COMMENTS:
* They are quiet cause they cant spread hate using this incident.
* Why isn't Donald Trump talking about all the Christians cheering when they found out a Planned Parenthood clinic was under seige?
* I would not expect republicans to admonish Christian terrorists. These are the kind of people that they support.
* That's because it's the "Compassionate Christian Evangelical" crowd that votes for them.....a ready made nationalized fascist movement in waiting.
* But what is the GOP going to do now that the Radical Christian Terrorists are shooting down police officers? Last I heard they were really really really against groups of people targeting police. What are they going to do now that the enemy is themselves? So far it seems as if the right-wing media outlets are going to ignore the one slain and five injured officers because of the building it happened in, doesn't fit their chosen story line.
* Republican candidates don't care about domestic terrorism. At most, they issue the usual platitudes about their thoughts and prayers going out to the victims and victims' families.
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2016 Republican Contenders Silent On Planned Parenthood Shooting
But they did have something to say about Black Friday gear and Obama's foreign policy.
By Alana Horowitz Satlin, November 28, 2015Republican presidential hopefuls were noticeably silent about a fatal shooting that took place at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.
All three of their Democratic counterparts tweeted in support of the organization during and after Friday's attack, which left three people dead and nine others injured.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was the only one of the major GOP candidates to comment:
Ted Cruz ✔ @tedcruz
Praying for the loved ones of those killed, those injured & first responders who bravely got the situation under control in Colorado Springs
7:13 AM - 28 Nov 2015
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul instead tweeted about his own Black Friday sales:
Dr. Rand Paul ✔ @RandPaul
Visit the Rand Paul Store for the best #BlackFriday deals! Shop now and support the campaign! https://cards.twitter.com/cards/3l4ipl/17m0l …
1:00 PM - 27 Nov 2015
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush published an opinion piece about Obama's foreign policy:
Jeb Bush ✔ @JebBush
I’ll reverse the failed Obama/Clinton foreign policy. Read my new op-ed in New Hampshire’s @ConMonitorNews: http://jeb.cm/1jpsYa6
6:39 AM - 28 Nov 2015
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Donald Trump spent the evening (and Saturday morning) touting upcoming campaign events and complaining about a New York Times reporter.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The reporter who pulled-back from his 14 year old never retracted story is having fun. I don't know what he looks like and don't know him!
6:32 AM - 28 Nov 2015
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted about his campaign's new cold-weather gear:
Marco Rubio ✔ @marcorubio
Stay warm this winter with our new cold-weather bundle. Shop now and save! https://cards.twitter.com/cards/9dh7c/185vb …
5:00 PM - 27 Nov 2015
Ben Carson was off Twitter and in Jordan visiting a refugee camp.
All of the major 2016 Republican hopefuls describe themselves as anti-abortion. Some, like Paul, Rubio and Cruz, have attempted to strip federal funding for Planned Parenthood, citing heavily edited videos that emerged earlier this year claiming to show the nonprofit's employees selling fetal tissue for profit. A congressional inquiry into the videos did not find any evidence of wrongdoing.
Earlier this year, Rubio wondered why more Americans don't get "fired up" about Planned Parenthood's "dead babies."
Police said Friday that they did not yet know the shooter's motive, or whether he was specifically targeting Planned Parenthood.
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COMMENTS:
* Of course the Republican candidates are silent. They, as Trump the Rump would say, probably cheered when the PP clinic was attacked by one of their own flock. But it would be in poor taste to decry against the victims of a radical right wing nutjob, or to take that nutjobs right to a gun away. THAT would be a slippery slope to gun bans and fearful white people just hate that because no guns would take their power away to discriminate and be racists.
* If christians and pro life groups would stop condemning the use of artificial birth control, then there would be no needs for abortions. Birth control is an alternative to abortions and also being responsible. Originally, Planned Parenthood was never intended for providing abortion, as it was originally called the American Birth Control League, by founder Margaret Sanger in 1921. She wanted to educated poor women on birth control, and family planning. She has always felt that abortion was not safe.
* Well of course they didn't have much to say. They never seem to get what's really important
* It was murder, it should be denounced without exception by all.
* If the GOP does not speak up and condemn this crime then they are no different then all those Muslim Clerics who do not speak out against terrorism in the name of Islam.
* Hello everybody, I am reading that some people are saying "we don't know what has happened " well we do. A guy with a gun attacked a building, took hostages and when the police came, gun fire happened and people have died. This is not hard to figure out. Are you for or against attacks?
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#2:
The shooting at Planned Parenthood put GOP 2016 hopefuls in a ‘politically uncomfortable’ position
By Hunter Walker, November 28, 2015
The motive for a shooting that took place outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday still isn’t clear, but all three of the top Democratic presidential candidates quickly rushed to express their support for the organization.
Meanwhile, the leading Republicans, all of whom have spoken out against Planned Parenthood, have largely remained silent about the shooting.
Operatives from both parties suggested to Yahoo News that the incident puts the GOP field in a tough spot because of its opposition to Planned Parenthood. The organization is the country’s largest provider of abortions.
Three people were killed in the shooting. One of the victims was a police officer who responded to a call for help. The suspect has been identified as Robert Lewis Dear, who was reportedly captured on the scene in Colorado Springs after surrendering to law enforcement.
According to the Associated Press, Dear had spent part of his time living in a North Carolina shack, and his neighbors described him as an incoherent loner with no known political or religious leanings. However, John Suthers, the Republican mayor of Colorado Springs, suggested people could draw conclusions about a motive for the attack by drawing “inferences from where it took place.”
President Obama issued a statement on the shooting Saturday that did not address the question of opposition to abortion as a potential motive. Instead, the president suggested that the incident is further proof of the need for stronger gun control.
“We don’t yet know what this particular gunman’s so-called motive was for shooting 12 people, or for terrorizing an entire community, when he opened fire with an assault weapon and took hostages at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado. What we do know is that he killed a cop in the line of duty, along with two of the citizens that police officer was trying to protect,” Obama said, adding, “This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal.”
The three top Democrats vying to be Obama’s successor all addressed the shooting on Twitter. Both frontrunner Hillary Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley issued expressions of support for Planned Parenthood. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took things a step further and suggested antiabortion rhetoric could have encouraged the attack.
“I strongly support Planned Parenthood and the work it’s doing. I hope people realize that bitter rhetoric can have unintended consequences,” Sanders wrote.
Indeed, all of the leading Republican candidates have expressed opposition to Planned Parenthood. And almost none of them have made any public comment on the shooting.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is the only major Republican presidential hopeful who has tweeted about the incident.
“Praying for the loved ones of those killed, those injured & first responders who bravely got the situation under control in Colorado Springs,” Cruz wrote.
Yahoo News reached out to the campaigns of all of the other leading Republicans to see if they had any comment on the shootings. As of this writing, Anna Epstein, a spokeswoman for businesswoman Carly Fiorina was the only one to respond.
“Carly will be on Fox News Sunday tomorrow, and she’ll likely react then,” Epstein said.
There was no comment on the shooting from representatives for real estate mogul Donald Trump, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., or New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
All nine of these Republicans have spoken out against Planned Parenthood and expressed support for taking federal funding from the organization. Cruz has led a congressional push to defund Planned Parenthood by threatening a government shutdown.
A Democratic operative who works in Colorado told Yahoo News they believe the shooting will hurt the GOP field because it “reminds voters of the relentless Republican campaign against women’s health and the right to choose.” They also suggested the shooting would highlight Republican opposition to gun control.
In messages to Yahoo News, Amanda Carpenter, a Republican strategist and former top aide to Cruz, acknowledged that the shooting could be “politically uncomfortable” for GOP candidates because they oppose Planned Parenthood and also abhor the violent shooting. Carpenter suggested that the candidates should have followed Cruz’s example and commented on the shooting regardless of their stance on abortion.
“Candidates can choose to avoid commenting on crisis, but a president cannot,” Carpenter said. “While it’s prudent to wait for all information, GOP candidates should easily be able to express sorrow, whether this situation is politically uncomfortable or not.”
Carpenter went on to describe the silence in the Republican field as “sad.”
“This event happened 24 hours ago, and lives were lost. It’s sad more candidates can’t show their support for those in mourning. Republicans can disagree with what PP does and grieve for those injured and killed,” she said. “Being pro-life means opposing murder, period. Law enforcement lives are at risk each day, as shown in Colorado yesterday. They need our support more than ever, and the GOP should not hesitate to give it.”
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