Republicans’ Anti-Women Stance Will Be the Fall Of the Party

Our first clue should have been the great 2012 electoral gender gap which aided Obama to victory. But this isn’t the only evidence that women are no longer simply a large voting bloc or interest group; indeed, at 51%, they should be in the driver’s seat of the electorate. More numbers released last week via Emily’s List would seem to confirm this, but the GOP remains intransigent or moronic or both: While Republican strategists and party grandees suggested that the GOP needed a major overhaul regarding its effort to attract women, little effort appears to have been made. Republicans sputtered in their early post-election attempts to appeal to women. After debuting an all-male committee chair lineup in the U.S. House, they hastily appointed Rep. Candice Miller (MI) to head the House Administration Committee, the “committee that oversees the chamber’s housekeeping.” They were also forced to offer a seminar at the official House GOP retreat shockingly explaining why they should stop making offensive comments about rape. And let’s not forget: 160 Republicans voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Shameful.