2016 Postmortem
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OK, was PP throwing support to HRC before the primaries STUPID? Of course, because if nothing else, it lets the GOP associate PP with HRC, instead of simple damned medical science. Abortion should be no more political than a root canal, and this endorsement before the primary is settled makes PP look like a political arm of HRC. They could not wait, or keep things going by saying "the democrats support us" which would have been a safe and true statement?
It also makes Hillary look weak because it looks like yet another heavy handed approach to make sure the primary is nothing more than a coronation process, which will play right into the hands of whoever the GOP appoints.
Now, with all this being said, when I read people saying they will cancel PP donations, I have to ask, are you foolish? We do not have the right to treat the health of women as collateral damage; that is supposedly what makes us better than our enemies. Perhaps if PP gets funding, then they will not feel so desperate as to think that they have to let DWS co opt them.
If you are liberal, you will support PP, period. Full stop. The lives of women are not pawns, even if DWS, despite being a woman, choose to make them so.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)It doesn't make Hillary look weak, it makes her look corrupt:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251986325
And PP was colossally stupid. With regard to PP, I will eventually get over it, but I am VERY pissed right now.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)it and everyone who is PISSED is somehow the bad guy. Were we the bad guy with Komen when they showed their corruption too? Put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the idiot in charge of PP. They are the ones to blame, the ass hat 1% who make their entitlement moves so removed from those who support them that they never see it coming. No is to blame about this but them. Period.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Republican donors to PP - and they do exist - is what PP threw overboard here.
murielm99
(30,735 posts)Most of the people saying that are probably not donors to begin with. They are just mouthing off.
Throwing in a gratuitous swipe at DWS makes your post look foolish.
There are more HRC supporters than Bernie supporters. If all the HRC supporters who give continue to do so, PP will not have a problem.
This is just another example of Bernie supporters throwing everyone under the bus who chooses to support the front runner for the nomination.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)DWS swipes make her look foolish, and she may crash Hillary yet again, with far worse consequences for Hillary than 2008.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)It was a stupid move that had zero possibility of helping their organization. Their political involvement should have remained party wide, not politician focused.
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...but HRC supporters can use them as some kind of weird strong arm tactic and purity test? Got it.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)When a lawmaker discusses legislation that requires I be sexually assaulted before having a medical procedure performed, I want the best and most fearless lobbyists and individuals fighting for me in the political sphere.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)or, if you have to, why not actually wait until there is a clear, official democratic candidate?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)stand with PP. How stupid does the elite have to be for them not to see this coming?
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)it is just they do nto care, because they think they can run over everyone.