Republican women say ‘War No More,’ but the men keep shooting their mouths off
Republican women say ‘War No More,’ but the men keep shooting their mouths off
By Dana Milbank at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republican-women-say-war-no-more-the-men-keep-shooting-their-mouths-off/2015/03/16/4dfa3212-cc25-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html?tid=rssfeed
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But pollster Kellyanne Conway argued that “the war on women died in 2014.” She attributed the problem to “some over-the-top comments by a couple of Republicans running for Senate” in 2012.
Alas for the GOP, the gender gap preceded Senate candidate Todd Akin, and the comments have continued since then: the Idaho legislator who asked last month whether a gynecological exam on a woman could be conducted by having her swallow a camera; the New Hampshire legislator who said a Democratic congresswoman would lose because she’s “ugly as sin”; another New Hampshire legislator who argued that men make more than women because “they don’t mind working nights and weekends” or “overtime or outdoors”; the Arizona GOP official who said women on Medicaid should be sterilized; and the New Mexico congressman who endorsed this biblical view: “The wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead and sacrifice.”
At the same time, Republicans have taken up hundreds of bills in state legislatures restricting abortion, and Democrats have sought to highlight Republican opposition in Congress to the Violence Against Women Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act and other bills.
So how to disarm the war-on-women allegation? Conway suggested Republicans go beyond “waist-down” issues to talk to women about security and health care. And she said that women “really enjoy humor.” For example: her quip that she could work on a Republican presidential campaign, even though she has four kids, because “I don’t have a boyfriend.”
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