Reince Priebus: Dem charges about GOP "war on women" are "fiction"

CBS

If Republicans have a problem with women voters, it's because Democrats have fueled that false narrative, the head of the Republican party said in an interview with Bloomberg Television to air this weekend.

"If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told Bloomberg. "It's a fiction."

Democrats in recent weeks have indeed capitalized on just about every opportunity to cast the GOP as anti-women, even jumping on Priebus' remarks to Bloomberg. Democrats, of course, argue their line of attack is legitimate, and they say the proof is in the polls.

A Gallup/ USA Today poll conducted in late March shows that President Obama has a 19-point advantage over Mitt Romney among women in swing states. Democrats typically win more support from women than Republicans, but this gap is notably larger than usual.

Democrats argue that gap exists because of the recent focus on issues relating to contraception, abortion rights and women's health care in general.

"The debate has really brought clarity to the fact that women's health needs are under attack by an increasingly conservative Republican party," New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney told Hotsheet in March. "I think it's much worse than I've ever seen before."

Both sides see opportunity in women's health fights

Democrats were quick Thursday to jump on Priebus to advance their argument, castigating the RNC chairman for "comparing" women to caterpillars.

"If you agree that attacks on women's health is too serious to be compared to a 'war on caterpillars' tweet @Reince to tell him how you feel!" Democratic National Committee spokesperson Melanie Roussell tweeted.

The Obama campaign even released a statement arguing that Priebus' remarks show women can't trust Romney.

"Reince Priebus' comparison of Republican attempts to limit women's access to mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, and contraception to a 'war on caterpillars' shows how little regard leading Republicans, including Mitt Romney, have for women's health," Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter said.

Democrats have taken a number of tactical steps to rally women voters. The Obama campaign at the end of the month is hosting a "National Women's Issues Conference" at which the president will speak. The White House is also highlighting Mr. Obama's attention to women's issues with a forum on women and the economy tomorrow.

Republicans argue that the economy is exactly the reason women should favor the GOP. They've pointed to a Pew Report that found "women represent the only group for whom employment growth has lagged behind population growth in the recovery."

Priebus told Bloomberg the GOP will take their economic platform "to women and everyone in this country."

"This president hasn't fulfilled his promises," he said. "We can do better in this country in regards to jobs and the economy."

[Bocaguy]

It is interesting how we continue to hear Reince Priebus repeat himself like a programmed robot on the economy, people out of work, the deficit etc. The goal has always been: power over minds of victims. Create the "Vicitm Mode" with your viewers and convince them there are hardtimes or that they "work hard" to support their families or any other hog wash to Get a Vote. Anyone who has lost their job can easily get another job, oh it may not be what they use to do and they may need to sacrifice the location they are living in or the big 40k truck or kiss their TV addicted partner or child goodbye for awhile but it is a job which is the way it was in the 20's & 30's. You were not too proud to "work." Most Americans have placed more emphasis on luxury items like cars, flat screen tvs, Ipads, cell phones and the like and do not even think about a savings account...so when they no longer have a job they beg for sympathy like someone or something has done them wrong. Everyone is 100% responsible for everything, every action and every experience in their lives, period.
The GOP which is another form of seperation from fellow humans needs to serve as role model for all and cease slandering Presidents or anyone in any office who was put their by fellow humans. He who judges, judges oneself, period. Time for us all to be the true spiritual beings we were meant to be. Honor each other or say nothing. No respect comes to those who slander, judge or degrade. Empower with your words and actions and dissolve your need to play or prey on the popular term victim. No one is a victim unless they choose to be.

[CNH]

American women to Republican Party: "WE will decide whether or not our rights are being assaulted by conservative policies, thank you very much."

[KeepThinking]

The Republicans' War on Women is so wildly out of control, from blocking the renewal of the laws against domestic violence, to weakening the laws against rape in many of the States, that re-electing the President is the only hope of stopping this Talaban-ization of America -- for women, and for the fathers, bothers, husbands and sons who respect them and do not want their legal rights to be shredded, or to see them vilified or brutalized.

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agentzer007: "Their dispute is that they don't believe abortion is right and taxpayer dollars shouldn't be used to support it."




Just because republican dogma allows them to believe such garbage, American women already thought this battle was waged in the 1970's and put to rest with the 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court, that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion.

While the GOP's WAR on women also includes their WAR on Planned Parenthood, many misconceptions have led to outrageous propaganda.

Q: How much of Planned Parenthood's services are dedicated to abortions? Does the federal government fund those procedures?

A: Abortions represent 3 percent of total services provided by Planned Parenthood, and roughly 10 percent of its clients received an abortion. The group does receive federal funding, but the money cannot be used for abortions by law.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/

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This republican insanity of their WAR on women which includes their WAR on Planned Parenthood, is just beyond the pale. Planned Parenthood says only 3 percent of its total services in 2009 were abortions. The other 97 percent of services were for contraception, treatment and tests for sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screenings, and other women's health services.


Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the federal government for abortions anyway. According to the Department of Health and Human Service's website, "by law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning." Medicaid funding is restricted by the Hyde Amendment to only abortion cases involving rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. Some states use their own funds under Medicaid to go beyond that. Seventeen states and, until recently, the District of Columbia pay for "medically necessary" abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. The federal budget deal now bans Washington, D.C., from using its funds to pay for abortions.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/

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Whether or not you think this amounts to a Republican "war on women," it's definitely a "war on women voters."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/#ixzz1rI64oGcb

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This is all you need to see to decide for yourself about the republican WAR on women:


"A Gallup/ USA Today poll conducted in late March shows that President Obama has a 19-point advantage over Mitt Romney among women in swing states. Democrats typically win more support from women than Republicans, but this gap is notably larger than usual."

[KeepThinking]

The Republicans are lucky the President has only a 19-point advantage among women. If the Republicans did not have such a huge well-funded lies machine working for them, including Fox "News" and the the vile drug addict Limbaugh, the President's lead would be larger still. In any case, the President advantage among women will still increase inexorably as more and more women find out about the abusive, vicious anti-woman legislation Republican law-makers supported by big money have forced through in one State legislature after another.

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I certainly am surprised that you fox/rush parrots didn't see this on the fox political network:


Yes, there is a Republican war on women voters

From the GOP primary to the conservative airwaves, in state legislatures and in Congress, Republicans are playing politics with women's health and basic liberties, driving a wedge among conservatives and driving women voters toward the Democrats.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/#ixzz1rI3pPPt9

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Fast-forward to February 2011 when anti-choice Republicans pushed a rogue measure to cut off all federal funding from Planned Parenthood , even though less than 3% of services provided by Planned Parenthood are abortions, none of which are paid for using federal grant dollars.

Still, Republicans saw an opportunity to fire up their fringe base while undermining a liberal-leaning advocacy organization. And if the five million American women who get affordable health care from Planned Parenthood every year had to be thrown under the bus, so be it. All's fair in politics.

Almost a year later, a Republican operative at the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation pushed for the organization to cut its support of Planned Parenthood. Uproar from women was swift and strong, prompting Komen to reverse the decision and fire the ideologically-driven instigator.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/#ixzz1rI4cWNtY

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But Republicans kept pushing their anti-choice, anti-women's health agenda.

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has repeatedly reiterated his staunch opposition to contraception, began surging in the polls among conservative voters.

Republicans in Virginia proposed a law that would require women seeking abortions, even those resulting from rape or incest, to first submit to mandatory trans-vaginal ultrasounds -- a further invasion of their bodies.

And Republicans in Texas pushed through a law defunding Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, cutting off at least 60,000 low-income women from their health care providers.

Thursday, the New York Times reports , "Senate Democratic women plan to march to the Senate floor to demand quick action on the extension of the Violence Against Women Act." The Times goes on to say that the act, "once [a piece of ] broadly bipartisan legislation...now faces fierce opposition from conservatives." The article also mentions this point from a female, Republican Senator: "At a closed-door Senate Republican lunch on Tuesday, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska sternly warned her colleagues that the party was at risk of being successfully painted as anti-woman -- with potentially grievous political consequences in the fall."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/#ixzz1rI52Xjjk

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Reince Priebus: Dem charges about GOP "war on women" are "fiction"



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DJ332013: "They are not at war with any of the above. You get the talking points from the DNC"

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agentzer007: "spout their own DNC talking points."
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Social Media:
The Republican War on Women is on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Republican-War-on-Women/216704711705942

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Murkowski Becomes Third Republican Senator To Criticize GOP's War On Women

The men in the Republican Party may not think they're fighting a "WAR on women," but its female senators certainly do. Yesterday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Kay Bailey Hutchison in criticizing the GOP's push for legislation to restrict access to contraception and other basic health care services:

"It makes no sense to make this attack on women," she said at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon. "If you don't feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters."

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Judging from comments made recently by prominent Republicans, the GOP has got a serious problem with women. Until they get over their issues, women have got a serious problem with the GOP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjAMRgpoug

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Yes, there is a Republican war on women voters

From the GOP primary to the conservative airwaves, in state legislatures and in Congress, Republicans are playing politics with women's health and basic liberties, driving a wedge among conservatives and driving women voters toward the Democrats.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/#ixzz1rI3pPPt9

[stormerF69]

Since Hillary and Obama have embraced the Muslim Brotherhood their claim of women's rights are all but null. Seeing the Muslims believe women are property and can be beaten by hand or stick because they are stupid and can have their ears pulled,for not listening to their husband. It is in the quran,lefties learn to read please.

[occupy_cbs]

Typical fox/rush propaganda from the far-right without any facts!

[occupy_cbs]

Yes, there is a Republican war on women voters

From the GOP primary to the conservative airwaves, in state legislatures and in Congress, Republicans are playing politics with women's health and basic liberties, driving a wedge among conservatives and driving women voters toward the Democrats.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/yes-there-is-republican-war-on-women-voters/#ixzz1rI3pPPt9

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nomealaska: "The Republicans are attacking women, gays, blacks, immigrants, Hispanics, and anyone who isn't white, male and evangelical Christian. This is the way they have behaved since I was a kid and for the past 30-40 years that I have observed them. They want home schooling or private school for their kids, so they don't discover the truth and turn on their parents for dishing out stupidity all these years. Way to go, Bozos!"




Pretty much the case, and why the republican party is run by a bunch of old, white, country club men, who get the votes of mostly white men, most voting against their economic interests, and still trying to deprive the poor, the elderly and students from voting in 2012 despite the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- almost 50-years ago!

[occupy_cbs]

Talk about clueless, maybe you should check out the need to deny students the right to vote in many republican-run states in 2012 since student photo ID's are not valid, and the WAR from the republicans on student loans and Pell Grants today and in the 'lyin' ryan' budget!

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fixingit2002: "money taken out of my paycheck.....my wallet.....involve my paycheck.."



GEEZ.....talk about a one-issue, white, male voter, that 'thinks' he can direct federal revenue only in certain directions by his approval and not in others, by his disapproval.

People like you just crack me up, especially knowing that taxes are at a post-WWII LOW, and all conservatives just love spending more and more of our tax dollars on the bloated and out-of-control military-industrial complex mafia (quadrupled spending since 2000 to a whopping $1.3 Trillion currently), and just love spending about one-third of the $2.6 Trillion we are currently spending on health care on unneeded tests and procedures, but when it comes to women's health, they are supposed to give old, white males complete control of their bodies!

YOU can talk about SMALL GOVERNMENT and FREEDOMS all you want, but all you're spewing is hypocritical B.S. laced with religious dogma.

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Hey DJ, the point of BOTH posts was all about MONEY, and you could only take away from that, was the skin color of the white men populating the republican party today. No cards bubba, just the facts, and you can plainly see it from every state's republican primary and especially from any teabagger rally picture!