November 11, 2023
The GOP needs a Plan B on abortion
By
Frank Friday
Based on the results Tuesday night, the Dems seem to think the abortion issue will save them in 2024 and Old Joe is somehow
in the clear despite the awful job he is doing. That’s quite a stretch.
No doubt, abortion will be all Democrats can talk about, and who can blame them? They are a disaster everywhere else. In 2022, in my hometown metro mayor’s election, we had a liberal Democrat candidate. You might remember him; he was
shot and wounded by one of his own staffers, a deranged BLM activist. With crime out of control and a crime-fighting Republican opponent, what did this guy talk about?
Abortion, of course. Never mind that mayors have no role in this issue.
Anyway, this Democrat did win, but by one of the smallest margins in the last 50 years, in a blue county. Republicans still picked up city council seats and state house races across the metro, even with millions of dollars in media spending by the Democrats. As was also noted by many that year, while abortion was winning a statewide Kentucky referendum, one of the most pro-life senators, Rand Paul, racked up an enormous victory.
Same thing happened this year with the Kentucky governor’s race. The Democrat incumbent, Beshear, had tens of millions of dollars to blast the airwaves with attacks, including deceptive abortion ads, against Daniel Cameron, for months on end.
I might add, the Democrats also ran lots of nasty
racist attacks on the black candidate, Cameron. They just can’t help it.
However, Cameron, as a Mitch McConnell protégé, was surprisingly underfunded and did not put up much of a media fight.
But the rest of the Kentucky GOP ticket, pro-lifers all, won overwhelmingly. What is the lesson? Abortion is only important if you don’t have any money to fight back. It was much the same story elsewhere Tuesday.
In blue Viriginia, Glenn Youngkin’s plan to elect a GOP legislature through an abortion compromise law fell short. But just barely, running in districts drawn heavily against the GOP. While Virginia Democrats also raised much
more money. In Ohio, again, abortion forces
won because they had a lot more money. Just as the Wisconsin Supreme Court was flipped as the Democrat had
millions more.