Today there is a story at the Huffington Post entitled "Paul Ryan Mocks 'War on Women' at Private Fundraiser." In that story Ryan says "Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it could be a war on left handed Irishmen or something like that."
Rich Beeson, political director for Mitt Romney's campaign, echoed Ryan's sentiment in an interview with ABC7 News on Thursday, calling women's reproductive rights and equal pay "small things" that are not important to voters.
"Barack Obama four years ago said, 'If you don't have something to talk about on the issues you talk about the small things,'" Beeson said in response to a question about women's issues. "And that's what we're seeing from the Obama campaign ... They don't have an issue to run on, they dont have an agenda for the next term, so they want to talk about the small things and distract America from the important things of restoring and strengthening the middle class and putting America back to work."
I simply could not believe what I was reading! These guys clearly have the view that women are second class citizens, who can be flicked away like a fly. They believe that men decide what is important, and that they have the right to control women.
We must not let these guys win! Let's show them loud and clear that women deserve control over their own bodies and that women deserve equal pay! These are extremely important issues!