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The Democratic Party and Obama game plan has been “hide the ball” with regards to federal abortion funding and ObamaCare. They know it would never pass Congress since the American people do not favor it and they do not want to take the political heat/fallout.

But, their Far Left constituency demands free, unfettered abortion FOR ALL, since they know best.

In today’s internet world, isn’t it naive for Obama to think that he can “shell game” this issue?

Yes and another reason his Presidential approval ratings are in the dumpster.

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Senator Boxer must be sinking in the polls even more than the five points in the latest Survey USA Poll since she is now playing the ABORTION CARD.

A new poll in the California Senate race shows pro-life candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over pro-abortion incumbent Barbara Boxer to five percentage points. Not content with the results, Boxer has released a new Internet ad that bashes Fiorina on abortion.

The new CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll released Thursday has Fiorina leading Boxer 47-42 percent with the rest undecided or favoring a minor party candidate.

The poll also noted that Fiorina’s support is essentially unchanged among men and women, young and old voters, and white and Hispanic voters while Boxer has lost a bit of ground with men, younger voters, and independents.

Fiorina is capturing 27 percent of the black vote, leads Boxer among independents by 17 percent, and trails with Hispanics by just six points.

Fiorina has also upped her lead in the Central Valley from 7 percent to 21 percent in the latest Survey USA poll.

Just hours after the polling results were released, the Boxer campaign dropped a new 15-second Internet ad blasting Fiorina on abortion — an issues Boxer’s people believe will help her in a state that does not follow the rest of the nation in opposing abortion.

The ad bashes Fiorina for saying, “I absolutely would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if the opportunity presented itself” in a KTKZ – AM interview in January. It highlights several endorsements Fiorina has received from pro-life groups and pro-life leaders.

San Francisco political writer Joe Garofoli says the abortion ad could be an indication the Boxer campaign believes the election is starting to slip away.

Senator Boxer is in deep trouble and her campaign is flailing away trying to find issues in which to bash Republican Carly Fiorina. I don’t think abortion is going to resonate so much with all of the unemployed Californians and with the small business owners who arre going under.

Moreover, I doubt Boxer’s support for unrestricted abortion, including partial birth abortions, will resonate too well with voters.

Nice try, Barbara.

I doubt we will see this ad on television anytime soon.

The San Francisco Chronicle had the first mention last night of the endorsement.

Just got this scoop from California Pro Life Council czar Brian Johnston: The organization will endorse Carly Fiorina Tuesday over Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.

This is a big deal in conservative circles, as this is California’s largest single-issue pro-life group. When Fiorina got the nod recently from the Susan B Anthony Candidate List — think of it as the anti-Emily’s List — Team DeVore dismissed it as a DC-oriented group.(They’re also going to kick Carly $200,000, they told me.) Don’t worry, predicted Team DeVore, California pro-lifers would be behind the rock-ribbed conservative DeVore.

But this pro-life group, the California affiliate of the National Right to Life organization, isn’t. And the reason has to do with one thing: They think Fiorina has a better shot at winning. In the June primary and in the fall.

And, then, Jon Fleischman just posted the official endorsement statement.

This will be a significant endorsement for Carly Fiorina. Having been branded by Chuck Devore as a closet pro-choicer on abortion and a non-conservative moderate RINO, this should help dispel the misstatements.

Plus, the $200K campaign cash donation will help fuel Fiorina mailers in the last few weeks of the campaign.

Oops the impeccable conservative as Chuck DeVore likes to call himself has been caught up in another hypocritical FLAP. Remember the last time it was nanny state hypocrisy.

 This time the subject is abortion.

DeVore voted to approve the California state budget in 2005 and 2008. Both budgets contained funding for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. Medi-Cal uses state money to subsidize abortion (the use of federal funds for elective abortion within Medicaid is barred under the Hyde Amendment). Both times DeVore voted yes the budgets passed easily, but with non-trivial numbers of GOP no votes. Both times, efforts to separate out the abortion funding from the budgets had already been defeated when the final vote took place. Consequently, the budgets as passed contained abortion funding.

As of 2004, Medi-Cal funded nearly 40 percent of all abortions performed in California. According to the Women’s Health Rights Coalition, that amounts to “an estimated 90,946 induced abortions out of the total 236,000 performed.” Roughly $33 million is spent funding abortions. Wynette Sills of the Coalition to Eliminate Abortion Funding told a pro-life website that 25 percent of the money goes to Planned Parenthood, despite the abortion provider’s reported $1 billion in revenues. At the national level, the health care debate illustrates the importance of having a precise understanding of how legislation could result in taxpayer funding of abortion.

Chuck, if you are sooooo pro-life why did you vote for public funding for abortion?

Why did you vote for these California budgets that included this abortion enabling funding for Planned Parenthood?

Or did you conveniently forget about these votes?

So, President Obama spoke at Catholic Notre Dame University’s commencement yesterday and spoke “nice” to the pro-life crowd. But, do his abortion policies match his rhetoric?

But Obama has disappointed some anti-abortion Catholics with decisions as president that they view to be at odds with his more tempered language on abortion, such as lifting the ban on federal funding for overseas clinics that offer abortion counseling and reversing the Bush administration’s ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

One of the protesters at Notre Dame, Jill Stanek, an anti-abortion blogger who did not support Obama, said the president’s speech sounded eerily familiar.

“It was just a regurgitation of things he’s said for a long time,” Stanek said. “He’s so good at expressing your point of view, so people are lulled into thinking he agrees with them, and he doesn’t. It’s just so typical Barack Obama.”

Obama rarely strayed into the substance of the debate Sunday, steering clear, for instance, of any explanation of why he reversed George W. Bush’s policy on stem cell research.

Hell No.

And, what about Catholic physicians, nurses and hospitals that do NOT perform abortions? Will their careers and/or funding be cut off?

Will doctors be forced to leave the profession or leave hospitals if they refuse to perform abortions?

He did pledge to “honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion” as he seeks to rewrite a Bush-era “conscience clause” designed to protect health-care workers who refuse to participate in care they believe conflicts with their personal beliefs. Women’s health advocates and abortion rights supporters say it creates a major obstacle to family planning and other treatments.

Greg Mueller, a Republican consultant who works with anti-abortion groups, said Obama’s language Sunday doesn’t match a president that he sees as strongly pro-abortion rights.

“He might have called for toning down the rhetoric but his abortion policies are tuned up on steroids,” said Mueller. “Even considering the revocation of the conscience clause puts Catholic hospitals, Evangelical and Catholic pro-life doctors and nurses in a very tough spot career-wise – this is another example of President Obama’s rhetoric not matching his policies.”

The President said in his speech about reaching “common ground.”

Flap will beleive it when he sees it.