The Republican Party Must Win Back Women Voters

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As long as the Republicans confined themselves to being simply "Pro-Life," they could maintain their own party's women voters and perhaps some of the independent women. But now that they have shoved through vaginal ultrasounds in many states and are vehemently attempting to prevent ALL women from having access to contraceptives, they have driven a stake through their own hearts and short of completely reversing themselves, which would prove to be obvious politics at work, they have all Democrat women, most Independent women and some Republican women against them. It's too late now.

Deborah Dean of TX 1:05PM April 12, 2012

I was a GOP supporter from 1968 through 1988, a volunteer in both Reagan campaigns. How any woman, with any vestige of self-respect, could continue to vote "R" is totally beyond me. There may indeed be some right-leaning opinions that women can agree with; there are some I still agree with myself.
But the contempt, the patronizing condescension and the non-stop disparagement of women and their concerns completely outweigh those issues. When the GOP turned into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Southern Baptist Convention is when I fled. I'm merely amazed that other women are just now waking up to the threats to their hard-won rights.

Mandy Cat of FL 3:10PM March 25, 2012

Repub from FL,
I'll keep it to one issue.
YOU have lost YOUR collective mind". You are a Republican, but you are sucking up liberal bile about our Constitution and parroting it.
You used the typical, liberal-distorted church/state error. Please free yourself of liberal talking points and arguments.
The 'separation of church and state' is a liberal semi-paraphrase of a sliver of Thomas Jefferson's private letter to the Danbury Baptists IN REPLY TO the Baptist's letter to him.
The Baptist's letter was 'Do you believe in the GOV'T INTERFERING in the affairs OF THE CHURCHES?' He answered - NO.
That is OPPOSITE of the Left, who made it a decades-long propaganda blitz substituting the First Amendment for their agenda being poured into the sliver of Jefferson's letter, semi-paraphrased. They turn it into the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it means.
The ObamaCare/ACA HHS mandate is a FIRST AMENDMENT issue. It's irrelevant on what issue it's being applied to.
~ First Amendment:
# "CONGRESS"
# "SHALL MAKE NO LAW"
# "RESPECTING THE *ESTABLISHMENT* OF RELIGION"
# "OR *PROHIBITING* THE *FREE* EXERCISE THEREOF;"
James Madison maintained:
1785: "Because if Religion be EXEMPT from the authority of the Society at large, STILL LESS can it be subject to that of the *Legislative Body*."
- James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments-Point #2, June 20, 1785. Papers 8:198-304
1789: "The civil rights of NONE shall be abridged ON ACCOUNT OF religious belief or worship, nor shall any NATIONAL *RELIGION* be ESTABLISHED".
- James Madison's 1st draft, the religion clause. June 8, 1789
Founding father, Patrick Henry did say:
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
So, a good close paraphrase is: "Congress, a Legislative Body, shall pass no laws establishing a state religion, nor shall Congress prohibit the FREE exercise of religion."
So, a religious institution and person should not be forced to pay for, or provide for, contraception, whatever it is, if it violates their faith.
BTW, Fluke & Co can get $9 contraception from Walmart or buy female and male condoms.
Just sayin....
The real issue is the actual First Amendment.
Spinning that issue doesn't change the legal reality from "the Supreme Law of the Land".
Obama Inc wants to skip this amendment.
Then again, Obama DOES take a 'living document' view, so his agenda stuffed into the Constitution serves his agenda.

HarryFromMA of MA 9:31PM March 20, 2012

The Republican part seems to have lost its collective mind. Where is the separation of church and state, one of the most important features of our government ideal? They go nattering about small government and then stick their noses into what we women are doing reproductively. 99.999% of us are not married to any of these clowns therefore its none of their business unless they want really big government. who is going to take care of all those unwanted children since they feel social programs are a burden. We don't have enough law enforcement and prisons now just give 10 years under their plan. Oh I forgot, it's the abstinance plan which has never worked in human history. Birth control of any method is a whole lot cheaper than keeping criminals locked up even for a short while.
Tax reform is just a pipe dream there a too many vested interests. Lawyers, accountants, IRS employees, and others really like it the confusing way it is.
Soo I guess it"s going to be more Obama and I"m quite sure the nut cases in Congress will all be reelected because the public doesn"t get that they are where the real power is.

repub of FL 11:15PM March 16, 2012

Sounds like Fox News.

Matt of MA 6:05PM March 16, 2012

Yeah, I think it is too late for the republicans to win back many if any women voters. november is going to be a bloodbath for the republicans.
rush limbaugh and rick santorum have done more to recruit women voters to the democrates than even the democrates could have done by themselves. it`s going to be ugly, when the sun rises on november 7th there will be republican scalps nailed to every barn door.

tardacus of MD 12:44AM March 16, 2012

Sorry, but it's way too late for the Republicans. Since 2010, the Republican party has focused on limiting women's rights in various states all over the nation - whether reproductive rights, eliminating equal pay laws, or intentionally attempting to humilate women for having the audacity for trying to have normal, productive lives.
Limbaugh wasn't a first strike - he was a last straw. It's been known for years that the Republicans were not in favor of female equality in the US. The recent trend has just been revealing how backward and misogynistic the party of straight white Christian men really is.

Melissa of MT 4:09PM March 15, 2012

You want to keep the Repubs out of the bedroom....all women should strike and refuse to have sex with their husbands/partners until this subject is taken out the debate. The government has no right to tell a woman what to do with their body. Next thing you know the repubs will be taking away a woman , the right to own land, the right to vote and freedome to drive.IS THIS 2012 OR 1912?
WAKE UP! We don't hate males we just want to have the same rights males do on making choices about what we do with our bodies.

Gail of GA 11:20AM March 14, 2012

Republicans are always wanting the government to force their craziness on everone. Then they demagogue about getting the government off our backs. They have become a party for stupid people.

It's all over now Baby Blue of CA 11:03AM March 13, 2012

Hey Temmi of Wa, how do you feel about the women our war machines have killed and injured all over the middle east? Think Libya and Afghanistan for starters.. do you know that President Obama is the commander in chief and ordered those attacks and also that it violates our Constitution because the Congress is supposed to decide on war making?
Temmi, hating males won't solve your discontent with the world. Blessed are the peacemakers. And wouldn't you have something nice to say about the one Republican candidate who respects the right of all citizens, women and men, to decisions about their own body? Or is the idea to make the Democratic party a dying enclave of radical feminists with a goal of 50% (or more) women in the top Statist jobs.. and how were you "associated" with a republican or republicans?
If President Obama supported civil liberties nearly as much as Dr. Paul, then he wouldn't be storm trooping his way into California and Colorado to shut down State licenced medical cannabis clinics.. right or wrong? If you are looking for freedom, honk twice ;)
With liberty and justice for all...

John of NY 6:39AM March 13, 2012