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This post was mentioned on Twitter by taylormarsh: Using rape victims in a mailer to get women to the polls? @MarthaCoakley This is disgusting. http://tinyurl.com/yaglqme #women…

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Maybe they should have talked about it more earlier, but that doesn’t make them responsible for someone’s trashy clip art.

aww commentin on my silver tongue when it was you, dude, you who launched off with the f-bomb. I just proportionally responded. awww.

You’re either dumb or yet another “republican” using the “dem” in drag moniker

how ya like THEM apples! lol

Why you silver tounged sweet talker you. I’m sure with such self control and eloquence you’re a regular pied piper of political discourse. Must convince alot of folks to see things YOUR way I’ll betcha!
As for your last point, if you’re a Democrat I could see where you would have alot of credibility regarding judgement calls on dunces.

First dude fuck you. LoL you fuckin lunatic asshat tool! roflolcopter.

Second what fuckin planet have YOU been on the last forty years? What fuckin planet for the last YEAR?

The Democratic Party has degenerated into a full out Confederacy of Dunces. Dude dose a little, meds, blue pill, chill pill, whatevah. lol.

This is using her power in a realistic way.

If Brown is elected, Reid and Obama can still pass their HC by various methods — including bribing a GOP Senator or two to miss the filibuster or push the wrong button! So imo we need to look at the larger picture and support whichever candidate whose policies we want in the Senate for the next two years.

For all we know, maybe a Brown supporter (or Joe Kennedy) printed it and signed it “Mass Democrats”, just to make the Dems look bad. Has anyone found solid evidence of where the ‘rape’ mailer actually came from?

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Where the heck is John Kerry?

I’m not sure how these things work but it sure seemed like Rove had his eye on all Repub elections.It seems like the President’s political people are only concerned what impacts him directly,even though in the long run this one will.

You can stand up on principle against his votes and positions, illustrating you’re a champion for women up front.

THIS is the problem with Democrats. They won’t stand up themselves and say what needs to be said, especially on women’s civil rights issues, because they think it’s all just too dirty.

Instead they drop this crap. It’s why we end up with things like Stupak.

OF COURSE Coakley didn’t produce the mailer; and her campaign didn’t respond to my tweet on it either. I’m not surprised. It would be death to her if she had put it out. It’s done by Dems separate of Coakley to drop a nuclear message that would cream the candidate if she did it, but makes the point.

Are you also suggesting there isn’t a way to talk about Scott Brown’s offensive vote without using rape victims? And clip art? Who cares?

When you see mailers this late in a campaign that are this inflammatory it proves the internals show the candidate the nuclear negatives are meant to help has lost momentum, with the opponent pushing hard into election day.

“Scott Brown Voted Against Giving Help To 9/11 Recovery Workers
One month after the September 11th attacks, Scott Brown was one of only three Massachusetts State Representatives to vote against a bill to provide financial assistance to Red Cross workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts, we’ve learned.

The Brown campaign acknowledged the vote to us, claiming the measure would have taxed already-strained state finances.

The 9/11 attacks flared as an issue in the Massachusetts race today. The NRSC sharply criticized Democrat Martha Coaxley over a DSCC ad, first reported by Politico, that flashed an image of the Twin Towers. Rudy Giuliani, who stumped for Brown today, also slammed Coakley over the ad, saying it was “unthinkable” and “offensive.”

On October 17th, 2001, Brown voted against a bill that would authorize “leaves of absence for certain Red Cross employees participating in Red Cross emergencies.” The bill gave 15 days of paid leave each year to state workers called up by the Red Cross to respond to disasters. At the time, state workers called for such emergencies were required to use sick and vacation days.

The bill was initially filed before 9/11, and after the attacks, it was made retroactive to 9/11, covering the time spent by state workers who’d assisted with 9/11 recovery work for the Red Cross. Brown’s vote against the measure came a little more than a month after the attack.

You can read the bill and the roll call right here.

Brown spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom justified the vote by pointing to the state’s fiscal straits. “At the time, the state was in a fiscal crisis and facing a deficit, and there was no money to spend on additional pay and benefits for state employees,” Fehrnstrom emailed.

Special thanks to reporter Beth Marlowe for the research help.

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Update: DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz responds:

“On a day with Scott Brown bringing in Rudy Giuliani, he ought to give the people of Massachusetts an explanation as to why he voted against relief for 9/11 workers. We knew Scott Brown was a shill for Wall Street and corporate interests, but I cannot imagine what excuse he comes up with for this vote. He ought to be ashamed of himself and he ought to apologize to the Mayor of New York.”

posted over at rawstory.
I suppose some here would get apoplectic if the Dems DARED to make a spot pointing THIS lil bit of empathy and caring about the 9/11 vols huh?

HOW is this a “cheap political attack”?!!!!! HOW is 5his “dirty politics”?!!!!!!
Did the rightwing, dishonest wingnut take these positions?! THEN IT’S AN HONEST INFORMATIVE SPOT!
THE MOFO IS ALL FOR, EVEN DEMANDING women be denied their rights because of HIS superstitious beliefs!
PEOPLE and in particular VOTERS should know this! MY complaint was voiced in an earlyer post, WHY on EARTH did the Cloakley camp wait so long to start running this?!

The text on the first image is crazy. Brown doesn’t want [all] hospitals to turn them all away. He just wants some hospitals to turn away some women — ie those women who want emergency contraception.

The main statements on the second image are substantially correct.

“Scott Brown would allow hospitals to ban emergency contraception birth control even after women are raped.”

His 2005 amendment did allow a hospital to refer all rape victims wanting emergency contraception ‘to another facility’.

“sponsoring a law to let hospitals turn away rape victims in need of emergency contraception”

That is what his 2005 amendment allowed: refer ‘to another facility.’

The text in the image may be misleading about the time frame if it is referring only to Brown’s failed 2005 amendment. If Brown is currently sponsoring such a law, I haven’t heard about it.

The main image shows a woman (posed not a real victim I’m sure) in a hospital gown and wheel chair who would have difficulty and discomfort being transferred ‘to another facility.’ Actually the picture understates the mailer’s case. It might have shown the woman on an x-ray table or in a hospital bed connected to tubes and in traction. No matter the woman’s condition, per Brown’s amendment the hospital could still insist that if she wanted a morning after pill she would have to be taken ‘to another facility.’ In fact of course this means she would be confined in the first hospital with no access to the morning after pill till she was well enough to get out, by which time it would be too late.

Before you blame Coakley for the mailer, pls note that Greg Sargent states as fact that the Coakley campaign didn’t write the ‘memo’=mailer. See
theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/saturday-roundup-clinton-robocalls-for-coakley/

Meanwhile, the state GOP sends over a statement ripping the Coakley campaign (which didn’t author the memo) as “negative,” “flailing,” and “malicious.”

The first page is so crazy that I suspect the MA Dems didn’t do it either.

And the buidling thing, in the other ad–so what? Not only did I not recognize the building, but I also presume most who see the ad won’t.

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So, let me see if I have this straight. The Dems have become the repugnantklan because they have started actually fighting back with fact based hard hitting spots since the repugs always use hard hitting spots based on LIES.
And the fact that Dems are actually fighting back for a change, acting DIFFERANTLY and expecting differant results means they’re insane.
So the Dems are the same as the repugs…no matter WHAT they do. AND the Dems are CRAZY, no matter what they do.
Who ARE you people and what fu*king PLANET do you live on?

This campaign cycle has seen its share of negative advertising in both Virginia and New Jersey.

In Virginia, Deeds is viewed more as the attacker – 65 percent said he has attacked McDonnell unfairly. 51 percent thought McDonnell attacked Deeds unfairly.

Over in New Jersey, the Democrat is also seen as more on the attack. 73 percent of voters said Corzine has attacked Christie unfairly; though 62 percent viewed Christie as attacking Corzine.

Below is the link:

http://tinyurl.com/yh6bcqb

How much of a factor can sexism be when Hillary won MA in 2008?

As for the Democrats learning from losing. That’s a definition of insanity: “repeating the same set of actions expecting a different outcome”. The Democratic party has been a loser since 1968. They’ve had three lucky wins: Twice with Carter and Obama by being the only option after an incredible self immolating Republican fiasco before them. Clinton’s win was a statistical windfall because of a split on the right between Bush and Perot. Each time the Dems found a way to squander historic opportunities.

The Democrats have NEVER been able to profit from being cast into the political wilderness the way the Republican party has. No Goldwater moments for us, no. Just forty years of utter uselessness and self-inflicted toolbaggery.