1) The managers of the smear want to plant FUD in the minds of Pubbie women, so they want "victims" whom Pubbie women can identify with and 2) They want to avoid the appearance that this is a Demonrat slander operation.
That makes sense if Pubbie women are that gullible, which I hope not. This stinks so badly that it seems there has to be something more that that - ‘enemies in the camp’ type of a thing.
BTW don’t mean to sound dumb, but what is FUD?