romney started supporting democrats in races against republicans, even to knock off GOP incumbents, and Mitt even did democrat fund raising, and voted for Paul Tsongas in the 1992 primary.
Mitt reregistered republican in October of 1993, and continued his Planned Parenthood support and fund raising, and his leftwing political agenda.
Mitt never had a conversion, Reagan voted for 2 democrat presidents, both as he came of age in the Great Depression and WWII, Roosevelt and Truman, 1948 was the end of that, Reagan then started his journey towards nurturing, and leading a conservative resurgence in America, Reaganism, and the Reagan Revolution, the very conservatism that DROVE MITT ROMNEY AWAY FROM BEING A REPUBLICAN.
You are trying to compare a natural conservative, who caught the direction of liberalism early, and became it's greatest opponent for the next 40 years, to a rino republican that embraced liberalism AFTER THEY EMERGED AS THE MODERN LEFT, to the extent of leaving the GOP when Reaganism was threatening the left, at a time when we all knew what the left meant, including abortion, guns, supporting communism.
Romney never converted, he never became conservative, Romney merely switched his positions for the presidential campaign, there was no journey, no learning, no "growth", when Mitt was ready to start his presidential run in 2005, he merely claimed to have reversed himself on his entire life, and would now be what fits in a republican primary.
Remember Reagan's 11th commandment.
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