Desperate Democrats planing a celebration of abortion in Charlotte

Democrats- and liberals generally- tend to vastly overestimate the appeal of their fondness for virtually unrestricted legal abortion. Most Americans are moderates on abortion, not wanting to see it outlawed, but also uncomfortable with the huge percentage of abortions performed as merely a form of retroactive birth control.

Those who live in swing states like Iowa have already been treated to at least two ads chiding Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for being anti-abortion. Incredibly, that's actually the word the most recent Obama ad uses to describe them: not "anti-choice," but "anti-abortion!"

I don't know about you, but that sounds an awful lot to me like an admission that they themselves are "pro-abortion!"

Those ads, of course, are essentially a waste of money. Anybody who would be swayed by them are already in the Obama camp, and immovably so. But now, it seems, Democratic certainty that the rest of the country is as radical as the Democratic party is on abortion is taking the futility to a new level.

Rep. Todd Akin's moronic comments about abortion and rape have been repudiated by everbody from Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to RNC chair Reince Preibus. The entire Republican establishment is trying to force Akin out of the Missouri Senate race, which he now has no chance of winning.

But the Democrats think they sense an opening. The Charlotte convention is shaping up to be a veritable celebration of abortion.

I suspect that the Akin affair will long since be out of the headlines by then, with Akin out of the race and a more suitable candidate chosen to oppose Sen. Claire McCaskill. In any event, it strikes me as a sign of desperation that the Democrats are looking for an edge on an issue that will be difficult to tie the Romney-Ryan ticket to even now, and impossible to tie it to by the time the Democrats convene.

And an issue on which they, themselves, are not nearly as much in step with the electorate as they think they are.

HT: Drudge