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10:21 AM - 20 Oct 12 · Details
Romney's Binders And Democrats' Deranged Distractions
By MARK STEYN
Posted 10/19/2012 05:25 PM ET
So the other morning a reader emails me a picture of a handful of women demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Ohio Republican Party — in what we expert analysts round about this point in the quadrennial election cycle like to call the critical battleground of the Buckeye State. The women each wore two giant pieces of cardboard, front and back.
Ah, I thought, a timely protest. These activists understand that, with Obama's flatline economy drifting inexorably to a $20 trillion federal debt, we'll soon be living in cardboard shacks in shanty towns in the parking lot of the bankrupt Solyndra factory.
Or it's what they'll be using for the x-ray plates at your local hospital once the ObamaCare rationing kicks in.
Or maybe it's the perfect visual metaphor for the flimsiness of U.S. government security at its Middle Eastern embassies before the "Death to the Great Satan!" crowd punched through the compound like so much soggy cardboard.
But no. The women were chanting "Equal rights, not binders" and they were protesting the following remarks by Mitt Romney at the presidential debate:
"And so we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' And they brought us whole binders full of women."
Yes!!!!!!! With one bound, Obama was unbound! Romney had just made the worst presidential-debate gaffe since Gerald Ford declared there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. In the previous weeks, Obama had attempted to have a serious conversation with the citizenry, as befits the electoral process of a mature republic. He had raised the critical questions of our time — free contraceptives for middle-aged coeds, the outrageous rightwing Muppophobic assault on Big Bird — but the public had failed to bite
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