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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(114,990 posts)
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 03:33 PM Sep 2022

Abortion looms large in Florida elections Nov. 8

Suppose you worked hard for decades to achieve something and, when you finally accomplished it, the prize you’d dreamed of for so long turned out to be a big, fat millstone around your neck.

And, even worse, suppose you couldn’t admit your new self-inflicted handicap was dragging you down — you had to smile bravely and pretend to be savoring a great moral victory.

That’s pretty much where the Republican Party finds itself, at the state and national levels, with the pivotal midterm elections less than 10 weeks away. The issue hurting the GOP, the topic that’s become sort of a life raft for foundering Democrats, is abortion.

Charlie Crist and Val Demings, the Democratic nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, are using abortion to depict Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio, the Republicans in those offices now, as Neanderthals wanting to keep women pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen. To be completely fair, Rubio and DeSantis haven’t said anything about shoes, but they’re pretty much stuck with a hardline “pro-life” position that seems totally out of fashion politically.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abortion-looms-large-florida-elections-100013130.html

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Abortion looms large in Florida elections Nov. 8 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
Hey, they made that damned bed, and now they can fucking lie in it........ CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2022 #1
damn straight, Ms. Pegster Skittles Sep 2022 #2
Getting rid of Rubio and DeSatan with the same vote? Great. nt in2herbs Sep 2022 #3
As a Floridian I couldn't be happier. Phoenix61 Sep 2022 #4
Any polls on Val? 3Hotdogs Sep 2022 #5

Skittles

(158,695 posts)
2. damn straight, Ms. Pegster
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 03:59 PM
Sep 2022

THESE COWARDS, WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE

LET'S SHOW EVERYONE EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE!

Phoenix61

(17,594 posts)
4. As a Floridian I couldn't be happier.
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 05:59 PM
Sep 2022

I think we have 2 great candidates that have every chance of being elected.

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