2015 RedState Gathering: on Abortion


Ted Cruz: Allow vote to end Planned Parenthood's funding

Cruz continued his war with Republican leaders, whom he has dubbed "liars" for not allowing votes to end Planned Parenthood's funding. "The truth is not rhetoric," Cruz said. "Here's the truth. [Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and [Minority Leader] Harry Reid are working arm in arm."

Cruz capitalized on the conservative theory of why Obama had been elected president: Republicans only lost when they went easy on Democrats. Any Republican who forgot that was going to lose to Hillary Clinton.

Source: Australian Financial Review on 2015 GOP RedState Gathering Aug 9, 2015

Mike Huckabee: End Planned Parenthood funding by tying to debt limit vote

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee used his speech to say that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution could be used to define full legal personhood as starting at the moment of conception. In a news conference after the speech, Huckabee stopped short of explaining how this would work. "You're going to actually start protecting those people who are unborn," he said. "It's not to criminalize people, certainly not mothers. You make it a federal policy that you protect these lives. A lot of the details I'll reveal at the time that I get to be president. I don't want to be coy. I just don't want to get stuck in the weeds."

No 2016 rival endorsed Huckabee's theory of the law. All of them had at least one idea for breaking up Washington's norms. Before the conference began, the moderator had promised to ask candidates to commit to ending all funding for Planned Parenthood. Almost everyone was for it; Huckabee wanted to tie the funding quest to a debt limit vote instead.

Source: Washington Post on 2015 GOP candidate RedState Gathering Aug 8, 2015

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Gov.Jeb Bush(FL)
Dr.Ben Carson(MD)
Gov.Chris Christie(NJ)
Sen.Ted Cruz(TX)
Carly Fiorina(CA)
Gov.Jim Gilmore(VA)
Sen.Lindsey Graham(SC)
Gov.Mike Huckabee(AR)
Gov.Bobby Jindal(LA)
Gov.John Kasich(OH)
Gov.Sarah Palin(AK)
Gov.George Pataki(NY)
Sen.Rand Paul(KY)
Gov.Rick Perry(TX)
Sen.Rob Portman(OH)
Sen.Marco Rubio(FL)
Sen.Rick Santorum(PA)
Donald Trump(NY)
Gov.Scott Walker(WI) 		Democrats:
Gov.Lincoln Chafee(RI)
Secy.Hillary Clinton(NY)
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Gov.Martin O`Malley(MD)
Sen.Bernie Sanders(VT)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA)
Sen.Jim Webb(VA)

2016 Third Party Candidates:
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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