The two most awkward things i’ve seen in a long time.
1. Willary Romney trying to explain how his position on abortion has changed from this:
2. Evan O’Dorney, this year’s national spelling bee winner, getting interviewed on CNN:
Jun 6, 2007 by Matthew Slutsky in
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YouTube is proving to be very troubling for some GOP candidates who continue to “out” their true political stances by way of old video footage of, well, themselves contradicting the positions they currently hold.
We’ve seen it with Governor Mitt Romeny and his positions on abortion and other social issues.
Today’s GOP candidate caught in the YouTube cross-hairs is former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
This video is from a Women’s Coalition for Giuliani event in 1989…Enjoy…
Mar 12, 2007 by Peter Slutsky in
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Another great video of Willard Romney being clear on where he stands on the issues.
Though he will likely be their nominee, it is clear that Willard is a disingenuous, flip-flopping chameleon.
Mitt Romney:
Mitt Romney 48 months later:
Mar 9, 2007 by Matthew Slutsky in
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Willard Mitt Romney has a tough road ahead.
Update: Romney responds! Last night, Willard called in to the conservative internet radio program (score for internet radio) to respond to the YouTube video that is posted above. Apparently, Willard has been spending lots of time on the DoubleSpeak website!
Jan 10, 2007 by Matthew Slutsky in
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As the Republican House of Cards threatens to blow over from a strong wind of corruption and incompetence at the federal level, it’s easy to forget how important the many hotly contested gubernatorial contests are this year.
The prospect of more Democratic governors isn’t nearly as sexy as the idea of Democrats running one or both houses of Congress. Yet much of the progressive change that happens in America takes place at the state level.
Wisconsin and Ohio exemplify just how important gubernatorial elections can be to the culture and economic future of the States. Last night’s gubernatorial debate in Milwaukee was an impressive battle between two polished politicos: Governor Jim Doyle and Congressman Mark Green. One of Doyle’s most devastating arguments was his blunt warning that many researchers will simply look elsewhere for jobs if Mark green wins the election. Although Wisconsin is the original home of stem cell research, the Christianist wing of the GOP controls the state legislature. Mark Green tries to pretend he’s in favor of stem-cell research, but he’s a rabidly anti-choice candidate who opposes abortions even in the case of rape or incest, as well as any medical advances that Jerry Falwell wouldn’t approve of. Jim Doyle represents a high-tech future of medical progress; Mark Green promises only a Bible and more tax cuts for special interests to grow Wisconsin.
In Ohio, Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell is easily the most extreme candidate nominated for governor in the history of the state. Blackwell is militantly anti-gay and anti-choice; much of Ohio’s GLBT community will feel unable to stay if he wins. College professors who happen to be gay have already fled Ohio since voters passed a gay marriage ban in 2004. The constitutional amendment bans not only gay marriage but equal benefits to gay state employees. Luckily, since Democrat Ted Strickland has a double-digit lead in every poll taken, this shouldn’t come to pass.
Americans vote with their feet, and unless Ohio and Wisconsin go blue this fall, both states will be drained of some of their most economically productive citizens. Neither state’s economy can afford such a body blow.
Oct 7, 2006 by Alex in
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Day 18
8:30 PM ET.
We’re off. Ohio treated us well. Onward to Michigan.
We spent the day today with a good friend in Columbus, OH and now we’re now driving north on 23 towards Ann Arbor, MI.
We finished up our Massachusetts episode and Josh is uploading it to the website as I type. As always, the internet connection isn’t always reliable, so sometimes a lengthy download becomes an epic lengthy download.
I’ll tell you, Ohio is the center of the universe for 2006 politics. There a multiple competitive House seats that are in play and there is also a hot Senate and Governors race. Political junkies couldn’t ask for more.
The TV ad war is also heating up. Every commercial break features numerous political ads and some are just off the chart wacko. Take gay marriage for example.
The gay marriage issue is big here in Ohio and there is an organization (I forget the name) running non-stop ads that feature two men, one dressed in a tuxedo and one in a wedding dress and they are standing at the alter as a narrator is preaching about ills of the two men being able to wed and live together. It is pretty sick. However, not as sick as the airplane (yes, I said airplane) that was circling Columbus today dragging an anti-abortion banner that had a picture of a fetus. Absolutely inappropriate, incredibly sick and outright disgusting.
A huge win for the Democrats in one month means a huge win in Ohio. We can’t take back Congress without a victories on the ground in the Ohio; particularly the OH-1, OH-15, OH-18.
We’ll be up bright and early tomorrow and heading to the Michigan vs. Michigan State Football game where we will interview Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI). They are both tailgating at the game - meeting voters and pressing the flesh.
Look for the new DoubleSpeak episode soon. We’ll put it up as soon as possible - by the time the head hits the pillow tonight.
More from the car later on and then we’ll keep you updated on the Michigan leg of the trip over the next two days.
Enjoy the night…
-Peter
Oct 6, 2006 by Peter Slutsky in
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is the conclusion of a new poll from the Argus Leader. “47 percent of voters polled would vote to reject the ban, compared with 39 percent who would vote to keep it. Another 14 percent were undecided.”
As many of you know, South Dakota recently passed the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. Just yesterday, The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families said it turned in twice as many signatures as it needed to in order to hold a statewide ballot vote in November on whether to repeal this disgusting law. From the WaPo:
Jan Nicolay, co-chairwoman of the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, said she believes it would be the nation’s first statewide election on abortion since Roe v. Wade. Opponents of the ban decided to pursue a popular vote instead of filing a lawsuit.
“We would prefer this be dealt with by the people of the state of South Dakota and not spend a lot of money fighting a legal battle,” Nicolay said.
Leslee Unruh, an abortion opponent who lobbied for the ban, said she believes South Dakotans will do what is right. “I believe we are a pro-life state,” she said.
This is not a lost cause. We can change this awful law.
May 31, 2006 by Matthew Slutsky in
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With the new make-up of the Supreme Court, there is all-out assault on reproductive rights and abortion rights in this nation. Now the Tennessee Senate has joined in the anti-choice battle:
The state Senate on Thursday passed a proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution so that it doesn’t guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion.
The 24-9 vote was the first step of many toward officially amending the state constitution. The measure would go before voters if the General Assembly approves it twice over the next two years.
The state Supreme Court has ruled that the Tennessee Constitution grants women a greater right to abortion than the U.S. Constitution.
Abortion rights supporters are attacking the measure as a stepping stone to prohibiting all abortions in Tennessee if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade.
Meanwhile religious conservatives, including Reginald Finger, an evangelical Christian who sits on the Centers for Disease Control’s Immunization Committee, are opposing the 100% effective Human papillomavirus vaccine because vaccinated teens might have sex. They would apparently prefer them to get cervical cancer, or perhaps even HIV.
“Religious conservatives are unapologetic; not only do they believe that mass use of an HPV vaccine or the availability of emergency contraception will encourage adolescents to engage in unacceptable sexual behavior; some have even stated that they would feel similarly about an H.I.V. vaccine, if one became available. ‘We would have to look at that closely,’ Reginald Finger, an evangelical Christian and a former medical adviser to the conservative political organization Focus on the Family, said. ‘With any vaccine for H.I.V., disinhibition’ - a medical term for the absence of fear - ‘would certainly be a factor, and it is something we will have to pay attention to with a great deal of care.’
Ideology is so much better than science.
Mar 10, 2006 by Joshua Skaroff in
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Ask the average pro-life (anti-choice) voter or activist why they are against a woman’s right to choose and they’ll say it’s for moral or religious reasons. They’ll cite the scientifically dubious claim that “life begins at conception.” And they’ll whole heartedly support legislation to make abortion illegal and punish abortion providers who would provide these necessary services. But what about the woman who actually makes the incredibly difficult to decision to end her pregnancy? Should she be punished? The AtCenterNetwork asked abortion demonstrators this question at a protest in Libertyville, Illinois.
Amazingly, these activists who would spend their time picketing a women’s health clinic with giant posters of fetuses in an attempt to shame women into carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term seem (mostly) not to have even contemplated this question. And another question that should be posed to them: If a fire broke out in an abortion clinic, and you had a choice between saving 5 fertilized blastulae — conceived “life” by their definition — and a 2 year old child, what choice would you make?
Digby points out the dangerous legal argument that is a logical outgrowth of laws such as this new one in South Dakota. If pro-life activists truly want to have an open debate about abortion, then they need to acknowledge that there will be actually realities to these laws that impact actual people.
…when they use the law to enforce their moral worldview they need to recognize that they can’t have it both ways. If fetuses are human and have the same rights as the women in whom they live, then a woman who has an abortion must logically be subject to the full force of the law. It would be a premeditated act of murder no different than if she hired a hit man to kill her five year old. The law will eventually be able to make no logical moral distinction. Is everybody ready for that?
Mar 8, 2006 by Joshua Skaroff in
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