GOP to Women: Obama’s Your Guilty Pleasure

[babylonsister]

GOP to Women: Obama’s Your Guilty Pleasure
by Judith Grey May 23, 2012 8:50 AM EDT
When did Mitt ‘rice cake’ Romney turn into a ladies’ man? Judith Grey on the GOP’s emotionally manipulative campaign to tell women they shamelessly indulged in Obama in ’08.


For a ligneous, gaffe-prone, scissor-happy, prep-school-outsider bullying, presumptive nominee of the war-on-women-waging party, Mitt Romney is sure doing well with female voters these days.

According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released this week, Romney is gaining on Obama’s favorability amongst women at a surprisingly rapid pace. The report indicates that the 19-point lead that the president enjoyed last month has diminished to a mere 7-point advantage in recent weeks.

What gives?

How about an emotionally manipulative, unapologetically condescending, Karl-Rove-concocted messaging strategy that preys on women’s weakness for instantly gratifying experiences coupled with their propensity for self-blame?

In effect, the right is framing Barack Obama as a guilty pleasure, saying to women—or, at the very least, implying—that the fairer sex indulged in his campaign with shameless abandon in 2008 and now they should be atoning in equal proportion.

It’s as if the president were a heedlessly devoured tub of triple-caramel-chunk cookie-dough ice cream that has left a bad taste in your mouth, not to mention a few extra inches on your waistline, and needs to be traded for the presidential equivalent of a rice cake (Romney).

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/23/gop-to-women-obama-s-your-guilty-pleasure.html

[Scuba]

1. So the GOP is trying to guilt-trip women into voting Republican????

Haven't they heard? "Once you go black...."

[DinahMoeHum]

2. F.U. G.O.P. . .

dipshits

Ya know, there is a racist tint to this thing the GOP has about Obama and women.

Way to piss off at least half the voting public, Pukes

[demgrrrll]

3. That won't work. Why does everything they seem to do reek of desperation?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Seriously?

THIS is their strategy.............and it's working????


And voting for Romney would solve what, exactly?

[Happydayz]

5. I'm not trusting any more of these polls

"According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released this week, Romney is gaining on Obama’s favorability amongst women at a surprisingly rapid pace. The report indicates that the 19-point lead that the president enjoyed last month has diminished to a mere 7-point advantage in recent weeks."

It was just a couple of days ago, Obama was leading among women by 15pts, not its 7pts. The media is so desperate for a horse race, seven points my ass.