Mitt Romney: Obama is the one who's truly waging The War on Women

[no_hypocrisy]

-snip-

“There’s been some talk about the war on women,” he said, referring to claims by Democratic leaders that the Republican Party is hostile toward women with its positions on issues like abortion and health care. “The real war on women has been waged by the Obama administration’s failure on the economy.”

He repeatedly cited the figure of 92.3 percent, which he said was women’s share of all the jobs lost since the president’s inauguration in January 2009.

“The president is so out of touch, I don’t think he knew that number."

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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/romney-champion-for-women.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. "I know you are. But what am I?" nt

[Schema Thing]

2. without knowing jack shit about this....

I can tell you that that 92.3 percent figure is A) based on some real statistic, and B) being used so out of context or is a number pulled from so demonstrably bad data that it is going to blow up in Romney's face.


If I wasn't so sure of this I'd probably go google this to find out wtf he's talking about, but I think I'll just wait for the media to do it for me.

[BeyondGeography]

3. "In every recession, men are the first to take the hit followed by women..."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/10/mitt-romney/romney-campaign-says-women-were-hit-hard-job-losse/

By Romney's reasoning, the previous Republican Administration waged a war on men.

[Courtesy Flush]

4. Pew Reasearch Center disagrees.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/06/two-years-of-economic-recovery-women-lose-jobs-men-find-them/

[liberal N proud]

6. Is that because women are paid less to begin with and companies can afford to keep them longer?

[treestar]

15. Yes and didn't Time magazine declare women now the wealthier sex?

And there are more women than men in colleges now.

Not so simple, Mittens.

[cali]

5. I keep hearing that Romney's a bright guy. Well, that may be true

but he has ZERO emotional intelligence.

[Aerows]

11. ZERO

You have that right, Cali.

[GeorgeGist]

7. not so fast ...

Kara Sullivan, a BLS economist, confirmed the number, but noted that the reality was not quite so dramatic as the number might suggest.

“The overall ratio of jobs held by women has remained unchanged,” she cautioned. “In January 2009, 49.5 percent of jobs in the U.S. were held by women. As of March 2012, 49.3 percent of the jobs were held by women. The 0.02 percent change is statistically insignificant. Jobs held by women still make up the same proportion of all jobs as they did in January 2009.”

And in a stinging rebuke, the Tampa Bay Times’ PolitiFact website judged the Romney campaigns claim “mostly false,” saying it was unreasonable to blame Obama for job losses that ocurred during his first month in office.

BLS spokesman Gary Steinberg told the Times that that women’s job losses were only elevated because millions of men had already lost their jobs.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/10/did-women-account-for-92-3-percent-of-jobs-lost-under-obama-not-so-fast/#ixzz1rjsZ2SBP

[warrior1]

8. it doesn't matter

how many times you say this Mitt, it won't make it true.

[Aerows]

10. Exactly. n/t

[Aerows]

9. You can tell a Republican

is saying what they really want to say when they accuse someone of doing something they are guilty of.

Projection, thy name is Republican.

[emulatorloo]

12. Obama is the one who was Governor of Massachusetts and destroyed lives at Bain.

Seems like he is overdoing the psychological projection.

[Enrique]

13. "Romney made the comments at R.C. Fabricators"

That number was called "mostly false" by Politifact. Romney made the comments at a steel company named R.C. Fabricators.

He should make R.C. Fabricators his campaign HQ.

Here is the politifact article. They say that it's a historical pattern that men lose jobs first in a recession, and then women lose their jobs in a second phase. In this case, the second phase happened when Obama took office:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/10/mitt-romney/romney-campaign-says-women-were-hit-hard-job-losse/

[treestar]

14. Then Mittens, explain the polls showing that women are supporting

Obama by a growing margin.

[DCKit]

21. And, if we want that support to grow....

we only need to plaster the Intertubes with pictures of how he looks at her - if that doesn't say love and respect, the Republics are going to have to come up with (yet) another definition for something that everyone else instinctually understands.

[tsuki]

16. FAIL. nt

[hifiguy]

17. The Romneybot is so tone deaf and clueless

that it defies description. Whatta maroon.

[DCKit]

18. Yeah, right. Because there's no way FLOTUS would kick his ass from one end of the WH to the other...

including the East and West wings if she thought so. More Republic projection.

I don't think we've ever had a President who respects women more than Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter was no slouch, either.

[deacon]

19. (Cha ching) NO SALE!

[SidDithers]

20. Stop it, Mitt...

you're making my sides hurt.

Sid