In politics, the Republicans do some things very, very well. But sometimes it’s like they’re playing tee ball:
“Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level,” [Rep. Renee] Ellmers said. “Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they’ve got some pie chart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that.
First she’s saying that men (perhaps only Republican men) don’t know how to connect with people. Second, she’s saying people are too stupid to understand pie charts.
Ellmers then said that women mainly want more time in their lives (don’t men as well?) and the first example she gave was that women wanted “more time in the morning to get ready.”
As for connecting to women specifically, Ellmers drove it home with a line that, had there been liberals in the audience, would have made the news.
“We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life — that’s the way to go,” Ellmers said.
This is another in a long list of rapey, probey, anti-women gifts that GOP members keep wrapping for the Democrats. And Rep. Ellmers is one of the leadership’s favorite token white women that they like to use to make it look like they’re less penile than they really are.
I think the GOP should just go ahead and adopt Friedrich Nietzsche as their mascot and pet-philosopher. Here are a couple of Friedrich’s talking points:
144. When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is “the barren animal.”
145. Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would not have the genius for adornment, if she had not the instinct for the SECONDARY role.
Straight outta 1886. For the GOP, this seems about right.
Ellmers’s comments aren’t the only gems in that article. Consider Charmaine Yoest:
See? It’s just a different way of being pro-woman. You can be pro-woman by letting them make their own reproductive decisions, or you can be pro-woman by making reproductive choices on their behalf, because you know what’s best for them. Same thing, really.
Part of the GOP outreach to women. The ones too stupid not to see that there is no GOP War on Women.
Elmers is a nurse. Nurses have to actually know, like, stuff, like how to inject a child with a needle, how to talk to people. Nurses are often pretty smart. They often know more than doctors about specific things, and sometimes they just know more than doctors. She was an ICU nurse, and was the Clinical Director of a wound care center. Wound care can be difficult. It’s often the same old stuff, one patient to the next, but there are tricky bits to it.
I am honestly shocked to hear this kind of stuff from a nurse.
I refuse to believe she’s afraid of a pie chart (though she might well appreciate extra time for her makeup, which looks like she spreads it on with a putty knife). She’s a Republican woman talking at an event for Republican women about those voters they can’t get, and how Republican women should present themselves to the unbelievers-how to fine-tune the propaganda line. What she’s communicating to my way of thinking isn’t how stupid she is but how stupid she thinks other women are, in particular the ones that think there’s a Republican war on women; a just colossal disrespect for the whole gender, not that she thinks that highly of men either.
The whole text is here and it’s worth some more careful study than the reporter (a conservative herself who felt insulted) gave it.
It’s the Tammy Faye Bakker look.
Dear Renee,
Because you are an empty-headed bimbo, it does not follow that all women or even most women are empty-headed bimbos.
Did you have “new math” in High School? Remember Venn diagrams? Draw a Venn diagram. Make a big circle and label it “all women”. draw a smaller circle inside the larger circle. Label it “empty headed bimbos”. Now place a dot inside the second circle. Label it “me”.
Do you see your logical fallacy? Or are you too busy putting on your make up?
*snort*
She’s actually not dumb. She just plays a dummy for the folks at home. That’s what’s truly annoying. She needs to act dumb to be authentic.
We need to keep Republicans talking. It’s how we learn what they really think about the rest of us.
Whenever they say, “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the …” listen closely.
“We need to keep Republicans talking to each other when they think no one else is listening.”
When they talk to the media or non-Republicans they make some token effort to guard their language.
When they talk to each other “in private”, we get stuff like this or Romney’s 47%.
Sorry, you’ll need to bring down the level of this discussion.
OT:Top Georgia Officials Are Going After Black Leaders Who Organized Voters
By Spencer Woodman Jul 15 2014
On the morning of December 21, 2010, Lula Smart was preparing to leave for her job at Sears when she heard a firm knock at her front door. An array of law enforcement vehicles had amassed outside, and armed officers were fanning out around her house. Before that day, Smart had no rap sheet to speak of, only a master’s degree in criminal justice earned earlier that year. While she enjoyed her work in retail, Smart hoped to transition into a job more like that of her unannounced visitors, who would read her a dizzying list of felony voting fraud charges that amounted to more than 100 years in prison. Handcuffed, Smart soon met nine other incarcerated African Americans who had participated in a vigorous get-out-the-vote campaign ahead of an election the previous month. Three of those jailed had been elected to the local school board.
Their efforts had helped to win the first-ever African American majority on Brooks County’s Board of Education. But almost four years after that vote, dozens of felony fraud charges still overshadow the group, known locally as the Quitman 10 + 2 (two more were subsequently charged). In her living room, Smart points to the television where she first saw her orange-jumpsuit-clad mug shot on the nightly news. She is the only member of the group who has not yet seen a trial–or, more precisely, she’s had two mistrials and counting. Since receiving 32 felony charges, her hoped-for career in criminal justice has, obviously, stalled. She now works full-time at Home Depot and fills in part-time shifts selling shoes at the department store. Before the first trial, she contemplated suicide, but says her resolve has since grown.
Smart’s arrest was the result of a massive investigation initiated by a local district attorney whose senior assistant attorney sat on the Brooks County school board. Although this conflict of interest disqualified the DA from trying the case, it didn’t prevent him from compelling the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to launch an exceptionally large probe into the disruptive school-board election.
http://www.vice.com/read/the-quitman-10-2-and-voter-suppression-in-modern-georgia-715
Horrifying. Stunning. Maybe Boo or some other front-pager will do a longer piece on this.
Don’t get mad, Lula – get even.
Who says Republicans don’t believe in equal opportunity for women? Here’s a shining example, in which they let a little lady do the mansplaining for once.
Does this comment make my butt look big?
Men soon learn that the only acceptable answer to that type of question is: “Of course not! Why would you think that?”
“Mmmm. Pie charts.”
Hey, according to Gen. Martin P. Schweitzer, Rep. Ellmers is “smokin’ hot.” So there’s that.
speaking of the ladies, this is very good news for the future defeat of one – Kelley Ayotte helping lobby for Hobby Lobby
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kelly-ayotte-defends-hobby-lobby-ruling
and yet white women continue to vote gop by landslide margins.
(shrug) everybody makes their own decision about what they value. best of luck to ’em.
Not sure where you are getting that. Unmarried white women do not vote GOP. Married older white women, GOP. Married younger white women – depends on church attendance and children.
“Married older white women, GOP. “
Not my wife. She’s neither an academic nor political, but she’s got horse sense and knows an enemy when she sees one.
These are risk-based statements. No group has 100% R or 100% D. However, married older white women have a higher OR (odds ratio) to be R than D. Unmarried younger women have a lower OR for R over D. The right way to consider this is in terms of risk, not certainty.
I think that it is very much income based. No, I have no stats, just a gut feeling that lower income women are still (D), maybe upper income women are (R) but idiots like Mourdock turn them off. It’s an anecdote, but I remember that very well dressed older lady at Loyola Hospital laying into him as she broke into our conversation re “Gift from God” and transvaginal probes (which my wife was having due to failure of the conventional ultrasound. Even socially, politically and financially conservative older white women get incensed with a yahoo touting rape babies as a gift from God.
Magnficent takedown of Clay Aiken’s opponent. This is one that Democrats might take if the Democratic establishment doesn’t sit on their hands because Clay Aiken bested their candidate.