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Planned Parenthood’s Bad, Bad Night

By: Marjorie Dannenfelser (Diary)  |  April 25th, 2012 at 05:49 PM  | 

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An untold story today following yesterday’s Pennsylvania primaries is what a bad, bad night it was for Planned Parenthood.

In Pennsylvania’s 134th House district, they spent an eye-popping $100,000 on a TV ad campaign trying to sink the candidacy of Republican Ryan Mackenzie by linking him to ultrasound legislation that was before the legislature.

As Politico noted, this was seen as a trial-balloon of sorts:

Most state legislative races and ad campaigns don’t necessarily have any larger resonance, but Democrats have been working to make the ultrasound bill the kind of liability for Republicans in Pennsylvania that a related proposal became for Republicans in Virginia.

That trial balloon popped when MacKenzie cruised to victory by an 18-point margin, 59 percent to 41 percent.

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania’s 31st district, former Planned Parenthood CEO and board member, Republican Helen Bosley, lost in the primary to a pro-life Republican woman, Anne Chapman. Thanks to the help of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, abortion played a central role in the race and again, it was no contest. Despite Bosley’s endorsement from the Bucks County Republican Committee, pro-life Chapman won with 63 percent to 37 percent – a commanding 26-point margin.

And on the Democratic side, they didn’t fare much better. In the tightly contested primary between Reps. Jason Altmire and Mark Critz, Altmire relentlessly attacked Critz – in TV commercials, in the mail, and in debates — for voting to defund Planned Parenthood. Altmire went down by four points, despite leading in most polls leading up to last night.

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  • acat

    Thank you for connecting these dots … it’s obvious the media don’t want to. :-)

    Mew

    • conservative_dan

      And let the media ignore these things. The bigger the funny, shocked looks on libs faces will be when we have control.

  • Tbone

    We are way to nice on the Right.

    • kowalski

      They need a new set of bumperstickers and every corporation in America that supports them should have a “Certified Baby Butcher Supporter” emblem on its website.

      • billyvalentine

        That’s how many unborn babies were aborted by Planned Parenthood in 2010 alone. Yet they are still getting nearly a half billion of our tax dollars?

        • arthurjake

          Without the money they wouldnt last long in the abortion business. They can say what they want but that money goes to help staff there clinics and pay for maintaining and building new clinics and offices costs would go up. They would have to charge at least 2 to 3 times as much for abortions. Abortions would be for the most part gone in the US.

          This is where the house really angers me. If the leadership is always going to cave on the big cuts they need to start making smaller strategic cuts. They could cripple the liberal agenda if they targeted smaller aspects of there spending(IE in health care like this, education, public broadcasting, and a host of other things).

      • fishgod3

        Teens keep your dick in your drawers…

        • vandalii

          :-)

  • moonmad

    Or we’ll scare off the independents and fiscal conservatives. After all Pennsylvania is in the Northeast. Since living there a long time ago I never really considered Pennsylvania a red state. I know they have their page here but Filthadelphia drives the state it seems. Well it wasn’t so long ago that Georgia was able to break its chains. So maybe we can fight on the social and fiscal front at the same time. I have to think about that I’m not as smart as all these political consultants we here from.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …as I noted in the 153rd District [Abington] in the Philly-’burbs.

    The candidate-linkage with totally-disparate legislation was viewed [by local GOP-leaders whom I queried during the past fortnight] as having resulted from polling. It arose in a mailer during the latter-moments of the Special Election, here, despite any provocation by either R/D candidate. And it didn’t provoke particular byplay thereafter, reflecting the fact that it had been superimposed.

    FYI, as other primary states rev-up and as the fall campaign is anticipated….

  • rhughes70

    that we have WAY too many liberals in the party – ones that support abortion and gay marriage and that will make a deal with the devil to keep their power. I wish for a time when we could take all of the liberals and put them in the democrat party. That way we would know what people believe. Conservatism seems to be winning the day in Pennsylvania – good for them. Maryland can’t find enough conservatives to win the Republican races. LIE-berals are infecting the Republican party and conservatives should call them out on it.

  • bobguzzardi

    thanks I am from southeast Pennsylvania and following these races from afar. The main issue, as far as I can determine, is the level of spending and debt at the state level.

    Unions are becoming more and more of an issue.

    There were some interesting dynamics but the analysts have not seen a theme because of individual factors in individual races.

  • bobguzzardi

    I am from southeast Penna and the dynamic of Planned Parenthood and ultrasound was not noted in any media or even online account. nice work.

  • ihateliberals

    These three districts have enough population that they override the rest fo the state. virtually every county in PA is Red. i think tht the elections of our governors shows we re a very conservative stte. The only reason Ryndell was elected is because of Philly putting all of their effort into it. I wish there were some way to make Pittsburgh part of Ohio and Philly part of New Jersey. We have to override the blue counties and cities somehow. I think this primary election cycle proves that we don’t want abortion extremes and tax funded organizations like PPH supporting abortion on our dime. In the primaries i think we have shown that our true color is a a Red state and our values don’t like the left-wing politics of either party. yes I said left-wing politcs of the Republican Party. I use to call these guys RINO’s but the truth is that they are part of the Left-wing of the Republican Party. People like Ex. traitor Senator like Arlan Specter, sitting Republicans like Mitch McConnell, McCain, Boehner are all liber Republicans. When you look at their voting records there is no mistake of who they are and what they support. what I dont’ understand is how Republicans can keep sending these people to DC. They are Traitors at best.

    • naraht

      See
      http://ccpsblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/philadelphia-and-pittsburgh-with.html

      for an actual analysis of this. I do agree with the comments on the article, taking the entire Pittsburgh Media market as “Pittsburgh” throws things off…

    • glockg22shoots40s

      … if you look at a graph of the state, we are republican with the exception of Chicago and Springfield with a small blip of blue at the most southern tip… liberals dominate any big city with people wanting freebies.

      Personally I think PPH does us a favor terminating many would be liberals and/or welfare recipients… though I don’t appreciated being done with federal tax dollars… but then again, it just might be worth it… tough decision…

      • acat

        Yeah, they’re pretty solidly Dem. No surprise, they’re about as urban as Cicero.

        Mew

      • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

        Good-bye.

        • streiff

          nt

      • texasref

        Have we so little faith in the message of conservatism that we nod approvingly at abortion as the answer to defeat liberals–kill them in their literal INFANCY? What murderous mind-bending!

        Thank you, Moe, for making clear this kind of talk is not representative of redstate and conservative values.

    • MF

      Wherever you find the urban areas, you find hordes of liberals. Pretty much everywhere else, you find conservatives. There are few places where this doesn’t hold true.

      Even in California, it mostly holds true. It’s just that so much of CA is urban. But where I live, SW Riverside Co., we’re quite conservative. Orange Co. is also heavily populated but yet conservative.

      Granted, the coastal areas and some of the mountain-dwellers do tend to have more of the granola-eaters who go all enviro-whacko, which makes them go on the side of liberals. But certainly not all of them, and the inland non-urbans are HEAVILY conservative in most areas of the country.

  • johnt

    Our money goes to subsidize leftist degeneracy quite often, but not having any shame they spend it happily.
    As money is fungible you can ignore the supposed different accounts guff used to excuse this ugliness.

    • billyvalentine

      PPFA has $1 billion in NET assets (assets minus liabilities) and routinely pull in tens of millions in “excess revenue” aka profit every year. They have plenty of money to throw around on the political side. They pay their CEOs and abortionists hundreds of thousands of dollars each year who in turn max out to pro-abort candidates. It’s a lucrative and profitable industry — and the Democratic Party has become a wholly-owned subsidiarity.

  • veritaseequitas

    We need more of this.

  • mrrightwing

    There seems to be a bit of a Bradley effect with Planned Parenthood. Everybody tells pollsters they are going to vote “pro-choice.” Then the quiet majority of people don’t. Too bad the Komen Foundation didn’t know what conservatives always do: this is a pro-life country.

  • fishgod3

    Keep your dick in your drawers.Or take responsability for the outcome.Single parent welfare families are a burden on the rest of us.

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  • gawken

    is to introduce a bill completely defunding Planned Parenthood. nd it will pass the GOP controlled Senate this time out.

    Great job of on-the-ground reporting. Thanks!

  • http://www.timothy-bladel.com/ center77

    how well will it work here.

  • adair

    Maybe twitter, and the need to shorten words, has crept into your normal writing.

    Try… they’re going to use this, and it’s not even working in their primaries.

    they’re = they are, a contraction.
    their = belongs to them, a possessive pronoun.
    it’s = it is, a contraction; not to be confused with its, a possessive pronoun which, even though it’s possessive, doesn’t need an apostrophe.

    My brother was a J-school graduate, and he used a reference book by Strunk & White or some similar names through his advertising career.