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Win Over Women

Republicans have waged a 20-year war against women, mothers and families, and ensured that it’s harder to be a mother here than in any other industrialized country—unless you’re rich, of course

By Susan J. Douglas

I have one word for John Kerry: women. When you go to Kerry’s home page, women’s issues are not featured up front. You have to click on “more issues” to get there. This is not surprising for several reasons. Democratic pollsters like Celinda Lake have found that, at least by early June, the war had become one of the most… return to article

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    As a married man with a politically somewhat disengaged wife, I couldn’t agree with you more.  She will not join my sophistry spinning about the war and the election.  But each nightly news scene of death and violence brings out a grunt of revulsion.  She will be voting because she wants to, and it won’t be for Bush.

    United States Posted by KarresW on Jul 20, 2004 at 10:14 PM

    The remark I make to most women when talking politics is, “George Bush doesn’t care about you.”
    Of course, he doesn’t care about most of the people in this country, but it’s never more clear when under the diguise of religion or family values. His politics clearly reflect it.
    Perfect example being the appointment of Leon Holmes of Arkansas to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
    Dianne Feinstein opposed this confirmation quoting Holmes in her address before the Senate:
    Let me give you a few examples. Let me take a subject, women’s rights. Seven years ago—it is not too long ago—seven years ago he wrote:

    ‘The wife is to subordinate herself to her husband,’ and that ‘the woman is to place herself under the authority of the man.’

    and:

    In a letter that he wrote to the Moline Daily Dispatch—this is a letter he writes to a newspaper—Mr. Holmes called rape victims who become pregnant ‘trivialities.’

    Mr. Holmes is not merely opposed to a woman’s constitutionally protected right to choose. He has also lashed out at contraception, against women generally, and against the rights of gays and lesbians. He wrote in 1997:

    ‘It is not coincidental that the feminist movement brought with it artificial contraception and abortion on demand, with recognition of homosexual liaisons soon to follow.’

    I have a feeling the current sorry-excuse-for-a-president would like nothing more than for women to keep their mouths shut, stay at home and have kids, even if, following recently appointed Leon Holmes logic, they were rape victims.

    United States Posted by Ammonia D on Jul 22, 2004 at 7:11 PM
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