Democrats war on women

Ms. Wehby won the five-way GOP primary despite the last-minute spate of negative publicity, but the tactic revealed that Democrats are less concerned with defending women than with protecting their own majorities, said Ms. Shorey.


“They do not want more women in Congress if they’re Republicans. That’s the reality,” said Ms. Shorey. “They would rather have a traditional male, who will follow their line of thinking and lead this country down a path of dependency, than a quality woman candidate who happens to be a Republican.”
Another Republican woman who’s been targeted by Democrats is former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, who’s seeking the party’s U.S. Senate nomination against Rep. Gary C. Peters. The primary is Aug. 5, but there’s no question which candidate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, would prefer.
His Senate Majority PAC launched ads in May accusing her of wanting to take women’s rights “backwards,” but she anticipated the attacks with one of the most original ads of the 2014 election.
“Congressman Gary Peters and his buddies want you to think I’m waging a war on women. Really? Think about that for a moment,” says Ms. Land, who then takes a sip of coffee and checks her watch.
Patrice Douglas, who’s facing an Aug. 26 runoff for the Republican nomination in Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, said women have bigger problems with regulations driven by policies like Obamacare than with the “war on women.”
“I think they’ve taken the message and they’ve twisted it,” said Ms. Douglas, the former Edmond mayor. “I believe the war on women is the fact that women start more businesses every year than men, and the war on small business is really a war on women.”
However, Democrats doubled down on the “war on women” meme after the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, which allowed the company’s religious owners to exclude four of the 20 birth control methods required under Obamacare.
But so far the polling hasn’t been in their favor. Last week’s Paragon Insights poll found 49 percent of likely voters surveyed supported letting business owners opt out of the contraception mandate if it conflicts with their religious beliefs, while 38 percent disagreed.
Ms. Shorey said one way to disarm the Democratic “war on women” claims is to elect more female conservatives.
“Our main focus is let’s get women elected to Congress,” said Ms. Shorey. “You can’t claim ‘war on women’ when you have outstanding women elected to the House and Senate who are conservative and Republican in nature. You just can’t do it. Especially when it’s angry males on the left saying this kind of thing.

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