Republicans Plan to Fight Back on the Democrats' “War on Women” Narrative. Good Luck, Gentlemen.

[DonViejo]

By Amanda Marcotte

Edward-Isaac Dovere has a piece up at Politico examining the Democrats' "war on women" messaging, ramping up for the 2014 midterms, and the Republican response. As Dovere reports, Democrats are thinking beyond reproductive rights to recast income inequality, workplace protections, and possibly even immigration as "women's issues." Dovere casts that decision as a purely political one, but one reason the strategy works is because the evidence supports it: Women are disproportionately affected by income inequality and a lack of workplace protections, and feminist organizing might is throwing itself behind the issue of immigration reform.

Still, expect to hear plenty on the standard war-on-women issues, too:

As much as they expand the women’s argument into economics, Democrats believe that nothing moves female voters like abortion rights — and they think they’ve got more than enough to go on, between GOP Senate candidates like North Carolina state House Speaker Thom Tillis, who supports a personhood amendment, and Montana Rep. Steve Daines, who’s against abortion exceptions for rape and incest, or the mandatory ultrasound bills signed by Republican Govs. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, Rick Scott of Florida, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio.

Plus, there are all those Republican primaries and local town halls that Democrats are confident will produce a searing “legitimate rape” comment they’ll be able to spread far and wide, despite Republican media training aimed at keeping candidates from these kind of stumbles.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. The war on women has been started by GOP and when they decide to stop the war it will be over.

It is a war inflicted on women by many times dumb men like Todd Akin and Rush Limbaugh saying completely dumb useless statements. They need to stay out of our bedrooms, our doctors offices and pay us properly. If I have a need for a sonogram my doctor and will decide. If I want to use birth control I will. If I am raped I want to have an abortion. I do not want forced births. When women's problems are being discussed women needs to be doing the discussing not men.

[CTyankee]

2. Dems can also talk about the freshest example of repuke misogyny...

referring to mothers of children as "hosts."

That'll go over real big with the gals...

[Richardo]

3. "Please proceed."

[Gothmog]

4. This will be fun to watch

These idiots are too clueless to understand why the GOP policies are bad for women

[Wounded Bear]

5. It's all in the mindset...

Repubs try to convince people that if we make things better for anybody, everybody else automatically has it worse.

Real progressives know that improving conditions for any one group tends to improve conditions for all.

In the final analysis, it's all about civil rights.

[Beacool]

6. So far, their idea of fighting back is calling Bill Clinton a pervert

and saying that his misdeeds somehow reflect on the wife.

Yep, that sounds like a winning strategy.