Shorter Republicans: Women Are Dumb, And Can’t Think On Their Own

8:18 pm EST February 2nd, 2010 | Republicans | 10 Comments

Sexist 1950s Ad

The Republican Party brings the rhetorical gold it spins with minorities to the women’s vote.

With the political winds at their backs, GOPers have experienced a recruiting boost of late. But party strategists acknowledge that the GOP remains woefully underrepresented among women.

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Among the NRCC’s Young Guns program, just 4 of 41 candidates in one of the top 2 tiers are women. The NRSC has done a little better, quietly favoring women candidates in CO, CA and NH. Now, party officials are on the case.

‘We’re working with the women in Congress … to empower the women in their states to get involved and to participate,’ Larimer told Hotline OnCall in an interview at the party’s annual Winter meeting in Honolulu.

‘Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision. And by our going in and talking to them and recruiting and educating and training them to either get involved in a campaign or become a candidate, we’re giving them the tools so that they can do that on their own,’ Larimer added.”

(via Americablog and aliceinthewater)

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10 Responses to “Shorter Republicans: Women Are Dumb, And Can’t Think On Their Own”

  1. Sean D. Martin says:
    February 2, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    The “to empower the women in their states to get involved and to participate,” line, too.

    Women are already empowered to get involved and participate. Have been since at least 1920. “To encourage women…” would be a far better way to say it, but the Rebub establishment clearly just doesn’t think that way.

  2. jr says:
    February 2, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    It’s like Pat Boone saying Republicans are the daddy party on Mike Huckabee’s show last weekend

  3. SaveFarris says:
    February 3, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    I’d buy your outrage more if you had said ANYTHING about the “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick” incident (at the 6:00 mark).

  4. tim says:
    February 3, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    Now we have to shout about every awful sexist thing said somewhere by someone in order to ever point out anything sexist?

    Great takedown by Stewart (as usual)…what he said. IT was an awful, sexist thing to say. There, now can I comment upon how sexist and stupid the republican party is?

    But…that’s all beside the damn point. Can you not look at what the RNC said and see that it is sexist? Is Oliver right, or is he wrong? What does what some jackass on tv say about some idiot with a website have anything to do with the RNC’s statement? Do you have anything relevant to say at all?

  5. SaveFarris says:
    February 3, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Now we have to shout about every awful sexist thing said somewhere by someone in order to ever point out anything sexist?

    Yes, if every Tom, Dick, and Harry with an *R* by their name is now suddenly representative of the Party-at-large, no matter how badly this supposed “representation of the base” gets shellacked at the ballot box.

    You wanna play by those rules? Start living by them.

  6. merl says:
    February 3, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    every single wingnut argues the same way. “hey!! look over there”!!1

  7. Sean D. Martin says:
    February 3, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    Farris link [fair-is lingk]
    –noun
    1. a link to an article or other source that directly contradicts the point on thinks they are making.

    E.g., representing “… but enough to let you know the kind of man some in the Republican base are more than willing to vote for.” as “every Tom, Dick, and Harry with an *R* by their name”.

  8. tim says:
    February 3, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    Every Tom, Dick and Harry – no.

    Every RNC co-chair? Hell yes! It is the god-damn representative of the god-damn RNC who we are saying represents the god-damn Republicans. Because he god-damn represents them.

  9. Randy Brown says:
    February 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    And now you have Rush Scumbag with his “womens’ movement” crack. If that ain’t proof of the right’s institutional misogynism…

    Yet they’re having a conniption fit this week over Rahm’s “retard” comment (which WAS stupid) and Obama’s Vegas “slur.” But when Rush made his monumentally anti-Semitic comment about Jewish bankers…

    (*crickets*)

    Scum of the earth. ALL of them.

  10. jrfunkenstein says:
    February 3, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    Wow; in a related story:

    ‘No Republican male will have sex with a woman for the next 15 years.’

    No film at 11.