George Will before his banishment to Fox
Maybe George Will should just stop talking about gender issues. His latest rambling, from a column in which he bizarrely argues that the "restoration" of the U.S. Senate's "dignity" depends on re-electing Mitch McConnell, is that Democrats only nominated McConnell's opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes because she's a woman who can "further their 'Republicans loathe women' fable."
No matter that Grimes was (a) Kentucky's highest-ranking Democratic office holder willing to run against McConnell and (b) that she polled better than other potential Democrats, Will has figured out that dishonest Democrats only nominated her as part of a scheme to falsely accuse Republicans of being sexist pigs. That's probably what a lot of Republicans believe, but if your job is to convince other people that it's true—and this is Will's job—then in your very next breath, you probably complain that Grimes gives you a headache:
Grimes’s cringe-inducing campaign has depended on a migraine-inducing argument [...]
I mean, I know Will was probably just using a figure of speech there, although it could very well be possible that Grimes does give Will a headache given how much he dislikes her. But if you're writing a screed about how Democrats are unfairly trying to accuse Republicans of hostility to women, maybe it's not a good idea to not only accuse them of picking a candidate merely because she is one, but to also criticize her because she gives you headaches.
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And you definitely shouldn't do it the night after channeling Todd Akin by telling a crowd of
college students that only "real rape" victims deserve support—as if there were somehow a flood of fake rape victims invading college campuses across America.
Bottom-line: If George Will is frustrated by the narrative about Republicans and women, he needs only look in the mirror to see why he hasn't been able to change it.