Republican party chairwoman warns 2024
presidential candidates need to address
abortion 'head on' - and suggests Dems
would allow terminations at nine months
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Melissa Koenig
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/30/2023 9:24:20 PM
The chairwoman of the Republican party has warned that candidates will need to address the abortion issue 'head on' in order to win back the presidency in 2024.
Ronna McDaniel said on Sunday that Democrats have turned the issue of abortion into a rallying cry following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade last summer, while Republicans have tried to steer clear of the issue.
But if Republican presidential candidates instead challenge Democrats on their beliefs, the party may be able to win back swing voters, McDaniel said on FOX News Sunday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
padiva 4/30/2023 10:07:41 PM (No. 1460077)
What is she talking about?
Abortion is an issue for the states as per the 10th Amendment. Did she not hear about this SCOTUS decision?
Perhaps she should be addressing the various state legislatures.....
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This is 2023. Any Republican candidate who takes a no-abortion-anywhere-anytime position next year will lose. Period. You don't have to like it but that's how many voters feel about the issue. The playing field has shifted and we need to adjust to it. If not, 4 more years of tyranny from which there may be no recovery.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/30/2023 10:18:39 PM (No. 1460086)
Partial-birth abortions are abhorrent and very unpopular, saddle that on every D'Rats head.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
columba 4/30/2023 10:18:43 PM (No. 1460087)
Abortion continues to be Murder. Don't kill you child !
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vesicant 4/30/2023 10:25:59 PM (No. 1460092)
The "pro life position loses elections so we have to abandon our moral convictions to save the GOP" crudola is increasingly coming from Never Trumpers like Ann Coulter. How corrupt do you have to be to sacrifice children to beat Trump? All those morons need to read "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/30/2023 10:34:04 PM (No. 1460096)
Ronna McDaniel is a mental defective. The abortion lobby must be paying her under the table. For one thing, if you plan on rubbing abortion in our faces. you WILL lose. Democrat beliefs are made by a moistened finger in the wind. Abortions have been legally available since the 1960's. Only now, the D's want the R's to pay for them. She is just a well-paid secretary. She is not the Delphi Oracle!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/1/2023 12:29:47 AM (No. 1460139)
FTA - "Instead, McDaniel suggested Republican candidates put Democrats on the defensive by asking if they support late-term abortion, which some consider to be infanticide. 'What abortion is a bad idea to Democrats? Nine months? Eight months? Seven months?' she asked, rhetorically. She then went on to ask whether people should be allowed to have an abortion 'if it's a girl' or whether people who are against it for religious reasons would have to support 'tax-funded abortions,' saying 'That's where Joe Biden was years ago."
Abortion is literally a life or death issue. Republicans can no longer allow the Democrats to have an open field without counter attacks. We must push them back on their heels. Make them defend abortion up to and including after birth. They insist on only repeating their mantras, "A woman's right to choose" or "My body, my choice". (Funny how those sentiments mysteriously disappeared during the Covid vaccine mandate.) Well, its not just the woman's body so its it not just her choice. Society also has a say in the matter. The moment of a woman's choice was when she decided to spread her legs.
Once the sperm penetrates the egg and cell division begins, we have a new human life. From the womb to the tomb, life is precious.
Pro-life is pro-woman, pro-man, pro-child and pro-family.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/1/2023 3:02:28 AM (No. 1460150)
don't believe anything romney mcdaniel says and no one with "romney" as part of their name can be trusted if they're speaking as a repub
harken back to bill clinton and the campaign line: "it's the economy, stupid" per james carville
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
avital2 5/1/2023 5:10:32 AM (No. 1460169)
can't abide Ronna but do believe people don't know how far the D's are wlling to go with allowing abortion (through birth in many cases) since the country is pretty unified on protecting life of mother, rape/incest and about 12-15 week restrictions. exposing how extreme many D's are, putting them on their back foot, must be done. states control, yes, but i can tell you Californians don't know what their government is allowing. we can't hide from this issue.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/1/2023 6:02:42 AM (No. 1460181)
Think hard! D'ya know anyone who trusts McDaniel on any level?....Me neither!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FJB 5/1/2023 6:07:29 AM (No. 1460187)
Any candidate taking a no-abortion-anywhere-anytime position loses. We don't have to like it, but that's how many voters feel about it.
No. 2 is right. This is how the nation's divided—the way that handed us Barry Obiden and allowed the left to get away with stealing 2020 and deliberately turning us over to perverts and the Communist Chinese gleefully destroying America. MAGA
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 5/1/2023 7:35:59 AM (No. 1460212)
First, let's call her by the name that best describes her: Ronna Romney. How she got the RNC job is not a mystery; her uncle got it for her and for quite a while we didn't get the connection. Just remember she funnelled a ton of money directly to China McConnell so he could shore up Lisa Murkowski (RINO Alaska). She also spent close to $1 million on flowers during the 2020-2022 election cycle while the Democrats were busy winning election. SHE is the main reason we did not have the long-predicted Republican tsunami. In spite of the promises coming from her about the next election she is not not doing the necessary work needed to win 2024. The Romney's are a pestilence on this country.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/1/2023 7:40:47 AM (No. 1460216)
I wish a Republican would just go out on some new show and when asked about abortion reply as follows: Glad for the Dobbs decision - abortion never was a right under the Constitution (sorry Alan Dershowitz but you are wrong here), but I am not that concerned about abortion except that the vast majority of abortions that have and will continue to take place will be by Democrat women killing their own babies and tax payer should not pay one penny for any of them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
downnout 5/1/2023 7:44:15 AM (No. 1460218)
This woman has been a disaster for the Republican Party and yet she was re-elected. Sheesh.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/1/2023 8:25:55 AM (No. 1460231)
McDaniel, maybe just leave it in Tucker's hands to saturate social media with posters of post-aborted fetuses bearing the message, "I wanted to live".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/1/2023 8:29:21 AM (No. 1460233)
Any laws, rules on this matter belong to the 50 states which hold all the residual powers on behalf of the people. It is not a Federal matter. The SCOTUS has given a clear ruling. Republican candidates for Federal office should steer clear. As for State level contests the key question is '"Do you believe that life begins at conception?"
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
66Strat 5/1/2023 9:04:10 AM (No. 1460256)
Ronna, your only concern should be envelopes. How to stop Democrats from manufacturing and harvesting illegal envelopes and how to help Republicans secure every legal envelope from a likely GOP voter. If she fails to do this 2024 will be our last election.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/1/2023 9:25:09 AM (No. 1460270)
I often wondered why all of sudden "Roe vs Wade" was overturned when it was and this is my take on it. Joe Biden's ratings are declining and what issue(s) will bring Democrats and liberals together? My answer is abortion and all of the identity politics that gets them recognition as the very caring political party. Republicans are constantly painted as the party of hate, racism, sexism, and any other "ism" possible. We have pictures of Joe Biden and Robert Byrd but I guess they are ignored now. They are the party that is compassionate etc. I firmly believe that "Roe vs Wade" was conveniently overturned so it makes the party against abortion look judgmental.
I am posting something I read in one of Charles Stanley's devotion books “Jesus, Our Perfect Hope” book. It is a statement from one of the paragraphs and it is: Those trapped in si know their failings – they don’t need to feel more shame. And their eternity is at stake. So do as Jesus did: accept them as individuals sacrificially loved by God, while refusing to validate their sin. Have compassion on their needful hearts and lead them to the One who can heal them.
It is a powerful statement but to a secular person it is probably very judgmental. They may not even view what they are doing as a sin or wrongdoing. So the way I am going to handle things going forward is in this manner. It is along the lines of "love the sinner, hate the sin" but I am personalizing to my sense of things. I will look at everyone as God's children but I will not validate what offends God.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
broken01 5/1/2023 9:28:42 AM (No. 1460272)
I can't stand that RINO cow Ronna Romney but shockingly she has a point. Democrats like ex-VA governor Pediatric doctor Ralph Northam believe that abortions can be done right after birth. It is murder period end of story, and the republicans need to make this an issue against the party of death. That's one of the reasons' why we lost the mid-terms. We let the death-o-crats paint us as Christian extremists who want to take over women's bodies by denying them "healthcare." It's of course a ridiculous lie and needs to be made so.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/1/2023 9:29:00 AM (No. 1460273)
I apologize for the error. The statement "Those trapped in si know their failings" should be Those trapped in sin know their failings. . .
By the way, do I really believe that the Democrat party cares about people deeply? Only when a issue gives them power and authority. . .
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/1/2023 9:42:48 AM (No. 1460279)
The RNC can kiss my grits....abortion is the killing of babies and there is no excuse for republicans kow-towing to women who don't understand...it's their bodies and THEY need to take measures to not get pregnant in the first place....it's not the job of babies to set their consciences straight....planned parenthood and the rats have convinced black women that they are the victims...when all along it's a simple solution....stop at the drug store or use rhythm or as a dear friend once said..."sing or dance"...you make the choice...each state makes the rules...not the RNC....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/1/2023 10:26:47 AM (No. 1460317)
Why are Republicans so blind to this STATE issue? Running on a an abortion ban is a sure loser. I understand it's an important issue, but why give up dozens of important changes over this one issue? Are RNC Chairpersons chosen by the Democrats?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
raphaela 5/1/2023 10:32:16 AM (No. 1460323)
No, no, no, no, NO! Does this silly twit think that we fought tooth and nail for over 40 years to help preserve the sanctity of life only to throw it all away so McDaniel's rich donors can feel better about themselves at cocktail parties? The level of disconnect is appalling.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/1/2023 10:37:35 AM (No. 1460327)
Did I miss a memo? Why are posters mentioning abortion bans? The most conservative legislation I know that has been passed has been a 6-week limit. That is not a ban. In addition, if your state’s abortion laws are too strict, get one in another state. Why are we even discussing this? Pro-choice people are the ones telling us that the abortion issue is a loser. Do NOT believe them. They refer to cooked statistics that support their position.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
smcchk 5/1/2023 10:56:51 AM (No. 1460354)
This the THE issue for many, many voters - Democrats, of course, most Independents and almost all young folks. They are NOT going to change their minds. The GOP can only moderate their stance - abortion restrictions at 15 or 20 weeks. It is the only way to hope to win. I just saw the Wisconsin Supreme Court switch to liberal with an awful, soft-on-crime candidate because of the abortion issue - is that what we want?
I would also suggest SOME policy on guns other than citing the 2A. How about demanding that gun charges not be dropped in criminal cases? Tougher background checks - including psychiatric care/medications? Anything to work to stop some gun crime?
If the GOP moderated on those 2 issues, the future would be ours.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
erobot 5/1/2023 11:09:23 AM (No. 1460364)
Thirty or more years ago a prof at Princeton proposed to make it legal to abort one's child up to age two and a half. Had more support that was imaginable then. Now ???
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/1/2023 11:22:51 AM (No. 1460372)
I have one more comment as I am concerned that my previous comments could be misconstrued. I have come to the conclusion in so many things that I cannot force someone to do something. It is not my job or my business to brush off someone else's doorstep - I am not to judge. I respect people as all of God's creation but I don't have to validate what offends God. It is heartbreaking that people think that aborting a baby is the only answer but there is nothing I can do to change their minds.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/1/2023 12:19:33 PM (No. 1460422)
Reason Number 23 why the GOP must die.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/1/2023 12:32:51 PM (No. 1460431)
It's in the states' hands now, where it belonged all along.
It's not a national issue. Ignore it.
Stare decesis.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Aeneid1 5/1/2023 4:36:05 PM (No. 1460588)
They want to lose.
This is how they will do it.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/1/2023 5:04:16 PM (No. 1460614)
Ronna Romney McDaniel is not a political strategist. She is a party planner. Remember that she spends thousands of dollars on flowers to make a room look pretty for some political get-together, and gazillions of dollars in January 2023 on some posh retreat in California where her fellow committee members elected her to be the Chairwoman of the Republican Party for the fourth time, in spite of the mediocre job she did in the 2022 midterms. Scores of exceptional candidates did not get the finanaical backing they should have received from the Republican Party to promote their candidacy. The blame lies with Ronna. Now she is advising the Party to put the abortion issue front and center. That is something the Democrats want us to do. That is their issue. That is their only issue. We have plenty of issues to choose from.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
red1066 5/1/2023 6:22:21 PM (No. 1460656)
While I'm against abortions, the Supreme Court ruling only eliminates government from paying for them. Abortions are still available in most states however, one might have to pay for them. The leftists idiots imply that the Supreme Court ruling eliminates the ability to get an abortion. Which as usual coming from the mouths of communists, is a total lie.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
49 Ford 5/1/2023 6:40:27 PM (No. 1460674)
The reason we have a political problem with abortion is that 50 years of relentless "pro-choice" propaganda have endowed this barbarism with a SYMBOLIC importance for many millions of girls and women, even those who, left to themselves, would never go near an abortion mill.
And they vote. And they are driven by pure emotion.
During his last couple of years with us our beloved El Rushbo forthrightly insisted that abortion was at the core of everything that ails us as a nation. As usual, Rush was Right.
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