Laura Bush's Chief of staff writes, "Why Paul Ryan is not 'bad' for women"

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/opinion/mcbride-ryan-women/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

U.S. Rep. Ryan's addition to the Republican ticket ensures that the debate about the economy will be vigorous. For women, and all Americans, nothing can be more important.

Women I know and talk to around the country are struggling with a new normal -- unemployment or underemployment, declining wages, having to work harder and longer to make ends meet, increasing food prices, rising gas prices and most of all the fear that their kids will have it even tougher than they do. They are making difficult decisions every day when it comes to their family budget. It is not a rosy picture.

American women have to ask themselves if they want a federal government that respects their hard-earned dollars as much as it respects their right to choose.

When they do, I am confident they will not be distracted by media hype and attack ads painting Ryan as hostile to women's concerns; rather, they will find his efforts to stop the buck from being passed to

[atreides1]

1. Chief of staff

Of the head of the Stepford Wives Club!!!!

[Lint Head]

2. When a Re-Pubic-One has to make apologies for the VP candidate someone is scared.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Interestingly, I actually agree with part of it:

"American women have to ask themselves if they want a federal government that respects their hard-earned dollars as much as it respects their right to choose."

Yup! And Republicans fail on both counts!!!!

[Angry Dragon]

4. +10,081

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I agree with your agreement.

[progressivebydesign]

5. Stunned. Basically it's making women choose "your money or your life."

"American women have to ask themselves if they want a federal government that respects their hard-earned dollars as much as it respects their right to choose. "

Could anyone really be that stupid or out of touch? Having no access to family planning for reproductive rights, is a financial disaster for women. So the logic is ridiculous. The person writing this has never struggled in their lives.. ever. It's clear.

The rights of women are NOT for sale.

[GoCubsGo]

6. He's not bad for women.

He's absolutely, devastatingly horrible.

[polichick]

7. Laura should be ashamed to let herself be used to con other woman.

[rtracey]

9. Well

Remember she is a Republican, the wife of a former President, and has no worries of healthcare, standing in the community, or need. I find it shocking that any women would support the Republican platform on women health issues. What? Republican women never need PAP tests or Mammograms? Republican women never get cervical cancer, or breast cancer. They seem to just sit by and allow the Republican male to dictate to the the Stepford wives of the Republican party.... Please open your eye ladies, your brand of politics will kill not just the poor and middle class women, but all women will be hurt by this....

[LiberalFighter]

12. Laura is not fit to be a mother or respected as a woman.

[CBHagman]

8. And she has the chutzpah to refer to "media hype" and "having to work longer and harder"

...when Ryan's unworkable economic proposals have been taken seriously by a fawning, gushing media and, if ever put into effect, would tighten the screws on the poor and middle class while insulating the rich even further.

Folks (to use a Joe Bidenism here), we know the Republicans are both incompetent and impotent. Show me one recent Republicans president who left the country in healthy fiscal shape. Show me one recent Republican president who didn't seriously muck up our foreign policy.

The GOP as currently constituted can't win a war or run a country, though they could certainly lose a war and ruin a country. They would never successfully put together a national program on the order of Medicare or Social Security. They won't do anything about infrastructure because the name of the game is low taxes -- but only if you're at the top -- and of course Trusting the States to Do Best, unless of course the subject is same sex marriage.

The chief of staff is right that women don't necessarily vote as a bloc, but there is a good reason there's a healthy gender gap -- emphasis on the "healthy."

[qwlauren35]

10. This is very real.

This is what the Republicans are saying. The focus is on the economy, NOT on women's health issues, and Obama/Congress have not made sufficient progress with the economy.

This is what we have to fight. We have to call Romney out and prove that he can't do any better, and would make it worse. I would like to see an ad - "if you think the economy is bad, Romney would make it worse".

That would crush him.

[Lucy Goosey]

13. I wonder what Mrs. Bush's daughters think

Seriously, I'd be curious to find out.