See: Baker Picks Polito
I suppose it is impolite to continue to point out the mixed message and shit shoveling that passing for politics in my propaganda pre$$.
"Conservatives may pull support from Charlie Baker’s campaign" by Frank Phillips and Jim O’Sullilvan | Globe Staff, December 06, 2013
Social conservative activists are threatening to walk away from Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker after his running mate, former state representative Karyn E. Polito, reversed her position this week, endorsing gay marriage.
I'm tired of being divided by social issues during election time when I'm told the country is broke when it is not for a certain $elect group of intere$ts. Thus I really don't give a $hit about this. Sorry.
According to state Republican Party insiders, some of Polito’s closest allies in the battle against gay marriage are pressing the former Shrewsbury lawmaker to dial back her new stance on the issue or risk losing their support....
The Baker campaign, looking to placate social conservatives, said late Thursday that Polito considers same sex unions to be accepted law. But the campaign would not make Polito available to be interviewed about her position.
I was told this guy was trying to tack to the center, and she is being shielded from the press like Palin was?
“Karyn supported civil unions at a time when most Republicans did not,’’ said Tim Buckley, Baker’s campaign spokesman. “Like many, including President Obama, Karyn's position has evolved, and she now supports the existing law and will not work to undo the progress achieved over the last decade.”
The statement, with implicit appeals to both conservatives and moderates, lays bare the hurdles confronting a Republican ticket running statewide in Massachusetts. To win, Baker and Polito must peel off moderate independent voters, who make up the state’s largest voting bloc, and Democrats.
Even though large swaths of this state go Republican.
But he also faces pressure from the right....
In a followup statement Thursday, the campaign responded to questions about how it intends to deal with the conservative dissatisfaction....
According to a GOP insider, in choosing Polito, Baker strategists insisted that she soften her opposition to gay marriage if she were to join the ticket....
I'm going limp on all this compelling campaign coverage a year before the election.
The issue quickly came to a head after Baker and Polito appeared at a Shrewsbury diner to announce their ticket on Tuesday.
Soften her opposition, issue coming to a head? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
A Globe reporter then inquired of a Baker campaign aide about Polito's position on gay marriage. The aide, who did not want to be quoted, replied that Polito favored the current gay marriage law.
In an e-mail exchange, the Globe asked whether it would be fair to say she favored gay marriage, and the aide replied that it would. That exchange was reflected in a Globe article Wednesday.
That clear-cut declaration eliminated the carefully designed nuance and set off a firestorm within social conservative circles, where Polito has been very popular.
So? I thought Baker was distancing himself. At least, that's what the Globe has told me.
Conservative activists, who oppose Baker’s socially liberal views on gay marriage and abortion, had been ready to support him for his fiscal conservatism and out of a desire to wrest control of the corner office from Democrats.
According to GOP leaders, demands for a retraction stemmed in part from Chanel Prunier, executive director of the Coalition for Marriage and Family and a close political ally of Polito. She was elected the state party’s national committeewoman earlier this year and has served as a reminder to moderate Republicans of the party’s conservative base....
Some friend and ally.
Baker has struggled to appease social conservatives before. During his 2010 campaign, he faced controversy after choosing Senate minority leader Richard Tisei – a gay, Republican who supports abortion rights – as his running mate.
Wait a minute! I was told he did terrible among women last time and needed to appeal to moderates, blah, blah, blah, -- which is what he did the last time!! It's just a throw shit at the wall operation that decides what repetitive crap will be promoted in its pos pages!
At the state GOP convention that year, Baker circulated a flier to delegates stating that he would veto a transgender rights bill, cosponsored by Tisei, outlawing discrimination on the basis of “gender identity or expression.” In the flier, Baker adopted the language of the measure’s critics, calling it the “bathroom bill.”
How extreme! Just wait until a man tries to use the women's rest room because he says he identifies with women. This sickening, society-weakening, family-destroying perversion needs to end.
I've written about it before and who is behind the perversion agenda and on and on. I'm tired of seeing their outsized interests being shoved down our throats.
Later, standing alongside Tisei at a press conference, Baker said that his campaign’s flier was not an effort to lure social conservatives.
“I think a guy who supports gay marriage and is prochoice and has been pretty clear on those and picked a gay fella as his running mate is pretty much not pandering to much of anybody,’’ he said, placing a hand on Tisei's shoulder.
And yet we are told again and again all that was not moderate enough, especially for women (they didn't like the anger? What does it take to get you ladies angry anyway?) -- and now the conservatives are ticked off?
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This blog is a backlash against the Boston Globe and its endless garbage.
UPDATE: A ticket that leaves out Mass. voters
