re: #77 sean6886politik

Does anyone else think RMoney will choose a female to run with him on the ticket?
I know it sounds a bit crazy because of McCain/Grifter but with all this anti-women stuff coming from the right, he might use it as part of his Etch-A-Sketch plan to say, see women, I told you we on the right love you.
I wouldn’t have thought so before their war on women, but they are losing the women vote quickly.

The GOP isn’t just losing women, and among that group the greatest losses are women under 50. I see few, if any female GOP VP candidates that will appeal strongly to this group. The other problem is that every bit of distance the Romney campaign tries to place between themselves and the overwhelmingly GOP backed ultrasound laws will lower the enthusiasm at their base.

Romney also has a long, established history of interfering in women’s health decisions, that go back to his bizarre attempt to overrule the decision of a senior LDS official when he was a bishop:

The woman was told by doctors that treatment of the clot would threaten the pregnancy, and so an abortion was necessary. The Mormon faith officially opposes abortion except in extreme cases, and women who are members of the church and seek an abortion are required to petition church elders for permission. She and her husband petitioned the Church to authorize them to receive the procedure, and a church elder told her and her husband that the procedure looked like unfortunate but unavoidable.

On the day of the abortion, the couple showed up at the hospital only to be greeted by their bishop, who had shown up, unannounced, to try to prevent her from going through with it, regardless of the fact that a church official with a higher rank than his had already given the okay. The bishop was determined to make his case against the life-saving surgery, and he was a total dick about it. According to a 2007 interview with Dushku, the following exchange occurred,

He said – What do you think you’re doing?

She said – Well, we have to abort the baby because I have these blood clots.

And he said something to the effect of – Well, why do you get off easy when other women have their babies?

And she said – What are you talking about? This is a life threatening situation.

And he said – Well what about the life of the baby?

And she said – I have four other children and I think it would be really irresponsible to continue the pregnancy.

The bishop who tried to block that selfish, selfish clotted up woman from saving her own life with a legal medical procedure was one Mitt Romney. The woman he attempted to block did go through with her abortion and lived to see her four teenage children grow up. Her family later left the church.

Romney’s Etch-a-Sketch powers won’t be able to rewrite history or the anti choice planks in the GOP party platform. No matter who he nominates he’s going to have very little room to maneuver on this issue.