Posted on 02/15/2012 12:52:03 PM PST by Lazamataz
On January 7th, at the Republican debate, George Stephanopoulos embarked on a sudden, unexpected, and bizarre series of questions about contraception and birth control. Most of the political pundits who watched this, were somewhat puzzled at the virtual harangue that Stephanopoulos went on, asking candidate after candidate to pin down their views -- even though birth control issues were decidedly not in the forefront.
Then, President Obama and his brain trust picked a fight with the Catholic Church, demanding that they fund birth control and abortion services. When the Church rose up in anger, they compromised -- they only needed to accept birth control and abortion services, the funding would come later.
Angered by the arrogance and the mandate to go against their conscience, soon a bill was proposed that would stop these unConstitutional mandates. Within hours, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) assembled on Capitol Hill to denounce 'Republicans who wanted to keep women barefoot and pregnant', who wanted 'to bring us back to the medical dark ages'.
This was the plan all along. Obama picked a fight, on purpose, to be able to have these sound bites uttered. The media, complicit in every effort to bring America farther to the left, knows the lie but will not explain: This has nothing to do with contraception. This has everything to do with mandating religious behaviors and belief. Contraception is the hill they are fighting on, but the war is over forcing the Church to do something they will not -- and they CANNOT.
The media will never explain the nuances of this, and Team Obama knows that. They wish to mobilize women by making them believe -- amazingly -- that somehow, Republicans intend to poke holes in condoms and substitute Tic-Tacs for Birth Control Pills.
The fact George Stephanopoulos asked this question, during the January 7th debate -- into a political vacuum as regards this issue -- tells even the casual observer that this plan of attack was well-premeditated, and directed from the White House. The immediacy of response from the most diligently liberal also implies preparation. We have, in front of us, what the Democrats wish to make the election about: Scaring women with outright lies. Apparently, scaring the elderly in the same way isn't working as well.
In hindsight, this was a coordinated maneuver orchestrated from the White House.
ABC News was coordinating its debate questions directly with the Obamah administration.
“an election-winning issue”
for who?
Catholic union-democrats will have a hard time voting for a Catholic-hating democrat when the GOP offers up a union-friendly devout Catholic candidate (Santorum)
There is no leadership in the GOP. This party has no message in part because the moderates refuse...
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Moderates? Gingrich and Santorum are moderates. And since these guys are moderates.... WHERE are our right wing conservatives candidates? (I know the answer to that. Bachmann, Palin, Cain, Perry...ALL GONE)
The real problem is that the GOP is overrun with liberals. Look at Romney and Paul as perfect examples.
Depressing.
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Ping.
How 0thugga Created an Election-Winning Issue (Vanity)
. . . . Article, and # 17 , # 37.
Thanks TOL, and Laz.
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Have you tried to publish this in any papers’ editorial sections? It needs a wider audience!
Also, I need to be on your “I’d hit it” ping list!
NOT every Catholic female intends or will have more children than they decide to have. H E L L O!!!!
I think it just shows how desperate Barky is. People generally vote their pocketbook and most are worse off than they were in 2008. This is all the big eared idiot has to go with and I don’t think he can distract enough people with this to matter. His internal polls must be very bad.
My post on another thread today seems to be appropriate for this one also. Hope you will not object to having it appear here.
Poet Robert Frost once described a character which may bear a familiar resemblance to readers of this thread.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
The pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display a provinciality reminiscent of that Dr. Kirk recalls from an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
In today's case, the "provinciality" seems to be limited to the "progressives'" dabbling in and discussing the ideas of Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians and believing they can impose those ideas on a free people.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of "their teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because it does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the current Administration and so-called "progressives" who control the Executive and one-half of the Legislative branch of government.
The Founders' Constitution's strict limits on coercive power by elected representatives are being ignored and disavowed; the free enterprise system which allowed individual citizens to achieve and excel in their chosen pursuits is being co-opted by elected and unelected bureaucrats; and the rights of conscience, speech, and religion are being trampled as we post here.
"The People" should be debating great ideas such as how to preserve liberty, or, in economic matters, the wisdom of the great moral philosopher, Adam Smith's "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." Instead, they are being hoodwinked by a president who believes they are ignorant or foolish enough to believe that deficit spending, debt, and government control will lead to prosperity.
When, in 1776, our ancestors felt the heavy hand of the British government "taking" their earnings, regulating their lives, interfering with their beliefs, and asserting coercive control over their actions, they did not waste their time on such trivia.
They wrote great treatises such as "Thoughts on Government" and "Common Sense." They educated their young on the merits of liberty, as opposed to slavery to government, and they did the groundwork which allowed for a written Constitution for self-government to be ratified in the states only eleven years later.
America is about to be bankrupt, both financially and philosophically, and those who have benefited from the Founders' ideas, who call themselves "conservators" (conservatives) of those ideas, should come together to place those ideas before millions of young people who must participate in voting in November on whether they desire liberty or slavery. Women, youth, men, so-called "seniors"--all need to have the choice presented clearly that this election pits the ideas of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and America's other Founders against the ideas of Marx, Lenin, and Keynes.
There are always "useful idiots." That's what every oppressive regime has relied upon. A "useful idiot" with a big megaphone is more dangerous to liberty than millions of ordinary ones, because of the ability to lull more people into a sense of complacency.
America, awaken! This decades-long battle for your liberty has been engaged. But, for decades, you have allowed the ideas of your liberty to be censored from your nation's textbooks and public discourse.
Our best weapon is contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which leaves all the power in "the People's" hands. Read them, amplify upon their principles and ideas by accessing the Founders' writings and speeches.
For a quick review of those principles and the nation's first 50 years under its Constitution, consult John Quincy Adams' "Jubilee" Address here, or a recent reprint of a 1987 Bicentennial collection of the Founders' principles, here.
James Madison stated: "Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant—they have been cheated; asleep—they have been surprised; divided—the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ... the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government, they should watch over it ... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free."
His poll numbers are up. Anything that distracts from the economy, deficit and jobs — anything — helps Obama. The MSM reports make-believe unemployment numbers and people buy it. Just so they don’t notice how really bad the economy still is the White House stirs up a well-planned controversy.
Any news broadcasts talking about the economy lately? Nope. They just report how women are mad they now have to pay for birth control — even if they have always paid for it and have never actually received this so-called free benefit before.
To see what the magician is doing you can’t be distracted by the woman on the stage.
That’s one branch of the thinking about what the Obots are really up to. I proposed my own earlier today at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2846822/posts?page=17#17 What it means to have the Obots pinging on the young ladies is that the YOUT VOTE IS IN PLAY and the Democrats are losing it. It’s that Greek level employment level!
Excellent post and insightful observation. Agree. BTTT.
If it was obvious to me it was obvious to the Obots. It may well NOT be obvious to most of the regular suspects on ourside, e.g. Ann ~ she seems oblivious to what it means to young people to get out of college and find no jobs in their field, and no full time work FOR YEARS AT A TIME.
Same with the others.
Fact is the Yout(h) Vote is centered in the population bearing the brunt of the continuous, systemic UNEMPLOYMENT. That's why they are at home in the basement.
The Democrats LOSE in every election if we can come up with something for them.
The Democrats imagine unemployed young college educated people and recent high school graduates looking for even day work can be recruited for the price of a condom in an insurance policy they can't afford to buy!
THEY ARE NUTS. And so are we to ignore it. Sure, the Democrats still have enough organizational knowledge to line up Gregory or Stephenopoulous ~ but what else do they have?
I'm overjoyed to find out that the Democrat "internals" tell them they don't have a lock on the kids ~
Actually ... the Obama voters were indifferent. They didn't think they had anything to gain from a failed politician who was an economic nitwit, and their likely voting rates were shockingly low (I loved it!). By reframing the debate, the White House may still lose, but they have a chance of mobilizing their voters to come to the polls for the culture wars, when those voters wouldn't show up at all for an economic vote. Laz has this right, and he expressed it well. Even though the far left's actions are evil and unconstitutional, and we need to stop this horrendous violation of the First Amendment, we also need to move the political debate back to "it's the economy, stupid!"
You can do whatever the heck you want. But do NOT make your fellow citizens pay for YOUR CHOICES. Your choices are NOT my business and most importantly NOT the Government’s business. As soon as you accept Government Handouts via Government Programs, the Government will dictate to you how to behave; what toilet to use, what light bulb to use, what text book to use, what crop to plant, what health care choices you have, etc. etc. Aren't you uncomfortable laundering YOUR hard earned dollars through the DC Mafia? I know I am and I am willing to fight for your take home pay and your freedom to live life the way YOU CHOSE.
But the GOP-e does have a message- it’s the same message Obama has with just a few minor tweeks
I’m hoping $5 gasoline will be the key to nuking the Baraqqi presidency.
bttt
Only if the economy is a central issue.
Actually you are wrong, the media amd Obama are able to fake the economics. They work together to make people think the economy is coming back. That is why Mitt Romney is not the person to be our nominee.
Rush played some Santorum economic bytes today where Santorum was saying that this election should be about LIBERTY.
Right on. This contraceptives thing is a joke. If we quit making a big deal out of it, it will go away.
If “we” can’t defeat Baraq, “we” deserve him.
That’s my view.
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