By Selwyn Duke

While watching television Friday evening, I was shocked to see my state’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, in a campaign ad.
After all, this is New York and she’s a Democrat, which translates into
anonymity for her opponent and her enjoyment of about an 87 point lead
in the polls (okay, I lied; it’s only 43),
and air time in NY’s market is pricey. Perhaps, I thought, she just
wanted a tax write-off or vanity compelled her to put her face on TV.
Then again, maybe she just wanted to see how many elements of propaganda
could fit into a 30-second political spot.

It’s not that she opens the ad describing herself as “one of the only
young mothers serving in the Senate” (Gillibrand is 45 and had her
first child at 36); hey, she looks good and pulls it off. It’s that her
little spot, titled “Standing Up for Women,” is, like her, style over
substance. And what really struck me was her closing line: “Because if
51 percent of the Congress were women, we wouldn’t be debating
contraception; we’d be debating jobs and the economy.”

First, if 100 percent those who governed were women such as her
opponent, Wendy Long, we wouldn’t be discussing contraception because
the phony diversionary issue wouldn’t have been manufactured in the
first place and Uncle Scam wouldn’t be forcing us to pay for others’
birth control. So let’s be honest, Kirstie, what you really mean to say
is, “If 51 percent of Congress were women like me.”

But then there’s something about this contraception matter that, as far as I’ve seen, hasn’t been mentioned.

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