Wanted: Women willing to run for office as members of a party that denigrates them and constantly votes against their interests. Also must like guns.

Apparently the GOP has noticed that they are severely lacking in female candidates. So they have come up with a plan to convince more females to come out of the kitchen, put their shoes back on, stop getting pregnant, and prepare to run for office.

This from Hotline on Call.

"It's the women that we've been missing in the past," says RNC co-chair Jan Larimer. "We're not going to miss them anymore."

Larimer has spearheaded the party's efforts to recruit and train more women candidates. And based on the GOP's efforts this year, the party needs the help.

Among the NRCC's Young Guns program(Why do all Republicans have a gun fetish? Are ALL of their penises that small?), 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 On Call in an interview at the party's annual Winter meeting in Honolulu.

Well I guess that is positive news. At least the party synonymous with "good old boys" is finally trying to understand women on THEIR terms. Or did I speak too soon?

"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.

WTF? So in other words to coax Republican women into standing up for their country somebody has to get all of their girlfriends together for a Tupperware/slumber/candidate encouragement party to convince them to run?

"Oh Bobby Joe, I think we should dye your hair, paint your fingernails, and put your name on the ballot for mayor!"

Holy crap! Is that how they chose Palin?

And what is this garbage about holding their hand? Has anybody ever suggested that somebody needs to hold a male candidate's hand to give him the confidence to throw his hat into the political ring? The GOP is supposedly looking for competent candidates to run for Congress, not trying to convince their girlfriend to ride Space Mountain with them.

Here is a little hint for the Republicans. If you really want strong, effective female candidates, perhaps you should stop treating them like drunk sorority girls you are trying to shame into touching your penis. Maybe then you will not wake up the next morning, all hung over, and with so many Michele Bachmans and Sarah Palins in your party.