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truthN08

(275 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2012, 02:26 PM Oct 2012

I wonder why no one has changed the narrative yet to women

I always thought that was a winning issue for our side. I'm not going to let the polls bother me but what is concerning me is why they aren't dominating by changing the narrative. I know they are a lot smarter than me but I think that now is the perfect time to put Robme on his heals to make him go on the record as being against a womans right to choose. Bring up the person-hood bill front and center. Go after those middle class women unable to have children without IVF and talk about how Ryan wanted that to be a crime.

We have those issues on our side. We need to be screaming about it right now. Force them to talk about it. Every time they try to weasel out of it hit them with something else. Go on the record that you will NOT take away the mortgage deduction. Make them go on the record and tell people that if they are under 55 years old when it comes to social security they are going to screw them. Don't just let them tell people over 60 they are safe make them explain to everyone under 60 that they are SCREWED. Make Robme answer whether is a moderate that will govern as a moderate or if he is a severe conservative!!

I just don't understand why every Dem doesn't step out there like Harry Reid did on that tax mess and force the media's hand. Everyone seems to be sitting back. If the media doesn't WANT to cover them MAKE them cover them. Start saying stuff like " The American people can't these lies being told to them. Politics is one thing but real life and the times we live in must take top priority. Mitt Romney isn't being honest with you.

President Obama should hit the public with fast facts:

In 2002, Romney said "I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose. I will not change any provisions of Massachusetts' pro-choice laws." In 2005, he told The Globe, "Massachusetts should become a pro-life state. So were you lying then or lying now?

Romney:I am pro-life. I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother." -- July 26, 2005, Boston Globe. - So were you lying then or are you lying now?

Is it too much to ask for a change in the narrative?

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I wonder why no one has changed the narrative yet to women (Original Post) truthN08 Oct 2012 OP

Any woman in America who is even REMOTELY GallopingGhost Oct 2012 #1

They don't truthN08 Oct 2012 #2

That's exactly how I feel. GallopingGhost Oct 2012 #3

Excellent question leftynyc Oct 2012 #4

GallopingGhost

(2,404 posts)

1. Any woman in America who is even REMOTELY

Reply to truthN08 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 02:32 PM

Oct 2012

thinking of voting Romney/Ryan had better stop and take a good hard look at these two, and exactly how they feel about women's issues.

It's like signing your own execution. Do female Romney/Ryan supporters value themselves and their daughters so little? And I say that as a conservative Dem who is anti-abortion.

truthN08

(275 posts)

2. They don't

Reply to GallopingGhost (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 02:39 PM

Oct 2012

Value themselves. They have some how convinced themselves they are "better" than other women and these things won't effect them. I know this because I see it written on FB by republican women. It's very sad. It scares me. I'm a married woman with 1 daughter who is 10 years old and I can't live with that fact that if someone harmed me or my daughter we wouldn't be able to legally make a choice. I fear that for all women. I fear us making even less money than men just because we are women. It scares me that in those Robme numbers are a bunch of ignorant women. It makes me so very angry.

GallopingGhost

(2,404 posts)

3. That's exactly how I feel.

Reply to truthN08 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 02:54 PM

Oct 2012

Even though I am anti-abortion, I can't image any woman who has had to endure the terror and humiliation of rape being told that someone else gets to decide what else she must go through.

Don't get me started on the equal pay thing!! lol

I think R/R have a crappy attitude about women in general, and fortunately I think women who see that outnumber those who don't.

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)

4. Excellent question

Reply to truthN08 (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 03:05 PM

Oct 2012

We're some of his biggest supporters, there are more of voting (since the 60s). Both the Pres and the VP should be pounding this (these) issues home for us.

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