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sheshe2

(83,746 posts)
Wed Nov 13, 2013, 11:56 PM Nov 2013

You know the problem isn't about messaging. They are simply clueless!

GOP wants to solve its “woman problem” by rebranding its war on women

Three women in Virginia have started a consulting firm to help the Republican Party appeal to women voters, which seems like it will be a real challenge since the Republican Party is terrible on the issues that many women care about.

The women behind the firm — two Mitt Romney 2012 campaign alums and a Republican pollster — launched Burning Glass Consulting because they “want to get smarter about how we communicate the Republican message specifically to women,” Katie Packer Gage, a former deputy campaign manager for Romney, explained to the New York Times. “Certainly there are challenges with other demographic groups, but women represent 53 percent of the electorate.”

But better messaging will do little to save the party from its core platform, which the Times frames as an opinion held only by Democratic strategists, but really just seems like common sense. The GOP has for years been buttering its bread with increasingly extreme positions on contraception, abortion, voting rights and other issues that negatively impact and alienate single women voters — the group Burning Glass would most like to reach.

SNIP:

The firm seems to think that Democrats have just gotten very good at framing the Republican Party as hostile to women, which misses the point that the Republican Party is actually very hostile to women.

When you have the chairwoman of the Republican Women’s Policy Committee laughing on Fox News about how women should have to shoulder the financial burden of maternity coverage alone because a man “has never delivered a baby,” you know the problem isn’t about messaging.

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/12/gop_wants_to_solve_its_woman_problem_by_rebranding_its_war_on_women/

Clueless, simply clueless.

Burning Glass Consulting, the women behind the firm must be first members of the Stepford Wives. While Democratic Women are looking to break the glass ceiling, the GOP just wants to burn the glass.

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You know the problem isn't about messaging. They are simply clueless! (Original Post) sheshe2 Nov 2013 OP
"burning glass"??? Iris Nov 2013 #1
First, Get a lobotomy. Then being a woman voting Republican makes perfect sense. Tigress DEM Nov 2013 #2

Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)
2. First, Get a lobotomy. Then being a woman voting Republican makes perfect sense.
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 12:11 AM
Nov 2013
RUN IN FEAR

IMMIGRANTS WANT YOUR JOBS

GO SHOOT SOMETHING!

BLAME IT ON THE BLACK GUY


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