Desperation argument to the Republicon War on Women? Just say Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy!

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Wow. What is up with my local paper putting dumbass right wing letters in the top? (Another example from Thursday's paper here.)

Democratic honorees didn't respect women

Amidst the dysfunctional convention clamor, Democrats continued trying to sell their preposterous notion of a Republican war on women. To make their lame attempt even sillier were two of the men they chose to honor Wednesday night: The late Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton. At best both these men viewed and view women as mere objects. Objects of lessor value to use and abuse, or worse, as they saw fit. By their own venal actions they have shown an utter lack of respect for all women. War on Women by the Republican Party? Hardly, but a case could easily be built that both men, Ted Kennedy, while he was alive, and Bill Clinton to this day, waged a long sad dreary and destructive war on women, while holding public office. What a disgrace.

Ohoho! Of course we know the letter writer thinks that Chappaquiddick and Monica Lewinsky automatically mean Democrats hate women (as opposed to the actual policies that Todd Akin and Paul Ryan etc. have voted on.)

Meanwhile at the way bottom of the letters section was a reasonable response to that other RW LTTE I pointed out in the other thread "Here is how the Republican agenda is pro-woman":

Forcing GOP stance on others is just wrong

The Republican agenda for women is not difficult to understand, but the attitude and reasoning of women like Patricia Mack (Letters, Sept. 6) are.

That she "believes" that "marriage is and should be the union of one man and one woman" is not a problem. It's when she wants to, by law, insist that everyone else abide by that rule that it becomes a big problem. The same goes for her "beliefs" about abortion and birth control.

It's so hypocritical of Republicans to talk about the administration's "assault" on religion when they are the ones acting in the most un-Christian way. For example, their wish to end Obamacare and decimate Medicare and Medicaid. What does a person without health insurance do when they are hit with a serious illness? Yes, it is hard to understand how a woman, or a man, could vote Republican.

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1. They try this crap on racism, too

Claiming Democrats can't criticize them on racism - by simply screaming "Robert KKK Byrd!" (I believe this originated from Hannity.

Of course, they ignore the part where Byrd reformed, spent the remainder of his days apologizing for what he called 'the greatest mistake of his life,' and in his older years became a voice for tolerance in many forms (one of his final acts was advocating for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell).

Meanwhile, the GOP gladly embraced racists through the Southern Strategy, and proudly claimed the unapologetic segregationists Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond (who disowned and refused to his death to publicly acknowledge the black daughter he had at age 23 with his family's 15-year-old maid) as their own.

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2. And don't forget - equating today's Democratic Party with the party from the Jim Crowe

days. Totally ignoring that those Democrats were the type southern white men who have since shifted to the Republican party