I have written in the past about when I know I’ve beat someone in a debate. The best sign comes when that person starts stealing my rhetoric in a way which is not intended to quote or mock:
It’s sort of like when something embarrassing happens to a kid in grade school who in turn tries and do something more embarrassing to someone else. Or, equally, when a kid drops his ice cream on the ground, so he goes and knocks his brothers’ ice cream down too. Something negative happened to a person and that person wants to reflect that negative thing onto someone else in order to make himself feel better.
I had this in mind when I heard that the Republican National Committee released an ad contending that President Obama had a “War on Women”. Take a look:
It’s no secret that the Republicans have been facing a lot of criticism for their actions towards women in recent months. The result has been for people to popularly say the GOP is waging a “war on women”. Now the RNC is responding by simply declaring that Obama is the one who is waging a “war on women”. It’s almost hilarious.
I don’t expect very much from Republicans, but this ad is especially uncreative. It doesn’t say anything new. It isn’t well made. And worst of all, it’s just stealing the rhetoric from the other side. The RNC dropped its ice cream and now it wants to slap everyone else’s cones to the ground too.
Filed under: Language/Rhetoric, Politics and Social | Tagged: President Obama, Rhetoric, RNC, War on Women |
For the Sake of Science 
And of course commenting on the video is disabled.
So, Obama is waging war on women because Bill Maher called someone a cunt?
Meanwhile, Republicans are busy trying to pass legislation to restrict access to contraception, force women to undergo invasive ultrasounds, eliminate abortion by classifying a mass of cells as a person, and yes… forcing them to carry stillborn babies to term.