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Reproductive rights on center stage for Democrats
AP ^ | 10/3/2014 | NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Posted on 10/03/2014 2:50:09 AM PDT by markomalley

When U.S. Sen. Mark Udall aired the first television ad of his re-election campaign in April, the spot did not list his accomplishments, or otherwise argue why voters should send him back to Washington for a second term. Instead, it went after his challenger, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, on his opposition to abortion rights.

Five months later, Udall and his allies are still filling the airwaves with ads hammering Gardner on abortion, hoping to use the issue — once thought by Democrats to be a wash politically — to win this swing state for the third consecutive election cycle.

It's the most prominent example of how, from Alaska to Florida, reproductive rights have taken center stage in Democratic campaigns, a stark shift from the days when abortion issues were often used to rally the party's base but rarely discussed in front of those who might end up voting for either candidate.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014issues; abortion; moralabsolutes; proaborts
Gotta love the AP stylebook mandated euphemism: rather than stating, "Democrats support the right of a woman to dismember and rip a baby from her womb", they use the sanitized "reproductive rights".
1 posted on 10/03/2014 2:50:09 AM PDT by markomalley
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mandated euphemism

The Dems depend on manipulating the language (Newspeak) as much as they depend on voter fraud.

2 posted on 10/03/2014 2:55:15 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: markomalley

Why don’t they just call it “careless and irresponsible sex rights”? Or “slaughtering the inconvenient babies rights”?


3 posted on 10/03/2014 2:55:16 AM PDT by Octar
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To: markomalley

They also use pro choice which sounds somewhat positive.


4 posted on 10/03/2014 3:19:26 AM PDT by xp38
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pro choice

They're all for choice when it comes to snuffing out the lives of the unborn. In all other areas..not so much.

5 posted on 10/03/2014 3:25:39 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: markomalley

Who are these dumba$$ women who hook up with men that forbid them from reproducing. In my 35 years, I’ve never met a woman who’s been forced to either conceive or not conceive. According to the ruling class it’s a huge deal. I’d like to see an example . . . oh it’s infanticide again. Never mind.


6 posted on 10/03/2014 3:56:03 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: markomalley

Considering the people of CO, Udall must know what message they will blindly follow.


7 posted on 10/03/2014 4:08:27 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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....from Alaska to Florida, reproductive rights have taken center stage in Democratic campaigns....Democrats are using free-for-all abortion as an election issue.....

Mmmmmmm......so typical.....the last refuge of a scoundrel....a woman's vagina.

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CASE IN POINT Lusting after women's votes, Democrat Begich's campaign ran a
TV ad, “Alaska Women Need To Know”, targeting opponents for opposing Planned
Parenthood and abortion, public funding, and employer insurance plans that don't
cover birth control items.

Alaskan women need to ask themselves:

"Would you want Mark Begich messing w/ your vagina?"

8 posted on 10/03/2014 4:24:00 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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The buzz is Harry Reid is advising nervous Dems to chat-up the "social issues."

Typical Democrat---the last refuge of a scoundrel---a woman's vagina.

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In Iowa, desperate Democrat Bruce Braley is falling behind pig castrator, Joni Ernst.
Hard-fighting Braley is up and ready---he is resorting to pumping abortion-on-demand
to get women's votes. Iowa women voters need to ask themselves:

"Would you want Bruce Braley messing w/ your vagina?

9 posted on 10/03/2014 4:30:42 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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“pro choice
They’re all for choice when it comes to snuffing out the lives of the unborn. In all other areas..not so much.”

It’s ok to kill the unborn baby...but if you decide to actually have the baby, there will be criminal charges filed against you if you pack a cupcake in her lunch in kindergarten!


10 posted on 10/03/2014 4:56:32 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: Liz

Here in Colorado abortion is the only issue. Well, it is if you listen to udall’s ads. His ads do not mention anything else. Of course he’s got nothing else. He had been oh the won’t side of every other issue and has been obama’s boy virtually 100% of the time. If Colorado voters can be swayed/scared by his single issue ads, they are stops and deserve what they get. The GOP guys are hitting back fairly effectively on a number of issues.


11 posted on 10/03/2014 5:15:47 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Campaign Contributions Ensnares UDALL in IRS’s Missing Emails Scandal
Colorado Observer. ^ | June 19, 2014 | Audrey Hudson / FR Posted 6/21 by george76

...... missing among the IRS’s internal emails are communications with Sen. Mark Udall, Mark Begich, Mary Landrieu, Al Franken, and a dozen other Democrats who received campaign contributions from the federal agency’s union.

Democratic senators who took campaign donations from the IRS union include Sen Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who received $25,500, Sen Al Franken of Minnesota with $5,000, and Mark Begich of Alaska.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecoloradoobserver.com

12 posted on 10/03/2014 5:33:00 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: markomalley

Why is it called “reproductive rights”? They are not reproducing, they are slaughtering babies. Heck, the only thing missing from this scenario is the democrats hosting a BBQ featuring their latest “kills”. What a great lot of ghouls the left is.


13 posted on 10/03/2014 5:54:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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