The Pelosi porn, the panel & Ted Cruz's tattoo: this is the GOP women problem

[DonViejo]

Republicans sifting through their ideological wreckage for a demographic advantage have aligned themselves with a new favorite artist – and it's not Miley Cyrus

Ana Marie Cox
theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 April 2014 07.30 EDT

Republicans have finally found an edgy and provocative voice in an outsider artist who goes by the name Sabo. His art is also unrepentantly racist, misogynistic and homophobic. On Monday, the hugely influential Breitbart.com smugly promoted Sabo's freelance advertising campaign for its site. It included, among other startling images, Nancy Pelosi in this explicitly pornographic pose of Miley Cyrus, complete with lascivious action and prominent ass:

I’m speechless with rage. This is just unacceptable. http://t.co/rEvW0YOn2S pic.twitter.com/l8KGrYvkTl

— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) April 7, 2014

We talk about a Republican "war on women", and the GOP has floundered in its response.

The party has been sifting through its ideological wreckage for a solution to its demographic disadvantage. Conservative pundits dredge up the party's abolitionist history to justify why black voters should turn their way; they argue that women need to support gun-rights candidates on personal safety grounds. They've been stymied, for the most part, in how to appeal to young people. The most visible gambits have played on macho, reckless bad-assery: James O'Keefe's scripted and self-interested stunt-exposes, the smirking listicles of Breitbart columnist Ben Shapiro. Even Rand Paul's flip libertarianism, by far the most successful version of this bro-sploitation approach, has the flavor of a cigar-smoke-filled Throwback Thursday fratboy confab:

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