Axelrod tattoos Romney with Rush `slut’ comment

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Axelrod tattoos Romney with Rush `slut’ comment
By Greg Sargent

It’s hard to overstate what a huge gift Rush Limbaugh handed Democrats when he labeled Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute,” and Dems will do all they can to ensure that Limbaugh continues to loom large over the presidential race. Case in point: David Axelrod, in a new CNN interview, has considerably raised the stakes in this fight, slamming Mitt Romney for his “timid” and “cowardly” response to Limbaugh’s diatribes.

“I was kind of shocked when Governor Romney, all he had to say was, `Well that isn’t language I would have used.’ What about the spirit of what was said? I thought that was a cowardly answer and it was a test of leadership, and one that he failed...

“There are very few entertainers who swing the weight that Rush Limbaugh does in the Republican Party. I think one of the reasons why Governor Romney and others were so timid in speaking out is because Rush is the defacto leader of the Republican Party. So to take him on would be to risk your own standing within the party.”

Dems clearly see an opportunity to exacerbate the gender gap that is already widening, perhaps due to the substance of the dispute over birth control. Yesterday’s NBC/WSJ poll found that Obama is now leading Romney by 55-37 among women. A recent poll by Dem Stan Greenberg found that unmarried women — a key Dem constituency that Obama must win back in 2008 numbers — now back Obama by 65-30.

Even Alex Castellanos a former Romney adviser, says that Romney “didn’t help himself” with his tepid response to Rush: “He had an opportunity to demonstrate strength. He left the bat on his shoulders.”

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[MarianJack]

1. I think that bain romney left the bat...

...in the dugout.

Q. Where does bain romney stand on the great and important issues of our time/
A. Aside!

PEACE!

[lunatica]

2. It's very telling that Romney's former advisor thinks of leadership and strength as wielding a bat

They can't help giving themselves and their disgusting beliefs away. They love their violent imagery.

I know there's more than one image this brings up, but the first thing I thought of was Robert DeNiro beating someone to death with a bat when he played Al Capone.

[bluedigger]

5. Sometimes a baseball analogy is just a baseball analogy.

Let me help you. Rush's disgusting comments were like a fastball thrown right down the middle of the plate at Romney. He struck out looking, and the bat never left his shoulder.

No gangster/violence imagery needed.

[graywarrior]

3. I wonder what kind of language Romney would use

to insult women in that way. Call her a pig? A harlot? A tramp? Apparently, he feels the same way as Rush does, he'd just find another way to say it.

[Jamaal510]

4. How is Obama only leading 55-37 among women after all the controversies the GOP endured?

[tblue37]

6. About 1/3 of any American demographic

is so die-hard RW that nothing ever moves them. Approximately 1/3 stayed with W all the way, too.