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Dem “strategist” Krystal Ball. What has happened to MSNBC… #smh http:\/\/t.co\/MHtoLJXN<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n And in case the Tweets get taken down, here’s a screenshot (via Lisa McIntire<\/a>):<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/b> David Atkins points<\/a> to a statement from CRP Chairman Tom Del Beccaro from last January about Kerns’ hiring<\/a>:<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And that message is apparently that women who disagree with the party’s policies are sluts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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:<\/p>\n Stripper, or strategist? Democrat strategist on MSNBC raging against Limbaugh, her name is supposedly “Krystal Ball.” Speaking of #sluts…<\/a><\/p>\n and<\/p>\n Dem “strategist” Krystal Ball. What has happened to MSNBC… #smh http:\/\/t.co\/MHtoLJXN<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n And in case the Tweets get taken down, here’s a screenshot (via Lisa McIntire<\/a>):<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n No wonder we’ve called the CRP the Zombie Death Cult for many years here at Calitics. 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