The right’s ideal modern woman: Fiery, independent and easily confused!

[DonViejo]

Republicans' clumsy "You go girl!" outreach relies on a very odd view of both women and "common sense"

KATIE MCDONOUGH

For those women who haven’t already been won over by the new ads featuring super-cool guys wearing leather jackets and practical ladies exercising in the woods, Republicans have another way to appeal to their modern sensibilities: trumped-up rhetoric about how powerful and unstoppable women are in achieving anything they set their minds to — all without any help from the stupid government!

It’s kind of like if the Spice Girls really, really hated the idea of raising the minimum wage or funding Head Start.

So it was probably some version of this “You go, girl!” outreach that the head of a conservative PAC in Texas was playing at when she announced earlier this week that equal pay laws don’t offer “real-world solutions” to the problems faced by women today.

“Women want real-world solutions, not more rhetoric. … Women are extremely busy, we lead busy lives whether working professionally or working from home. And, and … times are extremely busy,” Cari Christman explained in an interview with Texas’ “Capital Tonight,” seemingly stumbling over some talking point she’d badly forgotten. “It’s just a busy cycle for women, we’ve got a lot to juggle. When we look at this issue, we say, ‘What’s practical?’ We want more access to jobs. We want to be able to go and get a higher education degree at the same time that we’re working or raising a family. That’s common sense, and we believe it’s a more practical way to approach the problem.”

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