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  Lol these clowns think this abortion topic is a winning strategy STILL?! Are they that fucking stupid? I hope they get absolutely crushed in 2024.
context: Keep it up, it is a truly winning strategy  /s
  
  After re-electing Ronna McDaniel as its leader, the Republican National Committee has passed an anti-choice resolution instructing the party to “go on offense” against abortion rights and pass legislation including six-week bans.
  In the resolution passed Monday, the RNC pushes the party apparatus—candidates, consultants, and committees—to “go on offense in the 2024 election cycle,” with regards to abortion. It further urges Republicans in state legislatures and Congress to pass the “strongest” anti-choice legislation possible, using language previously used to justify so-called “heartbeat” bills that would ban abortions at six weeks, before many even know they are pregnant.
  
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  Neither here nor there, the resolution also farcically cites the party’s “proud heritage of challenging slavery, segregation” as a complement to their anti-choice resolution. The former, of course having little to do with the latter, is an effort today’s Republican Party would be hard-pressed to support, given they don’t even want kids to learn about slavery, segregation, or race generally. >
  
  Give them a few more years and they'll be openly advocating to reinstate slavery. >
  
  They'll be selling indentured servitude as a way to combat homelessness and learn job skills and work ethic. >
  
  “company provided housing" + "company provided healthcare" + "employee discounts using company script at company stores" >
  
  Worry free >
  
  Serf >
  
  They're already offensive >
  
  cuz it’s been working out so well for them up to now… >
  
  It hasn't hurt them enough, and worse, that's the sort of behavior that their base is demanding. >
  
  Yep. In a sane world, Jan 6 support plus the Court's 6-3 totally partisan abortion ruling should have destroyed the GOP. Instead - even though it was by the skin of their teeth - they still won control of the House. 
  Some of the worst election deniers were defeated, but many others are still serving at all levels of government. They are pressing this wedge issue because their Christian authoritarian base likes it. And because they believe they have rigged the system enough to win no matter what the majority of citizens want. >
  
  I just assume most has to do with gerrymandering. There are districts that are so safe they can say and do anything. >
  
  Don't assume that. Republicans won over 50% of the popular vote for the House. Yes, with a different texture of gerrymandering it might not have been enough, but in the end the result was just. >
  
  That's because there are a lot of Republicans that ran unopposed, or against third party candidates but no Democratic Party opponents. >
  
  This is a very popular refrain, but in addition to not really making a lot of sense, it's also completely false.
  First things first. I'm counting 22 races where a Republican didn't run against a Democrat in the general. In these races, I'm counting a total of 4,080,487 votes for the Republican (there were 2 races for which I couldn't find vote totals, so I gave the Republican 200,000 votes in each, which is maybe a little high, but whatever).
  However, there are 10 elections in which a Democrat didn't run against a Republican in the general - primarily in California, where a Republican didn't advance past the primary. Democrats received 1,704,267 votes in these 10 elections.
  If you remove all of these votes - which doesn't make any sense, but whatever - we're left with 50,425,649 votes for Republicans (50.33% of the two-party total) and 49,773,046 for Democrats (49.67% of the two-party total).
  So, even accounting for uncontested races, Republicans still won more votes than Democrats in House races nationwide.
  Now to my first point - why in the world would you discount these votes? Let's pick TX-11 as an example. The incumbent won 79.7% of the vote in 2020, and then ran unopposed. So of the 151,066 votes he received, at best maybe 35,000 of them would've gone to a Democrat. Not every race is like this, but you've got to assume that many of these races would have been blowouts. They would still count very heavily toward the party running unopposed. These are real votes that got cast by real people, and discounting them doesn't make sense. Like I said above, even if you don't count them at all Republicans still won over 50%; if you were to estimate these elections realistically (anywhere from 60/40 to 80/20) Republicans would probably be sitting at 51 or 52% of the vote.
  Yes, gerrymandering. Yes, voter suppression. Yes, midterm turnout. I know all these things. But in terms solely of the votes counted in contested races, this was a just result. >
  
  They blamed Trump and his endorsed picks for the midterm losses when it was their anti-abortion 'so what if the fetus is dead, you will carry to bury' stance. 
  You know the stance that a few candidates finally wised up to and tried to back away from too late, too close to the midterms? >
  
  It was both. >
  
  Excellent news! The self-immolation continues and we have ringside seats.  What’s the quote about never interrupting your opponent while he’s making a mistake? >
  
  One would think the midterms revealed that mistake, guess not. >
  
  If there’s one thing I trust Republicans to do, it’s double down on BS and never admit fault. Why? Beats me. But they never seem content to just shoot themselves in the foot, but insist on emptying the clip too. >
  
  Seems like they are between a rock and a hard place.
  Abortion isn't a winning subject for them but if they don't constantly say "we are prolife" the mindless angry base might stay home. And they need that base to win
  And they can't start going "jk we're reasonable now" because they can't get enough moderates and again their current base will leave >
  
  But the more they double down on that, the less they can win outside of deep red areas.
  A lot can happen in 20 months, but they aren’t playing a winning strategy, and they haven’t yet stacked the deck enough that they can afford to ignore moderates and swing voters. >
  
  Yes, please double down on something with 70% opposition and even a decent amount (relatively speaking) of opposition among Republicans themselves. >
  
  signs up for early mail-in voting
  “How many times do I gotta teach you this lesson, old man?” >
  
  Until one of their mistresses or daughters gets pregnant >
  
  Oh those scenarios will be under all of the rugs, guaranteed >
  
  They didn't do a good job hiding Hershel Walker's. >
  
  And his voters couldn't have cared less.  They have completely desensitized their constituents from any matters of morality, honesty, and hypocrisy, so long as they're Republican. >
  
  
  And his voters couldn't have cared less. 
  
  Which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that pro forced birthers screaming murder and sanctity of life are liars playing a political game. They didn't care about all the abortions Walker paid for or all the women their orange god has assaulted over the years either.
  It's all a conservative game to subdue women and take away their rights and political power. I believe the republicans at some point will try to take away a woman's right to vote as well. >
  
  Evangelicals think you can do whatever you want, as long as you say you're a big jesus fan, it's all good. >
  
  Part of the problem is that Christianity is based on the idea of forgiveness, so long as you repent for your sins then it's all good and you go to heaven. Now forgiveness isn't a bad thing but it's also really easy to weaponize it into the idea that someone's past actions don't matter (unless you want them to matter). That's how they justify supporting people like Trump and Walker, the Evangelicals can justify supporting them by saying that they've repented and been forgiven even when the evidence is that they haven't. >
  
  Yep. They missed the part where Jesus was pretty clear in that you gotta actually be sorry and change your behavior. Then again, they also missed the part about caring for others. >
  
  Good luck republicans with this extremely popular position. >
  
  It's in their playbook. Their playbook is their true bible. >
  
  And theirs is the fascist playbook. >
  
  GOP loses abortion voter initiative in Kansas by a wide margin. Their takeaway?
  We didn't go authoritarian enough!  Let's push even more extreme culture war policies and ignore real problem solving...how does one get off this ride? >
  
  No idea, I'd gotten off a long time ago but the GOP keeping the throttle floored. >
  
  Prior to Dobb’s abortions were at historic lows. Thanks to conservative laws, they were lower than prior to Roe. 
  A 6 week ban will disproportionately impact women that did not or could not consent to pregnancy, unviable pregnancies, or pregnancies that place the mothers life at risk. 
  No proposal from the RNC encourages additional funding to improve the health of the mother and child. There is no call to improve the foster/adoption system. They haven’t even changed their position on birth control and sex education to avoid unwanted pregnancies. 
  This isn’t about the children. It’s about control. >
  
  I think better education, expanded access to contraceptives, and plan B all played a bigger role in reducing the number of abortions than anything conservatives did. If anything, conservative policies tend to INCREASE the number of abortions. >
  
  ITs A sTaTEs riGHts IsSuE! ...wtfe >
  
  Funny how that only ever comes up when stripping people of liberty. >
  
  And it switches as soon as they think they can do it nationally. >
  
  While Kansas voted down the antiabortion amendment didn't they also reelect candidates that were against abortions? >
  
  That's how the Republican party is able to exist- it's a quilt of voters where one patch cares about abortions above all, another patch only cares about lower taxes for the rich, another patch that just cares about guns. Isolate their beliefs and you might find a lot more agreeable opinions. >
  
  I know Reddit is a selective demographic but whenever they push this shit even r/conservative gets pissed that they’re pushing it. How are you going to be so removed from reality that you get r/politics and r/conservative to a generally agreed upon consensus. >
  
  Reading that sub the week after the November election was interesting. A lot of people there had some pretty sober analysis of why the Red Wave didn't happen. And the Dobbs decision and aftermath was definitely one huge factor they all acknowledged played a role. 
  For years people had been warning them about the dog catching the car. Well, it caught the car in 2022, and many there finally understood what everyone was saying. >
  
  Gop can still do plenty of damage before the bills are due. I think their strategy is just to do as much as damage as they can and hope the Democrats are too weak willed to repair it. >
  
  Unreasonable, but that's nothing new from the RNC. >
  
  Nobody wants a 6 week ban. 6 week bans aren't oppressive enough for those who hate women and they aren't long enough for those who want women to have some individual rights. This policy craps on everyone equally. Perfect! >
  
  I see they learned nothing from the mid-terms. Good. >
  
  “We lost? Double down!” seems to be the new GOP slogan. >
  
  LOL
  What the fuck are they thinking?
  They just had their ass handed to them in midterms that was sure victory after they managed to overturn 50-year precedent for women's rights and limited endorsement of national 15-week ban and now they lobby for total ban (because that's what 6-week ban is)? >
  
  The Talibangelist have declared Christian Jihad on all American women of child bearing age. >
  
  They look at the polling, look at ballot questions where abortion restrictions were struck down in ruby red states.... And still think potentially killing/treating women like brood mares is a super good strategy. >
  
  Doubling down on a losing hand to own the libs. RNC with some real 2D checkers moves. >
  
  GOPs next move: "Chastity belts for all unmarried females!" >
  
  Everybody is noting that they didn’t learn anything from midterms but I think there’s something else to pull out here.  One of a few things is happening, they obviously USED to have pollsters that they listened to when coming up with plans for policies.  They were undoubtably bad policies but they knew how to couch them that made them appealing to at least some moderates.  With this… with DeSantis’ recent policies… that seems to be gone.  
  So either they still have those policy PR people and they’re just choosing not to listen, or those policy people have left the building and all they have left is the crazies.  If they left the building the question is where did they go.  I think the media is missing an interesting story there.  It’s not like they decided to just stop having jobs, they must be doing something.  But all the polls indicate this is a real losing proposition so their voice must be gone at this point. >
  
  All the policy wonks are mostly liberal. There is a conservative intellectual movement which is fairly insulated from actual political power (John Eastman drew on that for the basis of his theory), and who were the ones that created originalism and are now trying to repeal the Enlightenment, but otherwise there is a real dearth of policy experts on the conservative side. Plus, Trump alienated the remaining ones from the establishment side. >
  
  National ban, here we come.  They only claimed states rights until they got Roe overturned.  After that, looking at what bills are floating around red statehouses, its going to be birth control. >
  
  They'd have to win elections first, and even with all the bullshit they're pulling with voting rights, I think they're making people angry and motivated enough to vote them right out.
  Just look at the midterms. Sure, they barely got the house, but it was supposed to be a blowout for them. Congress was supposed to be blood red. And yet, here they are, barely even having the house. >
  
  DO IT. You see what happened in the mid-terms...
  By 2024 we'll have more Gen Z voters and less Boomer voters... >
  
  because they literally have nothing else to offer. nothing. and its wash-rinse-repeat every voting cycle with these horrible people and their horrible, gullible supporters. >
  
  Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.
  Please, Republicans, go on the offensive on this issue. >
  
  After it proved to be a losing issue in the midterms they want to double down?  Yup, that checks out... >
  
  This is why you don’t give an inch, because they will keep taking. You don’t negotiate exceptions for rape and incest, you negotiate go fuck yourself. >
  
  The ever popular "War on Women". >
  
  They really weren't paying attention to what happened in the midterms, were they? >
  
  2024 already starting to look like another 2022 rEd WaVe >
  
  They're quadrupling down. >
  
  There will be plenty of horror stories in states with restrictive access to abortions that happen between now and the 2024 election. This will only hurt them so please keep it up! >
  
  This is the bind they will be in again and again over the next few years: they can have their hardcore base or they can have new voters, and it will always be less painful in the short term to pick their base, so they'll just sort of slowly bleed out. >
  
  Double down on a losing strategy? Yes, please! >
  
  Do it. Go hard. Let's see how that works out for you. >
  
  "We're all out of ideas and we've given up trying." >
  
  I would take their “pro life” stance much more seriously, if included with the 6 week ban, they revamped healthcare, expanded benefits for families up to and including free childcare, mandatory maternity leave. Yet, no pro lifer seems to be okay with any of that……funny thing there. >
  
  This stance is that it goes beyond reason and divides by faith.  They need those that have never reached the threshold of thinking through a situation to turn out.  If not that, then they are in freefall on all other fronts.  This is what they do when desperate.  They don't care what this does to turn off the majority and a new generation of voters, what matters is giving Grandpa shark his chum.  They have to guarantee this, and let everything else be a roll of the dice.
  The base they are appeasing was going to largely be considered an unreliable voting block 20 years ago.  Boomers are dying at 4k a day without covid, which exacerbates a generation that skews to conservatism.  This may look like a bad move, but it's their best move when the head of their party and many of their representatives are infighting dirty long before they have even announced and actual treason charges might hit any of their leaders.
  Their tent can't get bigger, but they have to keep those already in from leaving. >
  
  Oh sure, you only just barely won the house, but go ahead and go full steam on your most unpopular stance. >
  
  I guess the taste of losing is delicious because they are trying to be everybody's morality police. Look at the group Gaetz, Greene, and Jordan, among others,  know better than you do about your body and life. I hate  government interference. Especially by failed attorneys, village idiots, and a guy who likes to wrestle boys in tights. >
  
  When even Kansas voters rejected restricting abortion rights the GOP is clearly out of touch with voters on this issue. >
  
  Stirring up the base. >
  
  Bold strategy Cotton >
  
  Is this called ‘beating that dead gift horse in the mouth’? >
  
  They have been on the offensive. 
  I'm not sure what the end game is. It clearly didn't help them in 2022. >
  
  In fact, it likely was one of the issues that cost them dearly. >
  
  Winning less than expected is still a win. People are getting way too complacent. >
  
  Sure, but pushing the thing that made you win less is probably a stupid strategy. >
  
  Wish that elephant would pee on her head. >
  
  I guess it just takes stripping bodily autonomy from women to unify the ghouls. >
  
  This is literally the War on Women! >
  
  It worked so well in the midterm election please, GQP, do it again! >
  
  Where will anti-choicers get their abortions? >
  
  Offensive describes the GOP perfectly. Repulsive does as well. >
  
  Mission: lose even more voters! >
  
  Yes, they are offensive. >
  
  Didn’t they try that once… partially succeed only to be rebuked in the next election.  Why would they do such a thing if they hope to win the next election… News flash… they intend to seize power.  
  All humanity knows the price which must be paid for a failed coup.  Been the same rule throughout human history. >
  
  They are probably going to get fetal personhood this spring. 
  Women - do not get pregnant. We don’t know who they are going to “make an example” of. Getting pregnant is too dangerous now. >
  
  Horrible woman. >
  
  Yes get offensive, and talk to the american public like a nagging mother.  It's really the only way they'll listen. >
  
  “Proceed, Governor” >
  
  Keep digging, moron party. >
  
  Yes keep poking the sleeping buffalo that will be fun ! >
  
  Oh yeah, cuz it’s been working out so well for them up to now… >
  
  The GOP needs to be cleansed from our politics. >
  
  "Please proceed, governor." >
  
  Lol please do bring more attention to your backwards policy that’s costing your party elections. >
  
  Most people don't agree with this, so I invite them to keep it up. Ensuring Gen Z will largely vote Democratic for decades to come. >
  
  It will cost them the next election cycle. It’s an incredibly unpopular policy, but the GQP doesn’t seem to care. I say good. Get out and vote these clowns out. Only then will progress be achieved. >
  
  Hey bob!
  YEAH?!
  Remember that thing that lost us the last election?
  YEAH?!
  Let's do that again
  SURE, I DON'T SEE HOW THAT COULD BACKFIRE! >
  
  That's plainly stupid, but please continue you magnificent morons. >
  
  Come and take them.
  -- California >
  
  Oh, yeah, that's a winning strategy.  Double down on what lost you the last election. >
  
  DNC: Yes, do that. Please. >
  
  It’s amazing how they double down on the very thing that caused them to underperform in a midterm election they should have cleaned up in. >
  
  The only reason that I enjoy reading that republicans aren’t backing down on abortion or Donald trump is that they’re picking the two issues that will mobilize our voters the most come 2024. And I have a feeling the outrage will be just as much, if not more, than 2022. >
  
  Ah, here to lose more elections, I see >
  
  How they learned nothing from midterms >
  
  Keep it up and republicans are destined to lose. >
  
  Personally l believe all Republican congressional candidates should undergo a brain scan within six weeks if elected and when no signs of activity are detected, be banned from seeking medical assistance until the next term. >
  
  How about staying out of peoples personal business that you have no right to interfere with you fascists? >
  
  Supporting empowering the government to penalize abortion before many people will know they are pregnant, good guy GQP looking out for the little guy with their platform of small government. >
  
  and cut social security and medicare, and kiss trump's butt, and placate dictators, and lie about the election.  sounds like a plan. >
  
  Crazyass Republicans.  2024 come sooner!  Can’t wait to vote their pathetic asses out! >
  
  Lemmings looking for cliff to dive off of. >
  
  This is actually a myth >
  
  Good to know they have learned almost nothing from the midterms.