My article for Legal Insurrection linked here

My article for Legal Insurrection linked here

There’s a certain danger that exists when you manufacture a false narrative about your political opponents. The left is learning this the hard way.

On CNN Wednesday night, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen said that because Ann Romney was a stay-at-home mom and raised 5 children, she “never worked a day in her life.” The comments set off a firestorm on social media sites which revealed the hypocrisy present in the Democrats’ manufactured election-year narrative that Republicans have been engaging in a “war on women.” This morning, conservative guru Michelle Malkin addressed the comments and their broader significance. Said Malkin,

This was no accidental rhetorical drive-by. “Progressives” from Gloria Steinem to Patricia Ireland to Naomi Wolf have derided their conservative counterparts as female impersonators, fake women and men with breasts from time immemorial. It’s SOP: standard operating procedure. In 1992, Hillary Clinton mocked women who stayed at home and “baked cookies and had teas.” In 2004, blueblood Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, sniffed that first lady Laura Bush (a former teacher and librarian before becoming a homemaker) never “had a real job — I mean, since she’s been grown up.”

Malkin went on to add:

Alas, if you’re a conservative mom, you’re damned if you do stay home and damned if you don’t. In 2008, Howard Gutman, a member of the Obama campaign’s national finance committee, attacked GOP vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ability to be a good parent and have a high-powered public life at the same time. “Your responsibility is to put your family first,” Gutman lectured as he singled out Palin’s Down syndrome baby and then-pregnant teenage daughter. “The proper attack is not that a woman shouldn’t run for vice president with five kids; it’s that a parent, when they have a family in need…” should get out of the public sphere and stay home.

Malkin is right. This is a narrative Liberals have been pushing for years. To them, the only rationalization for one being both a woman and conservative is that they must be self-hating, or just plain stupid.

Thanks to the explosion on Twitter that took place yesterday, it appears the left is learning just how wrong they’ve been. Its great to watch the un-Silent Majority make its voice heard.

You can follow Michelle Malkin on Twitter here:

Barack Obama, and many on the left side of the political spectrum, have spent much of this election season relentlessly trumpeting the mantra that conservatives have no respect for women’s rights.

As I have previously written, the left falsely framed the contraception debate as an attack on women instead of calling it what it is: a constitutionally offensive attack on the free exercise of religion.

When conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh made several unsavory and unwarranted remarks about a woman in their ranks, which he has since apologized for, they shouted right-wing misogyny from the mountaintops and engaged in a failed attempt to force him off the air. Yet while this was taking place, they continued to support world class[less] liberal misogynists like Bill Maher and Ed Schultz. What’s more, while President Obama claims to be on the side of our American women, his Super Pacs have no problem with keeping the $1 million donation from Bill Maher. After all, when a liberal insults a woman its just comedy, right?

But many conservative women have decided they are not going to sit back and let the left shape the narrative. Two videos have recently been released by conservative groups that address this confounding emergence of a so called “right-wing war on women,” which just so happens to coincide with a Presidential election year where the female vote could very likely be the determining factor.

The videos below are from ShePAC and Smart Girl Politics, organizations that are standing up and declaring that conservative women are not fooled by the politically driven double standard our President and his supporters continue to espouse on a daily basis.

From ShePAC:

From Smart Girl Politics: