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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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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57428739/howard-dean-women-latinos-terrified-of-gop/
barbtries
(28,798 posts)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)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)to restrict the voting rights of the the poor, the elderly and minorities.
i fear for the sanctity of the vote too.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)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.
Most Repugs I know vote Repug regardless. They simply refuse to vote for a Dem, no matter what.
dickthegrouch
(3,174 posts)More votes for us in November
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)would be if they stole the election somehow, and I wouldn't put it past them to try.
SunSeeker
(51,563 posts)That is my worst fear as well. And we need to be ready.
eek MD
(391 posts)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.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)is terrified of them too.
k/r
rgbecker
(4,831 posts)of the Cayman Islands.
We need a bumper sticker like this.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Swiss bank account, mansion in Malibu, tax dodger. I just can't see Obama losing, should be a 10 % victory.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)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)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).
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)They threaten all of our choices.