#randpaul #CoryGardner #personhood

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in 2008 and again in 2010 colorado anti-abortion activists had succeeded in getting onto the ballot a really radical anti-abortion ballot measure .

it would make all abortion criminal at any stage in pregnancy and for any reason.

and because its means of banning all abortion was to define a fertilized egg as a fully grown human person, those ballot measures arguably would have also made it illegal to use the most popular forms of birth control in this country, including the pill.

ken buck supported that in colorado . he supported that specifically in the year he was running for senate in 2010 .

and colorado voters really did not agree with him on that. they really strongly did not agree.

these were the results of that personhood ballot measure in colorado in 2008 and 2010 .

and even though colorado voters hated it by margins that huge, ken balk was all for it and michael bennett made him pay for that in that senate race over and over and over again.

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the problem for colorado republicans is that cory gartner has all of the same problems that ken buck did.

>> mr. gartner ?

>> thank you. i have signed the personhood petition. i have taken the petitions to my church and circulated them in my church, and have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.

>> cory gardner like ken buck was a strong supporter of

those two colorado personhood ban birth control measures

that crashed and burned in the state by more than 40

outright abortion ban for colorado with no exception for women who were pregnant because they'd been raped or were the victims of incest.

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he said he doesn't understand his own legislation. and the i don't understand my own legislation defense is a weak place from which to start.

but that is where the cory gardner versus mark udall senate campaign in colorado has started.

and you can tell that from the fact that this is mark udall 's very first official campaign ad .

>> it comes down to respect for women and our lives. so congressman cory gardner 's history promoting harsh anti- abortion laws is disturbing. gardner sponsored a bill to make abortion a felony, including cases of rape and insist. gardner even championed an eight-year crusade to outlaw birth control here in colorado . but mark udall protects our right to choose, our access to birth control . mark udall . in a word, respect.

>> i'm mark udall , and i approve this message.

>> again, that is the first official campaign ad being run by senator mark udall in his re- election campaign against republican congressman cory gardner .

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the republicans have already switched out one candidate in this race. i think it is unlikely they will be able to do so again.

but so far the response by cory gardner to this line of attack is not a strong response.

the gardner campaign's response to the udall ad, and i'm going to quote here, and i do not mean to cast aspersions piem going to quote their official statement.

"at the time cory was not aware that the amendment, if adopted, had the potential to ban some forms of birth control ."

i didn't understand what i'm doing. i didn't mean it. oops.

i only understood once i wanted to run for higher office when it was inconvenient to hold that old stance.

this is not a strong response for somebody who wants to be a united states senator .

so the cory gardner campaign is in a bit of a mess.

and in the middle of this mess you want to know what happened to them this week?

worst possible thing with worst possible timing.

on tuesday of this week you want to know who just decided to endorse cory gardner for senate in colorado ?

i naern i mean,

if this is your campaign problem, i swear i'm not against contraception anymore,

if this is your campaign problem, who do you least want giving you a hug this week in front of everybody in colorado ?

oh, god. not rick santorum .

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/55031734

[I see Rand Paul having a similar problem in 2016. And I'd like to see him get out in front and address this issue.]

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