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Dos Equis:
Is it me or have there just been a number of incredibly inappropriate comments by liberals about conservative women? 

Harkin Apologizes after Ernst Calls Remarks Sexist
Monday, 03 Nov 2014

Retiring Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin apologized Monday for calling Republican Joni Ernst attractive, but "wrong for the state of Iowa."

Harkin, who has served in the Senate for 30 years and is supporting Democrat Bruce Braley to succeed him, made the remarks at a recent Democratic dinner. Video of the comments was posted on the Buzzfeed website Sunday.

"I don't care if she's as good looking as Taylor Swift or as nice as Mr. Rogers, but if she votes like (U.S. Rep.) Michele Bachmann, she's wrong for the state of Iowa," Harkin said.

Ernst decried the remark as sexist, saying: "he was talking about me being attractive and I was very offended by that, and again if I had been a male candidate, he wouldn't have made those statements." But referencing a Swift song, Ernst said she would "shake it off."

In a statement released Monday afternoon, Harkin said: "I shouldn't have said those things, I know that. I regret any time someone feels offended by what I have said. I am only human and I can make mistakes sometimes in how I say something. In fact, I have complimented her on running a very good campaign."

Braley's campaign manager Sarah Benzing said in a statement that "Bruce is glad that Senator Harkin made it clear today that he regrets making those comments and that he shouldn't have talked about the race that way."

Ernst, 44, a state lawmaker, and Braley, 57, a four-term congressman, have been locked in a tight race for months. Late polls show conflicting results, with one poll suggesting Ernst had pulled ahead, while several others showed a close matchup. Millions have poured into the state as Republicans drive for the six-seat gain they need to take the Senate.

Both candidates stumped for votes Monday. Ernst greeted voters at a bagel shop in Ankeny as part of a final 24-hour tour through the state, with stops overnight until she votes in her hometown of Red Oak on Tuesday.

Braley toured the state with Harkin on Monday, touting a weekend of aggressive voter outreach. Braley will accompany his mother when she votes in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

http://www.Newsmax.com/Politics/US-Senate-Iowa-Taylor/2014/11/03/id/604980/#ixzz3I7QczOew

Dos Equis:
NIKKI HALEY'S DEM OPPONENT: 'ESCORT WHORE OUT THE DOOR!'
by JOHN NOLTE  24 Oct 2014

While giving a get-out-the-vote speech at a Florence, South Carolina political event, Democrat gubernatorial candidate, State Senator Vincent Shaheen, told cheering fans of his opponent, sitting Republican governor Nikki Haley, "We are going to escort whore out the door." He then seemed to correct himself by exchanging the word "whore" with "her" while sharing knowing smiles and laughs with the Democrat crowd.
Shaheen lost to Haley in 2010. In their current rematch, the Real Clear Politics poll of polls has Haley ahead by more than 15 points.
Democrats have largely based their 2014 hopes on the party's support and respect for women.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/24/nikki-haleys-dem-opponent-escort-whore-out-the-door

Archer77:
All the demagoguery from the left and right is so disgusting.  What a bunch of hypocritical fools.   But the proles eat it up even when they should know better.

Dos Equis:

--- Quote from: Archer77 on November 04, 2014, 09:05:38 AM ---All the demagoguery from the left and right is so disgusting.  What a bunch of hypocritical fools.   But the proles eat it up even when they should know better.

--- End quote ---

I agree.

Dos Equis:
They need to address their own party's war on women.

How the White House will use 'war on women' in 2015
BY BRIAN HUGHES | JANUARY 26, 2015

President Obama and his allies plan to ramp up their focus on the Republican "war on women," using the campaign-style approach to paint the new GOP majority as out of touch with the voters Democrats badly need to mobilize.

But the White House is tweaking its appeal to women, developing a more economic-centered pitch rather than devoting so much attention to social issues.

“It can’t just be abortion and birth control all the time,” a veteran Democratic pollster with close ties to the White House told the Washington Examiner.

“You have to give people a reason to vote for us, not just against the other side,” the female pollster added. “That’s why I think you’re seeing the White House frame it more in economic terms. I think that message appeals to even more women.”

The “war-on-women” attack proved disastrous for Democrats in November, most notably in a very winnable Senate contest in Colorado in which voters accused the party of pushing a single-issue platform.

Central to the newest effort is a heavy dose of messaging on equal pay, paid leave and greater access to child care, issues that received major play in Obama’s State of the Union address last week.

“It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or as a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us,” Obama told lawmakers.

Directly challenging Republicans, he later added, “Congress still needs to pass a law that makes sure a woman is paid the same as a man for doing the same work. It’s 2015. It’s time.”

However, Obama is hardly guaranteed to get much traction from the plan. The White House still lacks an effective defense for why female staffers earn less money on average than their male counterparts at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., analysts said.

Women at the White House make 88 cents for every dollar earned by a man, not all that different from the national average Obama so often highlights.

Those findings forced Obama spokesman Josh Earnest in July to admit, “I wouldn’t hold up the White House as the perfect example here.”

Critics argue that Obama’s message has another fatal flaw.

“Any woman who is a victim in this economy during the last six years is a victim of the Barack Obama economy,” said Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway. “Their own hand has brought any malady they are citing. They’re trying to run a challenger’s campaign as an incumbent.”

The White House isn’t dropping the issue of reproductive rights altogether — it recently issued a veto threat to a Republican bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy — but has put that message on the back burner.

Still, Republicans say the latest iteration of the White House attack won't work, noting their own efforts to pass legislation on worker training and flexibility, among other measures particularly appealing to women.

“It’s a strategy that failed in November, but for some reason, they’re going to double down,” said Doug Heye, former communications director of the Republican National Committee. “Republicans learned their lesson from dumb comments by dumb candidates in 2010 and 2012. Republicans are comfortable speaking about these issues."

Republicans fielded much-improved candidates in 2014, mostly avoiding nominees such as Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, who embarrassed the party when wading into a discussion on rape.

The White House is now essentially taking a new page out of an old playbook to beat Republicans.

When asked by the Examiner whether Obama would continue to grill conservatives on their approach to women’s issues, a White House official replied simply, “You better believe it.”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-the-white-house-will-use-war-on-women-in-2015/article/2559115

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