"Sarah Palin is the enemy who must be stopped"

EMILY’s List is also trying to recruit younger women to its overall cause, electing pro-choice women. That is a big part of its challenge. By making abortion rights its candidate litmus test, EMILY’s List remains focused on an issue that is less important to women who have no memory of life before Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

But abortion energizes the base, on the right and left, and so does Palin. So EMILY’s List will continue to use abortion and Palin to whip up support for the candidates it backs.

“I think it’s time to get the story of the 2010 elections straight — and to call out Palin’s efforts for what they are: an attempt, in the name of ‘feminism’ to turn back the clock on women’s rights and to set American families back,’’ Schriock wrote recently on the Huffington Post. “I think women voters will choose progress, not Palin, this cycle.’’