Posted on 01/27/2020 7:55:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg told a pro-life woman in Iowa she had no place in the Democratic Party. The comment came during a town hall with Fox News' Chris Wallace in Des Moines, Iowa when a voter asked Buttigieg if he supported a change in the party's language.
"I am a proud pro-life Democrat, so do you want the support of pro-life Democrats, Democratic voters? There's about 21 million of us," voter Kristen Day asked Buttigieg. "And, if so, would you support more moderate platform language in the Democratic Party to ensure that the party of diversity and inclusion really does include everybody?"
"Well, I respect where you're coming from and I hope to earn your vote, but I'm not going to try to earn your vote by tricking you," he replied with a smile. "I am pro-choice and I believe that a woman ought to be able to make that decision."
The crowd applauded and Buttigieg attempted to spin his answers.
"Here's what I can tell you – I know that the difference in opinion that you and I have is one that we have come by honestly and the best that I can offer – and it may win your vote, if not I understand – the best that I can offer is that if we can't agree on where to draw the line, the next best thing we can do is agree on who should draw the line," he explained. "And, in my view, it's the woman who's faced with that decision in her own life."
The crowd applauded again and Wallace reminded Buttigieg of one important tidbit: President Donald Trump made history on Friday when he became the first president to address the annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C.
"I'm curious, Kristen, were you satisfied with the mayor's answer?" Wallace asked.
The voter replied, saying she was unsatisfied with Buttigieg's response. He failed to answer the second part of her question, which is whether or not he would support a change in the party's language and platform.
"And the second part of the Democratic platform contains language that basically says we don't belong, we have no part in the party because it says abortion should be legal up to nine months, that the government should pay for it and there's nothing that says people have a diversity of views on this issue should be included in the party," the voter explained.
Kristen reminded Buttigieg that back in 1999 the Democratic Party platform had language that recognized that people have various views on abortion "but we're a big tent party that includes everbody."
She reiterated the second part of her question. He didn't come out and directly say "no" but his response could be summed up that way.
"Well, I support the position of my party, that this kind of medical care needs to be available to everyone and I support the Roe v. Wade framework that holds that early in pregnancy there are few restrictions and late in pregnancy there are very few exceptions," he responded with a smile. "And again, the best I can offer is we may disagree on that very important issue and, hopefully, we'll be able to partner on other issues."
This sums up why, though I left the R party over 10 years ago, I could never vote for a democrat. The party’s platform is poison. If a democrat wants my vote, the first thing they are going to have to do is leave that party.
She's the problem, not Booty-gig. Pro life (and pro 2nd amendment) have no place in the 'rat party. She is betraying her pro-life principles by voting for pro-death 'rats. There is no 'rat candidate for president who is pro life. The woman is an idiot.
Well, while I have no use whatsoever for P. Booty Judge, that quote from the beginning of the article in no way resembles what the guy is reported to have said. He didn't even really imply it, either.
He just mealy-mouthed it and danced a buddy-jig around it -- which is what I'd have expected of him.
Everything about Butt-plug-plug is disgusting.
However, she IS WELL-POSITIONED to call him out — which gives her some value.
What does a militant faggie care about unborn life, anyway?
Of course the response is disgusting.
The man is a dork.
Period.
No, not because of who he boinks, but because he is just simply a dork.
Being queer, mayor pete has no respect for life. e is a human failure at the most basic level
This piece of human dreck will be the nominee VP pick...
Pro-life Democrat.
Bible-based Christian Democrat.
Patriot Democrat.
Constitution-supporting Democrat.
Truthful Democrat.
Inclusive Democrat.
Oxymorons, all.
So Buttyboy believes murdering children in the womb is okay. Sick!
If her 21,000,000 number is accurate, and I don’t know if it is, that offsets the Never-Trumpers (Kristol, Romney, Flake, Sykes, Jennifer Rubin, David Brooks, etc.) many, many times over. The people we use repel “pro-life Democrats” at a visceral level that Trump does not. And many of them are on swing states.
I doubt it. It’s going to be a black woman.
“I doubt it. It’s going to be a black woman.”
I’m sure its going to be Moochie. She received a Grammy last night for reading her book. Like zero received the Nobel for things he might do in the future.
This poor woman has not been able to figure out that she is enabling the murder of the unborn.
No, I left the R party because of Bush and the spineless R’s. Think about it. Two R’s that were basically democrats are McCain and Romney. They are/were outside the mainstream party.
Yet they were the candidates running against Obama.
Before Trump, I believed the two parties were playing a game of “good cop, bad cop” against all of us. I called them the Uniparty.
Trump is ripping that to shreds.
But I didn’t “become a democrat.” Tjhe R’s are right of the D’s, and I’m right of the R’s. That’s why a democrat will never get my vote.
Of course I agree with this woman and mayor Pete is quite repulsive in many ways. BUT, the article and the lead sentence are quite misleading. Not watching the video but from the text it seems he replied to her politely and he most certainly did not tell her, himself, that she has no place in the D party. I mean I wish he had been rude & vicious to her, because it would make him and the Ds look bad, but that doesn’t seem to be what happened.
They are all in on the baby killing this go-round, so of course no pro-life person of any party or no party should vote for any of them. For any office. (See tagline!)
So says a Sodomite to a heterosexual woman.
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