Republicans Search High and Low for Women to Run as Republicans
The party that tends to favor in-utero legislation is now looking to bolster its appeal to women by tricking some of them to run as Republicans.
The party that tends to favor in-utero legislation is now looking to bolster its appeal to women by tricking some of them to run as Republicans.
According to The Washington Post (via Political Wire), the Republican National Committee has launched a campaign called “Women on the Right Unite” with the aim of recruiting female candidates and, by extension, voters. But as Emily’s List, a group with much experience electing women to public office, points out, the problem isn’t simply the candidates’ gender:
“Our record number of victories during the last election happened not just because we ran fantastic candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin,” said the Democratic women’s group Emily’s List in a memo reacting to the GOP’s new campaign, “they happened because women voters were turned off by the Republican Party’s attempts to roll back the clock on their rights and freedoms.”
Still, women make up more than half of the population and deserve to be represented by more than 18.3 percent of Congress. Even a party that has been accused of waging a war on women is to be commended for trying to be more inclusive, whatever its motives. But maybe the first step is to give up the ovarian inspection argument.
— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer.
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...This year, the ground feels uncertain — facts are buried and those in power are working to keep them hidden. Now more than ever, independent journalism must go beneath the surface.
At Truthdig, we don’t just report what's happening — we investigate how and why. We follow the threads others leave behind and uncover the forces shaping our future.
Your tax-deductible donation fuels journalism that asks harder questions and digs where others won’t.
Don’t settle for surface-level coverage.
Unearth what matters. Help dig deeper.
Donate now.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.