The Republican outreach to women continues, this time lead by women:
A group of conservative women, mostly members of the Republican Study Committee, met Friday to discuss issues facing women today and how the GOP can better explain how its policies could help.
“The problem here is not necessarily conservative policy, it’s our messaging,” Kim Strassel, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal who was moderating the panel said.
And the panelists agreed.
“We just don’t do a very good job of talking about [GOP policies] sometimes,” said Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
“We have got to do a better job of [telling stories], whether it’s talking about social issues or whether it’s talking about the financial issues and the jobs and the economy,” said Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee.
“It’s how we are able to articulate ourselves – make sure we get the point across that we care,” said Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina.
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As for connecting to women specifically, Ellmers drove it home with a line that, had there been liberals in the audience, would have made the news.
“We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life — that’s the way to go,” Ellmers said. (Emphasis added.)
Um… if you think you’re not doing a good job of connecting with women, maybe it’s because being patronizing and reinforcing 19th century misogynistic stereotypes by women themselves isn’t helping.
HT to Melissa.
No ladies it’s the policies. It’s like polishing a turd, they still stink.
You don’t need to talk down to me or treat me like a child. To vote Republican is to vote for the rich getting richer. I am not buying it.
I have to think that the members of the panel – Ellmers especially – are either indoctrinated into the “woman is subordinate” position of the increasingly-patriarchal GOTea, or they’re too stupid to understand even the pap their male peers are spouting on the House floor.
When the go-to person for policy (Ellmers) says she needs the party to “bring it down to a woman’s level” then the party needs to rethink their support of her as a spokesperson: she’s too stupid to understand the policy and thinks all women are as incurious and unintelligent as she. Statements like this make her a questionable (at best) resource for the GOP leadership – unless BPIK really is the ideal GOP woman’s career path. One wonders what she was thinking when seeking elected office if she can’t be arsed to understand the policy details, though the same could be said for many of her male counterparts…
And it’s odd that the GOTea male leadership can say the incredibly stupid, ill-informed things they do and still be talking over her head.