{"id":9584,"date":"2012-11-24T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9584"},"modified":"2012-11-24T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:52:12","slug":"komen-for-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/komen-for-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Komen for the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I trust that most of you remember the huge cry of public outrage, when the Komen Foundation joined forces with the Republican Party in an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.&#160; At the center of that controversy was Karen Handel, a thoroughly ugly woman.&#160; I\u2019m not being sexist.&#160; Some people are just so ugly on the inside that no amount of glamor can hide it.&#160; Like the poltergeist of Hollywood fame, she\u2019s back.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"24komen_gop_gun\" alt=\"24komen_gop_gun\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/24komen_gop_gun.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This is just delightful. I can&#8217;t imagine a better choice to carry the banner for the new Republican party, the one that minorities and women <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/21\/karen-handel-senate_n_2171170.html\" target=\"_blank\">will flock to embrace:<\/a><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Karen Handel, the former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive who drove the charity&#8217;s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, <\/font><span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>is considering running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, according to one of her former aides.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cShe\u2019s considering it,\u201d Rob Simms, a Republican campaign consultant who worked on Handel\u2019s unsuccessful run for governor in 2010, told the Weekly Standard.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">If she ran, she would be going up against Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), whom Roll Call reported may be vulnerable to a primary challenge from the right, <\/font><span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>given his &quot;willingness to reach across the aisle and his comfort with the idea of compromise.&quot;<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Imagine. She&#8217;s to the <span><em>right<\/em><\/span> of Saxby Chambliss, that pile of dirt!&#8230; [<span><em>emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/former-susan-g-koman-exec-may-run-sen\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/reconstitution.us\/rcnew\/?p=11813\" target=\"_blank\">Plutocrap<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Just in case you forgot, C&amp;L also provided a video of this female misogynist to remind us of what a liar she is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DziJ5T0NPJ0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you live in Georgia, please do all you can to make sure this woman is not elected.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I trust that most of you remember the huge cry of public outrage, when the Komen Foundation joined forces with the Republican Party in an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.&#160; At the center of that controversy was Karen Handel, a thoroughly ugly woman.&#160; I\u2019m not being sexist.&#160; Some people are just so ugly on the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/komen-for-the-gop\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}