Discussion: GOP Deploying Army Of Volunteers To Court Women Voters

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How do you court young female voters being against abortion, being against health insurance, being against pay check fairness. Actually how do you court voters of any gender or age by being against everything and for nothing. Oh wait I know, you lie to them. . . again.

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Breathless media accounts of various GOP self-resurrection methods indict both the lazy, directionless media and the aged, crumbling remains of the once grand old party

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The desperation of the modern GOP is astounding. You ‘court’ voters by adopting policies that benefit said voter. You don’t put on a dog and pony show and then turn around and block paycheck fairness, access to safe health care and equal rights.

The GOP is dying, and no amount of ‘outreach’ is going to revive it unless it radically changes its base values.

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Well firstly the GOP is gonna have to dress up their image and muzzle a few of their more “eloquent” members and begin speaking in rational voices. Then they need to actually get with the times. Of course they can do none of these things. It’s a hopeless “change” they are looking lor.

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If they expect to send that room full of old perfume and cake makeup out onto the streets to recruit independent-minded women, they are fooling themselves (again, ad infinitum.)

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I expect this to go about as well as their outreach to Latinos. “You whores just need to get married and go to church” isn’t really a winning message.

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Hmm. Aside from having a big personal interest in reproductive rights and employment fairness, I’m also opposed to government corruption, willful ignorance and race- and gay-baiting.

But hey–if another person with a vagina says the Republicans are okay, that’s enough for me!

Seriously, you’d think the Rs would have figured out the night of the 2008 election that women don’t vote on the basis of shared numbers of X chromosomes. I don’t know why they expect having GOP women make their pitch is going to do them any good. Do they think they can slut-shame us into voting for their candidates?

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Now that’s the kind of snark I’ve been missing, Plucky. Well said. Well said.

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