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TexasTowelie

(111,318 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:20 PM Mar 2013

Republicans Have an Image Problem Because They Insist on Acting Like Republicans

What about all these women? Why would they be worried about the GOP? Here in Texas, the GOP marches proudly beneath the virtual banner of [font color=red]Great Electric Dildo[/font], the vagina wand that Republicans insist the state must stick inside any woman who asks for an abortion.

Is any physical object that the government sticks way up inside the body of an actual person, female or male, a perception problem? Isn't a government dildo way up inside your body pretty real? Is there any conceivable way to get a person to stop perceiving it as real? If so, wouldn't that be even more scary?

What is the Republican line on that one, again? "We have a sonogram law in Texas that values and protects life," Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said last year. "Governor Perry is proud of the steps we've taken in Texas to protect the unborn and ensure women have access to all the facts before making a life-ending decision."

Sure. That's all about the information and the decisions and the values and stuff. But what about the thing way up inside your body? Maybe the "Growth and Opportunity Report" could have been more persuasive had it included some graphic photos of the government dildo in use, faces blanked out of course. The caption could have been, "Here's our growth. What's our opportunity?" Then again, we must fear the answer.


The complete article at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/03/republicans_have_an_image_prob.php .
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Republicans Have an Image Problem Because They Insist on Acting Like Republicans (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2013 OP
Stealing the vote from minorities, the young and the poor is a good way to appeal to voters Gothmog Mar 2013 #1

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
1. Stealing the vote from minorities, the young and the poor is a good way to appeal to voters
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 06:08 PM
Mar 2013

The Texas voter suppression law was an attempt to steal future elections by making it harder for the poor, minorities and the old to vote. Michael Steele was correct that these efforts are not designed to appeal to minority voters.

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