Abortion crusade turns Republican women off Bush

[kskiska]

George Bush's crackdown on abortion has inflamed women in his own party to the point where they are openly turning against their President.

Fuelled by a fear that a Bush victory in next month's election could lead to many states overturning 30 years of legal terminations in the US, several moderate Republican women are rebelling against the crusade against sex education and unmarried women's access to contraception.

Linda Binder, a Republican State Senator in the conservative state of Arizona, is typical. Despite voting for Bush in 2000, she has pulled her support over what she calls his 'wacky, far right' position on women's rights.

'We don't want to go back to coathanger abortions... As legislators, my fellow moderates are feeling the push for more faith-based programmes on sex education and contraception coming from the Bush administration,' she said.

Binder, 56, is one of a growing number of Republican women renegades infuriated by Bush's slogan that the W in his name 'stands for women'.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1334762,00.html

[Eric J in MN]

1. The last phrase is the best.:

Republican women renegades infuriated by Bush's slogan that the W in his name 'stands for women'.

[Cha]

3. w stands for WITHDRAWING

support!

[iamjoy]

8. We Don't Talk About Withdrawing

only Abstinence.

Tell me something Mr. Sex Is Only To Procreate - how come your wife only got pregnant once, hmmmmm???? Y'know, some of these pro-lifers have like a baseball team of kids & you go, "hey, at least they practice what they preach." But you, sir, well...

Never mind, I don't want to know the answer.

[Zynx]

12. Gay?

n/t

[leesa]

19. Speaking of the "sex is only for procreation" groupies

Why do these hypocrites keep having sex after their wives and girlfriends have gone through menopause or are rendered sterile by some other means. Or how about the holy men who are sterile and continue to have sex. Sinners...all of them, according to their own rules.

[shanti]

28. W also stands for wimp!

n/t

[Zorra]

2. Great news. Republican women finally discover that there is life beyond

Stepford.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Considering just the damage he is causing amongst repukes...

He cannot be truly polling as is reported. No way.

[Wapsie B]

7. That's right.

No way in hell is he doing as well as Gallup wants to show him to be. He's being propped up big time. He can't afford to lose these votes.

[noamnety]

5. halliburton wants her party back!

speechless.

[Florida_Geek]

6. Makes you wonder how many repug women will tell their husbands

what they want to believe, but will vote different... Maybe not a lot be maybe some.

[TrueAmerican]

9. Asshole outside the Kerry rally today

had a gigantic photo of an aborted fetus covered with blood. I gave him a giant finger.

[bleedingheart]

10. I normally piss them off..

I ask what kind of wine they plan on serving with it...it makes them really mad that I am not taking them seriously...

[VegasWolf]

14. Perfect response! n/t

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[VegasWolf]

15. Perfect response! n/t

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[Gloria]

21. That was in Las Cruces, right? I saw it too!!! And asked myself

what the health of the mother was who had had that late an abortion!! Naturally, it was a man with that sign!

[Anakin Skywalker]

22. Using Disgust as Discourse?

Typical of bushite, he was appealing solely to emotion.

[Ruby Romaine]

24. love the fetus-til it's born!

[Lady Effingbroke]

37. Like George Carlin once said...

"If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're pre-school, you're fucked!"

I abhor the cult-of-the-fetus mindset. :mad:

[tlcandie]

32. Just carry a picture of a dead Iraqi baby...

There is no difference.

[bleedingheart]

11. Here's a GREAT BIG DUH! directed to those GOP women

who voted for the misogynistic pig the first time around....what did they expect...to be treated as equals by the likes of Delay, Hastert, Ashcroft and Bush? hahahahaha

what fools

[Zynx]

13. Glad some of them finally understand the Christian Taliban

n/t

[DuaneBidoux]

16. I don't put much stock in this article...

Don't get me wrong, I would love to. But consider the source: The Guardian. And I just don't see Republican's breaking ranks. Repugs are consistently more loyal regardless of the actual character of the individual than Dems, who actually demand much more of their own candidates. I'll always remember my granddad, who voted against FDR every single election telling me he'd vote for a dead horse over a Democrat. I don't think all that much has changed.

[reprobate]

17. Please explain: consider the source: The Guardian

[DuaneBidoux]

20. I read the Guardian Regularly, but they are very far left.

And they have done some really stupid things lately to try and prevent Shrub from winning. You may not remember but they recently listed emails on either their website or in their paper (not sure which) and assigned certain of their subscribers to write letters to people in Ohio to vote against Shrub. It really backfired. Not sure what has happened since. I think when one country tries to influence another's Democratic process this is very risky.

They have been the best source for accurate news on Iraq, and have been relentless where they should be on both Shrub and Blair - but again, got to be aware.

[Anakin Skywalker]

23. In My Opinion...

About the Ohio letter writing campaign, they got what they wanted out of the freepers. Ugly, vulgar Americanism. (Childish insults like mentioning the teeth of English people, etc.). It was a bait and the freeps took it! LOL

[DuaneBidoux]

25. Yea' probably, but what does that get Kerry?

[LynnTheDem]

30. No they're not

Sure shows how tilted to the right US media is.

The Guardian is one of the more center-balanced media around.

[Tight_rope]

33. Far left or right the Guardian is just as reputable as NYT or the Post!

[DuaneBidoux]

34. I didn't say they weren't reputable but European media in general

is more biased politically than American media. You actually have mainstream papers that call themselves "socialist" or "Tory." In France you have "The Figaro" which proudly proclaims they are right wing. You have "Le Monde" which is socialist.

It's almost like what you are beginning to see happen in TV (and now radio) here in the U.S. Fox is extreme right wing, and now it seems even other cable is rightward leaning - but the marketplace does work eventually and there will be, if things don't start to balance out, an alternative for the left develop. Like how Limbaugh has dominated radio for so long and now you're getting Air America.

Actually, I don't like the trend. But it seems like exactly the path the Europeans took in media long ago.

[Zorra]

18. The Guardian is about the most reliable major media source for US news.

Too bad it is has to come from England.

And women have absolutely no logical reason to be republicans other than because their boyfriends or husbands insist on it and they are not strong enough to stand on their own two feet.

Think about it - why on earth would any woman choose to be a republican?

[Carolab]

26. I agree

All of the ones I have met lately, canvassing mostly, are voting in lock-step with their overbearing husbands.

[carols]

27. Mary Lou Halliburton is endorsing Kerry per the AP

This isn't just from the Guardian.

Mary Lou Halliburton, 66, is a lifelong Republican and a relative of Earl Halliburton, who founded the company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney and now criticized for a $7.5 billion no-bid contract to work in Iraq.

Halliburton doesn't think her late cousin would approve of the circumstances surrounding the contract. And she doesn't like how President Bush has handled the Iraq war, so she is supporting Democrat John Kerry.

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/elections/index.ssf?/base/elections-0/1098398644119900.xml&storylist=orelection

[sofa king]

29. What an awful headline.

Hey, at this point we'll take points from anywhere we can score them. Thanks for using "crusade" in a sharply appropriate way, Guardian.

But what about that next part? "Turns Republican women off"? The last time I read about womens' turn ons and turn offs it was tacked to the bathroom wall at a frat house.

It reminds me of a a Harding-Coolidge political ad I just saw today at the Museum of American History. It said, "Women: vote Republican for your own good."

[Tight_rope]

31. Hell YEAH....ALL Women need to stand up against Bush for this reason

alone!

[many a good man]

35. W is for Widowmaker

THAT would turn ME off if I was a woman...

[ElectroPrincess]

36. Hey I'm a practicing pro-life Catholic turned-OFF on Bush

Yes, I'm pro-life but distinctly different in the way John Kerry practices his faith. I'd love abortion to become non-existent, however, not by legislation and thereby forcing people to behave in a certain manner.

In my RCIA (Catholic Conversion for adults) classes in 1996, I challenged four radical, anti-abortion activists that if they would come with me to protest USA's immoral Executions, then I would help them block abortion clinics. Well, I didn't think so ... not one took me up on the offer.

Many practicing Catholics are embarrassed by a few rogue USA Bishops. We believe that when God gave us the Ten Commandments he did NOT mean for us to put any qualifiers on "Thou shall not Kill" one.

Although I'm among many misguided parish members, I'm not going to quit my faith. Someone must try to reach these people.

I honestly believe that Jesus would not want us to legislate morality. Excuse the glib but true conclusion: one of the key reasons Jesus was Crucified was due to NO clear understanding of the "Separation of Church and State."

Like John Kerry, I do not intimidate others but only try to live in a moral manner. We all sin and should humble ourselves before we choose to judge others.

[w4rma]

39. I think that is *exactly* in the way that Sen. Kerry practices his faith.

Did you hear Sen. Kerry at the 3rd debate (I think it was the 3rd) where he spoke about his faith and choice?

[goforit]

38. OK ...all female Repugs, you better vote for the left guy!!!!