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2. OOPS! A DEM on the same program went off message
Sun Apr 8, 2012, 06:35 PM
Apr 2012



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Democrats didn’t have their message straight on Sunday.

In separate segments on CNN’s State of the Union, two top Democrats differed on whether Republicans are waging a “war on women,” a central line of attack that Democrats have reaped big political gains for amid the GOP’s recent push to limit access to contraception.

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Later on the same show, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and an influential African-American voice, strongly pushed back on his own party’s line of attack.

When Clever, a United Methodist pastor, lit into the GOP’s claim that President Obama is anti-religion, social conservative Ralph Reed retorted, “Congressman, is it similarly wrong, then, for Democrats to say that the Republican Party is engaged in a war on women? Is that wrong?”

“Yes, that is wrong. And I’ve never said it, not one time,” Cleaver responded. “I condemn it. If it’s a Democrat, if it’s my cousin, it’s wrong.”

“We have got to quit exaggerating our political differences,” he said.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/key-dem-wrong-to-say-gop-waging-a-war-on-women.php?ref=fpb



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