"Why the GOP's "Women 101" seminars won't help the party with female voters"

[applegrove]

Why the GOP's "Women 101" seminars won't help the party with female voters

By Laura Colarusso at Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/why-gop-39-quot-women-101-quot-seminars-174600588.html

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Whether Republicans can win over female voters just by refining the way they talk about women remains to be seen. Indeed, where they stand on issues like access to contraception and fair pay are probably more important to female voters than whether they are on message at a debate. In the past few years, for example, the GOP has not only hindered the expansion of Medicaid but has tried to drastically cut the program by proposing a block-grant funding model. More than two-thirds of Medicaid's beneficiaries are women.

The Republican-led House weakened the Violence Against Women Act by eliminating protection for gay, Native American, student, and immigrant victims. Several Republican governors and Republican-led state houses have enacted strict abortion bans. GOP lawmakers have undermined contraception coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act. They've also blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would close loopholes that allow pay discrimination to continue under the Equal Pay Act.

Come next year, at least 10 Republican male incumbents will be facing female Democratic challengers, though that number could grow. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), whose office is leading some of the "Women 101" discussions, realizes that those numbers could be a problem for his side of the aisle. "When you look around the Congress, there are a lot more females in the Democrat caucus than there are in the Republican caucus," he said.

His solution? Republicans need to be a little more warm and fuzzy. "Some of our members just aren't as sensitive as they ought to be," Boehner added.



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[Skittles]

1. they just DO.NOT.F****ING.GET.IT.

not at ALL

[applegrove]

2. Shhhhhhhhh. Don't tell them. They think a seminar to introduce them to women will

actually change who runs under their banner when in fact their policies are attracting assholes.

[Matariki]

3. I would be surprised to learn that they even had any women speaking at it

[Matariki]

4. The obvious problem with this is actually a HUGE underlying problem with their party

They seem to think it's ALL about talking - controlling the message. I think Newt Gingrich started this stupid line of thinking back in the 90's with his mailed out list of words to use or avoid. It worked for them for a while and they just don't seem to get that it stopped working a long time ago. Like so much about them, they're stuck in the past.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo

As you know, one of the key points in the GOPAC tapes is that "language matters." In the video "We are a Majority," Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: "I wish I could speak like Newt."

That takes years of practice. But, we believe that you could have a significant impact on your campaign and the way you communicate if we help a little. That is why we have created this list of words and phrases.

This list is prepared so that you might have a directory of words to use in writing literature and mail, in preparing speeches, and in producing electronic media. The words and phrases are powerful. Read them. Memorize as many as possible. And remember that like any tool, these words will not help if they are not used.

more...

[rustydog]

5. To put it simply:

The GOP wants to change the brand advertising strategy not their beliefs and direction they are moving in..

The GOP does not want to change their misogyny, their twisted, sexist view of women.
They still want to mandate (he he, you said man-date) trans-vaginal probes and demand that only a man and a woman can have a chiristin family-values marriage AND divorce....They don't mind homersexuals being killed in the military (that way Mitt's boys don't have to risk injury or death) they just don't want them saying they are gay.

The GOP does not intend to change their hateful anti-American ideas, they can't figure how to sell hosreshit as sugar

[Mnemosyne]

6. Hear, hear! Damn straight. nt

[Gothmog]

7. Greg Abbott (the probable GOP nominee for governor in Texas) is proof as to why

This program will not work

Greg is a very nasty human being and he is playing to the tea party base who are just as disgusting. If you need prod, search on twitter the term #abortionbarbie

[Cha]

8. This reads like satire to me.. but,

I guess not.




http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/02/a-tweet-or-two-23/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024124071

[LisaLynne]

9. They just think their ideas are being twisted by the "liberal media" still ...

not that people are actually rejecting what they stand for. Please, proceed, assholes.