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Posted by: Jan Larimer
6 CommentsIn a deeply flawed article on Politico yesterday, Meredith Shiner and Glenn Thrush tried to use Dede Scozzaffava’s loss in New York as evidence that the GOP has a “women problem.” They tried to make the connection that because conservatives worked against a female candidate’s campaign, then conservatives must necessarily be against women.
Washington is famous for being filled with bad logic, but that might take the cake.
To try to build their case, they highlighted quotes from Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) who described the GOP as: “…a party that doesn’t respect women, a party that doesn’t believe women are equal to men. I don’t think they attract women to their party. I think they repulse women.”
Using arguments as poisonous as Wasserman-Schultz’ to bolster a thesis as wrong as the one Shiner and Thrush came up with amounts to journalistic malpractice.
The GOP is filled with vibrant, conservative women. Indeed, it was a conservative woman – Sarah Palin – who helped kick start the campaign against Dede Scozzaffava in New York. The authors must have missed that.
Unfortunately, it’s not surprising that they skipped over facts like that. They also missed the fact that Republican candidates in New Jersey and Virginia made substantial gains among women this year over 2008, or the polling data that shows the fundamental concerns women voters have about the direction our country is headed under Democratic control.
What people like Wasserman-Schultz don’t want to believe is that women can be conservative, too. This is ironic from someone who the authors described as an “outspoken feminist.” Wasserman-Schultz and the Politico authors apparently believe women can be anything – just not conservative and Republican.
In 2010, we will prove them wrong again.
6 CommentsPosted by edrw on 2009-11-14T10:18:32.71
Where is the Republican Platform? The Democrat website has one and the Libertarian website has one. Where is the logic in that?
Posted by Teressa White on 2009-11-13T23:07:16.003
Wasserman-Schultz's attitude and snooty comments repulse me. I am terribly repulsed by the manner in which the liberal Democrats are paying to heed to what average Americans are trying to tell them. This woman makes her snooty comments without ANYTHING that actually backs them up. It's very typical. Ah, well.
Posted by JimM errick on 2009-11-11T05:58:14.407
Their logic sounds similar to the logic that developed jobs created or saved... ...oops, there is that pesky unemployment figure again!If you keep saying what you want to be true, maybe reality will change before the public is able to check your position!
Posted by margaret pinegar on 2009-11-10T21:33:16.847
i have found wasserman-schultz to be the perfect democratic idiot. she is so two-faced, to speak so bad of republicans and yet she sticks up for alen grayson rep in florida. she and pelosi are twins and just havent discovered each other yet, maybe on the unemployment line
Posted by cleo spivey on 2009-11-10T21:20:54.773
If you are given lemons make lemonade:) the far left are really angry it is a plus for us . By the way, our next governor in Florida women love him. NOT CHARLIE
Posted by Jim MacNeill on 2009-11-10T20:27:32.283
ummm...Both Senators from Maine are Republicans and women. Maybe Wasserman-Schultz should do a little homework before she speaks. Oops, she is a liberal. They don't do homework before they speak.
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