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Kellyanne Conway is president and CEO of the polling company inc. /WomanTrend and a television commentator.
Democrats want to not dis- cuss social issues — because of their completely schizo- phrenic view on social issues entirely, beginning with the president.
Doug: Values may be in question, but that doesn’t mean that people are “val- ues voters,” in the sense that they vote on these narrow, right-wing positions that you cite that the Republican right is holding. Indeed, I would make
the argument that because the Republican right is so intransigent and so inflex- ible and because the Repub- lican Party has such low ratings, President Obama has a much better chance of being re-elected than he otherwise would.
NEWT GINGRICH: “I really wish they would
have the courage to be positive, and I wish they would have the courage to have a campaign which would match ideas [rather] than see whose consultants can be the nastier.” — The GOP presidential candidate on the negative campaign ads run by rivals
Saving babies, defending
marriage, and protecting the Second
Amendment are always going to be en vogue.”
Kellyanne: It is the Demo- cratic Party that holds these extreme views on every- thing from guns, which of course is enshrined in the Second Amendment, and abortion. We all know this country steadily has become far more pro-life, and science and medicine have picked up the argu- ment where religion and morality left off. People just look at a sonogram and they know what they see. The reality is that pro-lifers, pro-Second Amendment folks — out- side of the South — are just not welcome in the Demo- cratic Party. If social issues come
to the floor in 2012, they will be another albatross around the neck of Barack
JOHN MCCAIN: “I can only express
satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gadhafi, bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.”
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il
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Obama because he is out of step with the average Amer- ican on these issues.
Doug: You did use one word that I can associate myself with, which is reasonable views on social issues. Most voters hold them — but at the same time, most voters do not put them at the top of their lists — particularly in times of hardship or eco- nomic downturn.
Kellyanne: The greatest civilization that ever was cannot afford to bifurcate economic and social issues with a straight face. Social issues are en twin-
ed with economic issues. Planned Parenthood gets $363 million a year in tax- payer money to be the nation’s largest abortion provider. I would say for those taxpayers who don’t believe in abortion, they shouldn’t be asked to sub-
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sidize what they see as the wrong enterprise.
Doug: As somebody who worked proudly for Bill Clinton, who believed that abortion should be safe, legal and rare, I can only tell you that you can have tra- ditional family values and support reasonable restric- tions on gun ownership and gun possession — particu- larly assault weapons. You can believe that
abortion should be legal and used in limited circum- stances with the appropri- ate oversight and controls, and you can believe in equality for gays without embracing gay marriage, as many do. That is where many
swing voters are. And I think that rather than going to extremes as some Repub- licans do, the debate and the dialogue would best be conducted in the center.
By Sean Delonas
– The Arizona senator after the death in December of
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