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I mean, that IS moderate for a Republican. The more typical party view is Make America Handmaid's Tale.

I don't usually wish for this, but I hope she gets an ectopic pregnancy and is forced to carry to term

Realistically she'd just fly herself to NY

Of the party of freedom!

There were anti suffrage women's groups.

There were pro-Nazi Jewish people in Germany until they came for them too.

There's always some people within a population who just choose to side with power, even power that loathes them, in hopes they'll become a favorite pet.

The log cabin Republicans come to mind.

She would say no regardless of the truth. Asking questions like that without knowing the answer and being able to prove it is basically just tossing a softball.

Seriously. The way they treat all the candidates with kid gloves is ridiculous.

She could say, "Yes I have had many abortions. I'm having one tomorrow! Abortions should be illegal because it's the only way to stop me from constantly having abortions!"

Hypocrisy doesn't matter to them.

Sideshow Bob, surrounded by abortion rakes.

If she weren't a degenerate buffoon, she wouldn't be campaigning as a Republican.

Anyone who still identifies themselves with the (R) in this day and age can be written off as an idiot and bigot..

Well, that’ll at least going to earn her the respect and appreciation of every conservative voter

It isn't, because this is table stakes. If anything, her status as a mother of a daughter will raise serious concerns that she'll backpeddle if her own daughter has an unwanted pregnancy or miscarriage.

That's the big hurdle that conservative women have. Voters just reflexively see them as more-liberal than their male peers, because the conservative mode of politics is inherently patriarchal. How can you be a True Believer when you're acting against your own best interests?

She needs to be even more sinister.

She needs to be a TV personality with 40 years of accumulated history and its simply too late for that to happen.

There's nothing Haley can do to turn her campaign around. She was doomed from day one, shy of Trump having a sudden cardiac event on the campaign trail. No matter how cruel she behaves, she'll always be seen as a conformer rather than the Real Deal because of who she is and where she comes from.

With Republican bills going the way they are, we might see her publicly inspected to confirm it.

In the same pathetic kind of way Trump is man I guess, yes.

Like, for a party that is full of anti-mask sentiment, they sure do love to wear metaphorical masks. One thing I said at the exit interview for a job I worked is, "When are you going to admit that you don't really see me or any of the guys on the shop floor as 'people'?"

And I'd like to put it forward to Republicans. What's it going to take to get you to take your mask off? What's it going to take to get you to admit you see everyone who isn't you as livestock? You know you're full of shit, we know you're full of shit, and you know that we know, and we know that you know that we know. Can we just drop the pretense and be honest with each other for a little bit?

It's like, when two people are in a romantic relationship, and that relationship enters a rough patch, but instead of fighting, moving on, and healing, both sides just have some unspoken agreement to keep pretending that everything is fine. The more I think about it, I kinda realize that it's like a game of chicken. First to drop the charade loses. And neither side wants to lose.