Stay the course: We’ll win the “war on women”
“War on women,” “99 percent,” “Buffett Rule”—they are all focus-grouped catch phrases designed to stick in the ear and dominate a news cycle or two. They are the inevitable consequence of an incumbent president with no popular record and no agenda but tax hikes.
Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York may have originated the phrase in a 2011 floor speech, but it was the Democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, appointed Democratic National Committee chair that spring, who kept up the attack. Based on a close reading of Wasserman Schultz’s public statements (and you think your job is tough), as well as a careful study of my favorite MSNBC contributor, Krystal Ball, the war on women is based on Republican opposition to Obamacare and efforts to restrict abortions and eliminate public funding for them, both directly and indirectly. As it happens, large majorities oppose Obamacare and support its repeal in part or in whole, and 51 percent of the country, according to the Gallup Organization, believes that abortion should be legal only under certain circumstances, while 47 percent of Americans identify as pro-life and 47 percent identify as pro-choice. These are not “extremist” positions.
What the war on women really amounts to is a battle for political power between a group of pro-life, pro-religious liberty men and women and a group of men and women who want to maintain abortion on demand and the government provision of abortion, contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures as mandated under Obamacare. On one side are people such as Sarah Palin, Mitt and Ann Romney, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers; on the other side are Wasserman Schultz, Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilary Rosen, and others. If this is the war on women, we should accept nothing less than unconditional surrender.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
How about we take off and nuke their platform from orbit?
After all, it IS the only way to be sure….
Vanceone on April 13, 2012 at 5:39 PM
You forgot Fluke.
John the Libertarian on April 13, 2012 at 5:39 PM
Damn them broads! They may have started this war, but we’ll finish it! Take no prisoners! We won’t stop until there are only men left on this planet. Then we can sit around drinking beers and farting, and no dames to complain! Yeah! [Buuuurrrrp!]
Zombie on April 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM
I see your Fluke. And I’ll raise it with an Ann Romney. Ball is in your court.
Oil Can on April 13, 2012 at 5:47 PM
We will win the War on Women if We Run Sarah Palin and run over that pud Romney.
CoolChange80 on April 13, 2012 at 5:47 PM
Yeah, two hours in when everyone has beer muscles it will dissolve into Lord of the Flies and you guys will destroy eachother. Game over. /
JAM on April 13, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Yeah – it was only yesterday that the GOP establishment and Romney campaign were insulting Sarah Palin’s intellect and experience …
And now they have to use her name to give Willard McDole some credibility.
Well – I don’t know, maybe Sarah will “sell out” her name to the McDole campaign. If she does – it’ll be the complete end to any credibility she has left.
Wish I were advising her – because I really like her but lady, you got to make some tough choices here.
HondaV65 on April 13, 2012 at 5:54 PM
The point is that the Democrats really want to win the War on Liberty
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson
Chip on April 13, 2012 at 5:57 PM
The “grass roots” war on women campaign started when there were those hearings in Congress on if a religious organization could be mandated to offer contraceptive coverage to employees.
There was an (apparently) organized effort for rather activist women to start mailing around pictures of the panel of witnesses being heard by the committee. They were all old white men in the picture. Several rather liberal facebook friends and family started sharing that and putting it on their facebook pages. The phrase “war on women” was usually in the commentary associated with the photo. I saw this from four different facebook friends living in three different regions of the US on the same day.
crosspatch on April 13, 2012 at 5:59 PM
Awesome. No more infighting except for malcontents like Hondav65. We’re on the warpath to the real enemy: Obama.
thebrokenrattle on April 13, 2012 at 6:08 PM
One strong point of American Liberty and one of the things that absolutely defines us is the right to worship as one chooses. The criticism I see in these threads over the way Romney has chosen to worship his Lord sickens me. That so goes against the very fiber of why this country even exists that it upsets me when I see it.
The Catholics and Church of England didn’t believe the Puritans were a “real” religion either. Then there’s the Quakers, the Shakers, the Mennonites, all sorts of religions, many of them born right here in the USA. Say, where did the Methodist religion come from? Check out this painting of John Wesley, there’s something kindof ironic about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wesley_by_George_Romney_1789.jpg
I see these people in here that call themselves conservative Americans yet the crap that spews out of their keyboards isn’t anything my America stands for. My America doesn’t go around criticizing people about how they exercise their right to religious beliefs because they’re “doing it wrong” or something.
I really don’t give a rat’s pair of hips what your religious beliefs are nor should you care about mine. I leave you free to worship as you please without criticizing you for it, others should expect the same from you.
You can not run down someone’s worship practices and consider yourself any sort of ambassador of American values.
The hypocrisy of some of the “true conservatives” is sickening.
crosspatch on April 13, 2012 at 7:18 PM