Payback begins: Pro-life group to target three Democrats for pro-Planned Parenthood vote
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The Susan B. Anthony List is certainly wasting no time, bless their pro-abort pickin’ hearts.
This morning SBAL announced it will immediately begin targeting 3 vulnerable Democrat US senators who yesterday voted to continue funding Planned Parenthood.
SBAL is launching radio ads featuring former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson aimed at this feckless trio (pictured below, L to R): Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, both professed pro-lifers, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, a pro-abort. All 3 are up for reelection in 2012.
I’m sure Harry Reid is getting an earful right about now. He allowed yesterday’s vote to happen just to save PP’s $363 mil in taxpayer funding, when he obviously understood one major reason Republicans wanted the vote was to draw out turncoat sheep such as these for the political slaughter.
SBAL’s previous “votes have consequences” effort in 2010 took 15 of the 20 politicians it targeted. I’m not sure who Casey and Nelson think they will turn to now for help. Despite their vote, neither PP nor pro-aborts are going to support them. And Nelson is already anathema to pro-lifers in his state.
Here’s hoping that although Obama and Reid may have won this PP battle, they’re going to lose the Senate.
This recently conducted SBAL poll is also germane. It found that 54% of Americans oppose funding “family planning” groups that commit abortion, including 26% of those calling themselves “pro-choice.”
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Nebraska Right to Life has been targeting Ben Nelson since Dec. 19, 2009, the day he ran to the Senate floor with Harry Reid and abandoned his formerly pro-life position on Obamacare. We welcome SBA’s help but they need to get in line behind thousands of irate pro-life Nebraskans who already knew Ben had abandoned us in 2009.
Are they going to “target” the five Republicans in the Senate who voted against defunding Planned Parenthood too?
I hope so, Joan!
@Joan: If it’s possible to get pro-life candidates running against them, then yes, they will. They’ve (successfully) gone after Republicans in the past.
I hope those of us who are Nebraskans can find a good pro life candidate to replace Benedict Arnold Nelson. I remember when I wrote to him about the health care vote…..his “automated response” said “i am pro life, I have adopted children”. lamest response ever.
I hope the Abby Johnson ad is run in Nebraska, especially on our Catholic radio station.
Oh good old Ben, he of “coenhusker kickback” fame. Doesn’t even have the sense to realize that when one takes a bribe, one should at least be discreet about it.
Liz, was it true that after Obamacare was passed, constituents were booing him in a pizza parlor and he had to leave?
LizfromNebraska I got that same response too and it MAKES ME SICK that he says all that and then does the opposite. HORRIBLE. Liar!
Liz and Mary Mascarello,
Democrats are always first and foremost Democrats. We can no longer use the excuse that they told us they are pro-life. It doesn’t matter, party loyalty will always come first.
We’re you bashing or praising SBAL?
“The Susan B. Anthony List is certainly wasting no time, bless their pro-abort pickin’ hearts.”
So you are saying that a supposed pro-life group which we have supported is actually pro-abort? This is the first I have heard of it. I find your article confussing.
We know who the Repub bad guys are: 5 out of 47. If any of them are up for re-election in 2012 we need to run solid conservatives against them.
We know who the Dem bad guys are: 53 out of 53. Hopefully the Repubs have some good conservative candidates lined up to run against those who have to defend their seats.
Susan, I also found the phrase “pro-abort pickin’ hearts” to be confusing. I’m sure Jill meant to praise SBAL, though.
Two of the pro-abort Republicans will be gone soon enough. Kirk is not going to be re-elected in IL. A Republican US Senator Illinois? It’s just not natural.
Brown is done in MA. The flippant morons of Massachusetts will go back to voting for the candidate of choice of the remaining members of the execrable Kennedy family.
Snowe and Collins are also reliable “New England Republicans”, which might as well be considered a third party. The sleet for brains up north will keep on voting for them.
And the Murkowski family owns Alaska, so Lisa’s not going anywhere. They might as well declare the state a kingdom under the dominion of the Murky Dynasty.
Hopefully Bobby “the Cardboard Cut Out Senator” Casey will get thrown out in 2012. At least the other Democrats are honest about being pro-abortion.
SBA List is a shill for child-killers. SBA List endorsed Scott Brown, a self proclaimed abortion advocate, knowing that he was in favor of killing children for any reason. Scott Brown voted no on PP defunding. SBA List needs to run a campaign against itself if anything.
Good, let’s keep these hypocrites accountable.