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Anti-abortion activists are incensed at the candidates claim that he wouldnt ban abortion for victims of rapeand at his rejection of Todd Akin, whos trying to capitalize on that anger with a fundraising push.
Jennifer Mason, the communications director of Personhood USA and wife of the groups co-founder, Keith Mason, is very disappointed with the way Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have responded to the Todd Akin flap. Shes particularly incensed by the campaigns insistence that a Romney-Ryan administration wouldnt try to ban abortion for rape victims. Romney and Ryan have turned their backs on the Republican Party platform in cases of rape, she says. Thats a huge problem.
Even since Akin introduced the phrase legitimate rape into the political lexicon, Republican leaders have been scrambling to distance themselves from him. Romney called on him to drop out of the race, and both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and American Crossroads, Karl Roves super PAC, have said they wont support him financially. But the rush to reject Akin is infuriating the anti-abortion movement, which sees it as a further sign of Romneys weak commitment to social conservatism. For goodnesss sake, the guy wont defend a chicken sandwich, let alone his own Senate candidate, says conservative radio host Steve Deace, who recently co-wrote a book, We Wont Get Fooled Again: Where the Christian Right Went Wrong and How to Make America Right Again, arguing that social conservatives have been shafted by the GOP.
Akin is hoping he can capitalize on grassroots anger with Republican leadership. On Wednesday, an appeal on his fundraising page for his Missouri Senate bid said: Join us as we fight back against the party bosses. Help us raise $24,000 in 24 hours! By late afternoon, hed exceeded that by several thousand dollars. A few minutes later, the site set a new goal$100,000 by midnight. On Thursday morning, Akin announced they'd they'd beat it, with thousands of people donating.
more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/23/gop-grassroots-furious-at-romney-over-akin-abortion-rape-exception.html
BumRushDaShow
(129,052 posts)Will it be giving up your anti-choice stance because of the BlackKenyanMuslinCommieSocialistNaziMarxist who will take away your guns and bible, put you in concentration camps run by the U.N., and destroy the world as you believe you know it or will you sit home and not support your RINO?
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I'm sure McCaskill and thinking people around the country are more than happy that you're keeping the GOP "family values" front and center in your campaign into oblivion.
I thought Claire McCaskill was going down but after just one moronic, and predictable, comment from a fundie fuckwit she's not only back in the race but can probably pull it out.