Posted on 11/09/2009 10:23:12 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Meredith Shiner and I write today on the GOP's persistent trouble recruiting, retaining and attracting women, particularly in the House.
The exception seems to be among hard core conservatives, with Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Virginia Foxx (R-NC), emerging as populist folk heroes on the right.
But that doesn't necessarily make them appealing to independent and moderate women, says Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), herself a rising star among a larger class of Democratic women.
Asked about Foxx and Bachmann, Wasserman Schultz, blasted away:
This is a party that doesnt respect women, a party that doesnt believe women are equal to men, she told POLITICO. I dont think [Bachmann and Foxx] attract women to their party, she said.
I think they repulse women.
Thanks for the laugh.
She has DEAD EYES.....No Kindness or love behind those eyes.
This “woman” (if I, with a straight face, can call Wasserman that) is criminal stupid.
Especially considering that two of the Republican party’s strongest draws are both women...and mothers of five (+23 foster children in Bachmann’s case)
LMAO!
Thanks!...I think
I don’t know about Laz, but I think I would prefer the cricket to the skank.
re: “She looks, as I said on the other thread, like a woman with a bad bleach job”
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...and how about shampooing that mess, too!
Her comments are what lead woman to rethink a lot of classical feminist positions. My wife who always had a rather casual view of politics was appalled at the treatment of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin during the last presidential cycle. My wife is an university professor with a doctorate and definitely doesn’t meet the criteria that Wasserman is talking about. I personally don’t think woman are equal to men. I think they are better than that. Having been reared by and around strong women(grandmother, mother, aunts, sister, wife and daughters) all my life I find her remarks pathetic. I realize she has a constituency of victims who buy into her cannards but hopefully strong women will stand up to this generalized characterization.
Uh, she is not a rising star...maybe among a small group of kooks, maybe. But politico is loony if they think DWS is a hero to ANYONE.
See, what I think happens is the fine women of the GOP make inroads and headlines, while the pathetic libs in the Democrat ranks are boring and ignored--so the media tries to make a hero out of any idiot lib.
Whatyagot against Jimminy Cricket?
was W-S born a man?
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