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Marching into the past, (Those crazy brits)
The UK Guardian ^ | Friday November 5, 2004 | Katie Roiphe

Posted on 11/04/2004 7:43:41 PM PST by kyperman

A large majority of the United States, men and women, support Roe v Wade. Instead of pandering to the undecided voter with pro-life leanings - who was never going to vote Democrat anyway - Kerry should have followed Bush's example and mobilised his own base. Bush and Cheney never shied away from using scare tactics to secure voters; Kerry should have got the message out, in no uncertain terms, that under the second term of a Bush administration American women might very well lose their right to choose.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortionrights
These brits just don't get it either...no surprise here. She says the majority of Americans support Roe Wade...well I would beg to differ. Did she look at the popular vote totals...
1 posted on 11/04/2004 7:43:42 PM PST by kyperman
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To: kyperman

"Bush and Cheney never shied away from using scare tactics to secure voters"

Perhaps the authors rotting teeth and fear of home invasion distracted her from when John Kerry claimed that the draft would be reinstated, or that old people would lose their social security.


2 posted on 11/04/2004 7:46:40 PM PST by Redcoat LI (3.5 Million)
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To: kyperman

I'm just glad to see they're not bitter.


3 posted on 11/04/2004 7:47:01 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (THANK YOU, FREEPERS for re-electing President George W. Bush!)
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To: kyperman

We heard Kerry's message, thank you very much. We disagreed with it. We are not hard of hearing, we are smarter and deserve better than Kerry. Kerry did not fit into our plan for America. (See? I heard him.)


4 posted on 11/04/2004 7:47:35 PM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: kyperman

I love how the European media lies about Americans so much, then they are completely dumbfounded whenever Americans don't vote the way they want us to.

You would think that the Euro Media, would have figured some of this out by now. Or even their readership.


5 posted on 11/04/2004 7:49:06 PM PST by Mike1973
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To: kyperman
Thank you, Founding Fathers, for winning our independence from these nut jobs!
6 posted on 11/04/2004 7:58:21 PM PST by Tar Heel Bushie (W Stands For Winner!)
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To: Tar Heel Bushie

Regarding "reproductive rights." . They did not exist, nationally, until 1973 when the Court gave them to them. What the Court gives, the Court can take away. In any case, the reversal of Roe V. Wade would simply return the matter to the States.


7 posted on 11/04/2004 8:13:23 PM PST by RobbyS (JMJ)
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To: kyperman

Roiphe's an American, actually.


8 posted on 11/04/2004 8:13:38 PM PST by gatesbrown
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To: Tar Heel Bushie

Regarding "reproductive rights." . They did not exist, nationally, until 1973 when the Court gave them to them. What the Court gives, the Court can take away. In any case, the reversal of Roe V. Wade would simply return the matter to the States.


9 posted on 11/04/2004 8:13:58 PM PST by RobbyS (JMJ)
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To: kyperman
Marching into the past, (Those crazy brits)

Hey! I Can Walk Silly too!

10 posted on 11/04/2004 8:16:29 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: kyperman

"Hi, I'm John Kerry, the Baby Killer! I never saw a child I didn't want to kill! Teresa says I'd make a topnotch nursery school teacher, but I just want to tell you, here and now, in no uncertain terms, I defend to the death every woman's right to kill her babies!"

"So, vote for me, John Kerry."


11 posted on 11/04/2004 8:24:39 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kyperman

I would have responded, but their website is so tedious, you can't find a response link.


12 posted on 11/04/2004 8:33:42 PM PST by opbuzz
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To: gatesbrown

The New York Times Book Review, Courtney Weaver :


".Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End is no less flip: it is a shoot-from-the-hip blend of observation and reportage, supposedly about the sexual caution endemic to Ms. Roiphe's generation.


But lacking the complex insights, cultural background, history and research ...Last Night in Paradise comes off as an irresponsible and protracted whine."

In her writing the tragedy of her sister's HIV positive status effects her perspective on promiscuity and drug use.


However, in this article her assumtion that America's morals robotically align with her own is not only elitist, arrogant, but also as evidenced in numerous internal polls highly inaccurate.


13 posted on 11/04/2004 8:49:47 PM PST by ijcr (Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ability.)
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To: Redcoat LI
Bush and Cheney never shied away from using scare tactics to secure voters;

I seem to recall an old ad with a chain dangling from the back of a pickup truck.

The classic was the one LBJ ran against Goldwater in 1964: The infamous H-bomb explosion.

And then there's the union thugs...

14 posted on 11/04/2004 9:41:13 PM PST by Ceebass
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I seem to recall an old ad with a chain dangling from the back of a pickup truck. The classic was the one LBJ ran against Goldwater in 1964: The infamous H-bomb explosion. And then there's the union thugs...

Yes, but Leftist seem to conveniently look the other way when their fellow Socialists trangress the standards they insists on holding their opponents to.

15 posted on 11/04/2004 9:58:04 PM PST by Redcoat LI (3.5 Million)
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