Piggy-backing off of Tim’s post on Mark Steyn’s recent article, I think the polygamy thing (which Tim does not mention) is worth visiting–repeatedly of course–just to remind everyone of the kind of campaign this has been and will continue to be. Nothing coming from the Obama side will be relevant or substantive, everything utter nonsense. And nonsense with the same lack of sourcing on the Democrat side as we’ve seen in everything they do.
From Mark Steyn’s recent article
For their next exploding cigar, the Democrats chose polygamy. Brian Schweitzer, the Democrat governor of Montana, remarked that Romney was unlikely to appeal to women because his father was “born on a polygamy commune.” Eighty-six percent of women, noted Gov. Schweitzer with a keenly forensic demographic eye, are “not great fans of polygamy.” You can understand the 86 percent’s ickiness at the whole freaky-weirdy idea of a president descended from someone who had multiple wives. Eww.
Just for the record, Romney’s father was not a polygamist; Romney’s grandfather was not a polygamist; his great-grandfather was a polygamist. Miles Park Romney died in 1904, so one can see why this would weigh heavy on 86 percent of female voters 108 years later.
Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama’s father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney’s great-grandfather. It seems President Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist. So, given the “gender gap,” maybe those 86 percent of American women are way cooler with polygamy than Gov. Schweitzer thinks. Maybe these liberal chicks really dig it.
Another first for Barack Obama. Too bad about the polygamy narrative though. I imagine that could have had a lot of legs.
Which leads me to the next obvious question. Could federally funded contraception users redefine polygamy to mean multiple partners instead of just multiple wives? Or how about married men who cheat on their wives? That would make Bill Clinton and John Edwards Polgamysts–mighty good company if you are the average modern day Democrat.
