There must be SOME advantage the GOP hopes to gain from waging a war on women. What are they hiding?

[The Backlash Cometh]

51. I think there's a factor involved here that deserves a name.

This issue might have received more traction ten years ago at the peak of the Christian right, holier than though, family values, abortion clinic bombing era.

I think the fact that it isn't, and that it's crumbling the Republican base, says more about where we are as a society, than it says about the Republican platform. Really, their platform never changed. They always need someone to hate to galvanize their group. And women have been a target in the past with great success. In the past, they fed off men's resentment to the competition they faced with women in the job market. It worked because we were living in an autocratic, patriarchy era we just went through.

I mean, have we forgotten the kind of abusive things they use to say on right-wing radio? Did Limbaugh say anything different than what he's been saying for years?

So, it's not the Republicans who have changed, but our society.