Remember how, after the 2012 elections, the Republican Party talked about re-branding themselves of being more tolerant? Of trying to attract more voters, such as women and minorities? How's that going? Some words of advice for the GOP - it doesn't help to just say you're going to re-brand if you don't actually follow through with it. It's not going to help a marriage if an alcoholic husband says he's going to clean up his act, all the while he's doing shots of vodka.
Since the GOP started their re-branding efforts, they've continued to attract women voters by attempting to: Take away their reproductive rights, take away their contraceptive rights, make it more difficult to vote, and fight against equal pay for equal work. Yes, they're that smooth. New Mexico Representative Steve Pearce recently continued this lovely trend for his party.
In Pearce's new memoir, he wrote the following:
"The husband's part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else. The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband."
That's bound to go over well with women voters, especially after I translate what Pearce really meant with his quote:
"I love women. As a matter of fact, the whole Republican Party loves women. We have been unfairly branded as the anti-woman party, but that's simply not true. We're the God party. We get our instructions from the Bible, and as I stand here looking at a teleprompter, what was true 3,000 years ago should still be true today. Our rankings according to this ancient book are: 1) God, 2) the husband, 3) the kids, 4) the pet, and 5) the maid/wife. This isn't about superiority or inferiority. It's just God's law - 3,500 years ago. It's a husband's job to be responsible, dominant, and macho, and it's the wife's job to always say yes to the man. So, ladies, I'm here to be the first to show off the GOPs new anti-drug, pro-women slogan. Here it is... 'Just say no to drugs, just say yes to your husbands.' Thank you! God bless you, and God bless slave women, I mean, the United States of America!"
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/23/3193811/gop-congressman-wife-voluntarily-submit/
Since the GOP started their re-branding efforts, they've continued to attract women voters by attempting to: Take away their reproductive rights, take away their contraceptive rights, make it more difficult to vote, and fight against equal pay for equal work. Yes, they're that smooth. New Mexico Representative Steve Pearce recently continued this lovely trend for his party.
In Pearce's new memoir, he wrote the following:
"The husband's part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else. The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband."
That's bound to go over well with women voters, especially after I translate what Pearce really meant with his quote:
"I love women. As a matter of fact, the whole Republican Party loves women. We have been unfairly branded as the anti-woman party, but that's simply not true. We're the God party. We get our instructions from the Bible, and as I stand here looking at a teleprompter, what was true 3,000 years ago should still be true today. Our rankings according to this ancient book are: 1) God, 2) the husband, 3) the kids, 4) the pet, and 5) the maid/wife. This isn't about superiority or inferiority. It's just God's law - 3,500 years ago. It's a husband's job to be responsible, dominant, and macho, and it's the wife's job to always say yes to the man. So, ladies, I'm here to be the first to show off the GOPs new anti-drug, pro-women slogan. Here it is... 'Just say no to drugs, just say yes to your husbands.' Thank you! God bless you, and God bless slave women, I mean, the United States of America!"
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/23/3193811/gop-congressman-wife-voluntarily-submit/
I missed this on Think Progress and thank goodness because it ultimately brought me to your site! It is smart, sassy and factual -- all the things I like and my colleague and I work to include on elect2care.com. Thanks so much for signing up for my Twitter account associated with it. I've just added you, and will get to your Facebook and other accounts as well. We've got to scream these messages from the rooftops until people start to get it!
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Hey Jan,
DeleteThanks a bunch for your kind comments and for following me on here and Twitter. I've started following your site/blog as well, and also liked your Facebook page.
Yeah, between this comment and Mike Hucakbee's yesterday with regard to women not being able to control their libido, the far-right has been on a roll this week with the fairer sex. Just last week, another such individual (Ken Buck - Colorado) compared pregnancy to cancer. Like what's written in my Twitter profile, I seriously believe a Long Island Iced Tea party is more sane than the Tea Party.
Anyway, thanks again and keep it up with the facts! To the far-right, that's like Kryptonite!