“GOP inflicts its own wounds” is a common theme, as well as one headline that ran over the weekend. This op ed was about California Republicans, and full of the requisite preachy scrutiny. And while it could be argued that the GOP may be the fastest growing minority in California, Presidential politics this season are another animal altogether.

What most pundits seem to be missing is that the Republican Presidential primary is performing an invaluable service, and the mainstream media is covering it every step of the way.

Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, the four remaining Republican Presidential candidates have successfully highlighted important issues that have been shoved under the rug under the Obama administration. Voters are now talking about energy and domestic oil production, nationalized health care and the cost of Obama’s plan, the sputtering economy, tax increases and tax reform, the escalating national debt, the cost of Medicare, welfare expansion, phony green subsidies, national security, the attacks on conservative talk radio and religious liberty, and the Obama administration’s attack on churches.

Republicans are lapping it up. “Republican Candidates Pressed to Prove Conservatism,” another recent headline, was almost as laughable as the atheistic media asking “tougher questions about faith” of the candidates.

With liberal media attempts to choose the Republican candidate, they are actually keeping the ideas and issues of all four candidates in the spotlight, as well as assisting voters with valuable issue information.

The daily vetting of the Republican candidates only serves as a significant reminder that President Obama never received this kind of intense scrutiny when he was candidate Obama.

But most in the media don’t see it this way. “After one campaign and more than three years in the White House, President Barack Obama’s life is an open book – he’s written two of them – and he does not face a primary fight that might leave him bloodied and vulnerable,” wrote William Endicott, a former deputy managing editor of the Sacramento Bee.

Endicott claimed that the prolonged GOP primary is making the job of Obama’s opposition researchers a great deal easier. That may be true. But the more important issue Endicott missed is that the prolonged primary is also allowing Republicans to stay on the issues, which Obama, his administration, and the media, are running the other way from.

Distractions about contraception and faith, pushed by the mainstream media, only serve to make the important issues stand out more.

MAR. 19, 2012

‘I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman,’ was the rally cry in the 1970’s for the feminist movement.

But a roar was heard last night — just not the kind liberal women want to hear.

Presidential Primaries

Not satisfied with their four-decade war on men, Democrats and liberal women have turned their guns on other women – specifically conservative women, who incensed liberals with the Presidential primary results in Mississippi and Alabama last evening.

Karen Finney, a MSNBC analyst and Democratic Party operative expressed how appalled she was with Rick Santorum’s primary win last night, who won in two Southern states thanks to the vote of working women.

“This woman vote really hurts me,” Karen Finney said. “I got to say. You heard me say that.”

49 percent of working Republican women voted for Santorum in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries.

“That’s why I say, it’s a little painful because I’m wondering if those women really heard the full message that, yes, there’s the economy, but if you’ve got to worry about your basic healthcare, how are you then going to be able to do what you need to do in terms of having a job, paying your rent, taking care of your kids?” Finney opined.

According to Finney, women are still victims.

Karen Finney must lead a sheltered life far away from the fly-over states and working-class America. Working women are acutely aware of the need for healthcare, having and keeping a job, paying the rent and taking care of their kids. In fact, working women usually do it better. They feed their own children, pay their own rent, and pay for their own healthcare needs, insured or not.

The lack of access to healthcare argument Democrats are trying to gin up is a big lie.

Even when I was in high school in the late 1970’s, all of the young women knew how and where to access healthcare, and how to get contraception. It was available then, and it’s only more abundant now. And this argument is not about healthcare, but about contraception – about government-funded contraception.

The difference is that working women don’t spend their days and night whining about how the government should take care of their kids, rent, healthcare or reproductive organs.

After the MSNBC show aired, WTAM radio in Cleveland reported, “While MSNBC only introduces Finney as a ‘political analyst,’ a quick look at her bio reveals she’s a Democratic political all-star. She’s worked for the DNC, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Edwards in the past. Currently, she serves on the board of NARAL pro-choice America.”

Finney and most of the other Democratic women pushing this strange agenda and fake war on women are frothing-at-the-mouth activists. They can’t even see the stupidity of their own arguments. American women aren’t victims.

The war isn’t against women, but is a war between conservative and liberal women.

Fortunately, working women are laughing at the silly liberals, and exercising their right to vote.

MAR. 14, 2012