You're mistaken. The Democrats will be bleating about abortion, gay marriage, and the War on Womyn soon enough. They need to distract voters from realizing that O'bamma the Marxist Kenyan Post Turtle is a complete failure as a President.
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As I submit a humble translation of the schneiderguy post.
1. It was GWB&co, who in eight short years managed to collapse both the US and even the world economy. And now Romney and Ryan policy is simply a continuation of the same failed GWB policies.
2. Obama inherited a basketcase economy, and even if he tries to impliment better policies to help the US ecomomy recover, first a GOP minority Senate totally filibuster real reforms in tax codes and financial reforms in 2008-2010. And now a GOP majority now plays the same blocking role after 2010. But unlike GWB, who got us into a hole and kept digging the hole deeper, at least Obama is preventing policies that dig the hole much deeper. At least this has not become a Hurbert Hoover depression where unemployment went from 8% to 25% as Hoover policies then were the same as Romney and Ryan advocate now.
3. But maybe the proof in the pudding schneiderguy, between now and November, is which party will use wedge issues. In the recent past, wedge issues have always been mainly a GOP tactic.