Robert Griffin, now 90, who rose to be second
in the Republican U.S. Senate leadership, was defeated in 1978. Since then,
only one Michigan Republican, Spencer Abraham in 1994, has been elected to the
Senate and for only one term. Evidence that former Michigan secretary of state Terri Lynn Land
might end this GOP drought is that Democrats are attacking her for opposing
“preventive health care.”
This is a phrase Democrats use to include abortion as
they try to reprise their 2012 alarms about Republicans’ “war on women,” which
began with the martyrdom of Sandra Fluke. She was the Georgetown University law
student aggrieved because the Catholic university she chose to attend was not
paying for her contraception. The median starting annual salary of Georgetown
law graduates entering the private sector is $160,000. Wal-Mart sells a month’s worth of birth
control pills for $9.
In the almost half-century since Lyndon Johnson’s flood
of Great Society legislation, Democrats have had one significant new idea,
Obamacare, which many Democrats consider one too many. Hence their reliance on
the specter of Republican hostility to people with two X chromosomes......To Read More.....
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