The Animals Where

Romney is severely behind Obama with women voters in swing states. He has announced that he is going to win the ladies over by emphasizing the economic issues and how he is going to wave his magic wand and heal the wounds Obama has inflicted upon it.

(I find it funny that conservatives never admit that our economic state is a result of Bush’s reckless leadership, obviously, and didn’t just randomly spring up in the past 3 years of Obama’s presidency.) 

I heard this and began to figure out the Republican tactic, which was confirmed after seeing Republic Governor Nikki Haley on the view saying “All of my policy is not based on a label. It’s based on what I’ve lived and what I know: Women don’t care about contraception. They care about jobs and the economy and raising their families and all of those things.” .. and then..  “The media wants to talk about contraception. … While we care about contraception, let’s be clear. All we’re saying is we don’t want government to mandate when we have to have it and when we don’t. We want to be able to make that decision.”

Republicans are maneuvering, not to appease women who don’t want their rights taken away, but to flash other issues in their faces, thinking that women will magically forget about the contraception issue if they emphasize over and over again what women REALLY care about, which is apparently the economy. I personally don’t really like politicians telling me what I care and don’t care about, especially when its so obviously twisted to support their political agenda and to cover their asses on issues they’ve offended women on.

The blatant misogyny rooted in the Republican party is being seen by women everywhere. The fact that these men thought they could breech these issues and it would NOT jeopardize their campaigns is proof of that. The fact that they still insult the intelligence of women in this country by thinking that they can regain women’s votes by weakly sidestepping the issues and whining pathetically about the economy is proof of that. Women will not forget. 

What they failed to take into account is that women won the right to vote almost 100 years ago. Though they might wish this to be untrue, women have just as much voting power as men, perhaps more, as I believe there are more women than men in the country. 

Dear God, this has turned into a ramble. I’m cutting myself off. My sass for the day.

Oo, Nancy Pelosi is on Rachel Maddow tonight. Two of the country’s sassiest women in the same room! I like them.

German Politics, son

My german friend was telling me today that the neo-nazi-like party in her country has been gaining some power over the last few years. I said, “What.” They apparently gained a seat in Austria and they are currently represented in two out of Germany’s sixteen state parliaments, but so far no federal seats. When she left, I wikipediad the National Democratic Party of Germany and was shocked to read this section:

In November 2008, shortly after the 2008 United States Presidential Election, the NPD published a document entitled “Africa conquers the White House” which stated that the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States was the result of “the American alliance of Jews and Negroes” and that Obama aimed to destroy the United States’ “white identity.” The NPD claimed that “A non-white America is a declaration of war on all people who believe an organically grown social order based on language and culture, history and heritage to be the essence of humanity” and that “Barack Obama hides this declaration of war behind his pushy sunshine smile.” The NPD also stated that the extensive support for Obama in Germany “resembles an African tropical disease.”

It’s all pretty shocking, actually.