This is great. Only one Republican has had the guts to take on Donald Trump and guess who it was. Carly Fiorina. That's right—all the male candidates have ducked and covered from the party's bombastic and pugnacious frontrunner so a woman was left to do what the men wouldn't. And now the GOP has seen the light—Carly as savior for the entire party's War on Women.
From the NYT:
“Women understood” that Mr. Trump’s attack the day after the debate on the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, making a reference to bleeding that many people thought was an allusion to menstruation, was sexist, Mrs. Fiorina told a visibly squeamish Jake Tapper of CNN. “I’ve had lots of men imply that I was unfit for decision-making because maybe I was having my period. So I’ll say it, O.K?”
In a crowded Republican field, Mrs. Fiorina has delivered the most forceful and succinct denunciation of Mr. Trump’s comments, which sent a shudder through a party concerned that it would reinforce perceptions that it was increasingly out of touch with female voters.
Now, many Republicans, preparing to potentially confront Mrs. Clinton in a general election, are looking anew at Mrs. Fiorina, who rose from being a secretary to running the giant technology company HP, as the party’s weapon to counter the perception that it is waging a “war on women.”
Yeah, forget that "no exceptions" thing on abortion, forget the crusade to defund Planned Parenthood, forget the long slow sustained effort since
Roe to rob women of their health care options, forget our disdain for equal pay and paid leave and our reluctance to raise the minimum wage or ensure that all women have access to contraception. Forget all that. Carly!
Yeah, right. Just because the GOP has moved past word-salad Sarah to a female candidate who can actually string together intelligible sentences without a teleprompter doesn't mean Republicans give a damn about women. They're just clinging to Carly like a life vest because all the male candidates are too incompetent to land a blow against Trump. That doesn't make them champions of equality, it makes them desperate.