RNC Women

MEMORANDUM

From:               RNC Co-Chairman Sharon Day
To:                    Interested Parties
Date:                October 19, 2011
Re:                   Vice President Biden’s Demagoguery Is Demeaning To Women, Victims

Yesterday in Philadelphia, Vice President Biden decided to express his support for President Obama's Stimulus 2.0 plan by explaining to a crowd that he wished opponents “knew what it felt like to be robbed or raped.” Nothing could be more irresponsible and mean spirited. No victim of violent crime would ever wish that others were forced to experience the same trauma they went though – especially to make a brazen political point. So why would the sitting Vice President of the United States?

But this isn’t the first time the Vice President has used this irresponsible argument out on the stump. He used a similar line last week in Flint, Michigan saying that if the President’s stimulus bill isn’t passed, there will be a nationwide epidemic of rape and murder. ... more