Lessons for Shove Guv Andrew Cuomo
Not
so fast, Andrew Cuomo. We see what you did there. After publicly bashing
conservative New Yorkers as "extreme" people who have no place in his state, the
intolerant Democratic governor wants to blame the media for his unmistakable
contempt for those who oppose abortion, support gun rights and defend
traditional marriage.
Newsflash:
Crapweasel politicians can backtrack and scapegoat, but they can't
hide.
When
he railed against socially conservative Republican candidates in a radio
interview last week, Cuomo hyperbolically singled out those he called
"right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay" citizens. Sounding
unapologetically purge-tastic, the governor said these political opponents "have
no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are." His
bigoted comments provoked a fierce social-media-driven backlash led by devout
Catholics and Second Amendment activists in the Empire State. And now, he's got
job-creating, tax-paying conservative business people threatening to leave.
Heckuva job, Andy!
In
a desperate damage control attempt, Cuomo issued a statement claiming that the
New York Post "distorted" his words. It's always the messenger's fault. The
Shove Guv also accused his critics of being "entirely reckless with facts and
the truth." Really? There was no equivocation in Cuomo's political eviction
wish. Whether he was talking about conservative candidates and/or the voters and
donors who support them, you can't get any clearer than "have no place in the
state of New York."
Translation:
You don't belong. Pack your bags. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out.
Scram.
All
of his lefty friends on MSNBC and at Soros Central may be cheering Cuomo on, but
this marginalization strategy is bound to backfire. Here in Colorado, supposedly
moderate Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper threw in with the radical gun-control
crowd and is now paying the price. Major businesses have left the state. Two
leading state Democratic legislators were recalled last fall by grassroots
campaigns outspent 8-to-1 by gun-control forces underwritten by New York Nanny
Stater Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates.
Reminder:
It wasn't just "extreme conservatives" who revolted. Pueblo Democrat Angela
Giron lost in her Obama-loving Democratic Senate District 3 by a whopping 12
points.
Another
state Democrat and staunch gun-control extremist, Evie Hudak, resigned in
disgrace last November rather than face the wrath of the independent recallers.
Once a hot 2016 Democratic presidential prospect, Hickenlooper's approval
ratings have plunged.
Cuomo
also has set himself up for an unforgettable schooling by hundreds of thousands
of pro-lifers who are gathering in Washington, D.C., this week for the 41st
annual March for Life. "I am guessing that Andrew Cuomo's remarks are going to
be repeated by every speaker on the platform," Stasia Zoladz Vogel, president of
the Buffalo Regional Right to Life Committee, predicted in the Buffalo News
before the Wednesday march.
As for
Cuomo's reckless dismissal of what he considers an "extreme" minority, a recent
poll of New Yorkers showed that the vast majority "support sensible restrictions
on abortions, with 80 percent opposing unlimited abortion through the ninth
month of pregnancy and 75 percent opposing changes in current law so that
someone other than a doctor can perform an abortion." Contrary to Cuomo's
distorted view, the 21st-century pro-life movement is a diverse convergence of
increasingly young and minority activists, feminist pro-lifers, independents and
social conservatives. And contrary to Cuomo's reckless telling of history,
pro-life activism is ingrained in New York history.
The
suffragists who famously met at Seneca Falls, N.Y., were ardent advocates for
life. They didn't mince words. Elizabeth Cady Stanton condemned the "murder of
children, either before or after birth." Alice Paul, who crusaded for the Equal
Rights Amendment, called abortion "the ultimate exploitation of women." Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell, as Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser
pointed out in her review of pro-life feminism, was horrified by the abortion
industry and the women who enabled it:
"The
gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with
indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female
physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this
shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might
and should become a noble position for women."
Now we
know where Andrew Cuomo would have stood had he been around when pro-life
suffragists came knocking on New York's doors: blocking their
way.
Cuomo
insists he "respects" all of the people he dumped on last week. Yet, he
continues to willfully mischaracterize their positions and smear them as
dangerous haters. It's telling that he employs the partisan pejorative labels
"anti-gay" and "pro-assault weapon" alongside "right to life." As if endorsing
the "right to life" is in itself an act of bigotry or a horrific, unspeakable
crime.
There are
no do-overs: Cuomo rolled out the unwelcome mat and announced a new state of
intolerance. His undemocratic extremism is as extreme as it gets. Out: "I Love
New York." In: "New York Hates You." Let the homebuyer, business owner,
taxpayer, voter and visitor beware.
Michelle
Malkin | Jan 22, 2014
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