The Republican Party Chairman, Reince Priebus was recently asked how his party planned to overcome with the gender gap problem they face in the fall elections. Mr. Priebus doesn’t believe that there is a problem. He says that any inference that Republicans are waging a “war against women” is nothing more than a fictional controversy fueled by the main stream media.
“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every main stream media outlet talked about the fact that we had a war on caterpillars then we’d have a problem with caterpillars. It’s fiction.”
In spite of the Chairman’s protestations to the contrary, there is a mountain of evidence that a war against women’s right is being waged by the Republican Party and their supporters. Republican led state governments have presented over 90 pieces of legislation designed to limit women’s access various health care services. Republicans have attempted to mandate trans-vaginal probes, defund Planned Parenthood and outlaw contraceptives. They have politicized the Susan G. Komen Foundation and are presently engaged in efforts to block the renewal of the “Violence Against Women Act”. They have called for a reduction in Pell Grants; over 50% of which go to women. And when conservative mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh famously referred to Georgetown co-ed as a “slut” for speaking in favor of women’s access to contraceptives; not one Republican presidential candidate came to her defense. In fact conservative pundits rose in defense of Limbaugh.
The polls indicate that Republican candidates across the country are paying a heavy price for their “fictional” war against woman. The most recent USA Today poll shows that among women voters in swing states the President leads Romney by 18 points; 54%-36%.
The Republicans ARE waging a war against women and it is absolutely killing them in the polls. The facts make that quite clear.
The only “fiction” to be found here lies within Mr. Priebus’ assertions to the contrary.
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