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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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July 29, 2010 4:36 PM   

Schalfly? Isn't she dead? No? Well, she sure looks like it.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 7:44 PM    in reply to Ugg the Repug

LMAO!!!

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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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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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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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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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July 30, 2010 7:20 AM    in reply to Ugg the Repug

Ugg up early.

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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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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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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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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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July 30, 2010 2:30 AM    in reply to Ugg the Repug

Ugg date her in high school.

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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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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July 29, 2010 5:41 PM    in reply to FreeRider

Phyllis Shoo-fly, as Archie Bunker referred to her.

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July 29, 2010 5:41 PM    in reply to FreeRider

I wanna see what sailorboy has to say about her!

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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 6:48 PM    in reply to Caroline

oops-misspelled the evil woman's name.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 30, 2010 3:44 PM    in reply to Ann in AZ

Oh, that'll leave a mark! :)

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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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July 29, 2010 7:17 PM    in reply to chameleon

blech, is that the only site carrying it?

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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 9:39 PM    in reply to FreeRider

Peaceful Republicans, Pls Refudiate!

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July 30, 2010 2:25 PM    in reply to Davran

yes!

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July 29, 2010 10:28 PM    in reply to FreeRider

Wasn't the Church Lady based on her?

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July 29, 2010 11:38 PM    in reply to jeffgee

Isn't that special.

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July 30, 2010 1:12 PM    in reply to FreeRider

Ditto

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July 29, 2010 4:38 PM   

Isn't this woman dead?

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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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July 30, 2010 8:06 AM    in reply to randomname

You call what she does "living"? Har har har.

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July 29, 2010 4:39 PM   

Ann Coulter supports Obama and is on welfare?

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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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July 29, 2010 9:08 PM    in reply to TJF

She is a man....doesn't count.

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July 30, 2010 9:12 AM    in reply to TJF

And Condi Rice? Mary Cheney?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 30, 2010 3:52 PM    in reply to matts2

Clearly the Vanilla Bible wasn't vengeful enough for them.

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July 29, 2010 4:41 PM   

I thought you got wiser in your old age.

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July 29, 2010 5:02 PM    in reply to jonez

It's a bell curve.

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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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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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July 29, 2010 4:43 PM   

"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,"

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 6:24 PM    in reply to johnnydoughey

Uh, blacks for Obama?

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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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July 29, 2010 7:04 PM    in reply to hunter

So this dod not mean 70% of those who voted?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 5:27 PM    in reply to Signalman

HHH. FTW! HHH.

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July 29, 2010 9:16 PM    in reply to Signalman

Spewed..vodka tonic....on....computer...need...cpr!!

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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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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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July 29, 2010 4:57 PM   

...and this is because when you kick your husband out, you've got to have big brother government to be your provider...
Not true, but that's the way Schlafly would like it to be; nobody else in my lifetime has worked harder to try to make it impossible for women to support themselves.

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July 29, 2010 5:24 PM    in reply to Tom Hilton

+1

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July 29, 2010 5:40 PM    in reply to Tom Hilton

+2

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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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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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July 29, 2010 4:58 PM   

Time for Mama Grizzly to get all up in Phyllis Schlafly's bizniss.

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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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July 29, 2010 10:48 PM    in reply to susanthe

Let's tweet her and ask.

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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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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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July 29, 2010 5:37 PM    in reply to ohyeathatsright

Then they may end up like this.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 5:09 PM   

Ladies Against Women, Batshit Insane chapter.

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July 29, 2010 5:12 PM   

In tribute of Sailormarlowe....

Phyllis fills my phallus with pharmaceutical frenzy and fear

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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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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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July 29, 2010 11:19 PM    in reply to Duck Stab

Hey Ducky, how's it hangin'!

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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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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.

C

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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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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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July 29, 2010 5:25 PM   

I thought it was just Negroes on welfare?!?!

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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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July 29, 2010 5:27 PM    in reply to toxophilite

Who just feel off her stool at the bar.

C

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 6:14 PM    in reply to klg19

Great post!! Thanks and I could not agree more.

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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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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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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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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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July 29, 2010 5:52 PM    in reply to absurdity 007

Flagged you scumbag slime.

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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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July 29, 2010 6:12 PM    in reply to farnsworth

I think it's offensive myself.

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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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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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July 29, 2010 6:50 PM    in reply to chameleon

Clearly you don't belong on the Internet.

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July 29, 2010 6:57 PM    in reply to hunter

When you get flagged, that means your more patriotic right?

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