...and the Todd Akin Traps for the left as well

This morn­ing I warned the right about the Traps the Todd Akin sit­u­a­tion poses for them.

What might not be so appar­ent today is that there are sev­eral traps for the left that might be even more pro­found and dan­ger­ous than any for the right.

1. It’s the Todd Akin stupid:

Right now the left is sali­vat­ing at the prospect of Todd Akin as part of the con­ver­sa­tion. Akin might allow them an advan­tage for the next few days but when the cam­paign sea­son begins in earnest after Labor Day it will be an old topic. If the left decides to play all Akin all the time the reac­tion of the vot­ers who are not yet pay­ing atten­tion will be: “Who is Todd Akin and what does that have to do with me get­ting a job?“

2…The “You didn’t build it” syndrome:

One of the rea­sons why Barack Obama fell into the “You didn’t build it” trap was the reac­tion of his base to Eliz­a­beth Warren’s remarks. The Todd Akin nar­ra­tive plays very will with their base & the media. This will cre­ate a large temp­ta­tion for them to go to this card with a sym­pa­thetic press when they have no good answer on top­ics more rel­e­vant to the vot­ers

3. I’ll see your Akin and raise you a Joe Biden:

Todd Akin has apol­o­gized pro­fusely for his gaffes and the GOP has loudly con­demned him for it urg­ing him to leave the race. If they choose to try to tie the entire GOP to a sin­gle con­gress­man run­ning for sen­ate the GOP has a ready counter. Joe Biden’s gaffes have become so leg­endary that we are see­ing tweets like this:

Baby steps MT @pounder­file: a good day for Biden: “The VP avoided mak­ing any major gaffes dur­ing his Rochester stop” is​.gd/​I​O5pGO

— Jonah Gold­berg (@JonahNRO) August 22, 2012

Every sin­gle time the left says the words “Todd Akin” you have an open­ing to come back with Joe Biden and Biden is at the top of a national ticket.

4. Duel­ing con­ven­tions Todd Akin vs Bill Clinton:

Of all the things that are risky for the left push­ing the Todd Akin story at the GOP con­ven­tion is the most dangerous.

The entire “War on Women” already has risks for the left, but if they choose to use Akin as a club to beat the right with dur­ing the GOP con­ven­tion the party has a ready answer. Bill Clinton.

For all the nos­tal­gia of the Clin­ton years. Pres­i­dent Clin­ton is firmly estab­lished in the mind of the coun­try as a wom­an­izer, a boss who used his power to get sex from a sub­or­di­nate. And he is the Keynote Speaker for the Demo­c­rat Convention!

The late night jokes sim­ply write them­selves and that’s was with­out the Akin mess. Can you imag­ine the look on the face of the first Demo­c­rat oper­a­tive who sug­gests the GOP is soft on rape and is answered with a sen­tence con­tain­ing the words “Juanita Broaddrick”?

The left is in a posi­tion to avoid these traps if they are clever. Unfor­tu­nately for them, it’s in their nature to over­play this hand. They just have to hope the right doesn’t counter them properly.

Update: Democ­rats step in it, Hotair links to CNN report Dems add 9 women speak­ers to the pro­gram over Akin, each should be asked what they think about Bill Clin­ton giv­ing the Keynote