Nice job of setting a straw argument and knocking it down, then congratulating yourself, Tim. I'm not a conservative, but none that I know believe any of that crap. Except #3, and I don't like them.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
1. Herman Cain, on Fox News, last week:
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that he didn't agree with abortion "under any circumstance."
The candidate, who has promised to work to overturn Roe v. Wade, told NBC's David Gregory that he believes in "life from conception."
"I do not agree with abortion under any circumstance," he insisted.
"Exceptions for rape and incest?" Gregory asked.
"Not for rape and incest," Cain replied. "Because if you look at rape and incest, the percentage of those instances is so miniscule that there are other options."
But when it came to cases where the life of the mother was at stake, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO left a little wiggle room.
"If it's the life of the mother, that family is going to have to make that decision."
2. Herman Cain's 9 9 9 plan. You remember that, right? The thing everybody was talking about before we found out that Herman is a serial sexual harrasser and bully? I'd find you a link but you seem smart enough to locate one of the 5,000 stories out there concluding that middle-class folks would pay more under the plan and rich folks would pay less.
3. Michelle Bachman, February 10, while speaking in front of the fruit loops at the Constitutional Coalition regarding Medicare:
Bachmann spoke this past weekend at the right-wing Constitutional Coalition in St. Louis, Missouri, and put forth her plan. "So, what you have to do, is keep faith with the people that are already in the system, that don't have any other options, we have to keep faith with them. But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off," said Bachmann. "And wean everybody off because we have to take those unfunded net liabilities off our bank sheet, we can't do it. So we just have to be straight with people. So basically, whoever our nominee is, is going to have to have a Glenn Beck chalkboard and explain to everybody this is the way it is."
It certainly is interesting to see a Republican not talk in any euphemistic terms about personal accounts, or about saving the system, etc., but to openly admit that the goal is to no longer provide the social benefits themselves, and to transition away from them.
There. Now, you know some conservatives who believe those things.