RNC chair: ‘I’ll double down’ on comparing women to caterpillars

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

RNC chair: ‘I’ll double down’ on comparing women to caterpillars
By David Edwards
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 13:54 EDT

The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Wednesday refused to “walk back” claims that the Republican “war on women” was as fictional as a “war on caterpillars.”

In a interview that last week, Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus how big of a problem it was for Republicans that recent polls showed President Barack Obama with a 2-1 lead among female voters in battleground states.

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On Wednesday, MSNBC host Thomas Roberts gave Priebus a chance to revise his remarks.

“I’m not going to walk back,” the RNC chairman insisted. “I’ll double down on it. This war on women is a fiction that the Democrats have created. And the real war on women is the war that this president has put forward on the American people by not following through on his promises, by having women disproportionately effected by the Obama economy.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/11/rnc-chair-ill-double-down-on-comparing-women-to-caterpillars/

[NICO9000]

1. Methinks caterpillar boy projecteth and protesteth too much

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Reince is Moth Mouth

GOP Priggerish Gibberish.

[JaneQPublic]

2. Let's hope he triple-downs, too

The more Repukes bloviate hatred against women, the better Obama does in the polls.

[Lucy Goosey]

3. Even if one accepts his claim that Obama has been bad for women...

Even if we accept that Obama has been bad for women economically (which I don't), that has nothing to do with the contraception-banning, slut-shaming, violence-against-women act repealing war Rethugs are waging against women.

Priebus is setting up a false dichotomy - us ladies can either have jobs or reproductive rights, but not both.

[goclark]

4. They are either real stupid

or they know the Suppress The Vote tricks will work.

That scares me

[Angry Dragon]

5. Rancid Pubis

another idiot heard from

[appleannie1]

6. Proof that Thugs think women are too stupid to know anything.

They think all they have to do is tell us some made up crap and we won't notice what they are actually doing because we don't have brains.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Typical Repig.......

They get caught pissing on woman's rights and blame Dems. just like Flush Lumpy did.
It's in their DNA ( Dittoheads Needing Attention )

[anti-alec]

8. The Society of Prevention of Cruelty on Caterpillars

on line 666, Chairman Peni... I mean Priebus.

[AlbertCat]

14. yeah...

.... just ask anyone with fruit trees and veggie gardens about the "War on Caterpillars".

It's real alright. (And the caterpillars win a lot of battles)

[DCKit]

9. We called it here on DU, long before our President said a word on the subject.

We're all caterpillars now.

[Iliyah]

10. Exactly, goppers think

women are as dumb as their base.

[Javaman]

11. being republican means never having to admit you are stupid.

rinsed pubes seems to be doubling down on the dumb.

[nykym]

12. Well Reincey boy, not only

do you guys have a war on women! you also by way of all the regulations and restrictions you have put on the EPA a full blown war on Caterpillars.

[emulatorloo]

13. This guy makes Michael Steele look like a political genius

[AlbertCat]

15. And then there's the voice of the Turtle... heard thru the land...

As seen on Rachel Maddow's show the other night.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46999862



But I don't know why she finds McConnell's statements baffling. Or why he never consulted the female Repug Senators before announcing what he thinks they think. He obviously sees no "war on women" because, "look, some of my co-workers and best friends are women". He thinks that it is oh so generous that the GOP allows women to become Senators!

Lame. Shallow. Stupid. Misogynistic. It's Mitch!

[Evasporque]

16. Thats right Obama made the GOP draft and pass all those laws diminishing women...

The forced vaginal intrusion...

Equal Pay repeal in Wisconsin

Contraception coverage...

And Arizona's No Egg Left Behind Bill....

[RedCloud]

17. These rape-publicans need to rethink their War on Women. otherwise ELE!

[99th_Monkey]

18. Doubling down on lame & pathetic. That's the GOP for you. ~nt

[felix_numinous]

19. Caterpillars. What have these guys been smoking??

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[alarimer]

20. What kind of name is Reince Priebus?

It sounds like a disease.

[Pachamama]

22. "Reince Priebus" should get a new definition in the English language, like Santorum did....

Something to define a vile misogynistic a-hole perhaps....

Thats the kind of name it is....

[felix_numinous]

30. I first read that as "Preince Riebus"

an optical illusion or something-my brain wanted to make sense of it.

[nolabear]

21. Keep talking, Sparky. We women have gooooooood memories.

[Kablooie]

23. And there's the problem. Republicans can't even see that they demean and control women.

It's like a white guy that says there's no racism any more it's just that blacks are more violent as a people.
(Archie Bunker type mentality)

[drm604]

24. They never walk it back.

I think it's something they teach in "Republican Rhetoric 101" (right after the section on "how to be everybody's beer buddy&quot . No matter what you said, no matter how horrible it sounds in retrospect, no matter how bad the response, NEVER apologize (half-assed non-apologies sometimes excepted if the uproar threatens to distract from lowering taxes on the wealthy), never retract, never back down, because people value consistency - "taking a stand and sticking to it" - above all else.

Of course, often what they see as consistency; as sticking to their guns, they rest of us see as being inflexible and closed minded.

Consistency is not a virtue when you're consistently an assclown.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. It's a Republican War on Freedom

Why are they in my bedroom all the time? They're like priggish voyeurs. They don't want me telling them how to run their business to protect the environment and children's health, but I should accept them regulating my choice of contraception.

I think it's called hypocrisy, and Republicans should go mind their own GD business!

[sofa king]

27. Hmm. Maybe silkworms?

Silkworms are caterpillars that have been held captive and exploited for at least five thousand years. They are treated like property, they produce things of value far in excess of any return they get and someone else takes the credit for it, their reproductive cycle is totally controlled, they never stop working and they never leave their factory walls--exactly as Republicans wish to treat American women.

But silkworms also have better health care than American women have, so I guess any comparison has to stop there.

[JoePhilly]

28. Priebus was ranting like an insane person in that interview.

Priebus was so flustered and defensive that at one point he started to accuse Roberts of holding specific positions because of the questions he asked, at one point claiming that Robert's supports abortion.

He was unhinged.

[trof]

29. Did he really say "effected"?

He doesn't know the difference between Effected and Affected?