A new poll by Karl Rove's group revealed results that have to be discouraging to republicans. Essentially, women voters have largely bought into the democrats whole "war on women" narrative and see the democrats as having their interests at heart far more than republicans. One might question why Rove would release the results to Politco, a leftwing outlet, but apparently he had his reasons. The substance of the article is captured in this quote: Katie Packer Gage, a political strategist who focuses on improving GOP standing with female voters, said women think of “old, white, right, out of touch” men when they think of the Republican Party. “I think a lot of folks are whistling past the graveyard on this … Certainly if Hillary is on the top of the ticket for Democrats, it is going to be a significant challenge for us,” she said in an interview. “Maybe we’ll see women on our side that will step up as well. … We have to quit sitting back and taking it on the chin. I think we have to play offense on this.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/gop-poll-of-women-party-stuck-in-past-110398_Page2.html#ixzz3BiQAo9BO I can say from my own experience with conservative leaning women that they would agree. It's not just one or two issues, it's a feeling. Kind of like Newt Gingrich had a way of annoying women. There are the obvious examples, like that moron Senate candidate blabbing about abortion, etc. Are the republicans so disorganized that they can't give these guys a script for dealing with loaded questions on abortion? But there are deeper issues. Traditionally, the Reagan-onward republican party had three coalitions, defense hawks, low tax supporters and the family values/anti abortion crowd. Women are largely turned off by the first and last and don't care much about the tax issue, because they either don't pay taxes or they are oblivious to it. Older married women, religious women and married women with no higher education tend to favor republicnas by substantial margins, but they account for only 25 or 30% of women voters. The most obvious way to get women's atention would be to run female candidates. However, the media and democrat hate machine have made an art form out of attacking them, eg Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, Nikki Haley, et al. Women have been indoctrinated to look at a sleazebag like Hillary as inspirational, but self-made women like Palin and Bachmann as contemptible. Fox News seems able to find attractive, articulate conservative women who can take the measure of liberals in a debate. You'd think the republican party could do the same. Republicans need to take some hot button issues to put the democrats on their back foot. Take the whole rape issue, which is big on colleges now. Why couldn't republicans make it their own, and by doing so, reinforce their law and order image. Rape is a violent crime against women, and the overwhelming majority of rapists look like obama's son. Or Obamacare. Women want security. Healthcare is part of that. So is having a job. Have you heard any republican really hammer on the fact that obamacare will drive up the cost of healthcare and cause many companies to either lay off people, restrict their hours or raise their premiums? You hear some grousing, but no organized chorus like the democrats produce. The republicans seem to be employing the rope-a-dope strategy for the mid-terms. They tried the same strategy in the 2008and 2004 presidential elections.
Well, gee. Republicans are against free and available access to contraception and abortion services, they're against equal pay for equal work, and rapists are just "boys being boys". I can't imagine why women wouldn't embrace these positions.
Nonsense. Many republicans share Bill Clinton's position that abortions should be safe and rare. For better or worse, it's a constitutional right, but a right with limitations. For some reason, liberals want it treated differently than every othr medical procedure, despite the significant health and psychological risks involved. Contraceptives are $9 a month. Is that really such a crushing burden? Women object that ED treatments are covered under plans and birth control pills are not. Clearly they are different but if that's what it takes to make women happy, I'm ok with it. Equal pay for equal work is already the law. What liberals are pushing is equal pay for "equivalent" work, meaning some government agency will be authorized to determine what everyone gets paid. Should a garbage collector make the same as a secretary? Hmm, why not let the market tell us? Thanks for raising the rape issue. i wish you'd show me some examples of republicans brushing it off. Liberals, often college adminstrators, are the ones hushing it up. Can't have the star quarterback missing practice while he's on trial for rape, can we? Can't deal with the fact that the more minorities you get on campus, the more rapes you get.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain
Young women like to date fun guys. Old women are OK with steady and dependable. IOW, boring. Democrats are fun guys, republicans are boring. This is not earth shattering news. The problem occurs when the fun guy you date becomes the dead beat husband you can't get rid of. Young women been fucking up this decision since the beginning of time. Don't expect it to be any different with politics.
Republicans are against businesses having to pay for your contraception, in the same way they are against businesses having to pay for a mans condoms. Equal pay for equal work already exists, you guys are the demagogues who make up numbers, and say that a school teacher who takes 10 years off to raise kids, ought to make the same as a doctor who works every day of his life for 16 hours a day.... What the left is really implying with their "Equal pay for equal work" meme is that we should engage in communism, where the janitor makes the same amount as the rocket scientist, or the brain surgeon, its just a new way of presenting the failed idea, and a way of ginning up animosity. Rapists are boys being boys? Really? Id love to see the evidence of that, one thing we do know though is that Hillary finds it hilarious when she sneaks child rapists out of charges.