I can’t help but feel that the Republicans’ problems with women have reached a tipping point where they are beginning to treat them like they treat blacks and Hispanics. They don’t have any interest in representing their viewpoints, but they need some to trot out for the cameras so they can lesson the blow of whatever stupid hostile legislation they’re promoting. Like this:
When the House Judiciary Committee passed a late-term abortion ban in June, Republican leaders scrambled to find a female, media-savvy lawmaker to bring the legislation to the floor. Their biggest problem: Not a single Republican woman was represented among the committee’s 23 Republican members. They eventually settled on Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who isn’t on the Judiciary Committee.
That’s more sad than infuriating. Just pathetic.
So, recruit away, Republicans, but your problem isn’t that too few conservative women will leave their husbands in charge of the kids while they campaign. Your problem is that most women think your policies are mean-spirited and destructive and directly aimed at making them miserable.
And, most women think their policies are openly misogynist. You forgot “misogynist.” (“Women-hating,” for any Republican guys reading who have trouble with fancy words…)
My gf’s friend in grad school is from Idaho. We hung out on July 4th. Somehow politics briefly came up. She goes “oh I’m feet fiscally conservative, but Republicans? Fuck that shit.”
Exact. Words.
Very* fiscally conservative.
spell check spawn of Satin strikes again
Need to get some articulate, young (hawt!) females to cozy up to the GOP, since they’re so very desperate for spokesmodels.
At least until they’re on the TeeVee, then they let lose on the republitards and crush their little nuts under the spike heels of justice.
Transgender folks can get in on the fun, too.
My sister leans conservative on economic issues but the thing that really cemented her support for Democrats in the last election was when the President said that women’s health and reproductive choice are economic issues. It is so true.
Wagner: “we have a message that [I think] reaches women” and that is
submit!
There are always people willing to act as props for some small personal gain…
The look on Blackburn’s face when she was doing media appearances for the bill was priceless: half “good soldier,” half “your turn to clean up grandma’s Code Brown.”
Yeah, that part of the story amused me greatly: “Republican leaders scrambled to find a female, media-savvy lawmaker to bring the legislation to the floor…They eventually settled on Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee…”.
“Settled” is right. Blackburn is Palinesque, and brings an extremely irritating, condescending Southernness to her lying liarism. Marsha is persuasive to the Republican base and essentially no one else.