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After spending his entire adult life in Congress, Democrat Henry Waxman (Calif.) has decided to retire, leaving his congressional seat open for taking. While several established local Democrats are already vying for the seat, birth control queen and has-been Sandra Fluke seems to be very close to announcing her candidacy.
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Fluke has filed and paid the fee to appear on the state ballot this weekend for the state party endorsement. Her adviser claims it was because of a deadline and nothing more, and that she filed simply to keep her options open. The endorsement process starts next week, and if Fluke does announce her candidacy, she’ll be facing state Senator Ted Lieu and Wendy Greuel, who narrowly lost the race for the Los Angeles mayor’s office, along with plenty of others.
It seems obvious that Fluke has every intention of running. The primary will be held in June, and the top two finishers, regardless of party, will advance to a runoff in November. Bill Bloomfield, a Republican businessman with millions of his own dollars to spend and who ran against Waxman in 2012, is also considering another run for the seat.
The question is, do Democrats want her to run? Is she really the best person to keep the seat in the party?
Sandra Fluke made her name on being a professional victim. She is known for one thing, and one thing only, and that is standing in front of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, whining about how birth control is just too expensive for female college students. She claimed that it was costing her $3,000 a year and no there’s not a more affordable option, so of course the government needs to subsidize it so that people like Sandra Fluke can have as much sex as they want on the taxpayers’ dime!
Rush Limbaugh cemented her fame by calling her a “slut” on air, and for a very short period, she was the darling of the left. She even was given a high-profile speaking role at the Democratic National Convention — a Georgetown law student who had accomplished nothing in her life beyond begging congressional Democrats for free stuff.
Not surprisingly, this wasn’t impressive to anyone who wasn’t a liberal extremist, and it showed. She continued booking speaking engagements, but far from her illustrious position at the convention, she ended up giving speeches to crowds of ten people in supermarket parking lots. Oh, how the mighty fall. But it isn’t entirely surprising, considering that the average American doesn’t put birth control on the same level of necessity as leukemia treatment, as Fluke does.
Given all that, and the fact that there are actual established Democrats in the running who have actual life experience, it seems unlikely that she would receive the party endorsement if she does officially announce her candidacy. Fluke is a one-issue candidate, like Wendy Davis, if it was four years from now and Davis had faded into obscurity after her attention-grabbing filibuster. While she surely holds all the same positions as every other liberal out there, and would happily walk in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi as required, voters don’t know her. They don’t care about her. The profile Fluke does have is a national one, not local. Feminist groups like NARAL and Emily’s List might consider backing her, but Fluke isn’t the only woman in the running. They could end up backing Greuel instead.
It seems ludicrous that Fluke would have a chance at winning at all, but don’t count her out. After all, it is California. And Fluke doesn’t have much less experience than the person currently residing in the Oval Office did before he ran for president.
