On Sunday, Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's senior campaign advisor, claimed that social issues important to women were "shiny objects" being used to distract voters. What social issues you ask? Contraception coverage and abortion rights. The direct quote below:
“Mitt Romney is pro-life. He’ll govern as a pro-life president, but you’re going to see the Democrats use all sorts of shiny objects to distract people’s attention from the Obama performance on the economy. This is not a social issue election."Women folk, so ridiculous. So easily distracted by shiny objects, we better hope they don't produce a giant laser pointer or we'll all be screwed. These ideas of controlling our own bodies. Personally, I love the condescension here about how women's issues don't really matter just being used to distract from what I'm assuming the Romney campaign considers "real" issues? Like, actually, I have no idea. Because Fair Pay for women doesn't count, protecting farm laborers wouldn't count, so foreign policy maybe?
At last look Obama led Romney with the women's vote 51-40, but somehow these jerks are making a comeback.
