For a party that’s supposedly so thrilled at the opportunity to run against Paul Ryan’s budget plan, the Democrats are spending an awful lot of time focusing on unrelated social issues. Here’s the DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz hammering Ryan’s pro-life views in an email blast today (via Weekly Standard):
As a member of the House Budget Committee, I’ve seen firsthand just how extreme Paul Ryan is, so I’m not going to mince words: Paul Ryan in the White House would be a nightmare.
Over the last two years, we’ve seen an unprecedented number of attacks on a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions — and Congressman Ryan has been at the forefront of all of them.
He wants to end Medicare as we know it. He co-sponsored a radical “personhood” bill that could have banned the birth control pill, in vitro fertilization, and all abortions — even in cases of rape or incest. What’s more? He wants to allow states to criminally prosecute women who choose to have abortions and the doctors who perform them.
We cannot afford to let this man be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
There’s only so much mud the Democrats can sling at Paul Ryan’s deficit plan before the public starts to catch on that the Democratic Party has no plan for tackling the problem whatsoever. So they’re still going to have to continue to make this election about small issues — hence the completely irrelevant attack on Ryan’s views on abortion. Planned Parenthood is also ramping up its Paul Ryan fear mongering, lest the American people elect a pro-lifer “a heartbeat away from the presidency” (ignore the fact that Romney, who would be the actual president under this scenario, is also pro-life).
The attacks are entirely predictable, and they have nothing to do with the candidate. As much as Democrats are crowing about how Ryan is so beatable because of the Ryan plan, they’re pulling out many of the same exact attacks that would have been launched against Pawlenty or Portman or Rubio.
Ryan is best when he’s talking about the budget and deficit; Democrats clearly want to push him onto less familiar social-issues territory in order to, a.) Knock him off his game and hope he makes a mistake, and b.) Ensure that he doesn’t have a chance to sell the plan to the public.
Whether they succeed depends on whether the Romney campaign — and the rest of the GOP — can stay focused on the big picture.
I think the Democrats strongest attack angle is about Seamus being put on the roof of Romney’s car. First of all it apparently is not based on lies, a big plus there. And I am sure this can reflect favorable on Obama’s very important and highly approved policy of NOT putting any animals on the tops of vehicles. Be assured Obama’s campaign is steamrolling along. I imagine Romney is already even more afraid than Seamus himself.
Barack would never do something like that to Seamus, it toughens the meat.
Leave it to a dog eater to bring up Seamus the Dog atop a car!
er…but are the charges true? I don't know anything about Ryan's views on social issues. but if he really wants to ban birth control, I'd call that a MAJOR problem for the Republicans. n n(full disclosure: I'm still not over Marco Rubio not getting the job. it seemed like a no-brainer to me.) n nbtw Alana, nobody cares that Romney is currently pro-life. he used to be pro-choice and that's good enough for the moderates. n
birth control can't be banned in the United States–that ship is sailed and over the horizon
the dems are as mindlessly vicious as they are incompetent
Romney/Ryan strategists need to clarify specifically how Romney will create QUALITY jobs in an economy impacted by out sourcing jobs across our borders, the flooding of USA with immigrants, both illegal and legal.
Where are these jobs going to come from, you know, here is a believability issue here and I want Romney to prevail, because I am convinced Obama will causew Israel to fall in his second term, if given a chance. Why would tax cuts for the wealthy result in an increase in jobs in The USA when it is obvious to any thinking person that corporate America is doing everything possible to move jobs out of this country. One could argue that the tax cuts for wealthy would enable them to invest in the infrastructure to move more jobs overseas. Who cares about Americans? If the jobs which Romney can creates are sweat shop jobs for illegal immigrants in East LA, hey…I’m outta here, I’ll sit out the election.
Romney has to have the balls to explain how he is going to bring our good jobs back and dump the cheap toxic Chinese products no one here really wants. We want our quality safe products of the past made in The USA by Americans, GET IT.
Good jobs will come back to the United States when the unions lose power and taxes are reduced allowing investors in new processes to earn a decdent return on their investments as they can now in other nations. n nAs far as "nobody really wants" Chinese products, WHY does the consumer purchase them? Americans can make what the American consumer will buy when American business can make money on those products–otherwise American business will have these products made in foreign lands and foreign business will be right there with them. The stupidest statement I ever heard was made by Lyod Bentsen in his 1988 debate with Dan Quale decrying foreign investment in the United States. If this is an example of one of the "better Democ-rats" that Party is totally sick!
What are the democrats going to run on? We can run the country into the ground faster than anyone else. We can get more people dependent on government if you just let us have 4 more years.
When you read this clip it doesn't even sound right. n
nBecause infanticide is such a winning issue – that Wasserman-Schultz is such a disgusting person.
The Big Picture.That's what everybody better start looking at.
Nothing resembling a coherent thought has ever invaded the Chaos and Dark Night beneath that woman's fright wig.