Barack Obama thinks women are idiots.
Time will tell if he’s got a point.
Here’s the deal: Obama’s poll numbers aren’t good. Oh, the media is doing its best to spin it (with measures that seem desperate and slapdash), but the economy is still miserable (especially if you’re not too big to fail), the unemployment rate is “Down” to where the Administration said it wouldn’t go above if we passed Porkulus, and that’s through the grace of the fact that no Mullah in Iran has yet walked to the shore at the Strait of Hormuz and skipped a rock across the water, sending tankers scurrying for cover and pushing oil over $200 a barrel. Yet. And even so, this is the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression – largely because of Obama’s policies.
People have been cooling on “The One” pretty much since inauguration day.
And The One needs to get that enthusiasm going again.
And so what better to take peoples’ minds off their miseries and rile the (female) troops?
“Republicans want to take away your contraceptives!”
Notwithstanding the fact that, as Romney noted in December when George Stephanopoulos incongruously broached the subject in a debate, the subject has never come up in GOP circles. Period. It’s a non-issue to the GOP.
No matter. The media is in lock-step behind the Administration’s meme that the GOP wants to outlaw contraception. The theatrical “walk-out” of Democrats from Darrel Issa’s hearings was a classic bit of Goebbelsian theatre; while the useful idiots in the media (in this case, the gleefully dim Amanda Terkel at Huffpo) called the hearings “about contraception” they were in fact hearings on the constitutionality of mandating that religious groups offer contraception against their beliefs.
Catch that? The Democrats don’t even need to hijack Republicans’ meetings themselves. The mainstream media will do it for them, after the fact.
CNN ran a poll right after Obama ”compromised,” about the Catholics on abortion/sterilization and birth control.
Even though the timing favored Obama, and even though the pool were adults who are registered to vote, as opposed to people who have actually ever voted, there was more bad news for Obama.
There were only a few small groups that agreed with his position:
Democrats. (70%)
Liberals.(74%)
Urbanites.(55%)
Northeasterners.(53%)
Non-Whites.(60%)
18-to-34 Year-olds.(50%)
TEA Party Haters.(71%)
All the rest disagree with Obama to such an extent that the bottom line was a
44% Agree
50% Disagree
6% No Opinion.
Maybe if CNN tried they could rework this until Obama wins.
LOL!