Rand Paul Says There Is No “War on Women” Because His Niece and Sister Are Doing Pretty Well

[DonViejo]

Rand Paul Says There Is No “War on Women” Because His Niece and Sister Are Doing Pretty Well

Monday, January 27, 2014, at 10:50 AM EST

Rand Paul grabbed headlines on Sunday by claiming on Meet The Press that "if there was a war on women, I think they won." While it would be a delightful change of pace if that was Paul's way of announcing a desire to see conservatives cease with the relentless attacks on women's rights, in context, it's clear that Paul was basically offering up a justification for continuing the war on women:

PAUL: This whole sort of war on women thing, I’m scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won. You know, the women in my family are incredibly successful. I have a niece at Cornell vet school, and 85% of the young people there are women. Law school, 60% are women. In med school, 55%. My younger sister is an OB-GYN with six kids and doing great. I don’t see so much that women are downtrodden. I see women rising up and doing great things. In fact, I worry about our young men sometimes because I think the women are outcompeting the men in our world...

The women in my family are doing great. That’s what I see in all the statistics coming out. I have, you know, young women in my office that are the leading intellectual lights of our office. So I don’t really see this, that there’s some sort of war on women that’s, you know, keeping women down. I see women doing great and I think we should extol that success and not dumb it down into a political campaign that somehow one party doesn’t like women or that. I think that’s what’s happened. It’s all been for political purposes.

While Paul didn't mention little things like abortion or contraception, the implication was clear: Women have it pretty good, so there's no reason to get all bent out of shape about attacks on reproductive rights, ladies. You get to go to school now, so why complain about losing access to basic medical care? After all, Paul's own sister has six kids and a medical practice, so if unwanted child-bearing throws you off your game, it's your fault for not having a wealthy congressman for a father.

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[Mass]

1. I want to thanks Rand Paul for pointing out it is a war on poor women, not a war on women.

It is ironical that it takes this idiot to make the point.

As previously noted, the measures the GOP is taking in states and in the House do only affect high income women on the margin and it is not surprising. Our millionaire congress does not want their wives and daughters to be affected.

On a different way, poor women are overwhelmingly affected.

[HappyMe]

2. That is a good point.

Rich women have no worries as far as health care and education and opportunities go.

[ck4829]

3. You want people who say they shouldn't teach if they're not married (said by Jim DeMint)

You want them to be portrayed by scientific inaccuracies and have these inaccuracies become your propaganda (Abstinence only education, as well as Todd Akin and others)

You want to put probes inside their bodies.

You don't want their reproductive organs mentioned on House floors even though you talk about what's inside them constantly.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/florida-gop-chasties-democrat-for-saying-uterus-on-house-floor/

You call them evil for having abortions, but parasites for keeping the babies.

You wanted a miscarriage department in the police to examine all cases of miscarriage in Georgia but yet poverty there is increasing.

And even in death, you try to keep a hold on them, as seen by the recent case in Texas.

If it's not a war, then what is it?

[Gothmog]

4. Rand Paul is an idiot

Please let him be the GOP nominee