“This election, to me, is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment,” says former President Bill Clinton in a new ad released by the Obama campaign. Most voters would agree, at least if one believes countless polls that show the economy and jobs are the nation’s top concern.
So why are Democrats planning to make their convention a celebration of abortion and gay marriage? The Obama campaign has given a new and prominent surrogate role to Sandra Fluke, the former Georgetown law student and full-time lefty activist who achieved notoriety after Rush Limbaugh called her a bad name because of her energetic promotion of taxpayer-financed contraception.
This week, Fluke’s role has been to attack Republicans over Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” statement. “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark,” Fluke wrote in an Obama campaign email, “but the fact is they’re in lockstep with Akin on the major women’s health issues of our time.”
Fluke is just one part of the Democrats’ plan to target Akin and the GOP on abortion. The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard writes that the Democratic convention is becoming an “anti-Akin affair,” with party leaders lining up NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Nancy Keenan, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, the actress Eva Longoria, Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, in addition to Fluke, to highlight “women’s issues” in Charlotte.
There will be a lot of talk about abortion, all of it from one side. But not all Democrats agree with Fluke and her fellow speakers when it comes to abortion; in May of this year, Gallup found 34 percent of Democrats identify themselves as pro-life. And, perhaps more important to President Obama’s re-election prospects, 47 percent of independents describe themselves as pro-life.
Why would a party that wants to attract the largest possible number of votes this November make such extravagant pronouncements on abortion, knowing that one-third of its own members and nearly one-half of independents disagree?
And that’s just abortion. Democrats have already decided to make support for gay marriage a plank in the party’s platform. The party’s 15-member platform drafting committee unanimously voted to do so last month after hearing testimony from advocates of gay marriage. They did not invite any opponents of gay marriage to testify, suggesting that when it comes to writing a platform, the Democratic process is not entirely democratic.
This is getting simple. Republicans: we want to fix the economy and fix what’s American about America. Democrats: the size of your soda and the salt content of your bologna is not a decision you can make for yourselves. But jamming scissors into the skull of a baby? You decide!
Seems almost like a no-brainer this time, doesn’t it?
Thank goodness the stupid party has competition. At this point, it’s a race to see which side can self-immolate the fastest.
Does this mean we should stop fretting about Akin and get back to the CRITICAL ISSUES or is Akin still THE CRITICAL ISSUE because he’s such a DISTRACTION from the CRITICAL ISSUES?
Look, SQUIRREL!
It’s all they’ve got.
I think it may be proof positive that Romney actually is a supervillain. He shoots one of his own men in an elaborate plot to bait the Democrats. The Democrats then fall over themselves to take the bait. If I thought for one second that any of it was intentional, I would say that is some Lex Luthor quality plotting right there.
I seem to remember something about not subscribing to malice that which can be explained my incompetence that seems apropos.
The mere fact that the thread of the critical issue, ordinally speaking, of any modern nation state has been lost (though not irretrievably of course) ought to be alarming enough. That the loss results in four or five spurious substitutions would knock a martial guy like G. Washington right off his horse in laughter at the boobs who claimed to be leaders.
I see what you did there.
– Call me a hopeless optimist, but I do know a little bit about human nature and the things people really care about when the rubber meets the road.
– The counter culture is about to find out what the average American voter, many of whom are either struggling to feed their families or watching other family members and neighboors struggling to make ends meet, really cares about after 4 years of the worst economy since the great depression, and it sure as hell isn’t whether or not his or her neighboor has the right to screw their pet goats.
– Obama’s campaign knows this election is a full metal jacket train wreck just waiting to happen. The plan to unchain Biden and Jug ears in Tampa to try to do somethimng, anything, to mess up the Republican convention is a sure sign they’re in total all out panic. The Pravada media will try to inflate the Bobsy twins presence and limit coverage on the Reps, but theres not a damn thing they can do to put lipstick on the Democratic convention pig.
– I say good on them. Bring it on. This country is facing total meltdown, and the Progressives want to make it about same sex morons.
– Yeh, that’ll work. Me, I’m lovin’ it!
Chains, revisited.
André Glucksmann talks with Der Spiegel.
Establicans: Blah, blah, blah
Estabocrats: Blah, blah, blah
Classic Liberals: Hey, I thought this was supposed to be a Republic?! How you gonna pay for that?!
Progressives: Socialism is NOT a proven failure ’cause I say so! Here, have some money I took at gun point from that rich SOB over there and STFU!
At this point I’ll take it, Hadlowe. As long as somebody’s being smart.
– They’re very seldom smart, just gullible.
I sincerely hope the GOP invites Slow Joe to speak at their convention. I’ll be happy to deliver his introductory remarks myself. Granted, it may go on a while, leaving little for Slow Joe to do except sit there and take it. In fact, now that I think of it, I’m pretty sure I’ll need to throw a shout-out to Scalia ’round about the time Joey Hairplugs starts squirming and seething in earnest.
This could be fun…
Tell him to pretend to do the sign language interpretation, Squid.