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Topic: ‘War on Women’ 2.0 |
‘War on Women’ 2.0
National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles
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Posted By:AVFD15, 2/21/2013 9:43:00 AM
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| ‘Ladies Man,” read the lead-story headline at the Huffington Post on February 12, plastered above a photo of a smiling Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.). “GOP Savior Votes No on Violence Against Women Act. . . . Hours before State of the Union Response.” Welcome to the scorched-earth phase of the Democrats’ “war on women” campaign, and the beginning of a ruthless offensive to hold their Senate majority, and possibly to retake the House, in 2014. Democrats have nearly perfected the following exercise in cynical electioneering: 1) introduce legislation; 2) title it something that appeals to the vast majority of
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/21/2013 9:58:30 AM (No. 9188662)
The dems can count on our help in retaking the house and expanding their majority in the senate.
Just listen to talk radio and you´ll get my point.
Big picture. Heck no. Ratings for the talker comes first.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
olcap, 2/21/2013 10:26:13 AM (No. 9188733)
Rubio may be a ladies´ man, both in what the article means that to be, and in what most of us helices that to be.
Without question though, Rubio is the Illegals´ man.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 2/21/2013 10:29:47 AM (No. 9188741)
and good old Rovian Karl is out there aiding and abetting them at every turn.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/21/2013 10:44:50 AM (No. 9188771)
Those who opposed the "Suffragettes" many years ago, claimed that women voters would be taken in by various appeals to the heart and all manner of illogical deceptions intended only to increase the power and scope of government.
Those old dead white men were such a bunch of haters !
And even if they were right we all have a duty to put our fingers in our ears and chant
lalalalalalalalala.......
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 2/21/2013 10:47:23 AM (No. 9188779)
The first person on this post to make a modicum of sense is #4.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 2/21/2013 11:22:12 AM (No. 9188847)
#4 is on fire today!
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Daily Mail [UK], by Suzannah Hills
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Iran is preparing to send 4,000 troops in to Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of America´s announcement it will be providing ´military aid´ to the country´s Muslim rebels. President Barack Obama made the pledge earlier this week after the U.S. claimed it found ´conclusive evidence´ Assad´s regime has used chemical weapons against the rebel forces--which includes the most extreme Sunni Islamists--and has called for Britain and France to back the move. While Britain hasn´t made a guarantee either way as yet, more than 350 Royal Marines are being sent to Jordan
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