Don’t Be Bamboozled!

[Editorial]

Zipper your mouth! Shut up! Don’t speak about it!

The Republicans are running nervous they hitched their wagon to abortion rights and now they want to distance themselves from the issue. With a wink and a nod they still support abortion bans.

GOP senators warn new Speaker on abortion
The Hill
By Alexander Bolton
November 5, 2023


Republican senators worried about winning back the Senate majority in 2024 are discouraging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from moving any national abortion legislation before next year’s election.  

Johnson, an outspoken Christian conservative who says his political worldview is guided by the Bible, remains a mystery to GOP senators even after meeting them for the first time at last week’s Wednesday lunch. The 51-year-old lawmaker rose from relative obscurity to win the Speakership late last month.

Zip your lip!

This year, he co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, which declares “the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization.”

The Republicans are running scared!

Abortion rights advocates win major victories in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia
The results sent a stark signal for 2024 about enduring demands across the political spectrum to protect access to abortion, even in conservative states
The Washington Post
By Hannah Knowles and Caroline Kitchener
November 7, 2023

Abortion rights advocates won major victories Tuesday as voters in conservative-leaning Ohio decisively passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to abortion, while those in ruby-red Kentucky reelected a Democratic governor who aggressively attacked his opponent for supporting the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

In Virginia, a battleground state where Republicans pushed a proposal to outlaw most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Democrats were projected to take control of the state legislature after campaigning heavily on preserving access.

This is what git them quaking in their boots…

Preliminary exit polls had 1 in 5 Republicans and nearly two-thirds of independents backing the amendment, in a striking illustration of abortion rights’ popularity across party lines. With most of the vote counted late Tuesday, Issue 1 was projected to pass by a 10-point margin, while another ballot measure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was projected to pass, 56 to 44 percent.

Their old fashion Republican voters don’t like where the party is heading.

There is no middle ground, there is no negotiations on abortion rights. It is about body integrity! Who controls our bodies!

An article on NBC News, Chuck Todd wrote,

This is not a 50-50 issue —and yet so many GOP strategists and candidates try to make the case it is. Even the 15-week restriction position that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin tried to push as a “middle ground” did not fare well with voters. How many more Ohios or Kentuckys or Kansases do the GOP need to experience before they accept the voters’ verdict on this issue?

Just because the Republicans don’t want to talk about abortion don’t be bamboozled, remember "a leopard can't change its spots." the Republicans still want to carter to their evangelical base they just don’t want to talk about.

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Updated: 11:50AM

 

The Hill writes,

Abortion rights have won in every state that voted on the issue since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and groups on both sides have been pouring tens of millions of dollars into off-year elections.   

While Ohio is the only state that will vote directly on an abortion measure, it’s a central issue in both the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race and Virginia’s legislative elections.

Democrats have been able to ride a wave of post-Roe anger over abortion and are looking to use it as a powerful cudgel against Republicans in 2024.  

Their efforts on Tuesday are likely to be a sign of whether the strategy can continue to be successful, especially as more states look to take up abortion ballot measures.

While the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that,

Democrat Dan McCaffery was elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday, extending the Democrats’ majority on the state’s highest court and reinforcing the fact that abortion rights and the integrity of elections are top of mind for Pennsylvania voters.

The Associated Press called the race for McCaffery, a Philadelphia native and Superior Court judge since 2019, around 10:53 p.m.

Abortion and election issues took center stage in the expensive and contentious showdown between the candidates. Outside groups and the candidates’ campaigns spent more than $20 million to win the open seat, which was the top statewide race on the ballot this fall.

Abortion is the Albatross around the Republican neck, they made their bed now they have to sleep in it!