2012 is turning into 1992 in reverse. In that year Papa Bush presiding over stagnant economy decided to launch a campaign on culture wars. His campaign attacked the TV show Murphy Brown, popular music and was obsessed with family values. To top it all off, he allowed Pat Buchanan to make a very hateful speech calling for a culture war. This speech lost the suburbs for the GOP for nearly a generation.
Like Papa Bush, Obamaligula aka. King Put presides over an anemic economy. He has decided to run on attacking Chick-Fil-A and abortion on demand. Unlike Bush, he has the press cheer-leading him and helping to distract voters.
“This election, to me, is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment,” says former President Bill Clinton in a new ad released by the Obama campaign. Most voters would agree, at least if one believes countless polls that show the economy and jobs are the nation’s top concern.
So why are Democrats planning to make their convention a celebration of abortion and gay marriage? The Obama campaign has given a new and prominent surrogate role to Sandra Fluke, the former Georgetown law student and full-time lefty activist who achieved notoriety after Rush Limbaugh called her a bad name because of her energetic promotion of taxpayer-financed contraception.
This week, Fluke’s role has been to attack Republicans over Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” statement. “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark,” Fluke wrote in an Obama campaign email, “but the fact is they’re in lockstep with Akin on the major women’s health issues of our time.”
Fluke is just one part of the Democrats’ plan to target Akin and the GOP on abortion.
Running on distracting social issues didn’t work for Poppy Bush and hopefully will not work for Obama.
Tags: Abortion, Social Issues
