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"Angry Clinton Women [HEART] McCain?" ... "Ten years ago [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain had to apologize for regaling a Republican audience with a crude sexual joke about Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno. Last year he had to explain why he didn’t so much as flinch when a supporter asked him on camera, “How do we beat the bitch?” But these days Mr. McCain just loves the women." ... "You’d never guess that Mr. McCain is a fierce foe of abortion rights or that he voted to terminate the federal family-planning program that provides breast-cancer screenings. You’d never know that his [McCain's] new campaign blogger, recruited from The Weekly Standard, had shown his genuine affection for Mrs. Clinton earlier this year by portraying her as a liar and whiner and by piling on with a locker-room jeer after she’d been called a monster. “Tell us something we don’t know,” he wrote." ... "But while the McCain campaign apparently believes that women are easy marks for its latent feminist cross-dressing, a reality check suggests that most women can instantly identify any man who’s hitting on them for selfish ends. New polls show Mr. Obama opening up a huge lead among female voters — beating Mr. McCain by 13 percentage points in the Gallup and Rasmussen polls and by 19 points in the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey." ... "... the notion that all female Clinton supporters became “angry white women” once their candidate lost — to the hysterical extreme where even lifelong Democrats would desert their own party en masse — is itself a sexist stereotype. That’s why some of the same talking heads and Republican operatives who gleefully insulted Mrs. Clinton are now peddling this fable on such flimsy anecdotal evidence." -By Frank Rich -NYTimes
John
McCain -  Clayton
Williams - Money
-  Politics
-  Family
- Abortion
- Law
-  Texas
- 2008
Election
"McCain Cancels Fundraiser with Oilman Who Joked About Rape." ... "Clayton Williams, who ran unsuccessfully against the late Texas [Governor] Gov. Ann Richards (D [Democratic]), sparked controversy nearly two decades ago when he joked women should give in while being raped. "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it," the oilman remarked at the time." ... "The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which has sharply criticized [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain for his opposition to abortion rights and other family planning programs, first contacted the Post about Williams' remarks. The group's president, Cecile Richards, is the daughter of the late Texas governor." ... ""It's shocking that John McCain would choose to fundraise with Clayton Williams, who made his political career saying completely inappropriate and disrespectful remarks about women," Richards wrote in an e-mail. "This is a real misstep for the McCain campaign, who is having a hard time getting support from women."" -By Juliet Eilperin -WashingtonPost  John
McCain's contributor Clayton Williams "in His Own Words".
Abortion
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York
"Repairing the Damage, Before Roe." ... "I am a retired gynecologist, in my mid-80s. My early formal training in my specialty was spent in New York City [New York], from 1948 to 1953, in two of the city’s large municipal hospitals." ... "There I saw and treated almost every complication of illegal abortion that one could conjure, done either by the patient herself or by an abortionist — often unknowing, unskilled and probably uncaring. Yet the patient never told us who did the work, or where and under what conditions it was performed. She was in dire need of our help to complete the process or, as frequently was the case, to correct what damage might have been done." ... "The patient also did not explain why she had attempted the abortion, and we did not ask. This was a decision she made for herself, and the reasons were hers alone. Yet this much was clear: The woman had put herself at total risk, and literally did not know whether she would live or die." ... "This, too, was clear: Her desperate need to terminate a pregnancy was the driving force behind the selection of any method available." ... "The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger” — which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth. In my years in New York, several women arrived with a hanger still in place. Whoever put it in — perhaps the patient herself — found it trapped in the cervix and could not remove it. " -By Waldo L. Fielding, M.D. [Doctor of Medicine] -NYTimes 
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Arkansas
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Massachusetts
- 2008
Election - "Huckabee:
Romney running 'dishonest' campaign." ... "Former
Arkansas [Governor and 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate]
Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted Republican presidential rival [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney as running a "desperate
and dishonest" campaign and predicted the former Massachusetts governor
won't be the Republican nominee." ... "Romney has been blasting Huckabee's
record on crime and taxes as governor of Arkansas in [Iowa] television
ads in the last days of the race." ... "Asked on Monday on CNN's "American
Morning" why he felt the need to respond to Romney's attacks, Huckabee
said, "I think a lot of people are deceived, and you have to ask do people
want to elect a president who has been dishonest in order to get the job
and said things about his opponents that simply aren't true?"" ... "With
the two men locked in a statistical dead heat atop the latest Iowa polls,
Romney has been airing television ads criticizing Huckabee for raising
state spending, backing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at state
colleges and granting more than 1,000 pardons and commutations." ... "Huckabee
has said the claims are taken out of context, and hit back by questioning
the sincerity of Romney's opposition to abortion -- which was covered by
the state health care program Romney pushed through in Massachusetts."
-CNN
Mike
Huckabee - Money
- Religion
- Abortion- 2008
Election - Polls
- Marketing
- Arkansas
- Iowa
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South
Carolina - "Huckabee's
Rise Drives Wedge Between Wall Street, Evangelicals."
... "The former Arkansas governor [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate Mike Huckabee] has surged in Republican presidential-preference
polls, winning the support of Christian fundamentalists while peppering
his campaign rhetoric with jabs at the financial industry. He calls himself
the candidate who isn't a ``wholly owned subsidiary'' of investment banks,
decries large executive-pay packages and says the party needs to shift
its focus from Wall Street to Main Street." ... "In doing so, he threatens
the uneasy if effective coalition Republicans have counted on for three
decades: abortion opponents and other social-issue activists supplying
foot soldiers, proponents of tax cuts and business-friendly regulatory
policies putting up the money and getting the biggest economic benefits."
... "``Huckabee puts this long-simmering feud between the social-conservative
wing and the country-club and business crowd into starker contrast,'' said
Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report
in Washington." ... "The stronger he gets in the polls, the stronger the
intra- party backlash against him. ``He's sort of a populist, and that
doesn't sell too well on Wall Street,'' said David Hedley, a retired managing
director at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette who raised at least $100,000
for [Republican President] George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election."
... "The Club for Growth, a Washington-based group that advocates tax and
spending cuts, has mounted a [marketing] campaign against Huckabee in Iowa
and South Carolina, which holds its Republican primary on Jan. 19." ...
"After Huckabee finished second in an August Iowa straw poll, he said in
an interview that his biggest asset going into the contest ``was the negative
attack ads that the Club for Greed, excuse me, the Club for Growth was
running.''" -By Matthew Benjamin
-Bloombergvia -Yahoo
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- Politics
- Abortion
- Immigration
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New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "The
Romney backlash: Conservatives are coming home."
... "[New Hampshire] Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them
in the eye and tell them the truth. [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain has done that day in and day out, never wavering,
never faltering, never pandering." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mitt Romney has not. He has spoken his lines well, but the people
can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt." ... "Last week
Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of "saw" is. It was only
the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims -- he'd been a hunter
"pretty much" all his life, he'd had the NRA's endorsement, he marched
with Martin Luther King, Jr. -- that call into question the veracity of
his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes
and his affection for Ronald Reagan." ... "In this primary, the more Mitt
Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes. That is why Granite Staters
who have listened attentively are now returning to John McCain. They might
not agree with McCain on everything, as we don't, but like us, they judge
him to be a man of integrity and conviction, a man who won't sell them
out, who won't break his promises, and who won't lie to get elected."
-UnionLeader.com
Mitt
Romney
- Political
- Corporation
- Marketing
- History
- Gay-Rights
- Pro-Choice
- Stem
Cell - Science
- Health
- Law
- Religious
- Salt
Lake City - 
Utah
- Massachusetts
- New
Hampshire - 
US
- Torture
- Prison
- Guantanamo
Bay - 
Cuba
- 2008
Election - "Romney
should not be the next president." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt] Romney's main business experience
is as a management consultant, a field in which smart, fast-moving specialists
often advise corporations on how to reinvent themselves. His memoir is
called Turnaround - the story of his successful rescue of the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City [Utah] - but the most stunning turnaround he
has engineered is his own political career." ... "If you followed only
his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a
pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and
an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign
for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to
the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're
left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core." ... "As a candidate
for the U.S. [United States] Senate in 1994, he boasted that he would be
a stronger advocate of gay rights than his opponent, [Massachusetts Democratic
Senator] Ted Kennedy. These days, he makes a point of his opposition to
gay marriage and adoption." ... "There was a time that he said he wanted
to make contraception more available - and a time that he vetoed a bill
to sell it over-the-counter." ... "The old Romney assured voters he was
pro-choice on abortion. "You will not see me wavering on that," he said
in 1994, and he cited the tragedy of a relative's botched illegal abortion
as the reason to keep abortions safe and legal. These days, he describes
himself as pro-life." ... "There was a time that he supported stem-cell
research and cited his own wife's multiple sclerosis in explaining his
thinking; such research, he reasoned, could help families like his. These
days, he largely opposes it. As a candidate for governor, Romney dismissed
an anti-tax pledge as a gimmick. In this race, he was the first to sign."
... "In the 2008 campaign for president, there are numerous issues on which
Romney has no record, and so voters must take him at his word. On these
issues, those words are often chilling. While other candidates of both
parties speak of restoring America's moral leadership in the world, Romney
has said he'd like to "double" the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay [Cuba],
where inmates have been held for years without formal charge or access
to the courts. He dodges the issue of torture - unable to say, simply,
that waterboarding is torture and America won't do it." ... "When New Hampshire
partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary,
we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions
and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves
and the rest of the world, we'll know it." ... "Mitt Romney is such a candidate.
New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no."
-ConcordMonitor.com
Mitt
Romney
- Pro-Choice
- Stem
Cells - Illegal
- Immigrant
- Health
- Crime
- Politics
- History
- Massachusetts
- 
Michigan
- 2008
Election - "King
said George Romney didn't march: But, as usual, the
truth wasn't good enough for Mitt." ... "Running for Senate in Massachusetts,
in 1994, and trying to establish pro-choice credibility that he had done
nothing to earn, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt]
Romney told stories about his mother, Lenore Romney, running on a strong
pro-choice platform in her own unsuccessful bid for public office in 1970.
Those tales were debunked by Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara."
... "Then, as now, Romney tried to buttress his statement with weak documentation
at odds with the precision of the claim: in that case, Romney provided
the Globe with a vaguely-worded campaign document that could be read as
supporting the pre-Roe v Wade status quo, in which abortion was a felony
in Michigan. ''I support and recognize the need for more liberal abortion
rights while reaffirming the legal and medical measures needed to protect
the unborn and pregnant woman [sic]," the document read." ... "Again, at
that time, Romney did not just pass along falsehood as fact. He sold it
as personal truth, speaking of the painful memories of a close relative's
death, from complications of an illegal abortion." ... "Romney was telling
that tale, of course, when it was politically expedient to be pro-choice.
Today, needing to be pro-life, he has a new, highly personal and emotional
tale of personal conversion after a doctor showed him how stem cells are
handled in research — another specific but uncorroborated story, about
which even the doctor involved has expressed skepticism." ... "Romney once
favored gun control; now, needing gun-rights voters, he has falsely claimed
to be a "lifelong hunter" and to have been endorsed in 2002 by the National
Rifle Association – an endorsement the NRA never gave him. Needing to establish
anti-illegal-immigrant credentials, he boasts of an attitude that he never
displayed while governor — when he expressed no concern over several "sanctuary
cities" in the state — until the very end of his term, when he had turned
his attention to the Republican Presidential nomination." ... "This week,
he finds the need to attack [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidat]
Mike Huckabee on crime, and so Romney has re-invented his record there,
falsely claiming, in a new ad, to have cracked down on methamphetamine."
... "It is not just that these are untruths. They are the actions of a
man desperate to cater to the whims of his audience. What they want, he
must appear to be. " -By David S. Bernstein
-ThePhoenix.com
Mitt
Romney
- Abortion-Rights
- Money
- Parent
- Mass
- History
- 2008
Election - "Romney
Attended Planned Parenthood Fundraiser in 1994."
... "ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mitt Romney attended a fund-raising reception for Planned Parenthood
in 1994 in conjunction with a $150 donation his wife made to the organization
-- notwithstanding Romney's contention that he had "no recollection" of
the circumstances under which his wife gave money to the abortion-rights
group." ... "In the photograph obtained by ABC News, Romney and his wife,
Ann, are shown in a yellow-and-white tent chatting with local political
activists, including Nicki Nichols Gamble, who was then president and CEO
of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts." ... "Nichols Gamble
-- whose back is the camera in the photograph -- told ABC that the event
was a Planned Parenthood fundraising "house party" in Cohasset, Mass.,
in June 1994. At the time, Romney, R-Mass., was locked in a tight Senate
campaign with [Massachusetts Democratic Senator] Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
and was touting his support for abortion rights." ... "That event, Nichols
Gamble said, was the occasion where Ann Romney wrote her $150 check --
drafted on a joint checking account she had with her husband -- to Planned
Parenthood of Massachusetts." ... ""They were both there, and I remember
very well chatting with both of them, and talking about his support for
the pro-choice agenda," she said. "We talked about the fact that he was
taking a pro-choice position on the issues, and we were very pleased about
that."" -By Rick Klein -ABCNEWS.com
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