"The contempt in which the Obama administration holds women, while unfortunate, is a trademark, and it comes as no surprise. Whether it's the intensely personal attacks on any conservative woman, from Palin to [So. Car. Governor] Haley and now Romney, or the misogynistic inner sanctum at the White House, complete with pay inequity based on gender, Democrats discount women as useful but expendable.
Underlying the Obama/Axelrod strategy to capture the "woman's vote" is the belief that women (and, for that matter, most individuals) are not capable of making informed choices in their own best interest. Only state-sponsored programs and mandated alternatives are acceptable "choices." Religious choice, reproductive choice, and even the choice to stay home and raise children rather than handing the kids over to state are to be mocked. The exception, of course, is the choice of taxpayer funded abortion.
The idea of a War on Women was a misguided attempt at damage control after the Obama camp alienated the Catholic Church over provision of contraception and abortion. Backpedaling from a Catholic voter blowback, Axelrod and Obama teased a war on woman from a rat's nest of comments and speeches attributed to the Santorum campaign and used that projection to wail that Republicans want to abolish contraception (and clean water, air, safe food, and elder care). Adding Sandra Fluke to the mix and mandating that insurers of religious organizations provide contraception to employees of those organizations, the Obama team thought they had a winner.
Based on the events of the past weekend between Rosen's unwitting dismantling of the War on Woman and Axelrod's desperate and embarrassing interview on Fox News Sunday, the battle for women is over. The Dems lost. The bigger fight for the future of the U.S. is at hand, and the Obama juggernaut has been exposed as eminently stoppable." [Mark Walker]
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