The Democratic Party is fighting hard to revive that tired “war on women” meme. Today it announced its list of 10 female convention speakers, which CNN described as part of an “attempt by Team Obama to woo women away from the Republican Party”:
Nine additional Democratic women, many with ties to specific voting blocks, will address the national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Democratic National Convention Committee said Wednesday.
The list includes Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Georgetown student Sandra Fluke; Caroline Kennedy; Lilly Ledbetter; Eva Longoria, a co-chair of the Obama campaign; former Assistant Veterans Affairs Secretary Tammy Duckworth; Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Did you get that? Democrats want the world to know they’re going to have women speaking at their convention, which is apparently considered some sort of accomplishment in DNC-land. This may come as a shock to them, but the RNC has the same number of women slated to speak. That wasn’t widely promoted in a press release because, in 2012, Americans have become accustomed to women being involved in the political process. But kudos to the DNC for continuing that long-held tradition.
Note that “Georgetown student” Sandra Fluke graces the top of the list (wait, didn’t she graduate?). She’s back to playing a role in the Democratic Party’s strategy, and Jake Tapper reports that the Obama campaign has started sending out fundraising blasts in her name:
The Obama campaign will later today send out a mass e-mail to supporters from abortion rights activist Sandra Fluke criticizing the comments of embattled Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., and trying to tie them to the GOP presidential platform, ABC News has learned.
The email will be just the latest attempt by the Obama campaign to link the presumptive Republican presidential ticket to Akin, whose widely condemned (and scientifically false) remarks about rape have been disputed by both Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., in addition to almost every national Republican official with a pulse.
Fluke may rally the pro-choice base, but I have a hard time believing that the vast majority of American women remember who she is or really care about what she has to say about anything.
When did we start allowing women to participate?
Sandra Fluke did not win the Limbaugh kerfuffle – except in the eyes of the liberal partisans. The Republican "war on women" is a joke that has no air to breath. Looks like the new subject is "legitimate rape" as opposed to Whoopi's "rape rape." n nAs for Mitt and the DNC, not allowing Sarah Palin to be a featured speaker could in my mind be construed as a war on one woman that began four years ago.
The Democrats are over playing their hand on the war on women. I can't believe they think that Sandra Fluke matters or is even relevant.
This is VERY true. Why act like it's such an accomplishment to allow women to talk? n nBut then again if your enemy is using this sort of thing to woo, then what does that say about you? n nI mean, that's like starving a child and then wondering why he is tempted by food from outside sources. Then calling him "stupid" or "easily misguided" for doing so. HAHAHA
As far as Akin goes, I believe most men do not care about rape. They're not stupid enough to come out in favor of it, but many men have committed or have attempted to commit rape and have gotten away with it. I was a victim of sexual assault twice and threatened with a knife once, though in that case the guy didn't follow through on his threat. And this wasn't some crime-ridden urban neighborhood. These were guys I grew up with and went to school with in an average middle-class neighborhood in the 1970's.