calling_the_hogs
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Will the real Howard Dean please stand up? That's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.
Former governor of Vermont got a couple of big Labor [union] endorsements this week. And many in the press have already anointed him President Bush's challenger next year. But it's hard to get a handle on Dr. Dean. The NRA, for example, loves him, but so does the far left. How does that happen?
Since Dr. Dean doesn't like one-on-one interviews, I have to say I don't know much about the guy. Most of the other Democratic candidates have entered the No Spin Zone, but it is apparently too much for Dean. But I do know this, Dean is against parental notification laws regarding abortions for minors. He is on the record as saying that 12-year old girls should be allowed to have abortions without telling their parents, even if the notification laws provide protection for kids who are raped, the victims of incest or other sexual abuse. Even if.
Now that kind of position can't be changed. That's a defining position. And it is directly against what the overwhelming majority of Americans believe. So if I'm running against Dean in the South or the Midwest, that's all I have to say. He's immediately put on the defensive. Allowing children to have abortions without telling the parents is simply unacceptable in this society.
Now the lawmakers have made every attempt to protect the child while writing these notification laws, but the far left fringe continues to define this issue, not as a family concern, but as a Roe vs. Wade litmus test. That is spin of the worst kind. And I'll say it again, most Americans don't want the government intruding on the family in this way.
So what say you, Howard Dean? The reason the doctor won't come on and do an interview with me is that I'd ask him that question and a number of others, and he would have to define his positions. It's obvious Dean does not want to do that.
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12-22-2003 11:30 AM |
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nate jonesacc
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I won't vote for him, but hell, you gotta give him credit for speaking his mind... Very few a politician are willing to do that.
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12-22-2003 04:42 PM |
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calling_the_hogs
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Read it again Nate...he's being questioned cause his mind changes every 30 seconds
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12-22-2003 05:29 PM |
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