Yes, that's the sad, sorry, story women and those who profess to love them have to grapple with on this opening day of the 2012 Republican Convention.
I'm impressed that Romney didn't allow the vagina probe fans to set up a shrine to the ovum.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer would have loved admitting the faithful to the inner sanctuary.
Can't you just see it?
The red, white, and blue striped curtains pull back to reveal a room lit by votive candles and there, right there resting in gilded egg cartons on a cloth draped table - the holy of holies. Filigreed models of the human egg! For a small donation, you could even have your own souvenir egg to take home and fondle.....sorry.....display.
What a right wing theocrat's dream THAT would have been! Especially for those folks from Arizona who passed the
conception begins before menstruation law, Ovum bless em.
Ah, the stories they could have shared with their friends and neighbors when they returned home from Tampa. ::sigh::
Of course, as Kaili Joy Gray noted in her excellent FP post, the worship of the Ovum story is not one Romney and his pals want to touch with a ten foot anything while re-marketing themselves for the general election.
It tarnishes the optics they're so busily burnishing with lots of flags
http://www.publicintegrity.org/...
and of course, they favorite shiny object to distract their base with - race baiting.
All of this desperate slight of hand is being brought to you by corporate millions, the sources of which we won't have a clue about until well after the convention is over.
That's another sad story that Romney and the big guys don't want to discuss,
so cue more race baiting with whining denials of the same.
And it's all because of this -
http://www.cagle.com/...
Ever since the Tea Party took over the House of Representatives there has been one goal, and one goal only - getting the black man out of the White House. Didn't matter if they almost pushed the Nation into default, something they are apparently more than willing to do again, or how many jobs bills they tried to kill. Doesn't matter if they destroy our local post offices, putting even more of our friends and neighbors out of work, or if farmer's were begging for help in the middle of a catastrophic drought.
Of course you know why. If another stimulus and jobs bills had passed the economy would be better and people happier. And Ovum knows, we can't have that.
They would not allow that to happen, no matter who it hurt and its hurt millions in communities and towns across this land of ours.
Republicans in Congress have been sabotaging the economy by -
1. Filibustering the American Jobs Act. Last October, Senate Republicans killed a jobs bill proposed by President Obama that would have pumped $447 billion into the economy. Multiple economic analysts predicted the bill would add around two million jobs and hailed it as defense against a double-dip recession. The Congressional Budget Office also scored it as a net deficit reducer over ten years, and the American public supported the bill.
2. Stonewalling monetary stimulus. The Federal Reserve can do enormous good for a depressed economy through more aggressive monetary stimulus, and by tolerating a temporarily higher level of inflation. But with everything from Ron Paul’s anti-inflationary crusade to Rick Perry threatening to lynch Chairman Ben Bernanke, Republicans have browbeaten the Fed into not going down this path. Most damagingly, the GOP repeatedly held up President Obama’s nominations to the Federal Reserve Board during the critical months of the recession, leaving the board without the institutional clout it needed to help the economy.
3. Threatening a debt default. Even though the country didn’t actually hit its debt ceiling last summer, the Republican threat to default on the United States’ outstanding obligations was sufficient to spook financial markets and do real damage to the economy.
4. Cutting discretionary spending in the debt ceiling deal. The deal the GOP extracted as the price for avoiding default imposed around $900 billion in cuts over ten years. It included $30.5 billion in discretionary cuts in 2012 alone, costing the country 0.3 percent in economic growth and 323,000 jobs, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute. Starting in 2013, the deal will trigger another $1.2 trillion in cuts over ten years.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
And this is why -
That's the really big story that the Republicans don't want to talk about.
There is only one thing Romney and the big boys ARE scared to death of happening. Just one - the Republican Base and Independents finally seeing just how deeply and seriously Romney and the Republican Party are NOT into them.
That's why they'll keep dangling that shiny object and hope that no one notices that for over two years they've shot down or fought against every piece of legislation that would have put Americans back to work - all while fighting a war on women.
It's up to us to make sure they can't get away with it. Let's get it done.