The war on women comes to California as Jennifer Kerns, the new communications director for the California Republican Party, unleashed a brutal twitter attack on former Democratic congressional candidate Krystal Ball for defending a woman’s right to birth control:
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Dem “strategist” Krystal Ball. What has happened to MSNBC… #smh http://t.co/MHtoLJXN
And in case the Tweets get taken down, here’s a screenshot (via Lisa McIntire):
California Republicans alienated Latinos, Asians, Blacks and young people in droves by 2010 and lost the governor’s race by 13 points. They haven’t won a statewide political race since 2006 and haven’t picked up a seat in the legislature or Congress in even longer. I guess they’ve now decided to alienate women as well.
No wonder we’ve called the CRP the Zombie Death Cult for many years here at Calitics. This is what a dying political party looks like – a party that only cares about inside jokes with its tiny, shriveling, pathetic, hateful base.
We’ll see if the CRP fires Kerns for this, especially as Republicans across the country are trying to distance themselves from Rush Limbaugh’s similar attack on a young law student, calling her a “slut.” But the damage is done, and Californians are now aware that the Republican Party has added women to the list of people they hate.
UPDATE: David Atkins points to a statement from CRP Chairman Tom Del Beccaro from last January about Kerns’ hiring:
Del Beccaro said in a statement that she “brings not only an unrelenting desire for our Party and for its goals to succeed, but also a great deal of creativity that will help us drive our message in 2012.”
And that message is apparently that women who disagree with the party’s policies are sluts.
How soon the actual racial start coming out, like saying if ones White one should be a Republican or be a traitor to the race?
Or even hating the Disabled or I could go on and on, but why? It’s the Repugs own fault for losing people, not anyone elses, when one drives people away, the Big Tent shrinks and eventually the Tent will disappear from sight…
Maybe they need more vitriol in Mississippi, or some other place where she can run around without doing much real harm.
I believe the First Amendment prohibits the government from enforcing any religious beliefs on me when it says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Earlier on it specifically says religion shouldn’t factor in as a qualification for elected or appointed office when it says, “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
That the Fourth gives me the right to control my own body when it says, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons.” I think this means the government shouldn’t be able to force me to have an ultrasound.
Now, a Republican who believes in the Constitution calls themselves a patriot–even though ignoring it seems to be a prerequisite for a GOP nomination. Why, as a Democrat, does reading it, understanding it, and asking for the legal protections it guarantees, make me a slut? That pisses me off!
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