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Where Have All The (GOP) Women Gone?


The Daily Beast has an interesting blog by Linda Hirshman on How The GOP Loses Women:

Watch out, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Locked in a Republican primary battle for governor of Texas, and unwilling to say women should go to jail for their abortions, she is the next duck in the barefoot and pregnant shooting gallery. All the coverage has been about the conservative attack on the Republican establishment. But Scozzafava's defeat and the mounting campaign against Hutchison reveals a fascinating and underreported problem for the Republicans: They will only run women who will say that women should not control their reproductive fates. Although there are many male Republican candidates who easily embrace this position, politically accomplished women who believe in criminal abortion are rare, even in the Republican Party. And the ones who surface are likely to be, well, rogue.


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Sarah Palin shot 'em with her moose gun and Michele Bachmann ate 'em.

Seriously, though. That's a good question, Schmedley. Why are the moderate Republican women hiding? There have got to be some around besides in NY-23.

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I really don't think there's any such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. When Newt "The LizardBoy" Gingrich passes for what is now considered "moderate-to-wishywashy" on the GOP side these days, what hope does a reasonable, caring woman like Scozzafava have in that party?

Hoffman will probably win, but there be a truly awful price for the GOP to pay.

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I think they are baking cookies and other stuff like that with aprons and things...

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ROTFL!

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Well according to rush limbaugh, if you feed them regularly and take the time to pet them, women should be more grateful.

I mean rush just cannot figure out where the problem lies.

And neither can the republican party.

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