New Obama ad: If you’re a woman who favors small government, you should really vote Obama
posted at 4:56 pm on August 24, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
Warning: These are two-and-a-half of some of the more deeply aggravating minutes though which I have ever forced myself to sit. Steel yourselves.
In case you’re just not finding the fortitude it takes to watch this sucker (a sentiment with which, I assure you, you’d have complete sympathy from this girl), here’s the rundown: Women of various age-ethnicity-background diversities testify that they have been longtime Republican voters, but that in recent years, something’s up with the Republican party. It’s gotten so darn extreme, what with their crazy statist views on contraception and abortion, and not wanting equal pay for women. There are just so few “moderate” Republicans left. If you’re a conservative women, and you believe in small government, Barack Obama is your candidate, because “he’s keeping the government out of decisions that should remain between you and God and you and your own conscience.”
Just take a second and wrap your head around that. If you’re a woman and you believe in small government, Barack Obama is your guy. …The mind reels.
First of all, equal pay for women? That ship has sailed, and how! Please stop making a federal case out of non-issue that only perpetuates stereotypes and limitations.
Secondly, small government? President Obama has put the expansion of both our federal government and our federal debt on steroids, and ObamaCare is the biggest overstep into everybody’s health-care decisions in the history of the United States. And honestly now, enough is enough with the damned lie that conservatives want to get “statist” with contraception — you can have all the contraception you want, I just don’t want to be forced to pay for your contraception. It’s your business. Democrats are very clearly the party affording the federal government greater authority in people’s private decisions of late, not the other way around.
Thirdly, the fact that they’re trying to make “women’s issues” a deciding factor in this presidential race — so suddenly crucial that’s it’s ostensibly worthy of a party-switcheroo — is utterly galling. In the face of our wretched economy and all of President Obama’s failed policies across all spheres, they’re trying to scare women into thinking that those extremist Republicans want force them all back to the days of Puritanism. If that isn’t a testament to how laughably little the Democrats really have to go on this time around, I don’t know what is.
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If you are a chicken you will love this new farm called Perdue.
kevinkristy on August 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM
Judging from the size of that woman, democrat union member.
jukin3 on August 24, 2012 at 4:59 PM
It really looks like the anti-doping agency stripped the wrong person of his titles today.
Flange on August 24, 2012 at 4:59 PM
can not watch….must have drunk some kool-aid
cmsinaz on August 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Then why are they not voting Libertarian?!
eaglescout_1998 on August 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM
If your name is ‘Emily’, you will love Obama…
Khun Joe on August 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Damn, Lookers For Obamuh has struck again.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM
I believe in small women too.
Sorry but these women need to be turned into MO food cops.
Pecos on August 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM
When did blow-up dolls become so lifelike?
OhEssYouCowboys on August 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM
The woman featured in the ad is a poor advocate for smallness in anything. And Barry talking about small government is so achingly Orwellian.
bayview on August 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
WE LOVE ABORTION!
El_Terrible on August 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Well, I did ask for the ‘big lie of the day’, and HA delivered.
(Via the lying ‘rats of course…)
CPT. Charles on August 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Listen here, little lady, banking on voter stupidity is a viable, reliable tactic.
/sarc
M240H on August 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
WE LOVE SMALL GOVERNMENT! PAY FOR OUR ABORTIONS AND CONDOMS!
El_Terrible on August 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Progressives are able to believe whatever they want to at any given time. Progressives are also able to believe two completely opposite things at the exact same time.
GardenGnome on August 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Hey ladies. The Democrats want you to think that you should think and vote with your uterus. Is that what it was made to do????
ted c on August 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM
WHAT? Is this a ‘joke’ by bho/team about ‘small government’ under bho?
Mitt’s joke about the bc was way way funnier!
L
letget on August 24, 2012 at 5:05 PM
If this continues Goebbels threatens to get his dead azz out of his grave and tumble, on-going, while shouting “I was right, I was right, see, see”.
Schadenfreude on August 24, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Julia was a Republican?
Bitter Clinger on August 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM
This is another Romney joke, right?
Don L on August 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM
These people are all degenerates, with no sense of lies, truth, right or wrong. Obama is their Pimp.
The land has been changed into an indecent latrine.
Schadenfreude on August 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM
Access the validity of this statement: None of the women who appeared in that ad are conservatives, nor attractive.
St Gaudens on August 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM
If you are a businessman who can’t get the idea of needing to raise prices on your client base by 31% over the next 4 years you need to Vote SCOAMF/JOEY PLUGZ because even though you didn’t build that you sure as hell better tune it up.
harlekwin15 on August 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Lird your goins!
…still two months of this bovine excrement to go.
FlatFoot on August 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Second look at Obama?
…
…
BWAAAAAHAHAHA!
robertlbryant on August 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Uh-huh. They were all Republicans. Sure they were. Uh-huh. That was just real convincing. Man do democrats ever think voters are stoo-pid. So insulting.
Rational Thought on August 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Definitely and recently converted Republican In Name Only to vote in Republican Primaries for the weakest candidate.
Joel_The_Oneth on August 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Naw, an ex-Chic-a-fil employee….
Don L on August 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Small government dies every primary.
mythicknight on August 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
These nasty harridans NEVER voted republican! Does the left think we are ALL idiots?
birdwatcher on August 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
Republican Women for Obama??????
That disclaimer alone stopped me from watching the stupidity that must follow.
I won’t waste my time.
WRINOs for Obama.
hawkeye54 on August 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
We love small government. You know, the kind that will dictate our healthcare to us, and have access to all of our medical records.
- The Ex-Republican Gals
OhEssYouCowboys on August 24, 2012 at 5:09 PM
I think the Obama campaign has actually started a war on women and they have no idea they are seen as the enemy. My apolitical wife was fired up last night at how demeaning and sexist it is to assume that abortion and tax payer funded sex is all she is capable of caring about.
Ellis on August 24, 2012 at 5:10 PM
After we knock down this lie (and the Mediscare lie) throughout most of September and October, I am convinced that running a laugh track relative to this hyperbole would be a great Romney or pro-Romney PAC commercial.
Ridicule is a great weapon.
matthew8787 on August 24, 2012 at 5:10 PM
I started to think this ad was a fantasy, that these people, these “Republicans” are figments… then, you know, with Akin, I’m thinking this is possibly an effective ad. It’s a web ad, though. Still, the sentiments expressed, like on Roe vs Wade etc, are real, and WILL work against us to turn some votes to Obama. Do whatever we can to counter or soften the edge of those feelings.
anotherJoe on August 24, 2012 at 5:10 PM
They only have their own party members to use for comparison, so yes.
hawkeye54 on August 24, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Team Obama is playing angry monkey…throwing excrement at the wall and trying to figure out what sticks and what slides off…so expect a lot more of these types of ads over the next 70+ days…spread around enough lies and some people will go to the bank, and to the polls, with true belief…however wrong they may be.
Can’t run on his own “successful” record over the past almost four years, so he has to manufacture outrage and prevarications.
Small government?
Obama is no proponent of small government…never has been…envisions a huge government force, as large as the armed forces, to “provide” for his minions…and root out and destroy any who do not kneel at the feet of
ZodObama.For team Obama to foist the Boy King up as a paragon of small government…Joe Goebbels would be proud, indeed.
coldwarrior on August 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM
I wonder if a little “investigation” would show if these women were former Republicans? Usually they becomes an Independent or Libertarian. Hard to believe they would go so far as to become a Dem.
sandee on August 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM
So, women not in favor of small government should vote for…?
wolfsDad on August 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM
The stupid is making my brain bleed.
Red Cloud on August 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM
These cannot be conservative women. They were hit both by the ugly and stupid branches all the way down a very tall tree.
I did enjoy the part where one wants the government out of bodily decisions. They forgot to mention, quite by accident I’m sure, that they do want the government to pay for their abortions and birth control.
I’m confused. Which is it, ladies?
kim roy on August 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM
They should have Rachel Maddow in the commercial, for a real boost in authenticity.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
That large woman cut in front of me at the all you can eat buffet last night. Typical democrat.
birdwatcher on August 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
“I’m a Republican woman and I want abortion, abortion, abortion “round the clock! An’ Mitt Romney’s going to bootstomp my uterus and throw it in jail!” Uh huh. Tell us another one.
The ad is truly Obama-esque with its calculated and fake testimonials. Also, there are nasty straw man lies in nearly everything related to Obama – from his stump speeches to his policy speeches to his campaign – and this idiotic ad is no exception.
Django on August 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM
I am a Rep. moderate so instead of voting for Romney a moderate i will vote for Obama a socialist/Marxist.If these women are for real then they stupidity to a new level.
logman1 on August 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM
They’re doing this for two reasons. 1. To spite Romney for his ads that it’s ok for Democrats to vote Republican; and 2. women’s vote is now the only way for Obama to win since it’s the only demographic left that significantly tilts toward Obama. In 2008, he got most of his advantage in the votes from women. It’s not just any women either. It’s white women. They’ve started moving toward Romney and Obama is in full panic mode. If this moves just 1% toward Romney, I don’t think Obama can win. In fact, I think it’s already too late.
MrX on August 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Yeah, that’s pretty much it in a nutshell.
kim roy on August 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM
They’re pathological liars. They couldn’t care less if all of this was exposed as a fraud. They’d still deny it, and the Commie cattle would still go “moo,” and vote for The Commie.
They know what they’re doing, because they know their audience.
OhEssYouCowboys on August 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM
This might have been effective after the Akin controversy, IF they hadn’t chosen the words “small government.”
The sheer absurdity of that statement over shadows the entirety of this commercial, rendering the whole thing a pointless waste of money. Not that I mind the Obama campaign wasting money, when its their own.
WolvenOne on August 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Obama thinks women are really dumb.
Wigglesworth on August 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM
“Jenny Craig worked for me!”
Lanceman on August 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Nothing says small government than like the government paying for your birth control pills!
TimeTraveler on August 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Cue finding out in three days that they are ALL Democratic plants.
Ugh.. we want you out of our bedrooms unless we want you to pay for our bedroom activities. DumbA$$es
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Must be a problem with the audio.
All I hear is “I’m lying, prove me wrong!”
EdmundBurke247 on August 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM
It is 100% about child sacrifice to them.
The democrats are so progressive that they are indistinguishable from most ancient pagan societies.
tom daschle concerned on August 24, 2012 at 5:18 PM
Is it too late to repeal women’s suffrage?
/only half-kidding
hoosiermama on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
Well I girded my loins gritted my teeth and clicked the link. About 1 minute into it I felt like my loins had been griddled on a grill and my teeth had been grinded. Sorry didn’t make it all the way through.
Oldnuke on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
Optics?
They all look absolutely and throughly miserable.
These gals plus almost every one of my lib friends look like the “befores” in an Activia ad.
Jomama on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
This is the political version of “Packer Fans For Brett Favre” circa 2009
shaner5000 on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
I know! OMG ya’ll where would they ever get that idea? Oh right, our party platform and rape panels.
tommyhawk on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
Now would be a great time to dust off the old “nuance” caption.
RINO in Name Only on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
I’ve noticed Obama tends to do these too-clever-by-half arguments where he tries to turn his opponents’ arguments against them. It never works because people are smart enough to see right through them.
NukeRidingCowboy on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
All liberals see when they look at me is my uterus.
They are nothing more than modern day biology chauvinists.
I am more than my uterus!!! I vote Republican!!
MississippiMom on August 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM
Wasn’t Bush going to overturn Roe v. Wade too. Hysteria- ironic word but it fits.
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:20 PM
What a bunch of nutters.
Schadenfreude on August 24, 2012 at 5:20 PM
Larry Craig, on the other hand…not so much. :-)
coldwarrior on August 24, 2012 at 5:20 PM
..first of all, a lot of these wimmenses should seriously head down the SlimFast aisle on their way through the Safeway. And, secondly, doesn’t this ad strike anyone here as being derivative? I mean, remember that film that they’re going to show in Tampa about all of the dissatisfied Dim-oCrats?
The O campaign: not an original bone in their bodies.
The War Planner on August 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM
No all you are is a perspective “pregnancy’ that needs curing.
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM
OT AKin announcing he is staying in
tom daschle concerned on August 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Who would want to reverse Roe v Wade?????? Oh, yeah, Jane Roe!!!!!!
ImageSniper on August 24, 2012 at 5:22 PM
WOW! Just finished watching the ad. It’s AWFUL!!! Look, I was a liberal before Obama took office. I’m now applying conservative principles in every aspect of my life and I’m the better for it. I then watch this ad and it’s made for liberals. It appealed to my old liberal self. There is NOT ONE conservative person this will connect with because it makes no sense. There’s one part where she talks about Republican’s position on birth control, abortion, etc. She recited all the liberal POV’s that she apparently wants. Those are not conservative views. Not once did the ad take into account OTHER PEOPLE BESIDES YOURSELF, a critical conservative principle that explains pretty much every conservative view (aka, freedom, liberty, persuit of happiness, not just for yourself, but everyone should have those rights). Instead, it was all ME ME ME ME ME.
Put simply, whoever put this ad together is a moron. They don’t understand conservatism at all. Not a clue. But like I always say, if they did, they’d be conservative themselves. So it’s a double whammy against this ad.
MrX on August 24, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Slightly O/T (maybe not…)
Was stunned to see one of Barky’s commercials, attacking Romney, on local TV last night, here in V*E*R*M*O*N*T! Are they really spending money for airtime in this blue, blue state? (Hope so…)
bofh on August 24, 2012 at 5:22 PM
waitaminnit..if I can pay women 20% less than men, why shouldn’t I just fire all the men and hire all women and keep that extra 20% for myself?
JohnBrown on August 24, 2012 at 5:23 PM
If it keeps going like this, I’m going to have to keep one of those air sick bags in the pocket of my recliner.
tnarch on August 24, 2012 at 5:23 PM
The Commies should make an Uncle Sam style poster. Only, instead of saying Uncle Sam Wants You, the poster would show Zero, up to his elbow in a uterus, performing an abortion, and would say:
Giving Republican Women What They Want
OhEssYouCowboys on August 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM
From Obama Girl to this???
hahahahahahahaha
faraway on August 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Except Obamagirl isn’t even sure she will vote for Obama this election:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72503.html
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Wow. Just wow.
They’re just now figuring out that the GOP is a pro-life party? These are some pretty uninformed women.
But of course, we all know that these women are not registered Republicans. But their names aren’t supplied. They could all be actors for all we know. But if I want to know who they are and look at their registrations, I’m going to be called a misogynist racist.
Nethicus on August 24, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Obama’s “composite women?”
coldwarrior on August 24, 2012 at 5:27 PM
The women in that Obama ad have certaily suffraged enough.
St Gaudens on August 24, 2012 at 5:27 PM
It would not be unreasonable to assume that the left uses women as they do the poor black community–as a kneejerk voting bloc to scare and agitate every four years.
If the GOP woudn’t fear the PC weapon and really go after winning both blocs thay could set the libs back years.
Don L on August 24, 2012 at 5:28 PM
He knows it because all his knowledge of women comes from such intellectual stalwrats like his mama, Val, Mooch , Peggy and a composite woman created for him by a terrorist !
burrata on August 24, 2012 at 5:28 PM
Yes. I believe his junta was going to seize power after the ’08 elections, also.
Hysteria indeed. The Obama campaign is asking and expecting America’s women to have nutty meltdowns about Romney’s supposed plot to enslave them.
It’s really the Democrat version of the weirdos who talk about the FEMA camp underneath the Denver airport. Obama and the Dems want women to buy into nutty conspiracy theories.
Django on August 24, 2012 at 5:28 PM
If you’re a woman, and you’re not quite sure what day of the week it is …Vote Obama!!!
BigWyo on August 24, 2012 at 5:29 PM
I bet they were Republican back when they were skinny.
faraway on August 24, 2012 at 5:29 PM
Would that that were true.
Lanceman on August 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM
How about a female fetus ad having it say, I was going to grow up and become a democrat but…..
Don L on August 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM
Nah…somebody still beat them with the ugly stick so I’m inclined to believe they say Republican but mean RINO.
ImageSniper on August 24, 2012 at 5:31 PM
Here come the SoCon herd……..they smell red meat.
athenadelphi on August 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM
These are the same kind of ‘republicans’ that have been giving to Akin for the past week to keep him in the race. Suuuuuuure they are Republicans….
Bensonofben on August 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM
You don’t even have to go there. You just have to have a bunch of single mothers who can’t support their children because they are out of a job.
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM
Naw, I just can’t buy that anyone would think Obama is for smaller government. Unless they’re blind, deaf, and stupid.
Othniel on August 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM
I think some of them may have started posting here today. You know who you are!
a capella on August 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM
I am socon. What was your point?
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:34 PM
If people who wish to protect life disgust you…
Guess what…that’s a confession on your part.
tom daschle concerned on August 24, 2012 at 5:34 PM
Have we had a thread on DHS purchase of hollow point ammunition? What are they planning?
clnurnberg on August 24, 2012 at 5:34 PM
Because you have t!ts for brains which prevent you from critically thinking about the results of the previous 4 years?
Talk about a war on women…
How insulting.
locomotivebreath1901 on August 24, 2012 at 5:34 PM
Sandra Fluke’s family is a Republican?
kalamari on August 24, 2012 at 5:35 PM
OBAMA!! Dint you listen to these disillusioned ‘conservative’ wymin telling you that???
gosh!!!
BigWyo on August 24, 2012 at 5:35 PM
The funny thing if they actually left it up to the states like Conservatives are suppose to- eventually it will be overturned. The youth are turning against it, because as medical technology evolves- it is harder and harder to justify.
melle1228 on August 24, 2012 at 5:37 PM
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