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Bizarre GOP Ad Paints Women As Obama's GirlfriendsSamantha Lachman at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/obama-women_n_5862004.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
"SNIP........................
"In 2008 I fell in love," the ad's narrator begins. "His online profile made him seem so perfect. Smart, handsome, charming, articulate, all the right values. I trusted him."
The ad uses a similar trope to other GOP spots in having supposedly former Obama voters say they have become disenchanted with the president.
"By 2012 our relationship was in trouble, but I stuck with him because he promised he'd be better," the narrator continues, citing the economy and National Security Agency surveillance as two areas in which the president had upset her.
"He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control, but he won't even let me keep my own doctor," she adds, referring to the Affordable Care Act complaint that patients can't always keep their plans and doctors, which has been the focus of numerous Republican ads in races across the country this cycle.
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How utterly patronizing.
MADem
(135,425 posts)libertine ...and the woman isn't half dressed...like they did to Harold Ford (I met Haaarold at the Plaaayboy Club!!! Haaarold, call me!!)
That's a step UP for the GOP. They've "graduated" from racism and sexism to simple sexism!
They're still in the gutter, mind you...and they should be ashamed.
Reference (from days gone by, from Corker campaign v. Ford):
Note the He's. Just. Not.
About as subtle as a train wreck.
applegrove
(118,870 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)well--STUPID.
I guess they've given up on women voters based on that ad. It's just offensive on so many levels. They might as well have just cut to the chase and said what they were actually thinking, that they harbor a strong institutional dislike for intelligent, articulate, self-actualized women--this is how that ad came across to me:
"Hi, I'm a GIRL and I can only relate to politicians as potential BOYFRIENDS because I'm too STUPID to talk like a MATURE ADULT about the IMPORTANT ISSUES of the day...SQUEAL!!"
It's just...well, vomitous!!!
applegrove
(118,870 posts)it perfectly.
MADem
(135,425 posts)the GOP invented the doggone concepts!
They insult half the population at their own peril!
applegrove
(118,870 posts)to the masogynists out there who vote GOP.
Rex
(65,616 posts)"He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control..." Exhibit A.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)The truth? ...
JustAnotherGen
(31,981 posts)Why am I not surprised?