Amanda Carpenter Blasts GOP For Abandoning Republican Women For Trump And The Alt-Righthttp://www.redstate.com/jimjamitis/2016/10/25/amanda-carpenter-blasts-gop-abandoning-republican-women-trump-alt-right/Two of the pillars upon which the cult of Trump is built are his refusal to be politically correct and the fact that he is not a career politician. Through some combination of those two, many of his supporters have rationalized away the worst of the GOP nominee’s character flaws and terrible behavior. Even before nominating Trump, the Left had successfully branded Republicans (and conservatives) as being anti-woman, but the GOP primary voters went ahead and voted for a guy with a long public record of being a low class pig.
Even if every single one of the women he has promised to sue (but won’t) is fabricating her story (unlikely), Trump has shown his misogynist side in the media for decades. In the Washington Post today, conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter called out the party of Trump for deciding that the votes of the knuckle-dragging, cro-magnon alt-right were more important than the votes of Republican women.
As a former communications aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and former senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), I can personally testify that Republican women have, for years, fended off accusations from the Democrats of the party’s allegedly anti-woman beliefs. What did we get for it? The nomination — by way of a largely older, male voting base — of a brazen and unapologetic misogynist.
I want to ask the men leading the GOP some questions. Why didn’t you defend women from this raging sexist especially after so many Republican women — for so many years — eagerly defended the party from charges of sexism? You must make us out for fools.
Over the course of the GOP primary, it became clear that too many Republicans felt it was too politically risky to do anything that would offend the types of voters Trump was attracting in droves — the types who showed up at rallies wearing T-shirts that said, “Trump that b—-” and “She’s a c—, vote for Trump.”
Somehow, in some amorphous but unambiguous way, it was decided that appealing to those voters was more important than appealing to women.....
Republicans have embarrassed themselves and those who have supported them by covering for Trump. Senator Jeff Sessions could not even bring himself to admit that the actions described in Trump Locker Room Talk™ would hypothetically constitute sexual assault. GOP Communications Director Sean Spicer thinks making that sort of judgement call requires law school. These weasels couldn’t have been more Clintonesque if they had said, “That all depends on what the definition of ‘p***y’ is.”
