Posted on 06/05/2014 2:15:30 AM PDT by markomalley
While his poll numbers have plummeted and a midterm election nears, President Obama is dusting off the old women’s issues playbook of his party and is basing his speeches on its anachronistic rhetoric. They are attempting to once again portray themselves as the only political party that serves women. They are doing this by attacking Republicans as the party that wants to abolish birth control and tolerate lower incomes for women.
The plain fact is, the rhetoric of birth control and income equality are relics of the 1960s and 1970s and are not directly relevant to the issues of adult women living under the Obama economy. It is the changes in their lives that have occurred since Obama took office that are on their minds.
When it comes to an examination of the behavior of Democrats toward women, however, what they have actually done, and what Obama has done, is far more damaging and revealing of their war on women. While Democrats might predict that women will suffer if Republicans are elected, it is easy to cite those things that are already happening to women under Obama’s rule that are hurting them.
The issues of reproductive freedom have their roots in Feminist activism of the 1960s. The driving concept of that movement was that men controlled the family, dominated women, and extended that domination to the workplace. Consequently they earned more money and held more wealth. If women had reproductive choice, feminists asserted, then they would no longer be bound by the old-fashioned chains of pregnancy and motherhood.
These issues, of birth control and same sex marriage, are topics of sex and marriage that are the concerns of single women, not adult women who are concerned with the needs of their homes and families...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
not to mention the war on logic, science, the Second Amendment, “non-viable tissue masses” in the womb,
adulthood, maturity....
IMHO
I wish these stupid authors would use the proper term. It is DEMOCRAT Party, not Democratic. There is nothing democratic about a democrat.
“It's my body; I can do want I want to with it.”
Try telling a doctor, “My left arm inconveniences me; I want it removed from my body.”
I wonder how far THAT would fly!?
We need to get Joni Ernst, Terri Lynn Land, and Monica Wehby elected to the U.S. Senate. I wish that Karen Handel had made the runoff in Georgia, but she made a credible showing and may be heard from again.
Some of us are low on Wehby’s chances. Auh2o has her in the extreme long shot category, behind Virginia (which I’m low on and have beneath Oregon) and in same boat (a tiny, leaky dingy) with NM and NJ.
The reason of course being her personal stuff, I didn’t think she was a great candidate to begin with, she’s inexperienced and it shows.
Merkey isn’t strong and shouldn’t even be there (plurality winner), if only Greg Walden had run, he’s not stellar but he could have possibly made it a toss up in a good year.
Hopefully Land and Erst both win, they should.
Ernst.
She’s also pro-abortion. Here you have the case study of the establishment’s disingenuousness.
Wehby is an inexperience candidate, a total amateur
Jason Conger was a seasoned politician who had run races before
But the establishment backed Wehby? Why? Because for all their talk about wanting ‘experience candidates who can win’, they actually just was moderates and squishes. When Wehby loses by 6 points, which she will, we will not let Karl Rove forget it.
I think Greg Walden is more comfortable staying put and hopes to become Chairman of Energy & Commerce (he’s already a subcommittee chair). After what will be 16 years in the House, it’s tough giving up that much seniority.
Yeah, it’s rare for someone to give up 16 years of House seniority for a shot at becoming a freshman senator. But Cardin did it in 2006, and Markey gave up over 30 years of seniority to run for the Senate last year.
Walden running for the Senate would have been a win-win fir us, since it would allow a true conservative to claim his very Republican seat (Walden isn’t bad, but he’s pro-choice on abortion and is moderate-to-conservative overall). It’s a shame that he decided to stay put.
Well, as we’ve seen now, Democrats will give up seniority (especially if there is enormous pressure brought to bear to keep Dem seats), but Republicans rarely will (past the decade or 12-year mark).
AL-Shelby (8 years - but as a Dem)
AZ-McCain (4 years); Flake (12 years)
AR-Boozman (9 years)
GA-Chambliss (8 years); Isakson (-6 years)
ID-Crapo (6 years)
IL-Kirk (10 years)
IN-Coats (8 years, though appointed)
IA-Grassley (6 years)
KS-Moran (14 years); Roberts (16 years)
LA-Vitter (5 1/2 years)
MS-Cochran (6 years); Wicker (13 years, though appointed)
MO-Blunt (14 years)
NV-Heller (4 1/2 years, though appointed)
NC-Burr (10 years)
OK-Inhofe (-8 years)
SC-Graham (8 years); Scott (2 years, though appointed)
There are only 3 Senators to give up House seniority with more than 14 years, and that’s Blunt (whom was heavily persuaded), Moran (who gave up 14 to face Todd Tiahrt who had 16), and Pat Roberts (at 16), who holds the GOP record.
Mike Castle of Delaware gave up 18 years for his ill-fated run in 2008.
I think one thing also holding Walden back is not wanting to take the risk. OR is not hospitable to the GOP statewide. He might’ve been a better bet against Merkley, but he doesn’t have the fire in the belly.
I guess they don’t care in Kansas for some reason.
Markey’s run surprised me, I suppose he was sick of being in the minority.
Lets look at the rats who went directly from House to Senate
CA-Boxer - 10 years
CO-Udall - 10 Years
CT-Murphy - 6 years
HI-Hirono - 6 years
IL-Durbin - 14 years
IN-Donnelly - 6 years
MD-Milkulski - 10 years
MD-Cardin - 20 years (and 20 years in the MD House before he ran for Congress, he’s been a legislator since age 23, took his uncle’s seat while still in law school, jeez)
MA-Markey - 36.67 years, from Nov ‘76 to July 2013 (the record, beating former US House Speaker Fred Gillett’s 32 years)
MI-Stabenow - 4 years
NV-Reid - 4 years
NJ-Menendez - 13 years (appointed)
NM-Udall - 10 years (cue the theme from the Patty Duke show, hmm I hope that bodes well for Allen Weh rather than ill for Cory Gardener)
NY-Schumer - 16 years
NY-Gillibrand 2 years (appointed)
OH-Brown 14 years
OR-Wyden 15 years (I didn’t know it was that long, beat an incumbent rat in 1980)
RI-Reed 4 years
SD-Johnson 10 years
VT-Sanders 16 years
WS-Badlwin 16 years
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