Dick Morris Delivers Bad News To Republicans: Give Up On Roe V. Wade

[DonViejo]

PEMA LEVY MARCH 14, 2013, 12:34 PM

“Well, we lost,” said Republican strategist Dick Morris as he took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of suburban Washington, D.C., on Thursday. And in order to win the next election, Morris delivered some bad news to Republicans: They need to change.

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To fix this problem, Morris urged Republicans to pass immigration reform immediately. Once the immigration issue is out of the way, he argued, Latinos would embrace the conservative values, switch sides and ultimately become “the salvation of the Republican Party.”

The harder sell came in his next prescription: Give up on Roe v. Wade.

In order to win back young women, Morris argued that Republicans should stop trying to make abortion illegal and instead focus on a bipartisan effort to reduce the instances of abortion.

“Single white women run screaming from the Republican Party, largely because of our pro-life position,” Morris said. Morris stressed that Republicans can remain pro-life in principle, but needed to shift their focus away from the courts and embrace polices like “adoption, adoption tax incentives, birth control, abstinence, parental notification, parental support … a whole range of efforts, some sponsored by the right, some sponsored by the left.” Overturning Roe v. Wade, he said, was “a case we’re never going to win.”

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[demwing]

1. I don't know whether to cringe or cheer!

Dick Morris, you confuse me with your incredible wrongness. How can you possibly be right?

[yellowcanine]

2. With the toe sucker, cringing is always the correct response.

Stopped clock, etc. Big deal. Hitler supposedly made the trains run on time.

[LonePirate]

3. Did they throw tomatoes at him and boo him off the stage?

That's a proverbial lead balloon speech if there ever was one.

[Myrina]

4. Oh shit, given his track record on giving advice ...

This may not be a good thing.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Wow

some sensible ideas and significant embrace of reality for him. I've always personally liked the Clinton "formulation" regarding abortion rights: "Safe, legal, and rare"

[wandy]

6. Oh yes. republicans must embrace immigration reform, embrace reproductive rights.........

For NOW!
Forgot all the other people who are not our exact shade of white, they don't matter. Never did. Lations will become the salvation of the republican Party!
We must get them wimmen folk to trust us, so lay off on that Roe v. Wade stuff already. Hell, buy them all a box of chocolates if it gets their vote!
We must change our "Image"

All we need do is win one more presidential election, keep the house and take the senate.
THEN we'll make the buggers eyes water!

Once a lier always a lier.

2014: Get the vermin out of the house!
End the republican menace.

[HooptieWagon]

7. Of course they can't overturn RvsW.

Its merely a carrot the GOP dangles in front of the Talibornagain to keep them voting republican. They'll chip away at it, to keep the base happy. But if abortion were outright banned, there would no longer be a strong motivation for the bible-thumpers to remain republican.

[bigdarryl]

8. Who gives a flying fuck what this toe sucker says

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. They don't have to overturn Roe. They're already destroying it at the state level.

[KRansome83]

13. You're right about that, and South Carolina could be one of the next states...

...to do away with abortion through personhood legislation. There's currently five personhood bills sitting in Judiciary committees of their respective chambers of the statehouse, and two of them (S. 457 and H. 3584) were just introduced in the last month and quickly picking up sponsors.

Here's the other three:
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/bills/83.htm
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/bills/87.htm
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/bills/3323.htm

[Jamaal510]

10. Hey Foot Dude, why stop at Roe v. Wade?

You guys are also losing on marriage equality, guns, the health care debate, and the debate over whether top income earners should have their taxes raised. You're losing at just about every key issue now.

[lunatica]

11. They would have to promote contraception and sex education

But they're stupid so they won't.

[radicalliberal]

12. Dick Morris -- toe sucker!

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[davidpdx]

14. Anyone who listens to Dick Morris is a fool

Therefore I say to Republicans, please proceed.....