GOP Women And Abortion Dismissal Was A 'Strategic Error'

GOP Women And Abortion Dismissal Was A 'Strategic Error,' Conservatives Scold

Dismissing reproductive rights and other women's issues as a "distraction" from the economy was a strategic mistake by Republicans that could have cost them the election, conservative pundits and women's groups charged on Wednesday.

President Obama's win on Tuesday was aided by the massive 18-point gender gap between supporters of him and Mitt Romney. Women's strong support for Obama, particularly in the swing states, comes following tireless efforts by his campaign to discuss reproductive rights issues, equal pay and health care coverage for women.

Mitt Romney and the Republicans, by contrast, repeatedly tried to change the subject away from women's issues, particularly abortion and birth control, and even veered toward mocking those issues at times.

"The Republicans' insistence in unilaterally disarming on social issues means that only the left is discussing abortion and marriage," said Penny Nance, president of the conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America. "Refusing to discuss this important issue left their candidates unprepared to intelligently engage on life."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 88401.html

What "War on Women"? Boy, hindsight is 20/20, isn't it?

(Now, where are those posts about the "GOP closing the gap on women".....?)

Preachin' to the choir...

Fearmongering has proven to be an effective tactic in past elections, and it worked yesterday too. Abortion & contraception would have remained legal no matter who was elected president.

In your opinion... And you don't know that it would have...

LadyJazzer wrote: In your opinion... And you don't know that it would have...

Yes I (we) do. We are the conservatives, and I wouldn't have supported a change like that. It is a very small minority. And of course it is our opinion.

Yet the House GOP passed 55 - 60 bills in two years to limit a woman's right to choice. That does not seem to be a small minority of Republicans. They passed more bills on that subject than on jobs, taxes, budget or the economy.

Something the Dog Said wrote: Yet the House GOP passed 55 - 60 bills in two years to limit a woman's right to choice. That does not seem to be a small minority of Republicans. They passed more bills on that subject than on jobs, taxes, budget or the economy.

And then there was "Governor Vaginal-Probe", Todd "Legitimate Rape" Aiken, Richard "Rape is God's Will' Mourdock.... (And that's not counting the extremists already in the House)... Yeah, right... Stuff would not have passed...

I hope you guys keep hanging on to that idea, and run those same kind of candidates next time...

Maybe the GOP just passed them because they knew they were dead on arrival? Like Obama submitting a budget to Congress that he knew neither the House nor Senate would approve?

A couple outliers do not make a party. Does Jesse Jackson Jr. represent the mainstream Dem party?

A majority in Congress pushing 55 - 60 bills is not an outlier.

Yes, they appeared to be more interested in that than the "laser-like focus on jobs."