{"id":86989,"date":"2016-02-08T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=86989"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:33:18","slug":"christie-jumps-dont-pro-life-bandwagon-attack-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/christie-jumps-dont-pro-life-bandwagon-attack-rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie jumps on the &#8220;don&#8217;t be too pro-life&#8221; bandwagon attack on Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Following Jeb Bush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/lindsey-graham-attacks-cruz-rubio-as-too-pro-life-video\">campaign surrogate<\/a> Lindsey Graham <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-lindsey-graham-hit-ted-cruz-pro-life-stand\/\">attacking Ted Cruz<\/a> as too uncompromisingly pro-life, Chris Christie is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2016\/02\/04\/chris-christie-faults-marco-rubios-abortion-position-and-misrepresents-it\/\">trying the same attack<\/a> on Marco Rubio. It\u2019s likely to be similarly ineffective against the target, because both Cruz and Rubio tend to make the extremism of the other side the focus of their discussion rather than emphasizing their opposition to abortion in rape and incest cases, but a number of factors make this a move Christie may come to regret&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201cHe\u2019s made it very clear that \u2014 on the issue of pro-life, Marco Rubio is not for an exception for rape, incest or life of the mother,\u201d Mr. Christie said. \u201cNow, you know, I think that\u2019s the kind of position that New Hampshire voters would be really concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In an interview on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d program, Mr. Christie added, \u201cI am pro-life, but I believe that rape, incest and life of the mother, as Ronald Reagan did, should be exceptions to that rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First, Christie <a href=\"\/news\/christie-sees-immediate-backlash-comments-abortion-rape-gop-debate\/\">doubled down<\/a> on that stand in Saturday night&#8217;s debate, rightfully provoking pro-lifers&#8217; anger with the offensive comparison to aborting an innocent, defenseless baby conceived in rape with self-defense. Bush&#8217;s remarks on the issue have been bad enough, but haven&#8217;t gone further than arguing his position is more politically expedient. Christie is actually arguing for the <em>merits<\/em> of letting these children be killed, thereby lending credence to the abortion lobby&#8217;s smears against the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Christie\u2019s attack contained one outright falsehood against his competitor\u2014while Rubio does <a href=\"\/news\/marco-rubio-educates-cnn-chris-cuomo-on-science-and-life\/\">oppose rape and incest exceptions<\/a> for abortion, he\u2019s never grouped a life-of-the-mother exception along with them, and in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2016\/02\/04\/chris-christie-faults-marco-rubios-abortion-position-and-misrepresents-it\/\">said<\/a> last week that \u201cI think there needs to be an exception for the life of the mother.\u201d By misstating Rubio\u2019s record after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/01\/14\/christie-vs-rubio-heats-up-gop-debate\/78825692\/\">making a big deal<\/a> out of Rubio\u2019s own attacks on Christie\u2019s abortion record allegedly being a case of \u201ctalk[ing] so much that nobody can ever keep up with what you&#8217;re saying is accurate or not,\u201d Christie has blunted the impact of whatever indignation he\u2019ll bring to bear against future challenges to his pro-life credentials.<\/p>\n<p>(Christie also misstates Ronald Reagan&#8217;s position. Reagan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2016\/02\/06\/gop-candidates-and-the-abortion-exceptions-trump-and-christie-get-ronald-reagans-stance-wrong\/\">said<\/a> in 1988 that &#8220;where the unborn child threatens the life of the mother&#8221; was the &#8220;one exception&#8221; to his opposition to abortion, and in a 1984 debate, then-Vice President George HW Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/jeb-bush-super-pac-attacks-rubio-as-unelectably-pro-life\/article\/1061890\">said<\/a>, &#8220;&#8221;The president [Reagan] and I do favor a human rights amendment. I favor one that would have an exception for incest and rape, and he doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Third, Christie is already on some fairly thin ice with pro-lifers, after <a href=\"\/news\/rubio-attacks-christies-pro-life-cred-latest-gop-debate\/\">word came out<\/a> that he may have lied about donating to Planned Parenthood in 1994 and he <em>definitely<\/em> lied about supporting pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, and <a href=\"\/news\/havent-walker-christie-launched-planned-parenthood-investigations-yet\/\">not ordering an investigation<\/a> despite talking tough about Planned Parenthood\u2019s fetal organ harvesting crimes. When people are already doubting your commitment to their cause, going out of your way to argue that others should weaken their pro-life views\u00a0only exacerbates their fears (Bush\u2019s pro-life record is <a href=\"\/news\/jeb-bush-criticized-membership-pro-abortion-bloomberg-foundation\/\">not without warts<\/a>, either, but he does have his <a href=\"\/news\/presidential-candidates-right-life-graham-chafee-perry-bush-trump-join-race\/\">stand in the Terri Schiavo case<\/a> to point to as an example of going the extra mile for pro-lifers\u2026 and again, isn\u2019t raising the question on the merits anyway).<\/p>\n<p>For the reasons we discussed <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-lindsey-graham-hit-ted-cruz-pro-life-stand\/\">on Thursday<\/a>, it is entirely possible to survive a general election with a no-exceptions pro-life position, so long as the pro-lifer keeps the focus on the pro-abortion side\u2019s extremes and speaks with empathy whenever the subject of rape does come up. But no pro-life candidate should go out of their way to complicate their allies\u2019 pro-life message by granting legitimacy to pro-aborts\u2019 premise that they shouldn\u2019t stand for all lives.<\/p>\n<p>This is a point that Susan B. Anthony President Marjorie Dannenfelser is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02.04.16LettertoCampaigns.pdf\">forcefully making<\/a> in a letter to all the candidates:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">An attack on this aspect of these candidates\u2019 pro-life positions is an attack on the pro-life movement as a whole [&#8230;] I urge you and your campaigns to reject Planned Parenthood\u2019s talking points and instead keep the pro-life movement on offense by focusing on exposing the extreme position held by the other side: Abortion on-demand, up until the moment of birth, for any reason, paid for by the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Jeb Bush campaign surrogate Lindsey Graham attacking Ted Cruz as too uncompromisingly pro-life, Chris Christie is trying the same attack on Marco Rubio. It\u2019s likely to be similarly ineffective against the target, because both Cruz and Rubio tend to make the extremism of the other side the focus of their discussion rather than emphasizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":85013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[3581,19,3904,131,3915,4165,1726,3263,615],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christie jumps on the &quot;don&#039;t be too pro-life&quot; bandwagon attack on Rubio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following\u00a0Lindsey Graham&#039;s\u00a0attack on Ted Cruz\u00a0as too uncompromisingly pro-life, Chris Christie is\u00a0trying the same attack\u00a0on Marco Rubio.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/christie-jumps-dont-pro-life-bandwagon-attack-rubio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christie jumps on the &quot;don&#039;t be too pro-life&quot; 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