House of Eratosthenes

[RNC co-chair Jan] Larimer has spearheaded the party’s efforts to recruit and train more women candidates. And based on the GOP’s efforts this year, the party needs the help.

Among the NRCC’s Young Guns program, just 4 of 41 candidates in one of the top 2 tiers are women. The NRSC has done a little better, quietly favoring women candidates in CO, CA and NH. Now, party officials are on the case.

“We’re working with the women in Congress … to empower the women in their states to get involved and to participate,” Larimer told Hotline OnCall in an interview at the party’s annual Winter meeting in Honolulu.

“Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision. And by our going in and talking to them and recruiting and educating and training them to either get involved in a campaign or become a candidate, we’re giving them the tools so that they can do that on their own,” Larimer added.

Some of the smart women figured out, when the democrat party came out swinging against Sarah Palin this pretty much proved the democrat party was opposed to any woman exercising too much control over anything unless it’s in the democrat party’s interests. But the trouble with women, is they’re people. The trouble with people, is that when you start talking about “the smart ones” you’ve defined an exclusive club.

And the trouble with exclusive clubs is they don’t win elections.

Omigosh! Did I just type in something unforgivably chauvinistic? Did I just say women are stupid? Ack! Actually…no. Go back and read those paragraphs again, lightweight, and spare me your preachy e-mails.

Really, I don’t know why a woman would vote for a democrat; it can only make sense if she’s using abortion as a birth control method every single month. I notice I’m hearing an awful lot about “womens’ issues” and then what comes next has something to do with managing a household or raising children…things that I don’t personally see as womans’ issues. Getting hold of foodstuffs and other supplies for a reasonable price, making some arrangements for kids who get sick without missing work yourself, raising the kids into responsible adults.

Wage gap? Don’t make me laugh. If you’re really concerned about making a living, you don’t organize to bully your boss into meeting a higher payroll than he can afford.

Am I getting a little off topic here? Maybe. But maybe not. The women I know are plenty smart enough to get it: You don’t make the people living in a society better by changing the rules under which they live. As I noted in Item #2 of my forty-two definitions of a strong society:

If thinking a certain thing is evidence that you’re a wonderful person, and then you get penalized for thinking something else, then thinking that thing is no longer evidence of your wonderfulness, now is it?

Women ought to be particularly receptive to such a message. After all, if this self-improvement-through-rulemaking actually worked worth a damn…you know what would happen? Motherhood would diminish in importance, on something of a grand scale.

Efforts like this generally don’t enjoy my support. Yes, I get the reasoning…the camera pans over a Republican convention, it’s a bunch of white male faces and so the hot air pundits get all their pot shots in.

Trouble is, a passive approach is the only one that’s really helpful. When your objective is “get more women to run [as Republicans]” then, if & when a studly young dude approaches you and says “I’d like to run, will you help me?” you have to tell him NO. So that you can do your bit to make sure that camera sweep at the next convention picks up more female faces. So that, if the party does have a problem, you can help to hide it.

That is deceptive by nature. If there’s something about the Republican message that appeals more to the masculine mindset…well, it is what it is.

For those who find the passive approach to work too slowly, perhaps fearing that the “average” woman isn’t bright enough to figure out the democrats are anything but helpful — I have a suggestion. If you want to take a more active approach, seek out some of the women who have already made the decision to support the conservative cause, and give them some attention. Find out what they have to say about why they chose the path they chose. They are, for the most part, articulate, intelligent, erudite, compelling and they have fascinating stories to tell. They know what they know, as well as what they want to do and why they want to do it.

Just find out what they have to say, and pass the word along. Stop just automatically handing the microphone over to the termagants. Thatisall.

Next problem.

I can tell you that if a man said…

“Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision.”

…we’d be seeing his resignation within days.
- Andy | 02/03/2010 @ 09:12
Really, I don’t know why a woman would vote for a democrat; it can only make sense if she’s using abortion as a birth control method every single month

Oh god do I ever see how wrong this is on so many levels and how untrue such a statement is Morgan. While I respect the fact that you & disagree on many things, especially politics – this one is a bit much to handle. While you’ve taken me to task over making generalizing statement in my blog… this is one case where you’ve taken to brushing all women who vote demo… with the same brush… which couldn’t be futherest from the truth. I rarely speak up on your political rants, on your blog, but that one just didn’t sit right with me.

I do agree however with the following statement: You don’t make the people living in a society better by changing the rules under which they live. In the end, we all want the same damn thing, just we all have different ways at getting to it.
- KC | 02/03/2010 @ 19:03
Bear one thing in mind KC, I’m not criticizing the women; I’m criticizing the democrats. Also, if you want me to keep an open mind on things I’m certainly game. I would have to be vastly less confused about things than I am now, to stand statue-like and declare my sensibilities about things to be carved in granite and unalterable.

But what goes ’round comes ’round — and this one…

In the end, we all want the same damn thing, just we all have different ways at getting to it.

…it simply isn’t consistent with what I’ve noticed since about…oh…the fourth grade.

The democrat party is absolutely, positively devoted to one and only one thing. When one takes on the vocabulary of college-freshman-level Psychology 101, that one thing goes under words like “co-dependence” and “enabling.” Through the years, I’ve gravitated toward the notion that this is much less of a method, than an objective. Whites, blacks, men, women, gays, straights, citizens, immigrants — democrats want them all the same way. Dependent, whining, neurotic, feeling guilty, pleading…and intellectually weak.

They are the antithesis of human glory and accomplishment. They are misery. They are despair.
- mkfreeberg | 02/03/2010 @ 19:47
One other thing: If I went looking for the Republican that genuinely hated women as much as the average democrat politician…I honestly do think I’d be looking long and hard, and coming up with nuthin’. Yes, I really and truly mean it. These assholes have a misogynist streak a mile wide.
- mkfreeberg | 02/03/2010 @ 19:58

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