House candidate says women can be Republicans now because social issues no longer matter

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/house-candidate-valerie-ramirez-mukherjee-women-can-be-republicans-social-issues-no-longer-matter-6ab562dbf3c3/


House candidate says women can be Republicans now because social issues no longer matter
Valerie Ramirez Mukherjee (R-IL) decries "identity politics" while running on her own identity.
Josh Israel
Aug 28, 2019, 9:47 am


A Republican congressional candidate went on Fox News Wednesday to highlight the large number of women from her party running in 2020. Her rationale: Women can now vote based on their fiscal conservatism because social issues are no longer a concern for anyone.

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“Over the last 25 years, I feel we have started to resolve those social discussions and we are shifting to the fiscal side,” she continued. “As a woman, as a mom, a business woman, someone who runs my household, the fiscal is what I care so deeply about, other women like me, Republican women like me finally are gonna have a chance to come out and say I am a ‘Republican too.'”

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Later in the interview, she echoed the popular Republican talking-point that “identity politics” are a bad thing — before attempting to make her own identity a campaign selling point.

“I‘ve always, my whole life, have been careful to [n]ever play identity politics,” she claimed, “because up until, I would say I was in my low 30s, I didn’t see a difference in who I was based on a woman or someone else being a man or being Mexican-American. I judged myself always on performance. But when you say why do we want more women at the table? It’s because it gives a perspective.”

Ramirez Mukherjee then contradicted her claim that social issues no longer matter, saying, “The topics we are talking about around reproductive health, around family, around education, around safety, climate — those are things that I feel someone that has a different background, a different professional background, comes from somewhere else. It gives a perspective that others don’t have at the table currently.”

[struggle4progress]

1. "I stand proudly with Saint Donald the Pussy-Grabber!"

[CrispyQ]

2. Brainwashed. Another zombie brain buys the falsehood that the GOP are fiscal conservatives.

Just like the GOP has claimed that they are the party of God, & the party of personal responsibility, & the party of family values. For 40 years the dems have never challenged these myths, so whose surprised that people believe them?

[dalton99a]

3. For qualifications, she loudly mentions her Slovenian mother, her Mexican father,

her Bangladeshi husband, and her Wharton diploma.

[lapfog_1]

4. So in the "Best Economy Ever" in the US

we need to run $1Trillion dollar deficits... not debt, but deficits?

Is THAT what she means about "fiscal side" identity politics?

[Aristus]

5. She forgot to add:

"I made him angry."

"He only does it because he loves me."

"I made him angry."

"He was just stressed out by work."

"I made him angry."

"It's just his way, is all."

"I made him angry."

"He said he was sorry later."

"I made him angry."