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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:07 PM May 2012

Howard Dean: Women, Latinos "terrified" of GOP

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57428739/howard-dean-women-latinos-terrified-of-gop/

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said Sunday that the policies promoted by the Republican Party have women and Latinos "terrified."

"Women are terrified of what the Republicans are talking about. They're talking about basically stripping away their ability to have insurance pay for their birth control pills," Dean said on "Face the Nation." "Latinos are terrified of the Republicans, because they seem to have a total tin ear when it comes to the basic needs of treating people with dignity.

"For Michele Bachmann to go on there and claim that women are going to vote for Mitt Romney is perfectly ridiculous," Dean said, referring to the Republican congresswoman who also appeared on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

Dean also suggested that "the average American thinks that Mitt Romney doesn't care about them. Here's a guy who's building, during a campaign, a mansion in Malibu with an elevator for his car," Dean said to Bob Schieffer. "He had a Swiss bank account and he invests in the Cayman Islands. I don't think we've ever elected a president who has invested in the Cayman Islands as a tax dodge before.

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Howard Dean: Women, Latinos "terrified" of GOP (Original Post) cal04 May 2012 OP
we'd be crazy not to be. barbtries May 2012 #1
I don't know whether it's terrified or furious Warpy May 2012 #2
and everything has been done iemitsu May 2012 #13
K & R Scurrilous May 2012 #3
Scary danbeee46 May 2012 #4
Indeed AlbertCat May 2012 #9
Lets' do our damndest to keep it that way! dickthegrouch May 2012 #5
Howard Dean doesn't pull his punches. n/t ellisonz May 2012 #6
My worst fear felix_numinous May 2012 #7
We need to get our own version of the "Brooks Brothers Rebellion" ready in the wings! SunSeeker May 2012 #8
They started early this time..... eek MD May 2012 #10
This non female, non latino progressoid May 2012 #11
ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT! rgbecker May 2012 #12
There could be four different political ads for Obama . The elevator for your car, sarcasmo May 2012 #14
Yeah, they do terrify me. Kath1 May 2012 #15
Geographical correction: Mitt's Calif. mansion is in La Jolla, CA (very wealthy area of San Diego) Piedras May 2012 #16
Nice politics of fear there, Howard. nt EFerrari May 2012 #17
The Republicans threaten more than access to birth control, Mr. (Former) Chairman. BlueIris May 2012 #18

barbtries

(28,798 posts)
1. we'd be crazy not to be.
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:16 PM
May 2012

in fact if i have one terror it is that the republicans will steal the election and carry on their destruction of the nation.

Warpy

(111,267 posts)
2. I don't know whether it's terrified or furious
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:22 PM
May 2012

I know I've been furious with that whole party ever since Reagan handed it off to the antiabortion nuts. There is certainly no way on this green earth that I would vote for any of them, and that includes locally.

What terrifies us is that one of them might be cheated into office the way Stupid was. Nothing has been done to make voting any more secure than it was in 2004.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
13. and everything has been done
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:42 PM
May 2012

to restrict the voting rights of the the poor, the elderly and minorities.
i fear for the sanctity of the vote too.

danbeee46

(53 posts)
4. Scary
Sun May 6, 2012, 03:41 PM
May 2012

What scares me is the fact that the American people consistently, and in large numbers, vote against their own self-interest. I have seen no sign that this is going to change.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
9. Indeed
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:25 PM
May 2012

Most Repugs I know vote Repug regardless. They simply refuse to vote for a Dem, no matter what.

SunSeeker

(51,563 posts)
8. We need to get our own version of the "Brooks Brothers Rebellion" ready in the wings!
Sun May 6, 2012, 04:48 PM
May 2012

That is my worst fear as well. And we need to be ready.

eek MD

(391 posts)
10. They started early this time.....
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:34 PM
May 2012

Every election cycle, there is a new way for them to try to "milk the system" for an extra advantage. Before it was the election machines (which still hasn't gotten resolved by the way). It switched to stifling voter registration drives (i.e Acorn). Now it's the voter disenfranchisement measures in state legislatures which seek to prevent many traditional democratic voters from going to the polls in swing states. (yes, I've skipped over many of their devices, but you get the point)...

I think their ultimate goal is the system from the early days of our country where only wealthy, white, male, landowners could vote.....because it plays to their true base. Us "peons" and "proles" just muck up the works for them.

sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)
14. There could be four different political ads for Obama . The elevator for your car,
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:46 PM
May 2012

Swiss bank account, mansion in Malibu, tax dodger. I just can't see Obama losing, should be a 10 % victory.

Kath1

(4,309 posts)
15. Yeah, they do terrify me.
Sun May 6, 2012, 11:10 PM
May 2012

Actually they scare the living Hell out of me. This obsession they have with birth control/contraception/abortion services really creeps me out to the max. No way I would vote for a Republican. Nooooo way!

Piedras

(247 posts)
16. Geographical correction: Mitt's Calif. mansion is in La Jolla, CA (very wealthy area of San Diego)
Sun May 6, 2012, 11:27 PM
May 2012
"a mansion in Malibu with an elevator for his car," Dean said to Bob Schieffer.


A small geographical correction, the Romney's multi-million $$$ beach front mansion that they're greatly expanding, including an elevator for their cars, is in the La Jolla Shores area of the City of San Diego. La Jolla is a very wealthy area of San Diego, California.

The mansion is not in Malibu, CA (north of Los Angeles).

BlueIris

(29,135 posts)
18. The Republicans threaten more than access to birth control, Mr. (Former) Chairman.
Mon May 7, 2012, 03:37 AM
May 2012

They threaten all of our choices.

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