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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:27 PM Nov 2012

Ari Fleischer: Republican Party will NEVER EMBRACE LGBT and WOMEN's RIGHTS





After a stinging election night defeat, President George W. Bush’s former White House secretary still says that the Republican Party will never support LGBT rights and reproductive rights for women. “The big issue that Republicans are going to have to wrestle with is the Hispanic issue,” Ari Fleischer explained after President Barack Obama’s defeat of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney made it clear that the country was more liberal than he had expected.



“It’s not the social issues,” he insisted. “You’re not going to make the party pro-choice and pro-gay rights and think you’ve made the Republican party the party that’s the popular party. We have a party like that. It’s the Democratic Party.”



“But the Republican Party used to be against abortion,” CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted. “In the past year, they have become identified with opposition to contraception. That is, you know, moving backwards at a pace that is astonishing and politically disastrous.”




watch video;

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/07/ari-fleischer-republican-party-will-never-embrace-lgbt-and-womens-rights/
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Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
4. The Christian Right is an important faction in the Republican Party, and Ari can't see that they...
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:32 PM
Nov 2012

have become more than irrelevant, they are a corrosive influence.

And what's with the Israeli and Canadian flags?

 

Comrade_McKenzie

(2,526 posts)
5. And I hope they never do...
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:33 PM
Nov 2012

I don't want their shit economic policies packaged with the appeal of social issues.

rso

(2,682 posts)
6. republicans
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:33 PM
Nov 2012

Yes, then let them stay a marginalized southern party with less and less support.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
8. Americans need to watch what they say, and be careful
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:35 PM
Nov 2012

not to anger the powers that be, because we are watching you closely.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. Fine, Fleischer. You are not gonna be able to fool
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:36 PM
Nov 2012

many of the Latinos that many in your party want to shoot on sight, so I welcome your continuing march to the dustbin of history. Own it, shitweasel.

doubleplusgood

(994 posts)
10. "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. ”
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 12:38 PM
Nov 2012

- Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, 1963

Conservatives, ALWAYS on the wrong side of history

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