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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAttention Earth People-Rethugs want credit for being kind
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/31/former-rnc-chair-ed-gillespie-republicans-are-compassionate-for-allowing-lgbt-hospital-visitation/snip:
"The former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) said on Sunday that the Republican Party has been cast in the negative by the media for opposing marriage equality, but the focus should be on how the party is compassionate for allowing LGBT people hospital visitation rights."
How very humane of them.
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Attention Earth People-Rethugs want credit for being kind (Original Post)
kairos12
Mar 2013
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)1. Aw! Give them credit won't you?!
It's hard to come up with ways to attract minorities without changing one iota of your platform.
Can't you see how hard they're trying?!
PDJane
(10,103 posts)2. I'm not giving them any credit for anything until they get into the 21st century...........
Helen Reddy
(998 posts)3. They are "cast in the negative"
because they are mean, spiteful, arrogant psychopaths who analyze NOTHING past their own avarice.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)4. "You must relate to us AS WE WOULD PREFER...
... we do not wish your perceptions of us to proceed from what we do, but from how we WISH to be perceived."