Archive for April 10, 2012

Santorum Drops Out

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1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in ,

With the del­e­gate counts and future states’ rules point­ing to an obvi­ous con­clu­sion, for­mer Sen­a­tor Rick San­to­rum (R-​​PA) announced today that he is drop­ping out of the race for President.

With that, the field is cleared for for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney, and the elec­tion enters a new phase. From here on out, it’s a sim­ple Rom­ney vs. Obama story.

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Meme Watch: The Republican War on Women

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1 year ago
by Monotreme in

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Big gavel, big mouth? Source: Esquire.

It was an inept turn of phrase.

Dur­ing an inter­view on Al Hunt’s Polit­i­cal Cap­i­tal on Bloomberg TV, Hunt asked Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee chair Reince Priebus:

The Democ­rats of course say you are wag­ing, the GOP is wag­ing a war on women. I know you don’t agree with that, but look­ing at the polls, you have a gen­der gap prob­lem. Recent polls show a huge, huge mar­gin for Democ­rats among women vot­ers. How big a prob­lem is it? How do you close it?

Priebus responded:

Well, for one thing, 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 have prob­lems with cater­pil­lars. The fact of the mat­ter is it’s a fic­tion and this started a war against the Vat­i­can that this pres­i­dent pur­sued. He still hasn’t answered Arch­bishop Dolan’s issues with Obama world and Oba­macare, so I think that’s the first issue.

Is the Repub­li­can War on Women a fic­tional meme, as Priebus argues, or is it sup­ported by the evi­dence? (more…)

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