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MADem

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3. The GOP doesn't have a clue how to argue the issues. They have to get snide, and snarky, and

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 08:00 PM

Sep 2014

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!!!

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"Bizarre GOP Ad Paints Women As Obama's Girlfriends" [View all] applegrove Sep 2014 OP

Gee, at least they don't have him picking up blonde Playboy bunnies and insinuating that he's a MADem Sep 2014 #1

Oh man. Those are just sad. applegrove Sep 2014 #2

The GOP doesn't have a clue how to argue the issues. They have to get snide, and snarky, and MADem Sep 2014 #3

I was trying to say why it was so offensive but didn't want to upset myself anymore. You captured applegrove Sep 2014 #4

I know the terms "dismissive" and "patronizing" are often overused, but some days it seems like MADem Sep 2014 #6

You have to wonder if they aren't pandering to their base at the same time with a wink wink applegrove Sep 2014 #7

And this is the reason GOPers are so out of tune with the real world. Rex Sep 2014 #5

It's a Republican political ad ... What did you expect? Trajan Sep 2014 #8

They are assholes JustAnotherGen Sep 2014 #9