WOW...an absolutely *lethal* new ad attacking the GOP's "War on Women"

[WilliamPitt]

This one's gonna leave a mark...

[onehandle]

1. Will it actually get on TV? Or is it for talk shows to broadcast in either praise or outrage? nt

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. Why are the Republicans

so focused on rape and pregnancy? Setting aside any religious influences (of which there are many) on that party, they just seem like their minds are always on womens groins! WTF? What in the hell does that do to promote the general welfare etc,etc,etc,?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. When women gained control of their own bodies and lives

via birth control and abortion, and started working outside the home, men lost control. Republicans want it back. All of it. This is part and parcel of the Tea Party and the GOP platform. They are desperately trying to regain control of what they see as "their" country - from women, blacks, hispanics and other "minorities". They (white males) are no longer the majority in society or gov't or the workforce and this is their last, desperate attempt to change that - to "take our country back", as they always put it. What they mean is they want to take it back from women, gays, blacks, latinos, etc. - take it back to being controlled by white, hetero males only.

You have to ask yourself why they oppose abortion -- yet have no interest in preventing it (ie: contraception, sex ed, etc - they're all against those things). It's useful to oppose it. It's in opposing it they maintain control of women and their lives via legislative strings attached to their fallopian tubes.

The other (IMO secondary) reason is to distract from an improving economy, which has taken from them a big issue they planned to campaign against Obama on.

[RiskWrangler]

7. Yes, I have

felt this way also. I know it isn't 100% correct or fair to put a whole party in this box, but when I see this type of positioning from the Republican's I cannot help but have a picture of a white supremist KKK group flash into my head, wanting to control households, regain a sense of white superiority, control women's ability to not get pregnant, pap smears, etc.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Would be nice if it were shown everywhere about 50 times a day.

[RiskWrangler]

5. I think it is important

for the Democratic party to run this ad in every red state (including mine, Oklahoma) multiple times a day and before every Dancing with the Stars episode for sure.

[progressoid]

6. And still women will vote for them

[AnneD]

9. I liken it...

to a battered wife going back to her abusive husband. Just saying.

[TahitiNut]

13. "Stockholm Syndrome"

Choices not seen as possible are choices not made.

[HopeHoops]

8. Yep. Just use their own words against them. That's all that's necessary.

[Rose Siding]

10. Do you know where it will play?

[WilliamPitt]

11. Here

"American Bridge, the Democratic super PAC, is targeting Mitt Romney online with one of the harshest "war on women"-themed spots of the cycle. The 30 second web ad is running as pre-roll on ABC News videos starting Tuesday, amping up the Democratic messaging about women in the final week of the campaign."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/dem-super-pac-launches-kitchen-sink-war-on

[crim son]

12. I was once anti-choice and this ad will devastate none of the wingnuts.

The only way they'll get it is if one of them or one of their loved ones is violently raped, gets pregnant, and discovers that they've been fed a load of bullshit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Wingnuts are lost causes. Wavering low information undecideds can be informed and swayed. nt

[crim son]

15. I agree with you. n/t