Looks like another fail in the long line of GOP fails when trying to reach out to women.
Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), not known for being the brightest crayon in the box had this to say about women recently
“Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level,” Ellmers said. “Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they’ve got some pie chart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that.” […]
As for connecting to women specifically, Ellmers drove it home with a line that, had there been liberals in the audience, would have made the news.
“We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life – that’s the way to go,” Ellmers said.
Basically womenfolk don't understand all that gibberish about money and debt and the only pie womenfolk understand is the pies they bake at home. Men need to talk down to womenfolk so they can understand what men are saying.
I don't really know if she was just being inarticulate in trying to say that men need to connect with women on things they understand by speaking their language (the whole Women are from Venus men are from Mars thing) or if she was really saying that women just don't understand this stuff and men need to dumb it down for women. Either way it's insulting and condescending. Even more ironic that it's coming from a woman. But as we have seen in Michigan and in the presidential race in 08, the GOP seem to thing that because someone has a vagina that it somehow makes them more qualified to represent women. Maybe Renee Ellmers needs a man to talk down to her and tell her to STFU, go home and go look for that unsecured gun she seems to have misplaced. I seem to recall a certain man who is up for that challenge. Clay Aiken is challenging this moran for this seat and he really needs our support.