…..more often known as “child abusers,” that is.<\/p>\n
Here, in a column special for the Daily Caller<\/a>, is my report:<\/p>\n Surovell the surrogate is one of six Obama Truth Team members who voted against HB 973, which \u201cimposes a mandatory minimum life sentence for rape, forcible sodomy, or object sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13 when it is alleged in the indictment that the offender was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense.\u201d This is the same Obama campaign that has spent all week somehow trying, dishonestly, to link opponent Mitt Romney with a stupid rape-related statement by U.S. Rep. Todd Akin. The others are Delegate Jennifer McClellan and State Senators Mamie Locke, John Edwards, Louise Lucas and Adam Ebbin.<\/p>\n Their position was so extreme that it didn\u2019t even come close to a majority within their own party, much less within the whole state legislature. The bill passed<\/a> 83-12 in the House and 31-8 in the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, it’s not really fair to tar Obama with the brush of these senseless legislators… is it? No guilt by association, right?<\/p>\n As I wrote:<\/p>\n Then again, maybe this whole game of \u201cgotcha\u201d isn\u2019t fair. Maybe it\u2019s not fair to tag Obama with the idiocy of his surrogates. If not, then it\u2019s even less fair to tag the Romney campaign with some sort of guilt by association with a Senate candidate they have nothing to do with and whose idiotic statement was quickly denounced by both Romney and running mate Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n It could be that all of this is an unfair distraction from issues directly related to the candidates themselves, such as the horrid state of the economy after nearly four years of Obama\u2019s policies. Or the explosion of national debt. Or the rampant misuse of executive orders to grant amnesty and destroy welfare work requirements.<\/p>\n But if campaign associates are fair game \u2014 and if liberal columnists across the country are going to used pretzeled logic to breathlessly tie Romney and the whole Republican Party to Todd Akin \u2014 then Obama really must answer….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n