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Dems Call On GOPers To Renounce Phyllis Schlafly Over Remarks About 'Unmarried Women' (AUDIO)
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly
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Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly took aim at "unmarried women" at a recent fundraiser and in an interview with TPM, saying that they overwhelmingly support President Obama and are all on welfare. Democrats aim to exploit the comments to pressure the more than 60 Republican candidates who have earned Schlafly's endorsement.
"Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you've got to have big brother government to be your provider," said Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum and infamous for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
A liberal organization recorded the Schlafly comments at a Troy, Michigan fundraiser Saturday for a Republican congressional candidate, the Detroit Free Press reported. In an interview with TPM this afternoon Schlafly stood by her comments and said Obama is trying to boost welfare rolls to help with his reelection and to help Democrats.
"Yes I said that. It's true, too. All welfare goes to unmarried moms," Schlafly told TPM. "They are trying to line up their constituency for Obama and Democrats against Republican candidates."
She also told me she doesn't care if Republicans are targeted over her comments since she thinks they are truthful.
Democrats plan to jump on the 75 Republican candidates for federal office that Schlafly's Eagle Forum has endorsed and donated to -- a list that includes Todd Tiahrt in the Kansas Republican primary for Senate, Ken Buck in the Colorado Republican primary for Senate, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and his Senate Conservatives Fund and Sen. David Vitter. Already, reporters in Vitter's home state of Louisiana are getting releases from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pressing them to ask Vitter if he agrees with Schlafly. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is doing the same thing to Eagle Forum-endorsed House candidates, painting Republicans on dozens of ballots -- including Rep. Michele Bachmann and Scott Rigell in the competitive VA-02 race -- as "extreme" and saying the candidate should refuse Schlafly's endorsement.
A Democratic source provided the totals Eagle Forum has donated to Senate candidates, which we are verifying with the FEC now.
This year they gave Sharron Angle (R-NV) $5,000, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) $7,000, Marco Rubio (R-FL) $4,000, former Rep. Pat Toomey $1,500 and $2,000 to Vitter.
Congressional candidate Andrew (Rocky) Raczkowski said he was surprised by Schlafly's remarks at his fundraiser and said he disagrees with Schlafly after liberals and his Republican primary opponent Paul Welday called on him to denounce her.
Listen to the audio, caught by a progressive organization:
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FreeRider
July 29, 2010 4:36 PM
Schalfly? Isn't she dead? No? Well, she sure looks like it.
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windowpane
July 29, 2010 4:39 PM in reply to FreeRider
The art of enbalming has come a long way since the Ancient Egyptians. I'll bet Phyllis was really something "before electricity."
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KdNicewanger
July 29, 2010 6:50 PM in reply to windowpane
Haha, hey Phyllis, you wanna make fourteen dollars the hard way?
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michelle2008
July 29, 2010 8:43 PM in reply to KdNicewanger
I know this is OT (and completely inappropriate), but an old boyfriend of mine owned the magazine shop where Phyllis's (late) husband used to buy his porn after Sunday mass. So I'm thinking earning $14 the hard way for her would be, well, the hard way. (BTW, there's nothing wrong with buying porn, it's just the Schlafly hypocrisy that I'm calling out.)
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rynato
July 30, 2010 1:18 AM in reply to michelle2008
I can't blame him... imagine what sex with her would be like.
on second thought, you probably don't want to imagine that.
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Ugg the Repug
July 29, 2010 5:07 PM in reply to FreeRider
Ugg date her in high school. She bitch then too. Har har har.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 5:50 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Ug - I'm dissapointed - I thought you had better taste than that. Uggggggggghhhhhh
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Ugg the Repug
July 29, 2010 7:33 PM in reply to chameleon
Ugg young foolish then. Smarter now at 50,039, even if most of it frozen. Har har har.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 7:44 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
LMAO!!!
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CherStoleMyFace
July 29, 2010 10:21 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
LOL Ugg... I think you dated Cher too, because you were in high school a very long time, weren't you.
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Ugg the Repug
July 30, 2010 7:04 AM in reply to CherStoleMyFace
Har har har. Yes. Ugg got you, Babe. Har har har. Call me Ug for short.
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 10:47 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
maybe Ugg not Phyllis type in high school, maybe Ugg too Uggly, scratch pimples, scratch ass. Err, scratch ass first. He He He.
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Ugg the Repug
July 30, 2010 7:16 AM in reply to Clarance Vine
Gyak. Even 50,000 years ago, Ugg know better. Such yuk thoughts only occur to lesser minds. Har har har.
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 7:20 AM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Ugg up early.
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Ugg the Repug
July 30, 2010 7:55 AM in reply to Clarance Vine
Out for morning run. Wake up with bear in cave again. Har har har.
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 8:06 AM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Ugg wake up to same bear again? Might be wife. Har
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Ugg the Repug
July 30, 2010 9:19 AM in reply to Clarance Vine
Wife? That invent by walksupright peoples, along with religion and 8-track tape. You can keep. Ugg only need boinky boinky.
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 9:52 AM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Ugg put Phyllis in cave with same bear - boinky boinky! Hope black bear! Har Har Phyllis.
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FreemanW
July 30, 2010 2:30 AM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Phyllis hit on head with club, drug back to cave . . .
. . . that explain a lot.
Freeman guess Phyllis head and club meet many times.
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Ugg the Repug
July 30, 2010 8:02 AM in reply to FreemanW
Har har har. Phyllis head dent many hammers. Skull much thick and empty. Har har har. Call me Ug for short.
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navamske
July 29, 2010 5:41 PM in reply to FreeRider
Phyllis Shoo-fly, as Archie Bunker referred to her.
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farnsworth
July 29, 2010 5:41 PM in reply to FreeRider
I wanna see what sailorboy has to say about her!
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WWBD
July 29, 2010 5:48 PM in reply to FreeRider
She's been dead inside since 1970, possibly since 1952. Actually, there's a theory she was born dead inside. In any case, at this point, it's best to think of her as undead.
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SilvestriWoman
July 29, 2010 5:53 PM in reply to FreeRider
Far from it... I've long felt like the prophet in the wilderness, trying to alert everyone to the power and hatefulness of this woman. When I heard her on Tom Ashbrook's On Point show during the 2008 convention, I wept tears of anger. I've no doubt that she is pulling many, if not most, of the strings on the conservative side of the GOP. Somehow, she manages to be mostly ignored by MSM/bloggers/you-name-it. Two years ago, she was stating that Sarah Palin is the leader of the GOP, that McCain was only doing what her peeps were telling him to do, and that Bush 43 was no longer on their radar.
If anyone has 45 minutes to spare, I highly recommend listening to this broadcast: http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/09/the-soul-of-the-gop
She even gives the normally unflappable Ashbrook pause when she states: "If Sarah Palin had been a Democrat, she would have aborted her baby." The following day, his guests were two friends from his Baptist church - lifelong Democrats with a Down's Syndrome child.
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Caroline
July 29, 2010 6:42 PM in reply to SilvestriWoman
I was the caller on Ashbrook's program that morning. I was so outraged by her response but Ashbrook had cut me off before I could respond to Schafley's ugly comments. I have known of Schafley for years as members of my extended family are ardent supporters of hers. Trust me, she is as hateful and ugly as her comments reveal.Btw,I am a stay at home mother of five-a picture perfect real American family in Phyllis's eyes. I really do loathe that woman.
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Caroline
July 29, 2010 6:48 PM in reply to Caroline
oops-misspelled the evil woman's name.
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SilvestriWoman
July 29, 2010 9:59 PM in reply to Caroline
Wow... I'm a regular On Point listener but none have stuck with me like that broadcast. Listened to it during my evening El commute... By the time I got off, I knew that I was willing to go to war, if need be, to fight against her theocracy. I'd known of her for years but had never heard such depth of smug hate.
God bless you, Caroline...
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ched
July 29, 2010 6:02 PM in reply to FreeRider
Funny you should say that. She looks exactly like my Aunt Gert (used to look). Aunt Gert's been dead about a decade.
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cwnidog
July 29, 2010 6:13 PM in reply to FreeRider
She's just dead from the neck up. In short, same as she ever was.
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Ann in AZ
July 29, 2010 8:26 PM in reply to cwnidog
I seriously doubt that she's any more alive from the waist down, either!
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Dalinker
July 29, 2010 9:06 PM in reply to Ann in AZ
ZING!! Good one, Ann. No doubt you are correct. Hideous woman!!
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cwnidog
July 30, 2010 12:02 AM in reply to Ann in AZ
KA-POW!
Her black, shriveled soul is also deader'n a mackerel.
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Signalman
July 30, 2010 3:44 PM in reply to Ann in AZ
Oh, that'll leave a mark! :)
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georgecs
July 30, 2010 1:30 PM in reply to cwnidog
Why are we surprised. When Conservatives don't have an actual bogey man to scare their moronic base, they just go ahead and make one up (see Queens, Welfare).
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 6:40 PM in reply to FreeRider
Off point but must see tv
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/obama-the-view-interview_n_663678.html
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Viva!America!
July 29, 2010 7:17 PM in reply to chameleon
blech, is that the only site carrying it?
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 8:32 PM in reply to Viva!America!
Someone sent me the link. I hate Huffpo too but I made an exception in this case because you know I am an Obamabot and proud of it.
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shooter242
July 29, 2010 8:18 PM in reply to FreeRider
Exactly which part of her statement is everyone incensed over?
That the women were unmarried, kicked their husband out, or are relying on the Government to support them?
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Donald from Hawaii
July 29, 2010 9:59 PM in reply to shooter242
All of the above.
You know, there's really nothing more completely repugnant than the hypocrisy of the self-righteous, particularly when their own home front and / or personal behavior doesn't even come close to meeting their exacting public standards for private conduct.
In that regard, Phyllis Schafley, Larry Craig and Clarence Thomas all truly deserve to share a suite in Hell together.
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Lizskin
July 29, 2010 11:44 PM in reply to shooter242
I supported my son by myself for twelve years with help from no one. But I was lucky because I had an education and could get a job AND COULD AFFORD CHILD CARE.
What's especially laughable/outrageous is the notion that women with children are kicking the fathers out. What a self-serving, self-hating screed (yes, it's both). Men have been abandoning their children since humans climbed up onto two feet. That's why people invented the contract called marriage.
The leading cause of death among pregnant women in the United States? Murder by a boyfriend or husband. No shit.
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July 30, 2010 1:06 AM in reply to Lizskin
The leading cause of death for pregnant women is not homicide: how ridiculous. The total number of homicides in the US is a bit under 10,000 per year ,and the majority of those victims (by far) are male.
The number of pregnant women who die each year is a huge number over 10,000: most of those die from medical complications related to pregnancy (usually vein issues); second biggest cause is vehicle accidents. Look up the numbers.
The urban myth you are repeating is from one incredibly ludicrous "study" that has been discredited for years: based on a study sample of a few dozen, all in Baltimore, picked from a sample ridiculously weighted towards domestic violence victims. Seriously, google up a few facts, the claim you're making is just ridiculous.
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Davran
July 29, 2010 9:39 PM in reply to FreeRider
Peaceful Republicans, Pls Refudiate!
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bluesplashy
July 30, 2010 2:25 PM in reply to Davran
yes!
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jeffgee
July 29, 2010 10:28 PM in reply to FreeRider
Wasn't the Church Lady based on her?
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 11:38 PM in reply to jeffgee
Isn't that special.
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AhTrini1
July 30, 2010 1:12 PM in reply to FreeRider
Ditto
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randomname
July 29, 2010 4:38 PM
Isn't this woman dead?
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Red XIV
July 30, 2010 1:50 AM in reply to randomname
Just look at her. Yes, she's dead. She's keeping herself animated by sheer vitriol.
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Ugg the Repug
July 30, 2010 8:06 AM in reply to randomname
You call what she does "living"? Har har har.
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TJF
July 29, 2010 4:39 PM
Ann Coulter supports Obama and is on welfare?
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cosliberal
July 29, 2010 4:54 PM in reply to TJF
No, but Bristol Palin is on welfare and voted for Obama....
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Dalinker
July 29, 2010 9:08 PM in reply to TJF
She is a man....doesn't count.
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KY Yellow Dog
July 30, 2010 9:12 AM in reply to TJF
And Condi Rice? Mary Cheney?
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bmcchgo
July 29, 2010 4:40 PM
Too bad we don't have a Liberal version of the Drudge Report. This would be all over the teevee and rockin' the next news cycle.
Btw, at least she laid of teh gays this time!
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chimpale
July 29, 2010 4:45 PM in reply to bmcchgo
She hasn't been quite so vocal about gays as she was before her son came out of the closet several years ago.
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bmcchgo
July 29, 2010 4:56 PM in reply to chimpale
True. But her son is as bat-s%&t crazy Conservative as she is - even though he's gay. He started Conservapedia, btw.
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matts2
July 29, 2010 5:13 PM in reply to bmcchgo
John is the gay son, Andy is the crazy one who writes Conservapedia. And tried to write a conservative Bible as well.
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jsdc007
July 29, 2010 6:28 PM in reply to matts2
Yep. With a Mom like her, he truly is the stereotypical self-hating gay man.
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jeffgee
July 29, 2010 10:34 PM in reply to jsdc007
He owns a restaurant-bar in St. Louis. He's not hiding in a corner somewhere.
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Signalman
July 30, 2010 3:52 PM in reply to matts2
Clearly the Vanilla Bible wasn't vengeful enough for them.
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jonez
July 29, 2010 4:41 PM
I thought you got wiser in your old age.
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ohyeathatsright
July 29, 2010 5:02 PM in reply to jonez
It's a bell curve.
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cgd
July 29, 2010 5:04 PM in reply to jonez
If you start with nothing, even a 100% improvement is still nothing.
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Thinking-Independent
July 29, 2010 9:12 PM in reply to cgd
I think that covers the majority of posts here. :)
Not your of course.
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chimpale
July 29, 2010 4:43 PM
Wow. This is the apex of conservative intellect. If you're an unmarried woman, it's because you kicked your husband out. Not because you hadn't married in the first place. Not because you were married but your husband was beating the crap out of you and your kids. Not because your husband was cavorting with hookers and you risked getting STDs if you stuck with him. Not because your husband turned out to be a closeted gay who covered for it by marrying you and persecuting other gays. Nope, it's because you were married to a perfectly wonderful guy and decided to kick him out and, naturally, go on welfare.
Thank you, Phyllis, for once again reliably demonstrating for us how thoroughly jacked the right-wing brain is.
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randomname
July 29, 2010 4:52 PM in reply to chimpale
Or, because your husband was an irresponsible jackass who up & left you and your children, and never looked back.
Welfare, as we used to know it, Does Not exist. Why can't they remember that?
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chimpale
July 29, 2010 5:11 PM in reply to randomname
Nah, couldn't be that, either. Unless the woman drove him out. Yeah, that's it. She must have drove the irresponsible jackass out. So, there you go. Back to being the woman's fault.
By the way, another of Schlafly's gems was this: “Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women”
I'm sure she doesn't believe that there's such a thing as rape, either.
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Forrest
July 29, 2010 5:37 PM in reply to chimpale
Oh, I'm sure she believes there's such a thing as rape. But it's still the woman's fault, for showing their ankles, necks, and/or forearms.
She thinks sexual harassment is no big deal because either she has never been harassed, or she's a perv and likes it.
I'm going with perv, as that seems to be consistent with conservative ideology.
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ladyfractal
July 29, 2010 5:37 PM in reply to chimpale
No, she believes in rape. But she only believes in rape when the perpetrator has been identified as a (sing along, you know the chorus) black male, between the age of 15 and 45, between 5'5" and 6'3, between 135 and 250 lbs, wearing pants, some form of shirt, shoes of some nature, has hair. And it's only rape when said black man has assaulted white woman.
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castanea
July 29, 2010 5:39 PM in reply to randomname
Now, now, in defense of many ex-husbands I know, there are more than a few batshit crazy divorced women who thought that the basic rules of marriage allowed for them to play the field even after taking the vows.
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July 29, 2010 5:03 PM in reply to chimpale
I couldn't be because her husband went off to Iraq and was killed "in defence of her country" could it?
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ixzist
July 29, 2010 5:10 PM in reply to chimpale
When you are a Right Wing Activist, you don't use logic, because you have Faith.
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Hank
July 29, 2010 5:23 PM in reply to chimpale
Not because your husband got blown up by an IED in Iraq.
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johnnydoughey
July 29, 2010 5:28 PM in reply to chimpale
Has 70% of ANY demographic ever even voted... for ANYONE?
I would be surprised if they did...
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hunter
July 29, 2010 6:24 PM in reply to johnnydoughey
Uh, blacks for Obama?
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hunter
July 29, 2010 6:41 PM in reply to hunter
Ok, so I got curious and went looking for Nate's analysis.
Turns out not only did Obama get 95% of the black vote, he also got at least 70% of:
1)People making less than $15k/year (73%)
2)Jews (78%)
3)People without a religion (75%)
4)People whose religion was identified as "other" (73%)
5)Gays and Lesbians (70%)
He also came quite close with Latinos and amongst all people 18-29. Interestingly, even John Kerry managed over 70% of all the groups enumerated above save "other" religions and <$15k incomes.
So, yes. 70% of ANY demographic has indeed voted for someone.
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johnnydoughey
July 29, 2010 7:04 PM in reply to hunter
So this dod not mean 70% of those who voted?
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hunter
July 30, 2010 11:34 AM in reply to johnnydoughey
I see. Well, if you were trying to allude to low turnout in your original post, you certainly hid it well. Also, it's really useless to try to break it out that way. Just to illustrate, take a look at these three (true) statements:
1)22.6% of Americans voted for Obama
2)30% of eligible American voters voted for Obama
3)52.9% of voters voted for Obama
Is there any reason at all to ever quote someone the first two? Does that tell you anything about the support he got? Nope. So when you talk about 70% of a demographic voting for someone, we automatically restrict that to those who voted...because that's the only thing that makes any sense.
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Donald from Hawaii
July 29, 2010 10:16 PM in reply to hunter
I'd also note that Barack Obama took 72% of the popular vote in Hawaii - you know, that island state way off the Left Coast, whose residents have conspired with gay communists since August 1961 to conceal the evidence that the president was born in Kenya, and from which a young Sarah Palin fled in abject terror because of all those icky Asians and Polynesians living there.
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Signalman
July 30, 2010 4:02 PM in reply to Donald from Hawaii
Not so icky! I learned to enjoy manapua, chicken long rice, laulau, spam musubi, haupia and all sorts of dandy tropical fruits while I was stationed out there. I still have the taste for passionfruit and sometimes have to go find a Brazilian lunch counter or restaurant in order to slake my thirst for fresh maracuya juice (passionfruit). And I haven't had good pineapple since moving back to the mainland.
However, I have no idea what you people were thinking when you elected Linda Lingle. Isn't she related to the Cutter family in some way?
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wendynyc
July 30, 2010 12:03 AM in reply to hunter
In fairness, the 78% of Jewish voters who went for Obama? Only about 55% were because they really liked Obama. The other 23% was because they loathe Sarah Palin. (as we've gotten to know her better since 2008, I predict that if Sarah gets the 2012 nomination, Jews will vote 85% for Obama. We hate her a whole lot.)
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Joseph Calling
July 29, 2010 9:09 PM in reply to hunter
No, more like 95%, and news flash, it wasn't because he was more qualified than McCain.
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thepoliticalcat
August 1, 2010 12:54 AM in reply to Joseph Calling
There is no one who is less qualified than McCain for the position of POTUS; with the sole exception of Sarah Palin, of course, who is not even qualified to be, as Ugg might say, a walksupright person.
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Signalman
July 29, 2010 4:53 PM
I want to know why Grandma is up on stage and speaking into a microphone instead of bringing my my damned sammich.
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Ugg the Repug
July 29, 2010 5:27 PM in reply to Signalman
HHH. FTW! HHH.
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Dalinker
July 29, 2010 9:16 PM in reply to Signalman
Spewed..vodka tonic....on....computer...need...cpr!!
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Donald from Hawaii
July 29, 2010 10:19 PM in reply to Dalinker
What a waste of good tonic water!
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July 30, 2010 1:22 AM in reply to Dalinker
A good vodka tonic should remind you of Sarah Palin:
Strong, and bitter.
Okay, just kidding about the strong part.
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Tony C
July 29, 2010 4:53 PM
So ladies, don't leave your man when he uses you for a punching bag because, gawd forbid, you might need a hand, which could cost Phyllis Schlafly at couple of cents.
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Tom Hilton
July 29, 2010 4:57 PM
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kenner
July 29, 2010 5:24 PM in reply to Tom Hilton
+1
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Quitty
July 29, 2010 5:40 PM in reply to Tom Hilton
+2
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slb
July 30, 2010 4:02 AM in reply to Tom Hilton
Exactly what I was thinking, too.
As a single woman who has been self-supporting for more than 30 years, I should be infuriated at her remarks, but I find it hard to work up any reaction beyond rolling my eyes. And I guess that's because I have known for most of my life that she is an ignorant, narrow-minded, spiteful woman whose opinion I don't consider worth a bucket of warm spit.
It would, however, be delicious to see her become the agent of her own downfall.
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dualdiagnosis
July 30, 2010 6:21 PM in reply to Tom Hilton
What has she done to make it impossible for women to support themselves?
I'll be waiting for your answer.
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susanthe
July 29, 2010 4:58 PM
Time for Mama Grizzly to get all up in Phyllis Schlafly's bizniss.
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farnsworth
July 29, 2010 5:54 PM in reply to susanthe
She would have to, wouldn't she, if she were sincere.
In other words, don't expect it.
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rlkinny
July 29, 2010 10:48 PM in reply to susanthe
Let's tweet her and ask.
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ixzist
July 29, 2010 5:03 PM
Schlafly does not speak for this generation. She is a throwback to an America where women were subjugated by men, forced into marriage for fiscal reasons, and relied upon a single income brought home by a man. Her dream paradigm for America hasn't been feasible for decades. Does she think that the government should let single woman and their children die for her principles, simply because our society does not help families in need raise our next generation? Doesn't sound very pro-life.
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ohyeathatsright
July 29, 2010 5:18 PM in reply to ixzist
Pro-lifers are only pro-life until the child is actually born.
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cmaukonen
July 29, 2010 5:37 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
Then they may end up like this.
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Cal Damage
July 29, 2010 5:56 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
NST as 'pro-lifers.' She's a pro-birther.
No help to the mother or family before the birth, no help to the family and new child AFTER the birth, "in life" as it were. Just promote BIRTH!
BTW, this is not to be confused with 'birthers', although there is a large overlap between those populations.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 6:11 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
They are pro fetus - and mostly white fetus. Truth be told, I doubt if they cared if all black women and latino women had abortions. They are only concerned about the white babies.
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slb
July 30, 2010 1:41 PM in reply to chameleon
I'm not even sure they are pro-fetus -- I think that's just a cover. I think they are simply pro-subjugation-of-women. If they were pro-fetus, they would be solidly in favor of programs like WIC to be sure that prospective mothers got the proper nutrition, and in favor of Medicaid to be sure they got proper pre-natal care. I haven't seen pro-life groups coming out strongly in favor of those things.
I have, however, seen them enthusiastically back programs that would jail pregnant women for the remainder of their pregnancy for doing things that might potentially be harmful to a fetus.
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Thinking-Independent
July 29, 2010 9:37 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
Actually it seems that most "Pro-lifers" are “Pro-Choicers” before conception. Let’s make abortion legal at any time. Just don’t make your mother mad. :)
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hunter
July 29, 2010 5:34 PM in reply to ixzist
Does she think that the government should let single women and their children die for her principles...
Yes.
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Jaycal
July 29, 2010 6:06 PM in reply to ixzist
"by 1931, 200,000 children in every state except Georgia and South Carolina lived in homes supported in part by mothers’ pensions. In most instances, assistance was restricted to destitute widows. (Katz, p. 133.)"
The reason the Aid to Dependent Children program was included in the New Deal, back in the mid-1930s.
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calbearinillinois
July 29, 2010 5:07 PM
She is one crazy old bat. But at least she's honest about it, unlike the a-holes in the GOP who keep blocking every single measure meant to help average folks or - worse yet - the poor on grounds that adding 1 per cent or so to the deficit just can't be done (unless its for killing brown people in foreign countries, then any amount is fine).
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hunter
July 29, 2010 5:36 PM in reply to calbearinillinois
Or unless it's to give more free money to rich people who don't need it and thus won't spend it to stimulate the economy.
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commie atheist
July 29, 2010 5:09 PM
Ladies Against Women, Batshit Insane chapter.
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Duck Stab
July 29, 2010 5:12 PM
In tribute of Sailormarlowe....
Phyllis fills my phallus with pharmaceutical frenzy and fear
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chimpale
July 29, 2010 5:17 PM in reply to Duck Stab
Well put!
I'm sure Sailormarlowe will chime in under one of his many aliases as soon as he's done relieving himself in front of Phyllis' picture.
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Bruce Webb
July 29, 2010 7:02 PM in reply to chimpale
I am thinking that Phyllis would pshrink even pSailor's pstalk.
I mean intellectually I understand the Oedipus Complex, but the Grand-Oedipus Complex?
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 11:19 PM in reply to Duck Stab
Hey Ducky, how's it hangin'!
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AlphaLiberal
July 29, 2010 5:13 PM
Well, I'm sure the MSM will grab this and run with it, like they do with Breitbart videos. Right?
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cmaukonen
July 29, 2010 5:15 PM
Oh my...I didn't know that Syphilis Bar-fly was still around raising hate and discontent and boiler-makers.
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aq
July 29, 2010 5:18 PM
I'm... baffled.
BRB. I need Big Brother to change my diapers too while they're supporting me.
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conniptionfit
July 29, 2010 5:23 PM
Jeebus! My eyes! You want perfect contraception? Put her picture on every box of condoms. Not only will it be 100% effective, you may never get it up again. Even with a little blue pill.
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Vincent F
July 29, 2010 5:25 PM
I thought it was just Negroes on welfare?!?!
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toxophilite
July 29, 2010 5:26 PM
Comments about the hair of women in the public eye are just too juvenile and so beside the point... but I can't help it!!
She looks like the 1950s Betty Crocker!!
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cmaukonen
July 29, 2010 5:27 PM in reply to toxophilite
Who just feel off her stool at the bar.
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Quitty
July 29, 2010 5:44 PM in reply to toxophilite
Without scrolling, I couldn't see anything on the home page below her forehead.
I thought it was Alice the Maid from the Brady Bunch!
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 11:46 PM in reply to toxophilite
Or the recently released from prison and one of my favs, Jim Traficant!
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Hank
July 29, 2010 5:27 PM
Someone needs to ask the 75 about Bristol Palin while they are at it.
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July 29, 2010 5:30 PM
I used to have a lapel button in the 80s that said, "Phyllis Schlafly is a female impersonator." Looks like it's still true.
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bentbill
July 29, 2010 5:32 PM
She's just a crazy old lady who is no longer relavent. I would really like to know her views on gay marriage. I wonder if she would attend her own son's wedding? lol
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Jon Lester
July 29, 2010 5:32 PM
I thought I remembered another one of the top conservative pundits saying the same thing a year or so ago.
I'm single, too, and I'd like to think at least a few unmarried women voted for Obama because they realized McCain and Palin had no business shaping foreign policy, among other disincentives to vote for them.
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Cheryl44
July 29, 2010 5:37 PM
Wait a minute--I had a husband? I kicked him out? I don't remember doing that.
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slb
July 30, 2010 4:08 AM in reply to Cheryl44
Same here. I guess we must have blocked it out, huh?
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slb
July 30, 2010 4:09 AM in reply to slb
I never knew I was collecting welfare, either. I wonder what I did with all that money?
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Cheryl44
August 1, 2010 3:55 PM in reply to slb
Is there some way to get this imaginary guy back? I need some help washing the windows. They tip in, but it's hard to hold them in place AND clean them.
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jimson
July 29, 2010 5:37 PM
The great thing about conservative thinking is, you don;t have to have any proof of your statements, it just has to SEEM true enough (Colbert's "truthiness")-- I could offer a plausible reason of my own, and if it fits conservative thinking then it passes, proof or not.
How many Obama voters really thought "oh boy, big government, welfare, I won't have to work" when they went into the voting booth? (And how many thought "jeez, McCain is losing his mind, and Palin is a simplistic idiot.")
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Winston Smith
July 29, 2010 5:40 PM
Anybody know if she's related to the Schlafly brewery people in St. Louis? If so, I expect them to renounce the old witch too.
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klg19
July 29, 2010 5:41 PM
Schlafly is fascinating, isn't she? A housewife who abandoned her family to travel all around the country enjoining women to stay at home with their families.
And now she claims that unmarried (although actually she seems to mean divorced, yes?) women can no longer support themselves because they've kicked out their husbands--but I suspect Ms Schlafly herself has not relied on the financial support of her better half for quite some time.
Now, I'm a single woman who voted for Obama, and I am divorced--have been for 25 years. So, since I've been able to support myself in three decades, it's a pretty sure bet that I didn't need Obama to create a welfare state for my benefit.
I recall that Schlafly styled herself as a good Christian woman, but she seems wholly opposed to social welfare--though I've never heard tell of her decrying the money the government spends on corporate welfare. I rather wish that the Second Coming *was* imminent, so I could watch a new Jesus boot these moneylenders out of his temple.
It's a sad commentary on these soi-disant Christians that this single woman voted for a president who would help those less fortunate, which they seem to view as the ultimate governmental offense.
I'd tend to believe, as well, that anyone who starts railing about welfare queens in the age of Obama is yet another person with a not-so-well hidden racial agenda.
The blinders these folks have on that allow them to look in the mirror without retching are impressive things!
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zonk
July 29, 2010 6:01 PM in reply to klg19
I believe Schafly is a widow --
Which means she ought to get her damn ass married to someone else so I don't have to support her with goldurn tax dollars!
Doesn't her anachronistic worldview require that her departed husband's brother marry her or some such?
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 6:14 PM in reply to klg19
Great post!! Thanks and I could not agree more.
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shortstop
July 29, 2010 7:33 PM in reply to klg19
You left out that Schlafly is an attorney, but doesn't believe that other women should work.
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jeffgee
July 29, 2010 10:42 PM in reply to shortstop
It's the old conservative pulling the ladder up after climbing it. Like Clarence Thomas's attitude about affirmative action.
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FreemanW
July 30, 2010 3:00 AM in reply to klg19
Excellent post!
I don't understand this demand on the GOP to renounce her.
Bury them with it.
Label them, paint them with all of it, shout it from the rooftops, this is the GOP, antiquated, bigoted, hypocrites, racists, elitists, deficit hawks, last week’s fish wrap, out of touch, corporate whores, mean-spirited, cruel, misogynistic assholes, . . . this list could go on for a while.
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absurdity 007
July 29, 2010 5:41 PM
Call me crazy but I thought unmarried women voted for Obama because of the size of his penis. That's the rumor I heard.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 5:52 PM in reply to absurdity 007
Flagged you scumbag slime.
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farnsworth
July 29, 2010 5:58 PM in reply to chameleon
I thought it was a funny joke.
You know, making fun of Schlafly's "logic."
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 6:12 PM in reply to farnsworth
I think it's offensive myself.
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absurdity 007
July 29, 2010 6:44 PM in reply to chameleon
definitely a Joke on the absurdity of Schafly's logic, but whatever,....Slimebag scums aren't funny to everybody.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 8:29 PM in reply to absurdity 007
Hey I apologize. I totally misread where you were coming from. I'm not beneath admitting my mistake and to Hunter - FYou you idiot.
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hunter
July 29, 2010 6:50 PM in reply to chameleon
Clearly you don't belong on the Internet.
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absurdity 007
July 29, 2010 6:57 PM in reply to hunter
When you get flagged, that means your more patriotic right?
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Joekuh
July 30, 2010 9:45 AM in reply to absurdity 007
If that was the case, Sailor, or his many psuedonyms, should be having his face carved on Mount Rushmore next week.
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expat46
July 29, 2010 8:19 PM in reply to chameleon
Come on chammy, lighten up. I thought it was funny too.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 8:40 PM in reply to expat46
Apparently I missed the humor - I have apologized for my error.
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slb
July 30, 2010 4:17 AM in reply to chameleon
Oh, please. Once again, your snark detector is in need of serious adjustment.
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chameleon
July 30, 2010 8:39 AM in reply to slb
Who asked you? Butt out idiot. I apologized for missing the snark.
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slb
July 30, 2010 1:49 PM in reply to chameleon
You're such a charming person.
Just do us all a favor and try taking a minute or two to look over someone's other posts before being so quick to punch the "Abuse" flag. The reflexive use of "Abuse" is in itself an abuse.
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July 29, 2010 7:09 PM in reply to absurdity 007
Personally I thought it was funny as hell ... guess that means I'm scumbag slime as well?
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 8:31 PM in reply to Brenda
Well good for you if you did. Personally I missed the humor but I was wrong and I have admitted it and apologized to absurd.
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Reefdancer
July 29, 2010 9:29 PM in reply to absurdity 007
Bwaa haa haa. good one
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ericf
July 29, 2010 5:52 PM
Too bad this Bachmann beta version was taken seriously when she was making things up to stop the ERA.
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zonk
July 29, 2010 5:56 PM
You just gotta love it when the whack-jobs of yesterday get pissed off that the modern whack jobs have stolen their carnival barking podium and decide "I can beat that. Why, I was spreading bullshit and making idiotic statements when you damn kids thought John Birch did for birch trees what Johnny Appleseed did for Apple trees!"
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hunter
July 29, 2010 6:52 PM in reply to zonk
That line about John Birch is absolutely hilarious. Although it should be noted that the actual John Birch was a real American hero and was long dead before a bunch of loons stole his image for their "society" of nutcases.
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zonk
July 29, 2010 7:11 PM in reply to hunter
Well...
John Birch performed heroic deeds in WWII - including helping members of the Doolittle raid to safety - and I suppose that I can accept calling one that performs heroic deeds a hero in that sense.
However, he was also a fundamentalist zealot who, had it not been for WWII, would have almost certainly made a career out of destroying anyone (including fellow believers) that didn't have meet his high bar for fundamentalist fervor.
No one can know for sure, of course, but I have serious doubts that had he not met his end at the hands of Chinese Communists as WWII drew to a close and the Chinese Civil War went into full swing -- he'd have disapproved of the JBS in any meaningful way.
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ru4862
July 29, 2010 6:03 PM
Shoofly represents the core thinking of republicans, yet voters are willing to vote these racist, bigoted, sexist clowns into power in November. The problem is not Shoofly, the problem i see are the voters who are willing to tolerate their garbage.
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ritetime
July 29, 2010 6:10 PM
Having a Black man in the White House has driven the crazies absolutely nuts! They care not what the say or who they say it to or when they say it!
They would rather see this country go down the toilet then to acknowledge that EVERYTHING must change - including their out dated bass ackwards notions about race, religion, and relationships!
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ru4862
July 29, 2010 6:13 PM in reply to ritetime
I agree. Obama's skin color has driven the very extreme rightwing nuts.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 6:13 PM
She's an ugly shriveled up prune with a hairdo from the 50s and this woman has the nerve to talk about unmarried women.
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hunter
July 29, 2010 6:55 PM in reply to chameleon
I like the fact that you have no problem criticizing an 85-year-old's looks, but one dick joke sends you into a tizzy.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 9:02 PM in reply to hunter
Yeah so what? Give it a rest.
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hunter
July 30, 2010 11:49 AM in reply to chameleon
So what? You call somebody a "scumbag" and flag his/her post for a perfectly innocuous (and incredibly obvious) joke. Someone points out how ridiculously imperceptive you've been and you reiterate how "offended" you are...and then one minute later you post a comment making fun of the way an octogenarian looks!
Seriously, you think a comment about the President's penis is offensive, but it's fine to make fun of old people for not being pretty? Seriously? Like, for real?
I'm OK with one or the other. You can be offended about harmless jokes, if you aren't making fun of old people. You can make fun of old people if you don't mind the dick jokes. But you can't have it both ways...and certainly not in the span of 60 seconds. You do that, and you deserve all the ridicule you get.
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chameleon
July 30, 2010 12:54 PM in reply to hunter
Get over yourself and your righteous indignation. I apologized to the person who said it and it;s done. Apparently you haven't learned a fricking thing all your life. I have no more time to respond to idiots like you. I;m done. If you have more to say to me you will be talking to yourself.
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slb
July 30, 2010 1:51 PM in reply to chameleon
Promise?
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 6:19 PM in reply to slb
Don't get Chammy going! Ooooh!
Yosemite Sam in a skirt - "Ooh! I hates Christmas! And I hates mistletoe! And I hates kissing!"
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xultar
July 29, 2010 6:20 PM
I.F.
I EVAH. SEE. THAT. OLD. ASS. BITTY...
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go2goal
July 29, 2010 6:21 PM
Obviously a product of marrying into money....she should be careful.....she might be correctly labeled as prostitute when one connects the dots on her views:
From wikipedia on Phyllis:
She also said, at a March 2007 speech at Bates College, "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape."
One of her sons his gay....and dear Phyllis is on the record of saying that even though he's gay, he supports her political views. Phyllis has made a lifetime of opposing equal rights....I'm sure he's thrilled with Phyllis over that one.
Schlafly's career demonstrated "anti-intellectualism in pursuit of a political agenda.....in other words, either rewrite history to fit your argument or ignore the facts in total.
The far right in this country are amazing....as well as dangerous. No wonder we don't learn from our historically documented mistakes....
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Matt Jones
July 29, 2010 6:36 PM
I never understood why, at a basic logical level, the whole "people on welfare vote for Democrats who give them moar welfare" thing (regardless of its actual truth) was so terrible. Yes, people are motivated to do things that help them - pretty basic logic.
On the other hand, middle-class people voting for a party that has consistently taken every step possible to destroy the middle class while transferring money upward - that just doesn't make sense. It's like paying a hitman to kill yourself.
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Thinking-Independent
July 29, 2010 9:47 PM in reply to Matt Jones
That is so true. People will have a chance to voice their opinions in just over three months. That will give us some insite as to what the country thinks.
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JefferyK
July 29, 2010 6:38 PM
Cockroaches are eternal.
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TomGADem
July 29, 2010 6:46 PM
Does Phyllis Schlaffley get her hair done by the same guy as Rand Paul?
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06STS
July 29, 2010 6:49 PM in reply to TomGADem
HAHAHAHA! That's a good one!
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Joshua the Teacher
July 29, 2010 6:50 PM
Hey guys, maybe we're jumping on her words too quickly. Maybe she's been "taken out of context" (in Fox-speak, that means quoted accurately).
C'mon, I bet if we let the audio play out for another 5 minutes, she'll end up saying, "Just kidding! President Obama is a great man and doing the best he can with all the crackpots and idiots spouting untruths like the one I randomly made 5 minutes ago."
I mean, it's possible, right?
/snark
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Whenwillthisnightmareend
July 29, 2010 6:56 PM
What would the republicans do for unmarried women? And,in fact, what would the Republicans care to do for anybody except the wealthy who bankroll these bought politicians. So now they know that unmarried women voted for Obama,what do they intend to do to court these voters? NOT A DAMNED THING! Their plan is to disenfranchise them, and failing that starve them, literally.
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expat46
July 29, 2010 8:59 PM in reply to Whenwillthisnightmareend
She's not after the "unmarried woman" vote. It's a dog whistle for "welfare queens". Same shit, different decade.
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slb
July 30, 2010 1:57 PM in reply to expat46
Nah, I remember this old bat from the ERA wars. She really, truly thinks single women are an evil influence and a threat to proper society. She really is saying that the only proper role for women in this world is to marry, tend a household, and raise children. She's very 19th-century retro in that way. (And even in the 19th century, there were women who of necessity earned their own way in life, but they were always frowned upon as coarse and unfeminine by proper ladies.)
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06STS
July 29, 2010 6:59 PM
Why is it that all of these RECYCLED has beens from the past keep popping up over there at Republican Nation? What is wrong with being a single mom raising a child on food stamps? Some single moms might be suffering with cancer and therefore cannot work. She has kids that need medical care and food to survive. I suppose Phyllis believes they all should suffer and wither away.
I have ALWAYS believed that Republicans will do whatever possible to give everything to the rich even if it means taking food out of the mouths of widows and orphans. These creeps really do look down on the poor, disabled and helpless. Furthermore, if Republicans could have death panels THEY WOULD and Phyllis would be the chairwoman! MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEIR SOULS! This witch is Sarah! Palin's twin.
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Bruce Webb
July 29, 2010 7:16 PM in reply to 06STS
No! No! Phyllis is not Sarah's twin!
That role was locked down by Anita Bryant back in the day. Phyllis was always the plainer more bitter cousin among the whacky homophobes. Kind of the Sharron Angle of her day.
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clemenceau
July 29, 2010 7:01 PM
Phyllis is an OT (Original Teabagger). Her conspiracy theories and Southern Strategy sex appeal riled the radical right and helped Goldwater win the Republican nomination in 1964. Of course, he then went on to only carry 6 states (AZ, LA, MS, AL, GA and SC).
Looks like old girl is trying to work that same magic again.
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kunda311
July 29, 2010 7:04 PM
Ah, conservatards really know how to capture the non-white older male vote...
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glblank
July 29, 2010 7:14 PM
She must have been referring to Ann "I only whore with conservatives" Coulter.
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PeggyP
July 29, 2010 7:21 PM
Aside from her rather bizarre assumption that all single mothers are in that status by their own election, she clearly hasn't considered the implications of this. Is she advocating that fathers be forced to marry AND live with the mothers of their children or (right-to-lifers get on this one) is she suggesting that pregnant single women should get or be FORCED to have abortions if they can't support a child if the pregnancy continues to term?
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Viva!America!
July 29, 2010 7:24 PM
She looks like an extra from a Mad Men episode. Mean Old Lady #1
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xargaw
July 29, 2010 7:27 PM
This women has a made a career traveling around the country telling women not to have careers and to stay home and raise their children and be sub-serviant to their husbands, while she has had a full time career outside the home. She is hypocrite and her speel is from the dark ages. No THINKING women alive today gives her the time of day.
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eve
July 29, 2010 7:31 PM
She is such a hate-filled slut.
And to a previous poster, Schlafly has NEVER had sex appeal. She has always been a dried up old prune of a bitch. Her claim to fame is rooted solely in hate and bigotry.
She mostly hates women.
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MikeW67
July 29, 2010 7:44 PM
Calling to renounce Schlafly is giving her far too much standing. She is a joke.
Quayle, anyone... ;^)
- Balkingpoints / www
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Phoebe Fay
July 29, 2010 7:48 PM
Huh. Who knew that hate could work so well as an embalming agent?
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 10:22 PM in reply to Phoebe Fay
Phoebe, you're good.
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repubnomore
July 29, 2010 7:50 PM
Well, hasn't she set womanhood back a hundred years?!! I guess she thinks women need men to survive. Otherwise, they go on welfare? What a nutcase. It's bigots like these that will be the death of conservatism.
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buck
July 29, 2010 7:52 PM
Jelly and Dead Kennedys got it right many moons ago:
http://bit.ly/aNzpCV
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Phoebe Fay
July 29, 2010 7:53 PM
Also, you know, some women become unmarried women when their husbands divorce them while they're recovering from surgery for cancer.
And then some other women become unmarried women because they married the guy who was cheating on his first wife in the hospital with cancer, and then that guy, shocking, dumps them for a younger model.
But you know, family values, yada yada.
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Frito Baggins
July 29, 2010 7:56 PM
Irrelevant old ghoulette.
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manyamile
July 29, 2010 8:05 PM
unfortunately ,the hairdo only amplifies her instructions from planet totlee fullocrap.
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MeemaSUE
July 29, 2010 8:17 PM
She's a man baby! Oh wait That's Ann Coulter!
What the hell is wrong with these hateful vile excuses for human beings? What? Do you think I'm generalizing?
Oh God-I am turning into a right-wing nut job-HELP!
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oleeb
July 29, 2010 8:17 PM
Phyllis is a crazy old wingnut who says stuff like that ALL of the time.
I wonder why it is that Democrats have no problem ringing in on this kind of petty bullshit but they refuse to defend their own positions and agenda in similar manner? They love preening and primping for the cameras on this kind of thing that is completely lacking in substance but when the idea of standing up and denouncing Republicans for their strategy of fillibustering everything they are nearly silent. When they are attacked as "socialists", "communists", and being "soft on terrorism" they cower in the corners hoping the mean, mean Republicans will stop saying those nasty things about them. It's embarassing.
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Viva!America!
July 29, 2010 9:54 PM in reply to oleeb
That you spent most of your post slamming Democrats while excusing that monster Schafly with a simple 'that's just how she is' comment is embarrassing.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 11:21 PM in reply to Viva!America!
It's pathetic is what it is. Is Oleeb one angry m'fer or what? This person must eat nails for breakfast everyday. I have NEVER seen an angrier person at TPM.
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 11:27 PM in reply to chameleon
Sweetheart, oleeb may be angry, like myself, but for a woman, you're way out in front all by yourself. Have a drink, do a little dance ...
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chameleon
July 30, 2010 2:33 PM in reply to Viva!America!
Here's another "blech" moment for you but still a must see.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/stewart-to-media-nothing_n_664777.html
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barryashe
July 29, 2010 8:23 PM
Thank you, Phyllis, from the bottom of my heart for having the nerve to proclaim forthrightly and clearly what most Republicans think but are afraid to say. I hope you live to be 110 years old and never stop fighting for what you believe in. You never use code words or euphemisms or spin doctors, but instead you always call a spade, a spade.
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Roma Victors
July 29, 2010 8:40 PM in reply to barryashe
My snark meter is on the fritz, but you're joking, right?
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Kuyleh
July 29, 2010 10:21 PM in reply to Roma Victors
I hope not. The more she says what they're thinking like this, the more we can use it against them. She may be a stupid bitch, but she's useful.
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booch221
July 29, 2010 8:42 PM
Schlafly endorsed Diaper Dave? What happened to Family Values?
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slb
July 30, 2010 4:53 AM in reply to booch221
Do you really have to ask? Surely you know the answer to that: IOKIYAR.
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stefsstuff
July 29, 2010 9:06 PM
If Shafley isn't the epitomy of evil I don't know what is. If there is a hell - she's going to burn - slowly.
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walkcheerfully
July 29, 2010 9:07 PM
lives....in.....a.....bubble.....
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Jimtoday3034
July 29, 2010 9:24 PM
Schlafly is a Satanic pig, and and addled old ho bag.
I'd love to hear what her favored Senator from Louisiana David Vitter thinks of these remarks. Perhaps he can be asked if instead of welfare, he thinks unmarried women should get jobs as prostitutes, thus driving down the price for his diaper sex!? Clearly, he thinks women working at brothels is a good thing, as he patronized them frequently, until getting caught. Come to think of it, he should be asked how many times exactly, since getting fingered as a client he has returned to whorehouses?
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emilyon
July 29, 2010 9:28 PM
Um, excuse me, Phyllis? That's DOCTOR unmarried woman to you. Bitch.
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slb
July 30, 2010 4:56 AM in reply to emilyon
+5
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emilyon
July 29, 2010 9:34 PM
Um, excuse me, Phyllis? That's DOCTOR unmarried woman to you. Bitch.
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dustbunny44
July 29, 2010 9:43 PM
Somebody ask her for her bigoted, ignorant, greedy, fearful, damaging opinion of why all the MARRIED women voted for Obama.
I'm sure she has one.
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Ginny in CO
July 31, 2010 7:48 AM in reply to dustbunny44
I want to know if Phyllis ever considered that those unmarried women voted for Obama because they wanted the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act passed and signed into law.
If you don't believe women should have jobs and careers, it probably doesn't occur to you that those who do, want to be paid the same as the ones with different gonads that do the same job.
Then again, given Schafly's opinion of women, she probably helped convince the 30% who didn't vote for Obama that they aren't worthy of equal pay.
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Diamond LeGrande
July 29, 2010 9:59 PM
The real scandal is why anyone was bothering to pay attention to Phyllis Schafly. She's been irrelevant since about 1985.
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Kuyleh
July 29, 2010 10:08 PM
Fuck you, bitch. This unmarried woman takes care of herself, and helps take care of my roommate's elderly father, with no help from the government. And I didn't "kick my husband out." He left me after he knocked up some hoe while deployed. But I'm sure you'd blame that on me too, wouldn't you? Spoiled cunt.
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 10:36 PM
Something interesting just came to me: when Cindy Sheehan tragically looses her son in Iraq and in her grief lashes out at Pres Bush, Fox & Goons trashed her. Was there a Dem that stood up to Fox in defense of the grieving mother? Can't remember.
And now the Dems huff and puff at the GOP, demanding they renounce crazy Phyllis. Jesus, can't they do it themselves? Not sure but I feel there's something cowardly about all this.
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expat46
July 29, 2010 11:06 PM in reply to Clarance Vine
Come on! Nobody cares if the Republicans renounce Schlafly. This is about hanging her and her hate filled rhetoric around the GOP's neck. Smart politics from those weak kneed, do nothing Dems.
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chameleon
July 29, 2010 11:17 PM in reply to expat46
You picked up on CV's phony outrage. I'm sure if he wanted to he could find the answer to his question about Cindy Sheehan yes there was plenty of outrage and many took on Fox news for trashing her. Selective memory?
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 11:32 PM in reply to chameleon
Jesus, read the post first before you attack. Selective memory? I asked - "Was there a Dem that stood up to Fox in defense of the grieving mother? Can't remember"
That Obama dick joke really made you crazy. Maybe a good poke...
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Clarance Vine
July 29, 2010 11:22 PM in reply to expat46
I know the Republicans won't renounce Phyllis but wasn't sure if a Dem or 2 should trash her anyway. Just saying.
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itheuser
July 30, 2010 2:13 AM in reply to Clarance Vine
Because Sheehan came across as a self-serving protester who wanted to make it more about her, and her "crusade." She wore it out.
Publicly grieving isn't always the best route take.
Regardless of your rage, and frustration in life, when addressing issues that affect millions of people, it's sometimes best to consider tact, and other strategies that are more engaging to a broader swathe of people.
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 6:42 AM in reply to itheuser
Obviously you don't have any children. And that's why this is one of the dumbest post I have ever read.
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slb
July 30, 2010 2:05 PM in reply to Clarance Vine
FWIW, I agree with itheuser. I was very much in sympathy with Sheehan in the beginning, and I'm still very sympathetic with her over the grievous loss of her son, but she pushed it too far and became an embarrassment to the anti-war movement. She made it easy to dismiss, which was a disservice to the movement as a whole.
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 6:06 PM in reply to slb
Well FWIW, it's not worth very much. As I said to Itheuser, I seriously doubt you have any grown children. If you don't then it's just innocent ignorance, like Itheuser, that you say what you say.
"..but she pushed it too far and became an embarrassment to the anti-war movement. She made it easy to dismiss, ..."
An embarrassment? Too easy to dismiss? You have some living to do. Open your heart and contemplate, and grasp, what the woman went through - and still goes through every day. Do I have to tell you what her first thoughts are as she opens her eyes every morning, and her last thought as she turns on her side and closes her eyes every night?
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deliciae
July 29, 2010 11:53 PM
Who is this dried up old hag and why should I give a shit what she thinks about my marital status, my voting preferences, or anything, really?
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Dadzilla
July 30, 2010 2:28 AM in reply to deliciae
Because this old hag gives a lot of money to people who think just like her.
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Waltz
July 30, 2010 12:42 AM
You're right Phyllis, if I get killed in a car accident my wife automatically becomes an asshole.
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Signalman
July 30, 2010 4:11 PM in reply to Waltz
Mine, too. I guess she's not entitled to the insurance money, because it magically becomes "welfare" once State Farm pays off on my policy, right?
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king buzzo
July 30, 2010 2:03 AM
The queen of wingnut welfare doth project too much.
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itheuser
July 30, 2010 2:09 AM
Wow. Talk about a throwback.
Her batteries are clearly running low.
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mibwilso
July 30, 2010 6:35 AM
Wow. It's one thing to be pro-marriage, but it's quite another to suggest that women can't provide for themselves.
This woman is a relic.
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July 30, 2010 6:55 AM
Has she heard of Bristol Palin?
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valgal
July 30, 2010 7:19 AM
Maybe Mel should ask her out.
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psyclone
July 30, 2010 9:59 AM
It's good politics to force the GOP to distance themselves from this batshit crazy person. MOAR PLEEZ
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Spyder308
July 30, 2010 10:26 AM
This woman and Joseph Coors are responsible for a huge amount of crap and hate speech in our country. Those two along with James Dobson had to approve every major appointment in the Cheney administration.
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SocialJusticeForAll
July 30, 2010 11:37 AM
Typical TP posts.
So, you might not think someone is pretty by your standards or agrees with your lifestyle or divorce viewpoint—who cares?
Where is the meaningful discussion about the real problem, about the lack of true fathers—not the sperm donor types--but the real missing ones of today; those that aren’t perverted by pornography and by a sexualized culture that objectifies women and then allows men to freely easily leave their spouse because they don’t meet their “standard?”
Where is the discussion about true fathers who genuinely care about their spouse and their children?
Where is the discussion on how we care and are helping prevent the havoc and pain that divorce causes?
Sad.
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hotspur
July 30, 2010 2:12 PM in reply to SocialJusticeForAll
It is not just that she is weird-looking, it is that her weird looks perfectly mirror her self-righteous beliefs. Her looks are a rare proxy, a perfect embodiment of Lincoln's adage that by 40, you have the face you deserve. She is from space.
http://www.anomalymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/invasion-of-the-saucer-men-lobby-card.jpg
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slb
July 30, 2010 2:15 PM in reply to hotspur
And also that the out-of-date hairstyle, the out-of-date earrings, and the 1950s Grace Kelly pearl necklace reflect her out-of-date ideas.
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slb
July 30, 2010 2:13 PM in reply to SocialJusticeForAll
Hey, you want at discussion about that, write your own blog post and have at it. This site provides you with space. But that's not what this particular discussion was meant to address. This is about the invective-strewn denunciation of ALL unmarried women by one particular woman (who also happens to be unmarried -- are you telling us that you are on welfare these days, Phyllis?) who wields signifcant influence in the Republican party.
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Kuyleh
July 30, 2010 2:35 PM in reply to SocialJusticeForAll
Not here, because that's not what this discussion is about. This discussion is about how this...thing...talks about unmarried women. What you're ranting about has nothing to do with it.
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Subliminability
July 30, 2010 3:12 PM
(If anyone cared about anything this woman said any more, except for parodic purposes,) Schlafley might have inadvertantly created an anti-backlash backlash: "Kick your husband out and vote for Obama '12"
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lapopessa
July 30, 2010 3:16 PM
This unmarried woman has had a job since she was 18 and probably pays a whole lot more in taxes than Phyllis.
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dualdiagnosis
July 30, 2010 6:17 PM
She was attacked the same way when she fought against implementation of the ERA. She was right on that, anyone think it should pass now?
Fact: Married women vote Republican, unmarried women vote Democrat (By large majorities)(and no this doesn't apply to every single example)(jeez, you got to put disclaimers on everything on this site)
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=USP00p3
Fact: Liberals don't attack her facts, they attack her for being old, being ugly, being a bitch, being a bigot, being an old hag, being heartless, being hateful, being evil etc.. etc.. (sample of just the comments here)
Counting down for the "Raaaacist!" label to be thrown her way. The latest catchall insult that has the benefit of dehumanizing, and demonizing the target and is used at the drop of a hat these days.
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August 3, 2010 8:06 PM in reply to dualdiagnosis
Actually, you should look at these statistics a bit more carefully. To say that "married women vote Republican by large majorities" is not true even in the statistics you pointed out. It was only a 2% difference which is within the statistic error of the poll. So it's essentially a "wash".
Also, if you look at the more detailed statistics you actually see it's higher for married women with no kids. I think that's true because married women with no kids haven't had to go through the many different horrors (insurance, welfare, divorce, etc) related to having kids. Many of Obama's issues simply do not affect this subset of the population.
That said, I bet if they added in "education" and "income level" you would find that a LARGE majority of well-educated, middle-class working married women voted almost exclusively for Obama.
The times we are living in are very chaotic and the issues we face are very complex. You either have to be living in the crisis each day (e.g. unmarried single mothers) or you have to be educated enough in micro and macro economics to truly understand the depth of the crisis we are truly in. Some people just haven't yet experienced the crisis firsthand so don't understand it.
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Clarance Vine
July 30, 2010 6:27 PM
So much money. So much hate.
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siuol11
July 31, 2010 2:46 PM
She's the conservative version of Margaret Sanger.
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Ed Stronski
July 31, 2010 11:28 PM
I did taxes in the inner city for 7 years - the redistribution of wealth was huge back then, now it's even more unbelievable - people don't have a clue about this.
Example: An identical 2009 W-2 income of $15,000 but 3 different filing status results.
Single person ended up with $568 in taxes which was reduced by the $400 make work pay credit in 2009, so $168 of tax.
Married couple owe no taxes and got $800 of make work pay credit and $261 of Earned Income credit
Head of Household single parent of 2 owed no taxes and got a refund of $7228
The head of household single parent of 2 with an income of $15000 paid no income tax and got $5028 of EIC, $1800 of Child tax credit and $400 of make work pay. Plus a big NYS refund (they match Fed credits by 30%) and probably a whole list of other housing, food stamp and medical benefits. Matter of fact the single parent of 2 would have to make at least $40000 before any Federal income tax might appear instead of some refund.
Ms. Schlafly was kind and mild in her description of what is really going on.
Conclusion from an experienced Enrolled Agent.
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L.Freeman
August 1, 2010 1:41 PM
And republicans and teabaggers wonder why people call them evil.
Look, I am not saying that all are like this...woman. But if not, then they need to denounce her hateful words. Does this woman actually claim to be a Christian? I mean seriously, can she see Jesus talking like this about, well anyone? How can republicans tolerate this high level of hypocrisy?
Bleh, I am getting frustrated, so I will stop typing now.
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August 2, 2010 1:00 PM
Ah....the female who DEFINES the term "miserable old hypocritical battle-ax". I always loved it back in the 1970s when she was touring the country, the wife of a wealthy attorney telling women that they should NEVER work outside the home! She insisted that a woman should greet her husband every day when he came home from work. At the time, a heavily mortgaged economy thanks to heavy inflation, most women HAD to work. She didn't but but she was never home either. She was out shilling her stupid books. I wish this old bag would just RETIRE! SHEEESH!
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