Republican
candidates around the country are trying to disappear the hardline
anti-abortion stances they took during their primaries.
Why it matters:
It's longstanding practice for candidates in both parties to modify
their rhetoric for general-election audiences, but this year's messaging
gymnastics are next-level.
Some GOP nominees also are
curbing their focus on voter-fraud conspiracies about the 2020 election
and other far right or Trump-centered topics.
Republicans initially argued that abortion wouldn't significantly boost Democrats.
[...]Minnesota's GOP nominee for governor, Scott Jensen, changed the copy on his website to water down his abortion message, removing lines including, "He believes in the sanctity of human life, from conception to natural death."
Republican congressional candidate Tyler Kistner pledged to support federal legislation aimed at further reducing abortion access in response to a recent issue survey.
Why it matters: Abortion
has become a hot topic in the rematch between Kistner and DFL U.S. Rep.
Angie Craig in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning
Roe v. Wade.
The Prior Lake Republican, who touted his "100% pro-life" record in his 2020 campaign, said this summer that he does support exceptions for rape or when a pregnant person's life is in danger.
He said in June that the issue should be "left at the states to decide."
Yes, but: The "pro-life" survey, published this summer by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life,
asked candidates for federal office if they would support so-called
"incremental approach" bills seeking to reduce abortion as part of "a
strategic plan for creating a pro-life nation."
Kistner
answered yes to that question, as well as one asking candidates if
they'd work to uphold any "pro-life" laws or policies in place when
they took office.
A spokesperson for Kistner didn't respond to a request for comment.
Zoom out: Republican
candidates around the country have been downplaying— or in some cases
reversing — hardline anti-abortion stances they took during their
primaries in light of signs that the Dobbs decision has energized
Democratic voters, Axios' Alexi McCammond and Andrew Solender report.
What bothers Crabgrass even more, Alpha News reporting, Aug, 2020, last cycle:
“I am honored to receive the endorsement
of the National Right to Life Committee PAC. As the nation’s oldest and
largest pro-Life group, NRLC has been in the trenches fighting for the
rights of the unborn for many years, and I look forward to working with
them,” said Kistner.
(that is now a dead link, per the new scrubbed Kistner persona)
You have to know something about NRLC to fully appreciate why Crabgrass puts a focus on that particular situation. Via a few links.
And that link, when followed, shows a pernicious intent which is Kistner's to bear.
Lead page screenshot -
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That shows a cover sheet to a proposed statute The Bopp Law Firm, per James Bopp and others, offer to citizen-voters and all America, where Crabgrass readers are strongly urged to read the full Draconian "NRLC Post-Roe Model Abortion Law, proposal, replete with the word "felony" from the beginning. Only very troubled, tortured minds could come up with that full pile of crap.
Member: Republican
National Committee, Vice Chairman 2006 – 2012; The Federalist Society
for Law & Public Policy Studies, Co-Chairman, Election Law
Subcommittee, Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group 1996-2005;
Board of Governors, Republican National Lawyers Association,
2002-present; Indiana State Bar Association. Professional Affiliations: General
Counsel, James Madison Center for Free Speech, 1997-present; General
Counsel, National Right to Life Committee, 1978-present; [...]
So - Federalist Society and General Counsel for NRLC - the organization shining love on Tyler Kistner.
Kistner is their guy.
The point, beyond that dreadful mean-spirited "model law" is James Bopp who is a professional devastation spreader. The bastard litigated Citizens United.
BOTTOM LINE: More devastation for the US of A from James Bopp than from physical devastation a world away via Tyler Kistner's Marine unit in its war mongering.
Kistner, the politician now aiming to catch up to James Bopp. If given the chance.
Figure whether you'd want effective, rational, live and let live DFL Rep. Angie Craig replaced in MN CD2 with an acolyte of, (admittedly a step removed through the National Right to Life Committee as intermediary), lawyer-menace James Bopp.
Bopp's Federalist Society alignment with Leonard Leo and the "Justices" who murdered Roe v. Wade is Kistner's cross to bear.
All that and yet, now, site scrubbing - https://www.tylerkistnerforcongress.com/issues#Abortion
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How mild. How gentle. How --- unaggressive. A/K/A how scrubbed.
