That point is debateable. By our watching — and reading — Priebus is picking a fanciful idea (a war on caterpillars) to call into question the idea that Republicans are engaged in a war on women. He’s only comparing caterpillars to women if you accept the first premise — that the GOP is indeed conducting this war.
The larger point here is that Democrats are going great-guns to drive a wedge between Republicans (and specifically former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney) and women, using even the thinnest of threads — and that’s what this seems to be — to build a narrative that the GOP is no friend to females.
Other examples of this push by Democrats: White House press secretary Jay Carney said today that President Obama wants women to be allowed into Augusta National Golf Club, site of this weekend’s “The Masters” golf tournament. And tomorrow, the White House will hold an event on women and the economy.
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