Stupid or deliberately misleading?
Paula Haynes of Irving says that the GOP wants to win the election so they can keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen where they think they belong. Is she honestly stupid enough to believe that? Does she think Condoleezza Rice thinks that? Does she think Sarah Palin thinks that? Does she think Kay Bailey Hutchison thinks that? Or Laura or Barbara Bush? Or Ann Romney? Or Michelle Malkin? Or Dana Perrino?
Paula says that women have fought long and hard for contraception rights. Well, Paula, nobody is threatening your right to contraception, and to say they are is nothing less than fear-mongering and disingenuous.
Paula says the GOP admits it doesn't want to pay women the same as men. I'd like to know where she heard that one. I haven't heard it. I have heard, however, that women in Obama's White House make substantially less than their male counterparts. According to a report published by the Free Beacon in April, the 2011 annual report on White House staff revealed that the median annual salary for female White House employees was 18 percent less than male employees — $60,000 compared to $71,000. And in 2008, Scripps Howard syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock noted that as in Obama’s U.S. Senate office, women were paid less than men: While the average male staffer brought home $54,397, female staffers averaged $45,152.
And of course, under President Obama, more and more women have come to rely on food stamps. What better way to keep a woman under control than to make her dependent on a government handout? In fiscal 2011, the federal government spent more than $75 billion on food stamps, up from $34.6 billion at the end of fiscal 2008. "We ought to be looking for ways to save money in the program, not to encourage more people to use it," said Chris Edwards, an economist with the Cato Institute. In other words, we should be doing something to improve the economy so all women can be independent and pay for their own food and their own contraceptives. That's what will keep them shod and unpregnant.
"A vote for GOP against women." The Dallas Morning News; October 30, 2012; p. 14A.
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