GOP addresses women’s concerns; Dems fear strong female Republican candidates in mid-terms

 It’s your body.  They want to take away your birth control.  They will repeal Roe v Wade.  They oppose equal pay for women.

They’re at it again.  Democrats, NOW, NARAL and other feminist groups. They’re following their belief that if you tell a lie enough times it eventually is believed to be the truth.  Their playbook, Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, says, “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

I’m not a woman, but if I was, this would be an outright insult to my intelligence.

A friend recently brought to my attention his concern that the GOP was ignoring the belief among women that Republicans were oblivious to issues of concern to women.  He cited an article about a study conducted by two Republican groups that painted a dismal picture of Republicans among women.

imagesT8YBR0JNThese groups, American Crossroads and the American Action Network,  well aware of how women voted in 2012, aanconducted the study not only to see if two more years under Obama changed their position, but to develop a strategy for addressing their concerns.  While married women clearly supported Mitt Romney, single women overwhelmingly supported the President in 2012.  The mere fact that Republicans undertook this study should tell skeptics that the party is aware of this shortcoming and should tell women, “yes we hear you.”

I’m confident that Republicans will be presenting ideas that could interest women to at least give the GOP a “fresh look.”  At the same time, however, it will be incumbent upon Republican candidates to neuter those claims quoted at the top of this post.

While feminist groups are stuck in abortion mode, Republicans need to focus on economic issues that women face; jobs, expensive health care, and other pocket book matters; and in the process not forget minority women.  Unemployment among black women 20 and older just went up to 10.6 percent and up to 8.1 percent among Hispanic women.  At the same time unemployment among single mothers just went up to 9.3 percent.

I find it difficult to understand how any woman, even a Democrat, could approve of the personal attack tactics being used by their party’s leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).  Most recently she attacked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, referring to his agenda being akin to “grabbing women by the hair,” and giving them “the back of his hand.”

Ernst (thegazette.com)

Joni Ernst is running as a Republican for Senate in Iowa. The DNC is attacking her views on smaller government, lower taxes and a strong defense as “disturbing.” (thegazette.com)

Campaigning against Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst, a mother, a grandmother and colonel in the Iowa National Guard, Schultz referred to her as “an onion of crazy – every time you peel back a layer you find something more disturbing about her views.”  Views like smaller government, lower taxes, less job-killing regulations and a belief in traditional Midwest values and principles.  Disturbing?

Martha McSally, was the victim of a sexist attack by Nancy Pelosi’s PAC in 2012 when she ran for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ seat in Arizona.  In a TV commercial they pictured her in a kitchen with a recipe box and stacks of groceries with lines like “she’s cooking up” and “a recipe for disaster.”

An insult to McSally, who is a retired Air Force colonel and fighter pilot who graduated from the Air Force Academy and went to the Kennedy School at Harvard to gain a degree in public policy.  She’s back on the Republican ticket again.

McSally (winteryknight.wordpress.com)

Martha McSally, who is running for House seat in Arizona, has an impressive recotd as a fighter pilot and graduate of the Kennedy School at Harvard. In 2012 she was targeted by Nancy Pelosi’s PAC. (winterknight.wordpress.com)

Democrats are afraid of accomplished women like Ernst and McSally.

It is up to women like Ernst and McSally to clearly explain how they would reverse the way women are losing ground under the Obama administration, and for men to include valid legitimate women’s issues in their campaign speeches.

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