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Pictured: Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich debate the import issues of the day in Iowa.
After the Pizza Guy’s oopsie on abortion the other day, you just knew the Secessionist was going to clobber him for it.
“It is a liberal canard to say I am personally pro-life but government should stay out of that decision,” Perry said, without naming Cain. “If that is your view, you are not pro-life, you are pro having your cake and eating it too.”
So naturally, the Pizza Guy took it all back.
“I believe abortion should be clearly stated as illegal across this country,” Cain said…
Meanwhile, Michele Bachmann went one further — calling for the perfect, divinely-inspired U.S. Constitution to be changed.
“I believe that the government must intervene and I stand for a federal constitutional amendment to protect life from conception until natural death,” Bachmann told the audience, prompting cheers.
And the Frothy Mixture told us that he’s pro-life because God told him to be.
“You want to know why I’m pro-life? God showed me if you are faithful, he will be faithful,” Santorum told the crowd, who fell silent as the former senator shared his personal family story.
And Ron Paul was — well, Ron Paul.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, discussed his monetary policy positions, even pointing to passages from the Bible about gold.
So how did they all do?
“I don’t see anyone galvanizing people like they did for Mike Huckabee,” said Steve Scheffler, president of the event’s sponsor and a leading social conservative activist in Iowa. “And I’d be lying if I told you that can change in one event.”
That may be too harsh. Is it really fair to compare any of these candidates to a political giant like Mike Huckabee?
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Hooray for Frothy!
Bachmann’s proposed constitutional amendment would make the death penalty illegal.
Shit ya mean I might have to agree with her on something??? OMFG! What is happening here??????
These fundies scare me more than terrorists
But Republicans only want to “protect life” from conception to birth. After that, you’re on your own.
Yeah, well my cat scares me more than terrorists.
Will somebody explain to me why Obama was so hell-bent on “reaching out” to these people? It didn’t win him a single vote and was a slap in the face to the very people who helped get him elected.
Fixed it 4 u, BT.
Nothing like a nice helping of bigotry to make your point, eh Blue Texan?
If you want to find out more about Free Pentecostalism in Appalachia I would suggest you do a little reading. At a time when the people of Eastern Kentucky owned nothing – they worked in company mines, lived in company houses, shopped in company stores – at a time when people of Appalachia were told they were worthless – from media stereotypes, to army recruiters, to state educators – - these people crafted one essential part of their lives over which they alone had agency.
The culture that produced Free Pentecostalism was the same culture that fought the union wars of Harlan County and created the UMWA.
UMWA – Part I
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/18/995709/-The-UMWA-A-Different-Perspective?via=search
UMWA – Part II(Pentecostal Church of God – midway down)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/18/995748/-The-UMWAA-Different-Perspective,-Part-II?via=siderecent
*SIGH*
There are times one almost can support retroactive abortion.
‘Try GodLube…for when God-bothering just isn’t enough!’
It’s never too late for Plan B.
That is sorta my thought….If Obama had been even a bit of the Pres. he was elected to be, we would not be suffering in this silly, crazy season.
I know…woulda, coulda, shoulda….so here we are.
…so you’re saying that Free Pentecostalism is pro-choice as well as pro-union? Bravo!
There must be at least a few GOPers as disgusted with their candidates as we are with Odumba. It’s pitiful when you think January 20, 2013 will mark the start of either Odumba’s next 4 years or some GOPer’s 1st 4.
We are f*cked.
No –
I said – if you bothered to read – that to mock Appalachian Free Pentecostalis in the manner in which the OP did is to mock a group of people who have been marginalized over and over again.
Has nothing to do with their current political views –
I suspect, however, that the people pictured in this 1946 photo were strongly pro-union. Although Appalachian men may have rarely heard of abortion, I also suspect that the womenfolk had long traditions – albeit quiet – of how to end an unwantd pregnancy.
I was under the misapprehension that folks here tried to refrain from such.
…pro-union, pro-choice (women), anti-marginalization, anti-mocking. Bravo! (as I said)
Guess Cain is officially a Rethuglican front-runner now: he’s proved that he can flip-flop like a hand-tossed pizza.
The Constitution is designed to protect rights and to lay out the gov’t organization and a few other things. Protecting a person’s right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” is in there. So, the only question is whether Republicans support that or not and precisely which citizen to be protected exists before they’re born.
These are deep fundamentally difficult questons for Republicans. Impossible for politicians to solve. Heh.
I would find it more intersting if Michele Bachmann actually called for ‘big government’ beyond what we have to protect the Life of anything. And, as someone else wrote, protecting Life means no Texas Republican bent on killing everybody through the Justice system could get elected.
Interesting. Do all Appalachian Free Pentecostal Churches engage in snake handling?
So they are calling for a big increase in Big Government to monitor the sexual doings of over half the population. With all the tax breaks they propose, who is going to pay for it?
Tortoise,Are you the person that worked there way up to the top 0.25?Owner of a Medical Device Co.Employ a 100 people.How well do you take care of the people in your business not you top but the floor sweeper?
I worked for a man that had made it in 1968,69 and from 1971 thru 1982.One of the floor sweepers was able to put his 6 children thru college in the 1970′s.The floor sweeper earned less than anyone working with us.
After his son took controle and put new management started bribeing union business agents and building inspectors in the late 1976 and I quite in 1982.His son had went to college and was more into wall street earnings than keeping the business going.
In 1976?1977 I over heard the father and son talking about laying off about 10 men that had been with the Co. from the start(1950,s and 1960′s) we employed around 300 people at that time.The father told his son no that these men had made the Co. and afforded him the son the life thay lived.The father told the son we can afford to pay these men if thay sat on there asses till thay retired.The son was more into maxing profit than takeing care of the men that built the business.All 10 were 55 to 68 years old.Within a couple of years son took over and started Maxing profits any way possiable.
By the mid 1990 son sold a more profitable business.The thing when the son was thru the floor sweepers coud not even put 1 child thru collage.
Everyone working for the Father had quality Health Ins. and retirement + Dot your I’s and cross your T’s Social Security.Everyone working was paying taxes.
What I’m asking are you the Father or the Son type.
So glad these men ( a a few fake women) spend so much time figuring out what I’m going to do, have done or will do with my uterus….while they plan who next will have the power to kill anyone on the planet they desire to…. with robotics, of course.
Maybe THEY’RE robots….who knows?
Alien genetics for sure
“…protect life from conception until natural death…”
Not quite, and here Bachmann seems to be supporting national health care.
Keep dreaming.