Reviving the War on Women?

Limbaugh victim Sandra Fluke recently penned a post in support of Obama on the HuffPo:

When I was verbally attacked earlier this year, I was heartened by the many Americans who reached out in support, regardless of their politics. President Obama was one of them....Mr. Romney was not. When Rush Limbaugh called me a "slut" and a "prostitute" for speaking about medical needs for contraception, Mr. Romney could only say that it "wasn't the language [he] would have used." If Mr. Romney can't stand up to the extreme voices in his own party, we know he'll never stand up for women and protect the rights that generations of women fought so hard to ensure.

Alana Goodman yawns:

Is Fluke really still trying to cash in on the Limbaugh controversy? It wasn’t a nice thing for him to say, but come on. It’s been six months. 

I have to say that my reaction was similarly dismissive. But Fluke makes a decent point in spite of her irrelevance as a public figure: that Romney's failure to speak out against Limbaugh's vitriol is no mere political fumble. Try if you will to forget that the author of the excerpt above is a current affairs has-been and consider what she's trying to say. She has a point, no?

(Image: "Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown University and former president of the Students for Reproductive Justice group there, testifies before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Feb. 23, 2012 in Washington." Getty, via Time)