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September 10, 2008
Bombshell statement from S.C. Democratic chair: 'Palin primary qualification is she hasn't had an abortion '
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Politico reports that "South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate " whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion."
Palin is an opponent of abortion rights and gave birth to her fifth child, Trig, earlier this year after finding out during her pregnancy that the baby had Down syndrome.I just heard a female "Democratic strategist" (name excapes me at the moment) tell Sheppard Smith that Team Obama does not condone such a statement but they have no control over what comes out of Sate Democratic officials. While I have no personal knowledge of how Obama's national campaign interacts with state Democratic officials, I find it hard to believe that a campaign that dispatches a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers to Alaska in order to dig up dirt against Sarah Palin would even hesitate for a moment to encourage a Democratic chairwoman to do the same or speak in a derogatory manner against Palin. I would day the very same thing had the abortion comment come out of the McCain camp - perhaps even more so.Fowler told my colleague Alex Burns in an interview that the selection of an opponent of abortion rights would not boost McCain among many women.
"Among Democratic women and even among independent women, I don't think it helped him," she said.
Told of McCain's boost in the new ABC/Washington Post among white women following the Palin pick, Fowler said: "Just anecdotally, I believe that those white women are Republican women anyway."
Related coverage: Ace points out that Obama has been desperately trying to recruit Hillary Clinton as his female attack dog to counter Palin, and since Hillary isn't interested in the job, he's gone to the B-team; and of course you get B-level results from the B-team. That's why it's the B-team.
And it turns out that Carol Fowler is the wife of Don "Hurricane shows God's on our side" Fowler (also via Ace).
Posted by Richard at September 10, 2008 3:38 PM
Once again, after the "cling to guns and religion" comment, disavowment of lifetime friend and "mentor" Wright who's crazy views are insulting to America, and now this, it just shows the Dems are just out of touch under the "leadership" of Obama. Its amazing how supposedly this is the party for women, but idolizes a sexual harrasser President and minimizes one its most cherished and accomplished female stars (Hillary).
If this is indicative of what the Dems stand for, as an Independent, it just makes me discover not only to know why I should vote for Palin and McCain, but also why I should NOT vote for Obama and Biden by the true meaness of their party and its surrogates. I wonder if Ms. Fowler has had an abortion, or for that matter, what is the status in terms of all female politicians in the Democratic side of politics that have been elected and if they have passed the litmus test of having had an abortion to be a true Democrat?
Posted by: arster at September 10, 2008 5:05 PM
I'm not an independent so it isn't like I'm an unbiased judge of the Democrats. However, I was at one time a Dem, but changed when it became obvious to me that the best and brightest among them had begun having to play second fiddle to the far left. It really began during the late days of Vietnam - I never did like being called a baby killer.
The other obvious thing to me was that the Dems had become far more interested in abortion issues than life issues, and began placing the interests of the state above those of the individual.
Enter Obama, and we have before us the extreme of that: Marxism.
I'm just not in to that.
BTW, I did mention that I'm not without bias, now.
Posted by: Richard at September 10, 2008 5:31 PM
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