U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, wrote a letter to Democrats this week to raise money for her daughter’s campaign.
The fundraising email focuses on Rush Limbaugh’s controversial comments about Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University student who had testified for contraceptive insurance coverage before Congress. Limbaugh called Fluke a prostitute — and worse — on last week’s radio shows. He gave what he called an apology after many of his show’s sponsors pulled their ads.
Limbaugh also called McCaskill a “commie babe liberal.”
In the campaign piece from McCaskill, Betty Ann McCaskill tells prospective donors she is mad about the attacks on women and wants help to counter them.
“Please don’t let the Republicans have their way on this. Don’t let them wage war on women. Show them that we know how to defeat them by making a contribution to Claire’s campaign today,” Betty Anne McCaskill wrote.
Huge numbers of people have criticized Limbaugh for his attacks. Some will criticize McCaskill for using the event to ramp up support and money for her re-election bid.
This kind of issue-driven item comes out in a different form every week, sometimes with Democrats looking to capitalize and other times with Republicans stoking the flames and begging for money.
In this case, Limbaugh might have done more to help McCaskill’s cause than a few weeks of minor campaign events could have done.
Fluke did NOT testify before congress. She met with some Democrats, and they staged her talk to mislead people into thinking it was a congressional hearing or something. She is not an expert, she’s an activist, framed to illicit sympathy. It says she “testified”, but I don’t even think she was under oath. If so, she may have perjured herself.
Fluke is not just a student, she is an activist and past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice. She went to Georgetown, it appears, with the intent of forcing this political issue, knowing contraceptives would not be provided there. Why didn’t she then choose another law school?
http://lsrj.org/
Fluke is thirty years old, not a kid out of high school.
“Cornell University awarded her a B. S. in Policy Analysis & Management, as well as Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in 2003.”
http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/sandra-flukes-appearance-is-no-fluke/
The issue being buried here is whether I should have my insurance rates go up to pay for Flukes sexual activity. (but don’t even joke about that being prostitution) This is not a health issue.
And should the government be able to mandate that an insurance company must provide this coverage? And should Obama be able to just dictate that insurers will provide contraception for free?