Isn't is just adorable the way Republicans keep insisting that women aren't worrying their pretty little lady heads about the Republican War on Women?
The latest Republican to spout the demonstrably false, utterly failtastic talking point is South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. In an appearance on The View—during which Barbara Walters was apparently fulfilling a dare to see just how far up Haley's ass she could get her lips (answer: pretty far)—the lady governor explained to the lady co-hosts what ladies do and don't want. Haley is, of course, an expert, since she overwhelmingly won the lady vote in her 2010 election. And of course, by "overwhelmingly won," I mean lost.
HASSELBACK: Quickly, before we go – what about – a lot of the times, people associate women’s rights with liberals, right, and not Republican women. So how do you say, yes, we are here representing women, I’m working right now for government. How do you put that out there in terms of Republicans?
HALEY: All of my policy’s not based on a label. It’s based on what I’ve lived and what I know. Women don’t care about contraception. They care about jobs and the economy and raising their families and all of those things. And so we should never –
BEHAR: Well, they care about contraception too.
HALEY: But that’s not the only thing they care about. The media wants to talk about contraception –
BEHAR: But – someone like Rick Santorum says he’s going to take it away, we care.
HALEY: Well …
(Burst of applause)
HALEY: While we care about contraception, let’s be clear: All we’re saying is we don’t want government to mandate when we have to have it and when we don’t. We want to be able to make that decision, we don’t need any government making that decision for us.
So in the span of about a minute, Haley manages to assert that (a) women don't care about contraception; (b) women
do care about contraception; (c) the media invented the contraception debate; and, most laughably, (d) women don't want the government making their reproductive health care decisions for them.
And except for being completely wrong, she's totally right! Because it was Republicans, not the media, who decided a war on contraception was a winning strategy. (Polls beg to differ.) And of course women care about contraception, since just about all women use it at some point in their lives. And as for insisting that women don't want the government making their reproductive health care decisions for them? Well, okay, Governor, we'll give you that one. Because that's what we ladies have been saying all along. Guess we'll see you at the next pro-choice rally, eh?