Russian announced partial mobilization against Ukraine now underway.
Month: September 2022
Once again, it falls on me to teach pro-life Christians how to do a religious Jihad.
IEA secures the release of the final Afghan held at Guantanamo Bay.
The US swapped him for Mark Frerichs, an American held by the Taliban.
Trafalgar for Arizona, 9/18. Kelly (D) 47, Masters (R) 45. Kelly +2.
Masters picked up three points over the past month.
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In defense of Lindsey Graham
In defense of Lindsey Graham.
This was my impromptu response to a comment. I’m copying it here for export, since it’s relevant to the article.
> Lindsey Graham is a weasel.
I know, but I don’t know. McConnell came out against this. My instinct tells me Lindsey Graham threw a lifeline to GOP candidates. There are serious problems under the hood, vis-à-vis enthusiasm and turnout. Democrats are pushing hard on abortion, and leadership was missing in a message to counter it (states rights isn’t that persuasive among moderates).
The idea was to ignore abortion and run on more important (economics, crime, COVID, immigration, etc.) issues, make women choose between those and abortion, but those issues just don’t seem to be that galvanizing. Republicans (especially women) are a forgiving people and they’ve decided they no longer want to live in hate and fear and want to move on. They’ve also gotten arrogant and have decided losing is better than winning if their ideal candidate can’t win. Add to it that Trump, McConnell, and Rick Scott can’t decide who should pay for what. It’s a mess.
When you cant score points on the more important issues you want to score on, you have to at least stop the bleeding on abortion. Lindsey Graham put forth something that might be able to achieve that.
I would rather it have not come to this, but I don’t know if I would fault Lindsey Graham for it. The rest of the GOP wasn’t scoring on the non-abortion topics, and nothing galvanizes conservatives like abortion, so maybe this is the shot in the arm they needed. Additionally, those that want to avoid the abortion fight, now have the incentive they need to push their more important issues forward harder.
So, I don’t know.
Opinion | In Defense of Lindsey Graham
If the Republican Party can’t rally around a 15-week abortion ban, it’s in real trouble.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/15/in-defense-of-lindsey-graham-00056962
59.1% support a federal abortion ban beyond 15 weeks, with exceptions.
Abortion isn’t the win they think it is.
Democrats of course love abortions, there’s nothing they love more.
They think what’s most important to you is killing your child, maybe they’re right.