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applegrove

(123,475 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 04:48 AM Sep 24

Is the new MAGA thing this election to get people to vote not for others?

Bernie Moreno Says Women Are ‘Single Issue Voters’
September 23, 2024 at 7:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 288 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/23/bernie-moreno-says-women-are-single-issue-voters/

"SNIP.............

Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno (R) questioned why a certain group of women would be concerned about abortion during an event in the state, WCMH reports.

Said Moreno: “You know, the left has a lot of single issue voters. Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion is it. If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else.’ … OK. It’s a little crazy by the way, but — especially for women that are like past 50 — I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s (abortion) an issue for you.’”

............SNIP"


Applegrove:

Are they trying to get voters to jettison their concern for others welfare and success or is it just a 'tell' that this MAGA has no empathy. Likely both, I would guess.

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no_hypocrisy

(49,058 posts)
1. It seems to me that MAGA/Trump is/are trying to splinter
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 04:53 AM
Sep 24

voting blocs: Jews, African-Americans from Caribbean-Americans, African-Americans from Hispanics, older women from young women (as referenced in the OP).

Think. Again.

(18,652 posts)
4. I honestly don't think rightwingers can grasp the concept of caring for others.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 05:21 AM
Sep 24

I really don't.

I know it's incredible to suggest we have some kind of mass psychosis happening, that so many people can be lacking the innate sense of empathy which would signal that person is psychotic, but I truly believe this is what's happening.

SomedayKindaLove

(1,108 posts)
8. The can't comprehend the concept
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 07:07 AM
Sep 24

Of people voting for things beyond themselves and not just their direct needs, because that is alien to how they behave.

JustAnotherGen

(33,735 posts)
3. Wait a sec Mr. Moreno
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 05:17 AM
Sep 24

So you aren't okay with anti privacy women voting Republican because of abortion?

He needs to be raked over the coals.

FuzzyDicePHL

(713 posts)
5. What an ass
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 06:06 AM
Sep 24

I'm a 58yo gay man who has never and will never need an abortion, but hell yeah, I care a lot about women having access to reproductive (and other!) healthcare.

Moreno's clearly just trying to befuddle people who can't reason out his actual goal of saying something that idiotic.

iwillalwayswonderwhy

(2,663 posts)
6. If I can't have an abortion whenever I want...
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 06:23 AM
Sep 24

Cause, you know, women want abortions all the damn time.

rurallib

(63,260 posts)
9. no - but that isn't exactly their goal. Their goal is to talk people out of voting
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 07:15 AM
Sep 24

They have aa solid bloc that will vote. If everybody voted that would be an overall minority.
BUT - if they can talk people out of voting - mostly wishy-washy Dems - then the possibility of their minority winning greatly increases.

That is why so many say that not voting is the same as voting MAGA.

llmart

(16,331 posts)
10. What it comes down to is that his type are afraid of women, especially powerful women.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 07:45 AM
Sep 24

He sees the crowds Kamala is getting everywhere she goes (take a look at the Oprah town hall) and he knows it's the women that are going to put a woman in office, so he's trying to get women not to vote.

Good luck with that buddy. As someone famous has already said, "We're not going back."

Fla Dem

(25,804 posts)
13. Does he think these women over 50 who can no longer reproduce and therefore
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 09:10 AM
Sep 24

shouldn't care about a woman's right to abortion. Does he not think these women don't care about their daughters or granddaughters or their nieces? Or any woman?

How narrow minded these people are.

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