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In reply to the discussion: Do you support concessions to banks to win elections? [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)that is the complete opposite of what is in the party's platform? https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029423012
I always knew there were pro-life democrats, I wasn't born yesterday.
Don't condense this into "people having problems with conservative Democrats" - The statement was NO LITMUS test, and now complaints about "ideological purity" when the issue here are rights. NO LITMUS tests means someone who wants to run as pro-life will get support from the party regardless of their position on the wide spectrum of pro-life beliefs as it pertains to abortions. How does that make sense given the party's platform? Like I said, it's Lujan's responsibility to be able to articulate himself better than this,
look at where it put Jerry Brown who gave some garbled defense of this which makes no sense " GOV. JERRY BROWN: Well, the litmus test should be intelligence, caring about, as Harry Truman or Roosevelt used to call it, the common man. We're not going to get everybody on board. And I'm sorry, but running in San Francisco is not like running in Tulare County or Modoc, California, much less Mobile, Alabama." - ....................... the "intelligent" position would be pro-choice, the "intelligent" position which cares for the common man ( and woman) is that women have access to healthcare , particularly reproductive health services..
It's not my fault, or the fault of DU'ers, that this has turned out to be an "unnecessary explosion"