Jeff Ward: Disdain for Women Is GOP's Death Knell

This new tactic marks the official end of the ultra-conservative movement.

If I had a daughter and she gave me just two choices, I’d advise her to take up stripping before seeing her become a member of the Republican Party. I cannot understand why any self-respecting woman would willingly join the GOP—or the Catholic Church, for that matter. Though I will defend anyone’s God-given right to make bad decisions to my death, the GOP's unofficial war on women baffles me. When I previously wrote about beauty contests, cheerleaders and Halloween costumes, I was trying to tackle the more-subtle ways our culture demeans women by reducing them to the sum of their body parts. But yikes! Having lived through the Women’s Lib and ERA era, I never thought I’d see the day when conservatives would wage an outright war on women. …

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Ignatius Reilly

11:51 am on Sunday, March 11, 2012

When will you selfish women who want to have a career outside the home learn that you role is to stay home and have as many white christian babies as possible. Rick Santorum/Kirk Cameron 2012   more ›