The GOP is
getting serious about women. Well, women who are already Republicans, anyway:
Leadership and elected officials from six of Washington’s Republican committees will hold a press conference Friday, June 28th, at 12:00 pm EST to launch “Women on the Right UNITE”: a joint project to promote the recruitment of and support for Republican women and women candidates. Each committee will announce new initiatives designed to advance the role of women within our party.
If you're a woman and you're on the right, UNITE. If you're a woman and you're not on the right ... eh, we got nothing. It's not about supporting policies that will draw more women to the Republican Party. It's about elevating more Sarah Palins to put a woman's face on policies that are unpopular with most women.
Meanwhile, we saw the real face of the Republican Party's dealings with women in Texas Tuesday, when Texas Republicans did everything they could to shut up state Sen. Wendy Davis as she filibustered a bill that would have drastically limited women's access to abortion. Do they really think they're going to be able to convince us women matter in their party while they're pulling stuff like that?