House of Eratosthenes

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly took aim at “unmarried women” at a recent fundraiser and in an interview with TPM, saying that they overwhelmingly support President Obama and are all on welfare. Democrats aim to exploit the comments to pressure the more than 60 Republican candidates who have earned Schlafly’s endorsement.

“Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have big brother government to be your provider,” said Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum and infamous for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.

It is revealed in the audio, although not in TPM’s article, that Schlafly had a coherent point to make about this. Side note: Hey TPM, do you realize that under our new Shirley Sherrod standard, this means you can be sued?

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Schlafly’s point is just one that intelligent and observant people have been noticing for a very long time now.

The democrat party has positioned itself as a savior for people who are in desperate situations. And so — as you might logically expect — their strategies have evolved into ways to make people more desperate…and to make more people that desperate.

Yes, Schlafly should apologize. She should say “I’m sorry I ‘singled out’ — no pun intended — the single moms. They are, as I noted at the time, most statistically significant to Obama’s victory, but the problem is so much bigger than them. Other people on welfare, for starters. The illegal aliens who shouldn’t be voting in the first place. All those people who would rather be gainfully employed who had their jobs taken away by Obama’s policies. Even the banks! The banks who now depend on government largess to keep from folding, the automakers, the car dealers. The dependency, the addiction to paternalistic government, it’s everywhere. Our country decided two years ago it wanted hope and change, and now we see what that is and there’s nothing hopeful about it.”

Something like that.

So let me get this straight democrats. You want to stigmatize and scandalize the Republicans for putting forward the appearance of making a plan to stop this? This is going to make all of America really angry with them, huh?

Go to town. Do it. Can’t wait to watch it happen.

Yea, the problem, Morgan, is that the Dems’ will merely pounce on the perception that she meant all single women who voted for O are on welfare.

Doesn’t matter what she said or meant or, or, or…Republicans had better get their head out of their asses when they open their mouths. The average voter, let’s face it, doesn’t pay that much attention to these sort of things other than some sound bite, which is what they will make this into – “See, Republicans think your all a bunch of welfare mothers”.

Just like Ran Paul’s dumb ass comments about the Civil Rights Act. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

We all get bent out’a shape, and rightfully so, when O says something completely contradictory to what reality is. Well, the reason he says that is that he knows that sound bite is what gets air time on the networks and the sheep eat it up.

I’m not saying that Repub’s should stoop to that level but they need to more savvy. And think before they speak, and realize that whatever they say will be used against them
- tim | 07/30/2010 @ 09:41
It does appear they are digging a deeper and deeper hole.

I think part of the reason is they’ve blocked off all coherent retreat routes on their way to where they are. They’ve got nowhere to go but down.

Let’s just hope a majority of Americans don’t go along with them.
- philmon | 07/30/2010 @ 09:43
We all get bent out’a shape, and rightfully so, when O says something completely contradictory to what reality is. Well, the reason he says that is that he knows that sound bite is what gets air time on the networks and the sheep eat it up.

This is pure Alinsky. It doesn’t matter what reality is. It only matters what you can get people to think it is in order to further your agenda.
- philmon | 07/30/2010 @ 09:44
Hey, Philmon, I’m totally lost on how to leave a comment at your place. I have a Typepad account but still…
- tim | 07/30/2010 @ 10:02
It’s a popup. Maybe you have a blocker.

Yea, the problem, Morgan, is that the Dems’ will merely pounce on the perception that she meant all single women who voted for O are on welfare.

Then this is a golden opportunity. Breitbart airs these “out-of-context” quotes of Shirley Sherrod…which you can make a perfectly reasonable argument are not out of context at all, that gets into an argument with solid points on both sides and I do not wish to pursue it here.

But at the end of the day, Breitbart is the one who is slimed. The Michigan progressive-whatever is doing precisely the same thing to Schlafly, with far less legitimacy. Is Schlafly placed in the same situation, in the court of public opinion, as Shirley Sherrod? No. At the neighborhood pool party, and at the office water cooler, where it is discussed among people who don’t give a flying crap — but will decide the election — Breitbart is a horrible human being AND Schlafly is a horrible human being. Shirley Sherrod is to be canonized along with Michigan Progressives and TPM; both issues are resolved in favor of the left wing, even though they are precisely reversed from each other.

Take control of that dichotomy, and it will do much more to fix what’s busted in this country than anything else done this year thus far.

First thing I would try? I think progressives are much better at figuring out who is out of reach, and writing ’em off. You aren’t going to see the California democrat party lift a finger to make someone like me happy. They conserve their energy. Republicans find out someone thinks bad thoughts about ’em, and their first instinct is to try to change a mind. Sometimes that’s the wrong move.
- mkfreeberg | 07/30/2010 @ 11:35
@tim Yeah… well …. hmmm. Now that I’ve turned moderation on to stop the Chinese spam, I guess I can turn on anonymous comments. I hate the moderating bit. I’m using Blogger’s comments… and I wish I could do some filtering. Like, if there’s more than 5 foriegn characters in the comment and their from the Chinese character set, don’t allow it.

But you can’t.

I used an outside commenting service for a while, which was nice but they started charging, and I thought it was too much.

Since I picked the new theme, the Comments link is right under the title.

It allows OpenID, I don’t know if Typepad is one of those. But I just re-enabled anonymous commenting. We’ll see how that goes.

BTW, email me at cluebattingcage @ gmail.com … and I’ll give you my real email @ and contact info for DC 8/28 purposes.
- philmon | 07/30/2010 @ 12:33
@tim correction, I just moved the comments link to under the posts. I never liked it under the title.
- philmon | 07/30/2010 @ 12:37

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