Fiorina: Dems "Hold Women Hostage" To Abortion

The Hill:

John McCain senior advisor Carly Fiorina dismissed suggestions Sunday that women supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (R-N.Y.) will turn away from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) because of her anti-abortion rights views.

"The Democratic party has done a disservice to women by trying to hold women hostage to the issue of Roe v. Wade," Fiorina said on CBS's Face the Nation. "The truth is the most important issue to women, all the polls say this, is the economy. Women are not single issue voters."

McCain's choice of Palin as his vice presidential candidate electrified conservatives who like her views on abortion. Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) also hopes choosing the first woman to appear on a GOP ticket will attract women voters, but Democrats have insisted Palin's views on abortion will keep Clinton supporters in the Democratic column.

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Comments

[ArnicaMontana]

Oh, really? Hmmn. Last time i talked to my conservative mother, father, uncle, aunt, they said they could never vote for someone who supports choice; regardless of that candidate's other positions.

who is being held hostage, again?

LIAR!

[NickfromCali]

Heck I just listened to fellow California millionaire/ Meg Whitman talk about "individual freedoms"
What about the freedom of choice?

[MissingAmerica]

They continue to be so damn insulting to American women! Holding hostage to Roe v Wade? Roe v Wade gives us a choice! That's more than the radical GOP would give us!

[IMD]

The righties live in their own idealized world. Fiorina is right that women are not single issue voters, but here she is, using the abortion issue herself to fan the flames of the anti-choic­e/anti-Dem­ocrat movement.

[Bronxcutie]

Are these people stupid? Democrats don't want women to have abortions. We want women to have a choice. We are not PRO-abortion.

[castlerider]

This woman seems to be too smart to actually be so stupid.

Oh! that's right... She's not only a corporate schill, she's a former CEO... I'm sure her parachute was wonderfully comfortable..

It's always about the money.

[Birdman]

Fiorina: Dems "Hold Women Hostage" To Abortion

What the? Ahhh you have that backwards there, the republicans want to take away a woman's choice. Now I know why HP board kicked her out, she cannot reason her way out of a paper bag.

[NotWithObamaCampaign]

Fiorina has it exactly backwards. Dems favor a right to choose: a woman can do as she likes. Republicans favor Big Government: the Government, based on pandering to the theological beliefs of radical fundamentalists, ignoring scientific consensus, restricts your choices. You can be a Dem and oppose abortion. You can't be a pro-choice Republican. Look what happened when McCain tested the idea of putting Lieberman or Ridge on the ticket?

Fiorina, I'm glad you aren't still in a position (at HP) to send my friends jobs to Bangalore and China. You followed the capitalist orthodoxy in doing so, but are you willing to admit that outsourcing is anti-American?

[AnotherTry]

Republican strategy: Start with a hard position, then soften when politically expedient.

Democratic strategy: Start out compromising your position so you have nowhere left to go when you need to.

Which one do you think is a better strategy?

[harriscrl3]

Republicans have three strategy when it comes to elections Fear mongering, smearing and outright theft of them. There is no such thing as republicans having the better strategy when it comes to issues. Republicans cant win on issues becuase quite frankly their issues derive from selfish, egiostic, hypocritical and divisive means.

Carol

[AnotherTry]

I guess we should just give up then.

[babyphat4u]

yes, all this talk about anti-abortion, anti-homosexual is nothing short of bigotry and leftist ideology.Can you imagine not reforming our health care system,while people are going bankrupt trying to keep up with costs as if cost weighs more than health and financial security? A killer health care system is nothing short of abortion in and of itself, the very morals that they are against.

Just food for thought.

[Birdman]

What have the Dems compromised? Are you advocating picking up the repiblican motra win at ANY cost? We will kick grandpas and his soulmates butt.

[castlerider]

Sounds like wide stance logic. Only an idiot would agree to such an inane inaccuracy.

No thanks... Keep tappin' ... I'm not the one. keep on tryin', Anothertry..

You don't even know what you're talking about.

[AnotherTry]

What haven't they compromised besides their stance on abortion? Oh wait, Obama compromised on that one over the summer too.

[castlerider]

Sounds like wide stance logic. Only an idiot would agree to such an inane inaccuracy.

No thanks... Keep tappin' ... I'm not the one.

You don't even know what you're talking about.

[jdenham]

Carly I hate to tell you but women think for themselves. No one is being held hostage. Have you ever considered that women look at the policies such as healthcare, the economy, education and come away less than satisfied.

[MajorKong]

Hostage? I don't recall anybody being forced to have an abortion, except maybe in China.

[harriscrl3]

What an idiiot if its the economy McCain still LOSES he is losing on that score. He voted against equal pay for women, childcare and things like that. Better check with your candidate cause you are sounding stupid.

Carol

[lthuedk 1]

Hostage? It's about choice, stupid. It's about second class, Adam's Rib citizenship, and the dangerous melding of Church and State. Its about fascistic control of women, religion, and rights.

Hostage? That's precisely what Ms. Fiorina is. A hostage of Party ideology and forced ignorance. In other words a Rebot. If she were a real woman and true American, she'd value choice and reject party control because both are anti-Constitution.

Enslaved much?

http://www.light-to-dark.com/nailed_by_the_insecure.html

[texanna]

Well, I think I understand why HP got rid of her. What a bunch of $**@(#! Hostage to abortion? Where does the Democratic Party Platform say that women MUST have abortions? We're slogging it out just to get the Democratic men to understand that all we want is the right to be able to control what goes on with our bodies just as they are free to do with theirs and all she gets from that is we're being held hostage to abortion? Do any Republicans actually have the ability for rational thought?

[harriscrl3]

THey dont get its NOT about abortion its about choice its about women having the right to decide what's best for them rather than having the likes of McCain and their supreme court appointees take away their choice. Palin chose to have children thats her choice she had one. How dare she take away the choice from other women who the hell does she think she is that she should have the power to do so.

Carol

[who38]

They will never get that; it means that women could actually have freedom. Not allowed. Look at all of the women in cultural and religious fundie groups. They are all somber, have to wear ridiculous constricting clothing, have a zillion children, and, in many cases, must work to support their families because the men are too busy studying ancient truths or performing a stud service on some other woman.

[who38]

Not this week.

[Chaimirija]

The Republicans don't really care about abortion...they just want the evangelical vote...it is the ONLY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN ELECTED

They picked Palin because of her anti abortion stance....because some of the evangelicals have become hip to the fact that they WERE USED

Abortion is NOT the litmus test for women on the left, it is the litmus test for THOSE ON THE RIGHT

It is their mantra...

If they do manage to get their way, and outlaw abortion, they are not going to go away.

Flushed with power, they will set their sights on some other issue---maybe even women working.....

Remember, the new Right organized against Communisim...when that went away, they started in on Liberals...and now Liberal is a dirty word....