I agree. :) Like Rush:
Posted on 03/06/2012 7:38:35 AM PST by Moseley
Fair enough. That's a good observation.
You’re gonna have a lot more pressing problems, very soon, if zero is re-elected,
like keeping warm & fed & safe from marauding gangs of 0bamazombies.
Even though Republicans started with a valid issue, religious employers being forced to provide drugs that they find morally objectionable, I can fully imagine Republicans losing this war of words and images to Dems. After all, they have lost every battle they tried with Obama since taking the house last year.
After seeing how Pelosi (and her lib women house members) used the Issa hearing by claiming it was a ‘ panel on women's health issues’, they should have known exactly what their line of propaganda would be to Blunt Amendment. It was the same and the MSM picked up on it again.
For example, what if the congressional Republicans went out as a team (as Pelosi manages) and kept repeating that the Blunt amendment and this fight is really about mandating that women, or maybe the Church, pay for Viagra for men? (just an example.) The goal is to neutralize Dems strategies and turn them around on them. Women who see 'free BC' to women as a big plus need to understand why these mandates are bad for them too. Republicans never think of that.
Republican have this bad habit of not seeing that they are losing the war of words and then doubling down on the same strategy, and then caving when total destruction is within an arms reach.
Dems FIGHT TO WIN, Especially Pelosi.
I don’t like Rush. He panders to the cheap seats - and most of us sit in the cheap seats from time to time. He deals in righteous indignation, mockery, easy outrage, provocation, contempt.
Sure he can be informative, bringing up news or viewpoints that the MSM won’t touch. And sure, I agree with most of his politics. I used to listen to him but I found he was not good for my soul. Now I find him irritating - I’m tired of the blusterer and blowhard.
So why does the average non-political woman not like him? The reasons above are valid, even just as a matter of taste: he is certainly not to everyone’s liking. He tries not to be.
He’s not “nice.” Women place a premium on being “nice” and not being “hurtful.” You are allowed not to be nice only if you are politically correct and attack the right targets. Most people don’t question the political indoctrination in which they live. And because he’s anti-feminist - most women pay at least lip service to feminism.
I despise Fluke and her brand of political manipulation, and her deliberate attempt to undermine the tenets of the university she enrolled in. But attack that - not her personal sexual behavior and morality - which was never the issue. Most women have been verbally attacked in sexual terms in disputes - so Rush’s attack on Fluke made them sympathize with her - a tactical blunder on his part.
I informed my OB/GYN that I could not take Birth Control pills for hemorrhaging periods. There are many other hormone pills to take, because that’s what they are, hormone pills.
I even had Progesterone suppositories made at a local pharmacy.
“The pill” is just the easiest to write on a script. If a woman is not given the option to get a little plastic pack, she will be given a script for another pill. It’s in the marketing and not the ingredients.
DON’T let the libs fool you.
With clueless "friends" like you, conservatives don't need any other enemies.
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I’ll check out your site ...but it will only make it worse, I fear! (heavy sigh)
I’m not sure what kind of crowd you socialize in, but you’re making the mistake of thinking that most women are sympathetic to sluts.
And also, let me add this.
I’ve done medical billing when I was a Medical Office manager. Insurance companies pay for meds depending on the ICD (diagnostic) and CPT (treatment) codes. If a woman walks into a GYN office and says that she has irregular periods, she gets a certain diagnostic and a certain treatment code. If she had prescription coverage, she must have the right codes. They WILL pay for “the pill” if she is being treated for a medical condition, just because most other hormone pills have slipped away. They are there, but “the pill” is more available. They are not going to pay for contraception but will pay for hormone treatment.
See the difference?
A lot of women are not sympathetic to sluts. Most women are sympathetic to women who are called sluts.
Fluke did not say she was using contraception. She did not say she was having sex. She did not say she was having a lot of sex. She did not say she had a lot of sexual partners. What she said was that women at Georgetown should have the university insurance pay for their contraception if they want it. (I strongly disagree with her.) She appointed herself an advocate for these women and said NOTHING about her own life.
Fluke may be celibate. She might be engaged and faithful to her fiance. She might be a lesbian. She might be secretly married. She might be unfortunately typical of many young women with several different partners a year. She might be wildly promiscuous. We don’t know. Rush didn’t know.
Calling her a slut is unwarranted. Calling her a prostitute was out of line. It was not just wrong. It was stupid.
>>To: holdonnow<<
I saw what you did there. LOL, good for you! He is so good at what he does.
I appreciate your argument. One thing you might want to correct — since Fluke didn’t actually testify at a real hearing (it was a fake hearing, one of those gatherings where democrats get together and pretend to hold a hearing where only their side talks), she was never under oath, so she wouldn’t commit perjury by lying.
This may be why, when the republicans offered to allow the democrats to call her as a witness at the real hearing, the democrats ended up choosing a different witness, and then cancelling that witness as well.
But, she talked about six select women. One of them was a woman who was raped and, in Fluke's words, didn't seek medical care:
"even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health."
Laughable, right? The woman's problem wasn't that she didn't have contraception paid for by Georgetown; the woman's problem was that she was stupid. Contraception doesn't fix stupid.
Rush could have had a field day with that.
But he didn't. He went on and on about how much sex Fluke claimed she was having - three guys a night, and so on, when Fluke never mentioned her own sex life or use of contraception.
And Fluke said a married coed at Georgetown couldn't afford prescription contraception. We know, and Rush could have told the world, that it's available for $9 to $15 a month, generic. But Rush said that Fluke was buying condoms in the sixth grade, and that she was a prostitute.
And Fluke claimed that a woman had a medical condition and her doctors prescribed a contraceptive to treat it, but the evil insurance company personally interviewed the woman and decided that she wanted to have sex, and that was the reason for the contraceptive, so they denied coverage.
Can you imagine El-Rushmo riffing on that? It would be hilarious. But he didn't. He talking about how Fluke was base and immoral to be telling the world she was having sex with so many men.
Rush completely missed the mark twice. Fluke threw him softballs. He didn't even swing at them. And then he made up all of these things she supposedly said about her own sex life, and called her a slut as a result, when she never mentioned her sex life, the cost of her own contraceptives, or whether she was even on or needed contraception.
Does that make sense?
I appreciate that info.
A few years back I have a divorced neighbor friend that would have the most extreme mood swings (like bi-polar) that I saw personally during PMS/period, and she eventually went on what she said was the ‘birth control pill’ and it effectively softened the swings making her life manageable. At the same time she wanted have unmarried sex (being recently divorced) with different men with the pills protection. And she is a non-practicing Catholic yet. Better yet, she told me she believes that Mothers should put their teenage daughters on the pill.(standard where I live.)
So in her case it was both at least in her view.
I am 100% against Obama-care mandates. Have been. But I think this is an easy battle for Republicans to lose if they are not careful. And they are on a losing streak. If Pelosi becomes Speaker again then 2010 was a waste, and she will try to overturn DOMA.
>>Most women are sympathetic to women who are called sluts.<<
Not if they are sluts.
Please don’t make us all out to be sniveling Twilight moms who sit around waiting for the next “Sex and the City” movie watching “The View”.
Maybe where you live, woman are crying in their lattes for this chick. Where I live, right here in MI, women think she is Nancy’s b!tch who is lying by omission to forward her agenda. And honestly, Rush brought this to a head and it popped. What happens after a pimple pops?
But the debate is whether a woman has access to “contraception” for medical issues. Your story proves that they do.
I agree. :) Like Rush:
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