Posted on 03/09/2014 7:44:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Carly Fiorina, former California GOP senate challenger to Barbara Boxer, emerged at the Conservative Political Action Conference here as the speaker most willing to engage the Republicans' persistent problems with appealing to women. Well, after she spent the first half of her speech denying climate change. Priorities!
Fiorina didn't offer a solution, but she did offer some great slogans: "I am a proud pro-life woman. ... I believe science is proving us right everyday!" (Hey, don't knock junk science until you've tried it, right?) She also echoed a feminist line when she said, "All issues are women's issues."
I like that line. I've used it myself. But, to judge by the speakers at CPAC this weekend, what she means is, "There's a woman's angle to every issue." You know, ladies care about health care because we have babies! (Especially when we don't have a choice.) Women care about guns because how else will we defend ourselves! (I fear for the woman who told the audience that she sleeps with a "loaded gun next to my bed and I've never felt safer".)
But when feminists talk about every issue being a women's issue, we're not talking about finding a way to make a specific policy agenda appeal to women. What most feminists mean by that is "There's a larger economic or policy angle to every issue dismissed as 'women's'."
The leaders of the GOP just can't comprehend that women's circumstances – decades of discrimination against them – might mean that policies, or the lack of policies, which seem perfectly fair to "everyone else" (white men, basically) have a different impact on them....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Stupid author and stupid left-wing paper. They can’t think beyond sexuality.
And from this leftie author....she and the Guardian deserve each other
Yesterday I watched more than Sarah on CPAC and there was an interesting woman’s panel discussing the GOP’s problems with women. One panelist, whose name I forget but she’s on FOX frequently - long dark hair and looks like Kristin Davis from Sex in the City - said that the GOP lets too much go unanswered.
As an example she pointed to the recent Virginia governor’s race in which McAwful did his “war on women” meme and Cuchinelli never responded to that attack. The panelist blamed the consultants. And for good measure, she and the other 3 panelists went into a dialogue about all the issues that conservatives have that support women.
This brings me to Pat Caddell’s really good rant about the political consultants who don’t care about losing - they only care about their own jobs and he blamed much of what is wrong with GOP candidates on these consultants. He also went into Obama and the horror that has become the rat party.
Sarah also mentioned the consultants - as you probably know. Those jerks, Nicole Wallace etc, trashed Sarah every which way and call themselves Republicans. Yeah, right. They have no principles except their own bank accounts.
The candidates need to stand up and ANSWER the ridiculous attacks from the rats. War On Woman - I’m shocked anyone ever believed it but I guess they did. And you know what? I bet the rats are also shocked they got away with it.
Yeah, their party is made up of faggots, dykes, muzzies, blacks, bitter female divorcees, and the misguided youth of this country. You ever witnessed the average relationship in those communities?
On the other hand we have us, of whom I am one. I’ve been married 20 years, to my first and only wife.
They claim to understand women better than us......
The liberal piss ant female writers are gearing up for a full blown assault upon the women of the GOP. The Democrat women can make stupid remarks that are openly idiotic and they get a pass.
Yet we manage to propagate.
GOP does not have a woman problem, it has a conservative problem. Just look at the speaker referenced in this article.
Hmmmm....I’m a woman...I’m a conservative....if they mean the RINO’s....then YES....they have a problem...but, it isn’t with just women
It’s always “I’m female. Black. Gay. Handicapped. AND REPUBLICANS HATE ME”!! These people should hang around a real tea party meeting and see the respect these folks, male and female treat each other with. We all realize we are in this together and what is good for the men is good for the women, and in fact we at this point are the same- human.
The Guardian is a bunch of left-wing poofters, and they think THEY understand women?
I like Rand Pauls comment. ....if there’s been a war on woman they won.
Yeah, while we were still in the caves, if not before.
Yeah, while we were still in the caves, if not before.
They just make things up. Women run the Republican Party from the ground up.
Any hope that women can make at least a small effort at being easier to understand? Like somehow it’s the always the men’s fault that they’re looney tunes, totally bonkers, etc?
Consequently, aside from the issues of delivering mail, military service, and the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I, entities which are under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, most citizens, not just women, need to be working with their state lawmakers to resolve their concerns. This is because state lawmakers uniquely have the constitutional authority, evidenced by the 10th Amendment, to help resolve the daily concerns of citizens.
Being beaten black and blue in an election by a low-IQ and criminal strumpet like Babs Boxer is the key to a lucrative speaking career? Jeez, no wonder the country is so mucked up.
Well at least she apparently has come over from the Global Warming Dark Side. Perhaps instead of deluding herself by running for office, she ought to help Sarah with wardrobe abd makeup.
Cox became infamous for exploiting women’s affairs.
Cox created a scandal when she linked to the blog of a Senate staffer who dished about her sexual escapades.
Cox was an editor of the progressive online magazine Bad Subjects. Later, she was an executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name Ann O’Tate (wordplay on annotate).
In 2004, Cox became the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette.
Cox and Wonkette gained notoriety in the political world for publicizing the story of Jessica Cutler, also known as “Washingtonienne”, a staff assistant to Senator Mike DeWine (R.-Ohio) who accepted money from a George W. Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors. On January 5, 2006, Cox officially announced her retirement as the blog’s editor and her imminent transition to “Wonkette Emerita”.
On 12 April 2007 Cox claimed on Time magazine’s website that she agreed to appear on the Don Imus radio show despite the show’s history of racially and sexually charged content because she wanted to be considered part of the media elite. Cox wrote: “I’m embarrassed to admit that it took Imus’ saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge.” Cox announced on 5 December 2008 that she would no longer be contributing to the Time magazine’s Swampland blog.
On 19 January 2009 Cox debuted on Air America Media as their first Washington-based national correspondent. She was a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show, and guest-hosted the show in Maddow’s absence on 4 September 2009. In 2009 Cox also became a contributing editor for Playboy.
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