In physics we observe that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In politics we observe for every Republican misstep, there is a greater and more ridiculous Democrat overreaction.
Case in point: Todd Akin. The MO Senate candidate made a foolish remark about the magical power of women’s bodies to prevent pregnancy if they are “legitimately” raped. This is not a pro-life position, it’s just a dumb position. Akin’s refusal to step out of his race may hand that seat back to the Democrats, and it certainly saved President Obama from what would probably have been another disastrous week for him. Barack Obama’s press conference on Monday should become a historical reference point marking the moment that he morphed into a combination of Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard Nixon. He told the nation obvious lies with brazen arrogance.
Akin’s foolishness now has Democrats licking their chops. They plan to use it to build their messaging theme for their upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Just as the Akin crisis was reaching a crescendo, the Democrats on Wednesday announced that three starlets of the pro-choice movement will be featured at the convention, an event that will now drive the liberal charge that the Republicans are anti-women.
Democrats said that they will feature Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parent Action Fund, Nancy Keenan, president of the NARAL Pro-Choice America and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student whose plea for federal birth control funding drew the ire–and a subsequent apology–from Rush Limbaugh.
What’s more, the Democrats are expanding their list of women ready to assail the GOP on women’s issue, adding Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski and actress Eva Longoria to the list that already includes Sen. John Kerry and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
None of these people, except maybe the actress, hold any kind of appeal to anyone outside the Democratic base. Elizabeth Warren is the discredited fake Indian who fed the president his disastrous “You didn’t build that!” line. Sandra Fluke is the lifelong college student who doesn’t want to pay for her own lifestyle choices. Cecile Richards is a proven liar, and John Kerry is the military-smearing senator who marries for money.
The messaging likely to come from this group will be strident, intolerant, harsh, divisive and mean-spirited. It will also be dishonest. In a time when the country continues to move incrementally pro-life thanks in part to technological advancements and to the exposure of Planned Parenthood as a dishonest, lawless organization, it will also be out of step with the zeitgeist of the nation. At a time when the nation is drowning in debt and struggling with stubbornly high unemployment, the Democrats are going to turn their messaging on this?
When it comes to zealously pouring hate on Republican targets, the Democrats just can’t help themselves. They’re gleeful when it comes time to gang up on people and ridicule them. Bank on this: They will overreach, big time, and will turn millions of voters off to their stridency and their irresponsibility.
So two affluent white women and a manufactured outrage actor are going to tell us all how hard it is to be a woman?
Yes, so hard a woman cannot afford to buy condoms when she screws around.
I disagree. The Romney = Pregnancy Rape meme is going to have an impact outside of the Democrat base. Politicized feminism has brainwashed our entire society, and conservatives have done virtually nothing to stand against it.
No it’s not fair. Yes the Democrats are craven hypocrites. Doesn’t matter. Their party, and their lapdog media, are going to cram it down our throats all the way up to November 6th.
If you want to get mad, blame previous generations of conservatives that enabled Feminism.
Your concerns are legitimate but I don’t think it’ll be that bad. None of the other absurd attacks on Romney have gained much traction even though they’ve been on issues that many people care about. Plus after the convention the gloves can come off and Romney can fight back using the cash and fundraising advantage he has. And Aiken is pretty obviously a marginalized nitwit at this point.
Obama can still win, of course, but I don’t think we have to worry that Aiken is some kind of fundamental game changer.
Yeah, may not be a game-changer. Just really pessimistic about the ability of some people to avoid knee-jerk emotionalism.
Agreed, but not entirely – maybe even not mostly – in the manner GOP party-archs screaming “Akin Must Go NOW!” suppose.
I notice a lot of people are waking up to the realization that the pro-aborts trumpet an argument that runs something like:
Premise 1
There exists a woman who has become pregnant after a rape.
Premise 2
Aborting a baby should be permitted in cases of rape.
Conclusion
Abortion on demand for everyone!.
And a lot of folks are figuring out that this argument is phoney.
Furthermore, word is spreading that the available science indicates that the likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant after what feminist Whoopi Goldberg dubbed “rape-rape” is significantly less than that of a woman on the Pill (and using it perfectly). That’s the science, nothing “magical” about it. Rep. Akin’s remarks were clumsy but not “ignorant”, “uninformed” nor even “dumb”.
By the time the Democrats parade their line-up of past Slutwalk and Go Topless Day organizers, marchers, and ideological fellow-travelers across their convention stage and past the TV cameras, millions of today’s “undecideds” will be ready to decide against Obama, his minions, and all their works.
I am also hopeful that people are starting to pull their thinking pants on, too. I’m just concerned that is only within the population already inclined to vote against O.
If it’s not the economy then the Democrats beclown themselves by doing it.
Of course they may try to make it the economy, “women’s economy” or somesuch, hear me now and believe me later.
The election will be about sex and Medicare. By November, half the country will be convinced that wanking will get you arrested for manslaughter in Missouri.
Romney = 5 Sons,
Obama = 2 Daughters.
It is obvious who is the more manly candidate.
Eva Longoria, the actress? Former Mrs. Tony Parker.
Well, she is pretty and latina, so that counts.
But she is also, um, a little slow.
When she was engaged to NBA star Tony Parker, before their short-lived marriage, she gave an interview where she stated that Tony told her that he had only been with 1 other woman before Eva.
OK, so a handsome, rich, French, 20-something NBA star was travelling around the world, and had only been with 1 woman? Wilt Chamberlin could not be reached for comment.
Eva, mija, stick to the teleprompter. If you go off script, you only have yourself to blame.
And lest we forget, the philanderer in chief Bill Clinton will be nominating Obama…. someone get that man a cigar.
I’m praying that FoxNews books Nancy Brinker to provide color commentary on Cecile Richards’ speech.
– all of the above will not be lost upon voting viewers still trying to make up their indecisive minds.
I’m tired of being told what should offend me. The fact the men are clueless about women stopped being news in Neolithic times, and Akin’s recent example of this is a pathetic reason to support McCaskill (a truly horrible example of everything wrong with Congress.)
I’m tempted to move back to Missouri just so there will be one female in the state who refuses to vote in lockstop conformity to “feminist ideals.”
Why move to Missouri to combat femi-fascism?
Start where you are.
So… the “SwiftBoater”, the DumbActress, the FauxCherokee, and Ms.Flu(n)ke will all be there together? Telling “tall tales”? — Introduced by former “Tail-Chaser-in-Chief? — Sounds like we could be having some fun?! No?!