RNC Concludes Women Voters Need To Hear “Softer” Voices, Fewer “Facts”

[demmiblue]

Source: care2

You’d never know it from the way they’ve been legislating, but Republicans are apparently in a state of reflection. Knowing they lost the 2012 election badly, and with an eye toward the future, RNC leaders released a self-critique of the party they described as existing in an “ideological cul-de-sac” and in need of a new brand of conservatism that would reach younger voters, ethnic minorities and women. It is a long report that can pretty fairly be summed up as concluding that an ideological platform that is openly hostile to pretty much most of America is not a platform with a lot of longevity. Sounds promising.

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For example, the RNC concludes that Republican candidates must connect with women voters using “softer language,” fewer “graphs and charts” and by assembling a strong list of female surrogates to do media appearances. That’s right. Republicans conclude that to win women voters they must use their “inside” voice and not bombard those ladybrains with all that “information.” Oh, and rather than actually place women in positions of leadership within the party, they plan to just pluck a few pretty faces to put in front of the cameras.

“The report appears to blame voter turnout operations, messaging, and other tactical failures for the GOP’s losses in 2012 and utterly fails to recognize that the candidates’ positions on women’s health were defining and decisive issues,” Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) Vice President Dawn Laguens wrote in a memo.

Laguens summed it up. “Candidates who would limit access to birth control, overturn Roe v. Wade, and defund Planned Parenthood lost in November because the majority of voters disagree with their agenda.”

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[monmouth3]

1. This is so utterly disgusting. I'd rather they call me a dumb b*%^n than this nonsense.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Graphs, charts, and loud voices make us hysterical.

[treestar]

3. They are living in their own world

and applying its rules. They want to believe certain things of women. So they apply what would work with the creatures they invented.

[LiberalLoner]

27. +1

[Botany]

4. Is this from the onion?

n/t

[tanyev]

5. Don't forget a few patronizing pats on the top of the head.

We gals just love that.

[ck4829]

6. Why it's important to hold the Democratic Party's feet to the fire and keep them from Eeyoring

All around, the Republicans are making their ideology more extreme but they believe that by putting it in a pretty package they can still win. And the problem with that is is that they are actually right if the Democrats don't engage ALL of the nation, including in the places that they think are 'lost' or supposedly solid Republican.

[DURHAM D]

7. We should just call this the "There, there Little Lady..." strategy.

[HappyMe]

8. Dumbasses.

Try again, fools.

[City Lights]

9. Yeah, that'll do it.

[NastyRiffraff]

10. Don't worry your pretty little head..

..about those pesky, confusing facts.

Republicans: Dumb and Dumber.

[Scuba]

11. Instead of fewer graphs and charts, how about honest graphs and charts?

[BrotherIvan]

22. +1

[marions ghost]

12. Let 'em go down this road

la la la

It's SO stupid!

[LadyHawkAZ]

13. I'd read the article and comment on it

but my poor little female brain can't handle so many words in one place.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Oh Christ, they are so out of touch!

They are beyond help.

[mythology]

15. Part of me wishes they could be smarter

but then again, I'm okay with the opponent being stupid. It makes it easier for Democrats to win. Because thankfully a majority of women are smarter than Republicans give them credit for being.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Yeah, because that mentality worked so well in 2012.

Let's double-down on it!

Go for it, assholes.

[olddots]

17. this is what they come up with in "think tanks "

GOP = gross old pigs

[surrealAmerican]

18. Since when did they present facts to anybody?

Here's a hint: that stuff you make up is not facts, it's lies.

[Fumesucker]

19. Next thing you know the Pubs will be holding doors for women

[Raine]

20. JESUS they REALLY are STUPID! I always thought the were actually just EVIL but

now I know they are EVIL and STUPID! Of course it will work on some of their cool-aid drinkers but there aren't enough of them to continually carry them to victory.

[RainDog]

21. GO FUCK YOURSELVES, GOP

Any self-respecting woman shouldn't.

[alp227]

23. My motto when I see these types of stories?

Keep digging, keep digging!!!! These fuckers are stuck in a nostalgic '50s fantasy land.

[Volaris]

24. wether they know it or not,

that Party is begging like hell for the re-incarnation of (PROGRESSIVE) Uncle Teddy to show up and start kicking the FUCK out of the "yapping terriers of Ignorance".

[Quantess]

25. They really are willfully ignorant.

More so than I even imagined.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. The GOP desperately wants someone to tell them how to win voters without actually changing anything.

they think if they can just find the right magic hokum, the talisman, the proper combination of words and sounds... they'll solve their massive and growing demographic clusterfuck.

Actually, the smart ones know this not to be the case, but they're stumped, too.

Fact is, the only way the GOP can broaden its appeal is to jettison some of the cluck-nutter ideas that the base loves.

But the base won't have it.

[sendero]

28. It's hard to get fewer...

... than zero.

It looks to me like it is going to take the GOP a few more elections before a clue sets in.

[liberal N proud]

29. Fewer facts?

Difficult to use less facts than the Republicans already use.

[Kath1]

30. Ugh!

The war on women backfired on them and they haven't learned a thing. Yes, those silly little facts and issues sure do get in the way of women voting Republican.

[Buffalo Bull]

31. they believe that they are martyrs for a higher cause

The conservatives are in high dungeon, currently they seem to understand why they lost,
at the same time they are believing that their defeat is a symbol of their purity.
It all reminds me of a line from Bob Dylan

Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after

They don't want to govern nor lead they want to go down in a blaze of glory
Just like John Wayne did in the Alamo