Discussion for article #227214
Clever, Mr. Tillis, but a little too late.
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Give 'em hell, Kay.
Plus, you know this whole “make birth control over the counter” proposal is just another one of those GOP strawmen they’ll repudiate down the road, a la Romneycare…
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Holy cats!!
Republicans are now falling over themselves attempting to bamboozle women into voting for them. Here’s Thom Tillis saying “contraception w/o a prescription!” And Reince Priebus cooing about how cool equal pay for women would be. If they keep this attempt at rationality up they’ll need to change the “R” after their name to a “D”.
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Etch-a sketch! Etch-a-sketch!!!
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this must be the new marching orders by the anto women right wingers. They will get away with it only democrats play nice on this issue
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Nice try, but it isn’t a prescription because MDs get a kickback, but because you just don’t throw hormones down the hatch based on which one you have a coupon for.
Also nice way to take contraception out of the Obamacare argument - its like vitamins, not an insurance item.
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Yep, that. And he’s lying his ass off too.
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If that’s the best Tillis has got, you can stick a fork in him in about 60 days.
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It also allows them to say, “Hey, who cares if Obamacare doesn’t cover birth control? Women can just go to the store and buy it without a prescription!”
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…argued that over the counter contraception should be made available without a prescription.
Surprise! It already is.
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Yeah, because that’s what over the counter actually means.
Obviously, another GOP male who doesn’t understand the complexity of birth control and that what women are asking to be covered under insurance plans isn’t jelly and condoms.
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It’s sheer coincidence that that douchebag Cory Gardner, who’s running for Senate in Colorado, who was all about the personhood amendment until he discovered you can’t win that race in a purple state by pissing off women tried this exact same ploy last week. Sheer coincidence. Rumors of oligarch-funded focus grouping of various messages trying to find a way to counteract that stink driving this amazing, spontaneous appearance of this talking point in two different purple state Senate races at the exact same time are irresponsible rumor-mongering.
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If i were a bible thumping holier the thou republican ,I’d stay home on election night.
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No, they will never earn a D after their names. All of their sudden “play up to the women folk” policies are based on the premise that women are shallow, base all their decisions on what the gender needs or wants in the short term, and are easily fooled. It is the same rationale that the McCain campaign used when putting Sarah Palin on the ticket (i.e. women will vote for any woman) - It makes me furious but I calm down when I realize it doesn’t work.
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As Max Bialystock might say, why stop with contraception?
Hagan should one-up him and demand all “over the counter” drugs be available without prescription.
It wouldn’t create “broader access” to anything (despite the TPM headline), but if you’re gonna spout nonsense, go big!
This just in… GOPers finally got the memo… There’s more smart white women than dumb white men… Film at eleven.
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Yeah, and then he ended with, this ad is not approved by Tom Tillis.
Honesty is not why any person votes Republican and truthfully I don’t know any reason why they do.
What is the copay to abort Repubs?
I wouldn’t count on that, especially since there are plenty of dumb white women as well. But they have started to realize that they can’t win with dumb white men alone.
Heh, the last person this GOP tactic would work on is my wife, Mrs darr. She certainly isn’t easily fooled nor is she shallow.