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Christian Post: GOP Too Intelligent For Average Voter, Will Win By Shaming Women Who Seek An Abortion

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 9/17/2013 12:05 pm

“Conservatism is too cerebral for many Americans,” writes Rachel Alexander at the Christian Post. She claims that Republicans continue to lose elections “because people are lazy” and simply not smart enough to understand why Democrats are wrong on the issues. “While Americans deep down prefer shows like Duck Dynasty, they're allowing the left to win on social issues,” Alexander said. “Republicans need to quit lamenting over the backwards fact that the most intelligent party is not the most successful.” One way to change to “turn the tide” and improve the GOP’s image as a “cold and heartless” party, she writes, is to shame women who seek an abortion: “Portray the woman who wants to abort her baby as cruel and selfish, and showcase those children who grew up with permanent injuries as a result of an attempted, botched abortion. These kinds of portrayals must be done frequently and everywhere.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/christian-post-gop-too-intelligent-average-voter-will-win-shaming-women-who-seek-abortion#sthash.SQzVnwDk.dpuf

[Arcanetrance]

1. Conservatism isn't cerebral by any stretch conservatism is an appeal to our most animal instincts

Take what I want and screw everything else and fear change

[The Magistrate]

2. A Thorough Self-Refutation Is Always Fun to Watch, Ma'am

One of the stupidest claims to higher intelligence I have ever come across....

[Nay]

17. Indeed! She's dumber than a bag of hammers! And she doesn't know it! A perfect example....

[el_bryanto]

3. Well flattering your audience is always a winning strategy

Alexander isn't writing to us or to American Centrists - her audience is the right wing base, telling them that they are the best and should have all the things they want.

And that base is pretty sure to reward her financially for telling them what they want to hear.

Bryant

[Dawson Leery]

4. "Shaming" their opponents is why they lost the last election.

The right wing war on women, minorities, secular, non-christians, etc...is costing the GOP.

For the record, 2 Broke Girls is slightly ahead of Dingbat Dynasty.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Wow. I knew it.

Very few scientists have any brains at all. I guess that would be the 6% hired by the oil industry to deny climate change.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382.html


A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree.

Only six percent of America's scientists identify themselves as Republicans; fifty-five percent call themselves Democrats. By comparison, 23 percent of the overall public considers itself Republican, while 35 percent say they're Democrats.

[LibertyLover]

6. Just the way to show you aren't cruel and heartless -

shame women who are seeking to terminate a pregnancy and label them as selfish. So tell me again Ms. Alexander how conservatism is too cerebral for me? I'm only a member of MENSA so you could be correct.

[The Magistrate]

8. Just A Side Note, Sir: Love Your Signature Line!

[LibertyLover]

15. From you Sir, that is high praise indeed -

although just a small correction. I am Madam, not Sir.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Ahhh, projection.....it's not just for breakfast any more...

The RW argument seems to be the equivalent of "I know you are, but what am I?" Yeah, pretty cerebral......for a third grader.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. The "conservative" viewpoint has always been wrong, and in almost every context

Conservatives supported serfdom
Conservatives supported slavery
Conservatives opposed women's rights (right to marry whom they chose, right to inherit property, right to suffrage, etc)
Conservatives opposed child labor reform
Conservatives supported work houses and debtor's prison
Conservatives opposed Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservatives opposed financial reform after Crash of '29
Conservatives supported Jim Crow laws
Conservatives supported the Southern Secession
Conservatives opposed anti-monopoly laws
Conservatives opposed the American Revolution
Conservatives opposed work-place safety laws
Conservatives opposed American entry into WWI
Conservatives supported Hitler prior to WWII
Conservatives supported isolationism that allowed Italy, German, and Japan free reign.
Conservatives opposed Clean Air/Water Act
Conservatives opposed Medicare/Medicaid
Conservatives support McCarthy

Do I need to go on? In every significant legal and/or social issue of the day, you can find conservatives on the wrong side of the debate.

Conservatism is unnatural in the purest context. They oppose change, and the one absolute constant of the universe IS change.

[deutsey]

11. I think many conservatives today would look at that least and say

"Yeah...so?"

[Kelvin Mace]

20. I don't disagree

They generally are proud of their misogyny, racism war-mongering, anti-science, irrational views.

[KamaAina]

10. Duck Dynasty?

Srsly?

showcase those children who grew up with permanent injuries as a result of an attempted, botched abortion.

But see, Rachel, now that abortion's safe and legal, there really aren't any.

[Nevernose]

16. You probably don't understand Duck Dynasty

Because you aren't an intellectual, like most of their viewers are. At least according to certain Christian authors.

[Johonny]

12. The problem with this is of course the conservative idealism has been winning for 30+ years

if life sucks and you blame a philosophy seldom tried while ignoring the policies that are actually in place... that's really dumb. You are also likely a voting Republican. Hey we've been rolling back abortion rights for 40 years. What life is still not a magical wonderland. Lets discuss raping women with ultrasonic probes for no medical reason. Maybe that will work!

[Rex]

13. That is some crazy word salad!

I think she gets 'most intelligent party' mixed up with 'most inane party'.

[hobbit709]

14. All you have to do is read the signs at any teabag meeting.

[nyquil_man]

18. Past good. Future bad.

There, I think I cracked the riddle of conservatism.

[surrealAmerican]

19. They're so smart.

I would have thought that to "showcase those children who grew up with permanent injuries as a result of an attempted, botched abortion" would be a good argument for keeping abortion safe and legal, since it would help to avoid such complications. I guess I'm just not smart enough to understand their "reasoning".