Video: House Republican women make their case

So far, the whole “war on wimmenses” strategy has come a cropper for Team Obama.  When former news anchor Campbell Brown calls the campaign “grating and even condescending,” it’s fair to say the effort has flopped.  However, that doesn’t mean that Republicans will ignore it.  Fourteen women of the House Republican Caucus have put together a new video that follows up a column last week in Politico, arguing for their common-sense approach to budgeting, regulation, and economics:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL8Uv_xiShc

They also drew a sharp contrast to Democratic Party messaging in the “war on women” strategy in last week’s column:

That’s what makes the Democrats’ message to American women so strange and unsettling. For the past few months, the Democrats have been accusing Republicans of waging a “war on women” as if some honest disagreements between the parties — over matters like how an “Obamacare” mandate should affect religious institutions or the proper scope of federal law on tribal land — constitute a deliberate GOP campaign to take away women’s rights.

Nothing could be further from the truth, and Republican women have been at the forefront exposing these myths. Let’s face it: Republican women — like us — would never be part of a party that didn’t believe in women’s rights, equal pay for equal work and strong laws against sexual violence. The Republican Party believes in all of those things.

We also believe in something else: We believe that women want to be empowered. We believe that women want independence. We want opportunities. We want an equal chance to succeed — no special favors and no glass ceilings. We want our daughters to have those same opportunities, that same chance to live the American dream. We want our sons to have it, too.

What policies promote freedom, opportunity and self-ownership? Certainly not the Democrats’ Big Government policies. The Democrats showed their hand recently with their “Life of Julia” infographic. The Obama campaign used this to illustrate how a typical woman is dependent on government programs from birth to death — and how the GOP is supposedly undermining those programs.

Leaving aside that everything the “Julia” campaign said about Republicans is either mostly wrong or totally wrong, “Julia’s” life is not typical of American women. Nor is it something that we aspire to. We don’t see our lives as a product of government handouts. In fact, we resent the idea that we owe our success to bureaucrats, and not our own initiative.

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How long do you suppose it will be before “Julia” disappears, much like her son does midway through her “life”?

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