War on Women Roll-Out

Brace yourselves!  The 2014 House and Senate elections are underway and the Dems will, once again, base their campaigns on - not their record, but - the Republicans' "War on Women."    But then, why wouldn't they?  It works!  They prey on naive and ill-informed women - whose rights they champion! - to further their own political agenda, which has absolutely nothing to do with women's "rights. "  At best, it has to do with pandering and enticing with "free" birth control and other "free" stuff.  Be prepared to see Republicans portrayed as a monolithic group of Todd Akin/Bob Filner types who want to force women back into the Stone Age where they have no rights and are totally dominated by men.

I googled War on Women and got 1,520,000,000 hits!  That's 1.5 BILLION articles/speeches/books, etc., on this subject and very few of the ones I checked defend Republicans.  It's even in Wikipedia!  It is defined as "an expression in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights."  Really!  I don't think I've ever heard anyone try to restrict a woman's right to reproduce, have you?  It goes on to say the term is "often used to describe policies that reduce or eliminate taxpayer funding of women's health organizations."  I am sick of hearing (primarily) abortion clinics referred to as women's "health" organizations.  And it doesn't even matter how I feel about abortion.  We need to start calling a spade a spade.

And, speaking of calling a spade a spade and how the Dems play to the naive and ill-informed, a good example is the Lilly Ledbetter "Fair Pay" Act of 2009 - an issue in the last two presidential elections - which has NOTHING to do with fair pay for women OR Lilly.  Instead, it was an amendment to the Civil Rights and other Acts that already mandated equal pay for women, adding a provision that extended the time in which a woman can sue for discrimination. Quite a boon to trial lawyers, don't you think?  Think that may be why the ABA lobbied so heavily for it?

I was an avid supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and a member of the National Organization for Women UNTIL I figured out they didn't care if the country went to hell in a handbasket so long as they got legislation passed that would give preferential treatment to women, including all the "free" stuff .  AND, the most likely party to do that was, you guessed it, the DEMOCRATS!  Well, they're still at it.  We just have to find a better way to counter it.