On everything, but let me just say something about abortion. I don’t have time to get the links going. But: Comparatively moderate old-school Democratic women like Eleanor Clift and Cokie Roberts are loudly complaining that the Democratic convention was over-the-top on abortion. Certainly abandoning the view that abortion should be “rare,” at least, is a strategy aimed at the enthusiastic base of the party and not at the wavering voter. Galston, the party’s token social moderate, is also sort of repulsed by this move, but he can’t help but admire the political art involved in closing the enthusiasm gap that formerly favored the Republicans.
Why are the Democrats getting away with this? They seem confident that Romney won’t challenge their extremism on the issue. And, you know, he won’t. But aren’t Eleanor and Cokie right that the Republicans should have the advantage with social moderates here? Couldn’t Ryan, at least, challenge Biden?
September 15th, 2012 | 12:56 pm
The infanticidal monster was in part a creation of “Comparatively moderate old-school Democratic women like Eleanor Clift and Cokie Roberts” (although to call Eleanor Clift moderate is rather amusing) who reflexively, enthusiastically and inexorably supported ever Democrat who repeated the ritual incantation “choice”.
So now that their intellectual child has followed its natural inclinations and grown to become a full-fledged monster they are surprised and indignant? They want somebody else to heel their offspring?
As for Romney, all reports are that he is a decent man, especially when it comes to charity. Decent men are at a disadvantage in politics, because they have difficulty both matching and anticipating their opponents maneuvers.