The three female Republican senators who wont repeal Obamacare are facing a vicious backlash

[TomCADem]

How long before the Republican party goes full Handmaiden in their indignation that they can cut out their women Senators out of any deals only to have them refuse to step into line at the behest of McConnell. Well, Trump's army of trolls appear to be ready to vent their hate.

https://qz.com/1033358/the-republican-senators-who-are-against-a-healthcare-repeal-bill-are-facing-a-vicious-misogynist-backlash/

The US Senate’s recently failed health-care bill was written behind closed doors by 13 men, and barely mentioned women except in the context of abortion. So perhaps it’s fitting that Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to kill the existing Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, is being blocked by three Republican women.

Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia have said they can’t support the Senate’s latest plan, which is to repeal the ACA immediately but leave it active for two years while a replacement is worked out. (The previous bill would have replaced the ACA immediately, but couldn’t get the votes from senators who decried it as either too conservative or not conservative enough.) Without them, the party lacks the 51 votes it needs.

But the three women’s stance has sparked a noticeably nasty, misogynistic backlash. The Club for Growth and Tea Party Patriots, two conservative grassroots organizations, started a website called “Traitorous Republicans” that targets Capito and Murkowski, as well as Rob Portman, the Ohio Republican who has said he thinks full repeal could be bad for Ohioans. All three voted in 2015 for a previous bill to repeal the ACA without replacing it. (Collins did not, so isn’t listed on the site.)

All three women are also being targeted on Twitter, where they’ve been called “feminazis” and “RINOs” (for Republicans in Name Only), and derided for their looks, their hair, and even their voices.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. Caucus with the DEMS

Schwing!

[yardwork]

2. My thought exactly. They could even become Democrats.

[rickford66]

16. Exactly what I thought.

Offer them complete backing during re-elections etc. Didn't the GOP legally bribe Lieberman?

[sunonmars]

3. Go independent, that'll make Trump crap himself.

[Alice11111]

4. Yeah, go independent. Caucus with the Dems. Wear Nasty Woman Ts

[colorado_ufo]

6. This!

[WinstonSmith4740]

10. One more step...

Become dems, hand the majority to them, and put Elizabeth Warren in charge so she can tell Mitch McConnell to shut the fuck up.

[Alice11111]

13. Waiting for E Warren to tell mm STFU!

[pnwmom]

5. We should be calling to THANK THEM.

Republican or not, they're voting for the people.

[Hekate]

7. THIS. They listened to their constituents and their consciences. We should thank them.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. Could it be that some of them are discovering

their humanity?

Certainly never Cruz, or anybody but sasse

Maybe Flake

Anybody else?

Such swine

[pnwmom]

11. There's a reason that no women were included in the gang writing the Senate bill. n/t

[Alice11111]

14. Good idea. I will next week

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Party affiliation, especially at this level, is

important in ways I think most people here don't understand.

At this level, a change of party rarely happens. There are huge consequences.

I ran as a candidate for the state house in a very Republican state more than a decade ago. I lost, but that's not the important thing here. What is important is the fidelity to the political party. All of you who have never been so involved, please do so. You don't actually need to run for state office, but at the very least become a precinct chair. And attend the county and state events. You will learn a lot. Some of it will be encouraging, other stuff not so much. What you'll learn is the reality of party politics. Starting at the state level. And it gets far more important as you move up the ladder.

That said, I'll say that I honestly don't understand why certain Republicans in elected office stay with that party. Except that I do get it, based on my experience back then. You commit to a particular party. (The man I ran against, the Republican incumbent, had, so I understand, made a decision a decade or more earlier, that the only way he could win that office was to run as a Republican. And so he did. He was a genuine moderate, who was eventually overcome by the Tea Party movement.) They -- your political party -- help you out in your run for office. And if you win, you are very obligated to your party. Think about that. You simply don't have the freedom to change affiliation as all of you who are reading this. *You* can decide to register as a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian , a Green Party, an Independent, and then vote as you wish in the general election. But if you've run for office and won as a Democrat or Republican? You don't switch allegiance that easily.

So my essential point here is to encourage every single one of you who read this to get involved in elective politics for your favorite political party, which I'm hoping is the Democratic Party. Run for office. Seriously. Run for county commissioner, for city council, for your state house or state senate. Some of the lower offices will be non partisan, but run anyway. At the very least get your feet wet and learn what it is all about.

Trust me. You'll learn a lot and be glad you ran.

[murielm99]

12. I understand. I have long been active in local and state

politics as a Democrat. One of my children stays active at the local level and has served on a planning commission. He ran for office and lost in his very republican area. But he has learned a great deal. I hope he can keep doing what he does at a local level. His area is changing demographically, and even the republicans in his community like him.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. As an officeholder, you shouldn't have to choose between your party and your constituents.