Promising handouts isn't winning voters

[The Thriller]

Shortly after the November butt-kicking, I remember many conservative voices moaning and groaning about Democrats "buying" the election with handouts. Promises made for the "lazy" and "greedy" because they didn't like the "truth" that Romney spat. In reality, the truth is that the GOP is losing elections because their views are so unpopular. This is amplified 100x by conservative media members like Rush and imitating Rush, wishing to stir the pot and gather attention.

Here's another, and this one was just a few days ago from a man who has a very popular radio show geared towards conservatives:

https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/08/erick-erickson-abortion-barbie-game.html

Who, or what, is Abortion Barbie? That is the name that Erick Erickson, of redstate.com, wants to attach to Wendy Davis, the Texas State Senator who filibustered a bill that restricted abortion rights in her state. The bill ultimately passed, and will have the effect of putting many women in Texas hundreds of miles away from safe, legal clinics where they can end a pregnancy. “It sums her up perfectly,” Erickson said

Tweeting:

All the nation knows about Wendy Davis is that she is ignorant of the horrors of Kermit Gosnell, wears pink shoes, and filibustered legislation to save the innocent in Texas.

And he tweeted:

It is a bit embarrassing that Abortion Barbie doesn’t even have her facts straight on Kermit Gosnell considering abortion is her issue.

Kermit Gosnell was the doctor convicted on murder charges after running an unsafe, illegal operation. Davis had answered a question about him and, after saying that she didn’t know much about the case, had gotten a fact about it wrong. (It had to do with whether Gosnell’s clinic was licensed as an ambulatory-surgical center.) Davis, who has a degree from Harvard Law School, rightly pointed out its disconnect from the Texas bill. She wears pink shoes, and has blond hair, and dresses in skirt suits; Erickson illustrates his blog post with a photo of Davis in a well-tailored pink one.

Here's some juicy meat. And seriously, how utterly insensitive and offensive is this? And the GOP wonders why women don't view them in favorable light? Read this:

For Erickson, the subject of abortion rights, and the way that women act as if their life and health depend on it, is a rich mine for humor. The Barbie tweet was actually an encore. After the Texas bill passed, he tweeted, “Dear liberals, go bookmark this site now,” and linked to a store that sold coat hangers. Coat hangers were what some women used in the pre-Roe era, when they were desperate to end a pregnancy, risking their lives. For that reason, they have become a symbol; some of Davis’s supporters carried them. Erickson, in a non-apology “to the kid killing caucus” for the hanger tweet, wrote, “I was mocking you and your outrageous hyperbole and lies.”

And finally:

“Think of the accessories Abortion Barbie has with her pink sneakers.”

These views, this type of language, and this attitude is taking its toll on the GOP. I grow tired of them complaining about the "47 %" and how Democrats "stole the election by promising handouts." Clearly, the GOP has only itself to blame. You cannot continue to degrade and insult Americans and then complain when they don't vote for you.

 

[TroutBum]

You should keep posting this crap. I'm sure you'll change someone's mind here any day now.

 

[Gameface]

I was expecting something about handouts...

But seriously, that kind of rhetoric is just bad (Erickson's, not yours Thriller, although it ain't to hot either).