GOP Deflects. Claims President Obama has "War on Women."

[ProSense]

GOP Deflects. Claims President Obama has "War on Women."

by Mets102

I kid you not. A friend of mine posted the ad released by the RNC on my Facebook timeline. I would comment further on it, but this is one of those cases where the absurdity speaks for itself. Yes, it really is that crazy. Video below the fold (Warning: From RNC YouTube channel).

And, come to think of it, I'll comment anyway. Their whole ad is based on the fact that a stand-up comedian who also happens to have his own show on HBO uses some foul language (and I don't agree with him using it), so, therefore, President Obama is waging a "war on women" between taking money from him and anonymous assertions that the Obama White House was/is a "boys' club."

So, what has President Obama actually done? Well, there was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. There was requiring insurers to cover contraception, like they already cover Viagra and other drugs that benefit men. There was support for Planned Parenthood. There was the repeal of the Mexico City Policy. There's Secretary Clinton and Justices Sotomayor and Kagan.

Now, let's compare this to what the Republicans are doing. They are saying that if a woman wants to exercise her constitutional rights the state can and should demand that she first get raped. They are saying that women should not have guaranteed access to contraception. They are saying that women should be forced to explain to their employers why they use contraception. They are basically saying that women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/18/1075429/-GOP-Deflects-Claims-President-Obama-has-War-on-Women-

The lunacy of the Republicans' position on health care and women's rights illustrated
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002436891

The Republican Party is having a meltdown
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002377092

[Kalidurga]

1. Well, that isn't the language I would have used.

But, Mahr is spot on with his assessment of some of those women. I think I would have stuck with bimbo, it is generally not seen as a curse word.

As for the ad, it is further proof that when the GOP is nailed for what the do, they claim the other side does it too, or they do something else equally bad.

[ProSense]

2. Evidently,

Republicans realize that being branded as a party waging a "war on women" isn't helping them so they have to resort to false equivalencies.

[saras]

3. I think you vastly overestimate their intelligence.

It would be more accurate to say they made mouth noises, their noises didn't work and people rejected them, so now they're making the mouth noises of the winners.

[gulliver]

4. Why are Republicans trying to defend Rush Limbaugh?

I keep wondering that. I guess the RNC site doesn't have anything to say to repudiate Limbaugh. That's not a big surprise. But to actually keep dragging Bill Maher into the argument? That seems like they are trying to defend Limbaugh by saying someone else "does it too."

Then the question becomes "Why are Republicans trying to defend Rush Limbaugh in the first place?"

Let's watch the clips of Maher name-calling some Fox News "pundit" or ridiculing the bomb-throwing Sarah Palin. Then let's watch the clips of Rush Limbaugh tearing into an average woman. Let's watch Limbaugh leeringly suggesting she and the other women who want contraception paid for by insurance post video of their sexual encounters on line for him and his listeners to watch.

Let's follow that with some Republican trying to tell us the two are the same thing.

[opihimoimoi]

5. + 1000000000 :o)

[ProSense]

7. Exactly! n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. K&R