In other words, you might not want it to be brought up BUT IT WILL. Those who want to paint you as extreme WILL bring it up.
So, you must be prepared for a response whether you like it or not.
Who is talking about rape right now? (Aside from this pollster)
Exactly
Liberals think they have conservatives cornered when they ask about abortion for rape. To shut them up, a conservative can answer, 'OK, let's limit abortion to just rapes." With this answer, the liberal is then backed into a corner they don't want to be in.
What? The only rape going on around here is the regimes daily talking points and by RINOs.
Well if you’re supposedly smart enough to get elected to office, you should be able to sidestep the question without using the word. These idiots (Akin, etc.) dug their own graves.
Any male politician who utters the word “rape” in ANY context is an idiot. Period.
Yes, just make sure the response isn't something stupid such as pontificating about women's bodies magically shutting down during rape, or what may or may not constitute a "legitimate" rape, etc. Good grief, just have a canned answer and stick to it.
This guarantees the MSM will bring it up all the time now.
They need a canned response or no comment. Otherwise they should shut the heck up about it.
You don’t have to be an overpaid GOP pollster to realize that the ‘GOP loves rape’ meme, which social media like Facebook is saturated in, is horrifically annihilating GOP popularity among low information voters.
But it helps.
I’m a taxpayer.
I’m being raped financially.
The GOP is complicit in that action.
I was thinking of the way Congresscritters were kept appraised of what was going on in the Clinton trial ~ private individuals at their own expense DELIVERED detailed information to every Congressman.
Sure, most of the New York crowd skipped over it, and the majority of the California Democrats can't even read English, but it worked with the House in general.
Next campaign we need to be prepared to blanket all Republican campaigns for every open office ~ even state offices ~ of a quick guide to SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE BEHAVIOR.
3X5 X24 pages probably ought to do it. Rule 1 ~ never go one on one with a leftwing msm agent. Rule 2 ~ never acknowledge a question from a leftwing msm agent. Rule 3 ~ put up a sign at every campaign stop where YOU are renting the hall/site that NO CAMERAS OR RECORDINGS ALLOWED WITHOUT THE EXPLICIT PERMISSION OF THE CANDIDATE ~ HE"S PAID THE RENT NOT YOU.
We could probably come up with 100 basic rules in a good half hour just thinking of things we know that worked.
Question list for the next ABC debates:
1. Mr. Republicant, what are your views on rape, the fetuses conceived by rape, and the physiology of a woman’s body as it relates to the act of rape?
a. Follow up: When did you commit your first rape?
2. How old do you think the earth is?
3. Do you support or are you a member of the Nazi Rifle Association and do you own an Assault Rifle-15?
b. Follow up: Where do you buy your armor piercing rounds and do you believe armor piercing rounds are necessary to kill a child?
The problem isn’t “talking about rape.” As long as liberals in the media know that Republicans are ignorant and/or fundamentally unprincipled on the subject of life they will continue to bring focus there.
Just answer them as follows:
“Killing an innocent person for the crime of another person is barbaric, don’t you think? Personally, I believe in due process and equal protection for every single innocent person in this country. Those are the principles upon which this country, and our entire system of law and justice, are premised. How about you? Don’t you believe in equality?”
The most they can do after that is babble nonsensically. But mostly, in my experience, they just shut up and go away.
Yeah, God forbid you embarrass the faux-life “Republicans.”
And yet while all of us have moved on, this GOP Pollster is still talking about rape.
Exactly====but at this point, sorry to say, the whole GOP position concerning abortion has been “tarnished” by those two, and that was by design from the MSM and the Dems.
Now, anyone who has a pro-life voting background or reputation will look a little too careful and circumspect and basically “dishonest” when the Gotcha Gang from the media asks them pointed questions on the subject.
It’s a no-win situation, and you can be sure the MSM is salivating over the prospect of seeing another Mourdock or Akin appear.
It’s a bit like the damned if you do/don’t dynamic that obtained when Sarah Palin was on the ticket.
Libs, projecting their own inauthenticity, claimed that she was parading her children around onstage,especially the disabled one, exploiting them for political purposes.
Of course if Sarah had resolutely avoided giving her children ANY exposure, especially the disabled one, the Libs would’ve said “WHAT IS SHE HIDING????IS SHE ASHAMED OF HER CHILDREN????THIS LADY IS UNTRUSTWORTHY!!”
Exactly====but at this point, sorry to say, the whole GOP position concerning abortion has been “tarnished” by those two, and that was by design from the MSM and the Dems.
Now, anyone who has a pro-life voting background or reputation will look a little too careful and circumspect and basically “dishonest” when the Gotcha Gang from the media asks them pointed questions on the subject.
It’s a no-win situation, and you can be sure the MSM is salivating over the prospect of seeing another Mourdock or Akin appear.
It’s a bit like the damned if you do/don’t dynamic that obtained when Sarah Palin was on the ticket.
Libs, projecting their own inauthenticity, claimed that she was parading her children around onstage,especially the disabled one, exploiting them for political purposes.
Of course if Sarah had resolutely avoided giving her children ANY exposure, especially the disabled one, the Libs would’ve said “WHAT IS SHE HIDING????IS SHE ASHAMED OF HER CHILDREN????THIS LADY IS UNTRUSTWORTHY!!”
Exactly====but at this point, sorry to say, the whole GOP position concerning abortion has been “tarnished” by those two, and that was by design from the MSM and the Dems.
Now, anyone who has a pro-life voting background or reputation will look a little too careful and circumspect and basically “dishonest” when the Gotcha Gang from the media asks them pointed questions on the subject.
It’s a no-win situation, and you can be sure the MSM is salivating over the prospect of seeing another Mourdock or Akin appear.
It’s a bit like the damned if you do/don’t dynamic that obtained when Sarah Palin was on the ticket.
Libs, projecting their own inauthenticity, claimed that she was parading her children around onstage,especially the disabled one, exploiting them for political purposes.
Of course if Sarah had resolutely avoided giving her children ANY exposure, especially the disabled one, the Libs would’ve said “WHAT IS SHE HIDING????IS SHE ASHAMED OF HER CHILDREN????THIS LADY IS UNTRUSTWORTHY!!”
They have to learn to see the DNC media bait and not bite.
Republicans just ignore the question or laugh at the reporter. Same with their geography (including obscure foreign heads of State) and science (evolution, religion) questions designed to make Republicans look uncomfortable and stupid.
The GOP should keep track of who the political activists, spread their names, and never talk to them again. The answer to abortion questions is that “I’m pro human life.” Details beyond that is none of their business.