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Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
6. My friend, the truth is this.
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:36 PM
Nov 2014

Democrats ran the war on women meme into the ground buried it in a hole deeper than the Grand Canyon. I read somewhere that 60% of the ads mentioned the War on Women. We used it on Republican Women candidates. That's the gender equivalent of calling a black man an Uncle Tom.

We ignored the issues, and our campaign was basically that we sucked, but we sucked a little less than the Republicans did.

Colorado residents, two old friends from High School included, started calling Mark Udall Senator Uterus. It was all he campaigned on.

I mentioned a couple old friends, we grew up in the same school in Anaheim California. In 1988 we voted Democrat to protect a woman's right to choose. I know them, and have known them for more than thirty years. Missy told me today that she voted for Gardner because she was pissed that Udall was more worried about her birth control than all other issues combined. She felt he was manipulating her, or trying to.

How many times did I warn about this very outcome on this board? The War on Women became the same detested category of overused phrases like "Wazzup" and "Is that your final answer?" Back when I was in school, it was "Where's the beef?"

Without the Republicans playing along, willing to put forward the "real rape" quote we need, then the constant drumming makes many people feel like they are being sold a bill of questionable goods.

But, that's my take. Yours may be different.

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