From the staggering statistic released by the Republican National Committee that found women have lost 92.3 percent of all jobs lost since Obama took office, to yesterday’s scathing story on the gender pay gap in the Obama White House by the Washington Free Beacon, the GOP has started throwing the “war on women” rhetoric back into the faces of the Democrats who coined it.
And that was before the Hilary Rosen controversy erupted last night. Rosen has since apologized, and her statement appears to be more of a plea for a truce than a mea culpa:
“Let’s put the faux ‘war against stay at home moms’ to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his poor record on the plight of women’s financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.”
Many have noticed that Rosen is apologizing to anyone she offended as opposed to apologizing for the substance of her comments. They’re right about that, although I’m willing to give Rosen the benefit of the doubt. But Rosen’s choice of words at the end is interesting – she calls the controversy a “phony war,” which is basically what Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus was attacked for saying about the “war on women” last week. Any of the high-profile Democrats who have expressed outrage at Rosen’s initial comments – Debbie Wasserman Schultz and First Lady Michelle Obama to name just two – want to come out and take another swing at her for “belittling” legitimate concerns of stay-at-home moms?
This won’t be the last we’ll hear about the “war on women,” but it sounds like Democrats are at least ready to retrench for awhile after a rough week. As Priebus has indicated, the GOP also seems ready to put this narrative to rest.
Oh, she's got kids, too. As if that gives her cred! What that says to me is that, given Rosen's devotion to her career, i.e. herself, her kids are far worse off than the Romney kids, with their stay-at-home mom, who can't have the insights into women's issues — i.e. those issues Rosen and her militant feminist ilk define as "women's issues," like abortions, getting into men's clubs, glass ceilings, etc. — that "pundits" like Rosen have. n nIt would be very interesting to see how much time Rosen actually spends with her kids every day. Very little, I'd bet. But oh, she's a whiz compared to Ann Romney about all the really important stuff — all the stuff about her.
If Hilary Rosen wants a truce, you can bet your life it is only to buy time for regrouping and trying to THINK. Thinking being something beyond their capacity. n nMust have been some kind of backfire on Headquarters, for sure. n nThere is no room among decent men for Marxist Democrats. None. n nYou simply cannot have both on the same ground.
Be very careful of the female jobs statistics. n nJust be VERY careful of them, every bit of my researcher brain is screaming "OUTLIER" — that there is some flaw there and be very careful of them. Men have been screwed during this recession, big time, and I am really having trouble believing any statistic indicating that women have lost more jobs then men. Remember too that the women have the chance to go for the male jobs, but that the converse isn't true — "Kindergarden Cop" notwithstanding, we don't have affirmative action for men going into female-majority jobs….
I'm not sure the Romney campaign is handling the "war on women" issue as aggressively as it might. Sure, Hilary Rosen's typical liberal contempt for stay-at-home mom's gave them some temporary ammunition, but to thwart this obvious Democrat attempt at misdirection, they're going to have to address the issue head-on. n nIt's good that Ann Romney reminds people that women are concerned with jobs and the economy, but I would much prefer that she or her husband display a little more anger at the Democrats' ridiculous attempts to make the case that Republicans are about to ban contraception or somehow curtail womens' rights. It's really insulting to the intelligence of female voters and I'd like to see the Romneys directly call Obama out on it. n nWhy not publicly ask one simple question: Do the Democrats believe American women are stupid?
A week ago I would have been embarrassed if asked the name of Mitt Romney's wife. I would have blurted out something about her being a nice lady—and that would have been the end of it. She is now a major plus to her husband's campaign. Hillary Rosen deserves our thanks. Could she even secretly be a Republican?