Fresh off a week in which Democrats made clear that a key part of their midterm message will be equal pay, Republicans are set to begin their own efforts to woo women to the polls, focusing on counties that went blue in 2012 and could tip the balance in November.
In West Virginia on Monday morning, Sharon Day, co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, will launch “14 in ’14,” a program that will focus on younger women in suburban areas that lean blue. The idea is to sign up women who will commit 30 minutes per week in the 14 weeks before the election, making calls, recruiting other women, identifying voters and getting people to the polls.
Republicans have been dogged by criticism that their party is out of touch with women. In a CNN poll in February, 55 percent of respondents said they didn’t understand women, a figure that jumps to 64 percent among women older than 50, a group that has traditionally been more Republican.
Day will announce the new effort in Charleston, W.Va., with Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV, who is retiring.
“Women are a very important part of the electorate and the RNC is very serious about engaging,” Day said. “The Democrats have relied on desperate attacks and we are going to aggressively work to correct the record and build relationships with women voters.”
I have to remain skeptical that such a transparent ploy to seem more female friendly will work, and let's not forget that this is still the party that is aggressively fighting to control women's bodies, votes against bills demanding equal pay for women, and is working to undermine public education which allows many moms the freedom to work outside of their homes.
However I am aware that there is a certain type of woman who still relates to the policies of the GOP, though at this point I have to assume that they are either racist, nostalgic for the Republican party of yore, or are self loathing in some way.
These days a woman supporting the Republican party is not unlike gazelle's protesting for better working conditions for cheetahs.
I don't trust the Republican party as far as I can throw it and it is OUR job to counter with all the things they have done AGAINST women for the past years. They are NOT and have NEVER been pro women! They will go back to their old ways after the election. The Republicans in the U.S. Congress have not changed their tune, but Republican parties in some states are trying to change their mantra.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe them and vote them out of office every chance you get on ALL levels of government.
^^^This^^^
DeleteBoy, you said it!
ReplyDeleteThese days a woman supporting the Republican party is not unlike gazelle's protesting for better working conditions for cheetahs.
ReplyDeletesnort, coffee alert! Good one G!
Hah! Cheetahs and CHEATERS, both!
DeleteThe GOP is pitiful. Like getting women to volunteer for political campaigns is a novel idea. Just goes to show how their party has completely devolved and they are hopeless.
ReplyDeleteAnd they're the same types backing this cattle rancher and the militia who are defending him. More using of women, in this case as something less than human.
Deletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/cliven-bundy-and-friends-planned-use-women
“We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,” Mack said in a Fox News clip pulled by The Blaze. “If they are going to start shooting, it’s going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.”
Deletehttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bundy-ranch-women-human-shield
I'm sure they figure the little women have plenty of time between their TV soaps and eating bon-bons.
DeleteSo the GOP answer is to turn women into unpaid cold-call workers? Don't know if there are enough trust-funders in W.Va. to do that.
ReplyDeleteYes, they actually believe this shit!
ReplyDeleteIncrease The Pay Gap So Women Will Have Better Opportunities To Find A Husband
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-increase-pay-gap-so-women-will-have-better-opportunities-
find-husband
...Another fact is the influence of hypergamy, which means that women typically choose a mate (husband or boyfriend) who earns more than she does. Men don't have the same preference for a higher-earning mate.
While women prefer to HAVE a higher-earning partner, men generally prefer to BE the higher-earning partner in a relationship. This simple but profound difference between the sexes has powerful consequences for the so-called pay gap.
Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/facts-and-fallacies-about-paycheck-fairness-117959/
Oklahoma GOP Governor BANS Paid Sick Leave, Minimum Wage Increases (Video)
ReplyDelete...This simply serves as yet another example of the GOP actively attempting to keep working families as poor as possibly, while dishing out corporate welfare in the form of food stamps and other benefits that would not be as heavily relied-upon if companies just paid workers a living wage and, of course, another shot across the bow in the GOP’s war on the poor.
http://aattp.org/oklahoma-gop-governor-bans-paid-sick-leave-minimum-wage-increases-video/
This is how much women are valued by the right wing:
ReplyDeleteWomen ‘need to be the first ones shot’ by feds in Bundy Ranch standoff
A former Arizona sheriff who has taken the side of cattle ranchers in Nevada said this week that he would have allowed his own wife and daughters to be shot as human shields because it would look bad for the federal government on television.
In a statement to Fox News on Monday that was first flagged by Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, former Sheriff Richard Mack talked about his strategy to put women on the front lines if a gunfight broke out between “rogue federal agents” and rancher Cliven Bundy, who reportedly owes the taxpayers more than $1 million for allowing his cattle to graze on government land.
“We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,” he recalled. “If they are going to start shooting, it’s going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.”
Speaking to radio host Ben Swann later on Monday, Mack explained his plan.
“It was a tactical plot that I was trying to get them to use,” Mack said. “If they’re going to start killing people, I’m sorry, but to show the world how ruthless these people are, women needed to be the first ones shot.”
“I’m sorry, that sounds horrible,” he continued. “I would have put my own wife or daughters there, and I would have been screaming bloody murder to watch them die. I would gone next, I would have been the next one to be killed. I’m not afraid to die here. I’m willing to die here.”
“But the best ploy would be to have had women at the front. Because, one, I don’t think they would have shot them. And, two, if they had, it would have been the worst thing that we could have shown to the rest of the world, that these ruthless cowards hired by the federal government will do anything.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/15/former-sheriff-women-need-to-be-the-first-ones-shot-by-feds-in-bundy-ranch-standoff/
" I’m sorry, but to show the world how ruthless these people are, women needed to be the first ones shot.”
DeleteThe right wing are not sane people. Women, WAKE TF UP!
This shows the *Feds* are ruthless? Really? He doesn't really see this clearly, does he? Putting his wife and daughter in front of him as a human shield makes *them* look ruthless?
DeleteUnless they're going to spin 180 away from their current "no, you just don't understand why women being paid less is a GOOD thing" strategy, the GOP should just give up now and focus all their energy on making sure all the white supremacists get out and vote.
ReplyDeleteThis will go about as good as the Republicans reaching out to minorities. Remember that? It's all lip service. All talk and no walk. Remember Anne Romney yelling "We love women" at the Republican National Convention in Florida back in 2012? Yeah, that did Mitt a lot of good.
ReplyDeleteDidn't the Republicans have a women on some cable show recently that said that we women are too busy to worry about getting equal pay? I have been paid less as have most career women my age (in my fifties) and I always have the time to worry about equal pay, especially for the younger women. And of course ladies, you can bet your bottom dollar they are coming for your birth control is they ever get back into power.
I could go on and on, but I won't. I'm done. Done with Republicans.
Well, I'm a public school teacher and I get paid the same as my male counterparts. Of course, we are ALL underpaid compared to the private sector so I guess that's not saying much.
DeleteIt's no surprise that older women have a higher percentage of disapproval, because we have been to this rodeo way too many times already. I'm 63, which means it has been pretty much exactly 40 years since I abandoned the Republican party of my parents and my in-laws. My reason? A certain lemon-sucking, Friday-faced, dried-up old bitch known as Phyllis Schlafly, who was content to travel around the country proclaiming that young wives like me (an Air Force wife, in my case) shouldn't go out to work to support our families nor especially to fulfill our own ambitions. I battled equal pay situations all my life, to very little result. Today, I make a pretty good living, but I still don't know how I compare to the men who do the same job as I do. And this is a Fortune 500 company headed by a woman!
ReplyDeleteAs a woman over fifty, nothing about the GOP, what it stands for, and the men and women they attract resonates one iota with me. I hope one of these "ladies" gives one of my daughters a call, they'll be in for a rude awakening. Don't underestimate nor insult today's young people.
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