How Low Can You Get: Using Kids As Political Props

The bill might go through, but at what cost? Analysts are busy assessing of the electoral consequences of Obamacare, but what about political self-respect? I'm talking about the Democrats latest tactic of pushing the bill by using children -- using them as actual props during their sales pitches for Obamacare.

My article yesterday explored this child-exploitation trend, and here's Todd Irons, former deputy communcations director at the Republican National Committee:

It seems whenever the Democrats are entering some tough sledding on their legislative priorities, they trot out the children. It does seem to smell of desperation.

Kristen Soltis, a pollster for the Winston Group, told me that it won't matter in the end:

While Pelosi may want to use the visual of young people to increase support for the bill, in the end it will be the content of the bill - not the optics of press events - that Americans will hold Democrats responsible for.

That's probably true. But it doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be called out as reprehensible in the meantime.

How Low Can You Get: Using Kids As Political Props

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