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“If the Republican Party is trying to improve its image with women, I don’t think that this is working.”
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) hit her party’s own vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), for what she called “offensive” comments about “childless cat ladies,” Politico reports.
“I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’”
— Robert Regan (R), who is favored to win a seat in the Michigan House reports the Washington Post. One of Regan’s daughters urged voters not to elect him to office two years ago.
“I don’t think anybody does a better job than mothers in the home, and any bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child, I don’t think that’s a good direction for us to be going.”
— Idaho state Rep. Charlie Shepherd (R) argued against a bill which would use $6 million in federal grants to increase early childhood education, KTVB reports.
“Kavanaugh is a massive liability now for a party that is already heavily identified with the grossest and most predatory aspects of male sexual entitlement. Keeping Kavanaugh at this point would be an act of sheer madness.”
I don’t know how women can vote for him … It’s incomprehensible to me.
— Barbara Bush, in an interview with CBS News, on Donald Trump as the Republican nominee.
Hillary Clinton on this woman thing, I think, is lacking subtlety. I don’t need her to drown me in estrogen every time she opens her mouth.
— GOP strategist Anna Navarro, quoted by TPM.
Many ladies I know feel like they are being used as pawns, and find it condescending [that] Democrats are trying to use this issue as a political distraction from the failures of their economic policy.
— Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), saying Democrats’ push for pay equity between men and women is “condescending,” the Huffington Post reports.
Men are better negotiators, and I would encourage women, instead of pursuing the courts for action, to become better negotiators.
— Texas Republican Party Executive Director Beth Cubriel, quoted by Huffington Post, explaining the GOP’s position on fair pay legislation.
It’s hard for me to phrase this politely. Sometimes Republicans think that just putting a woman up front means somehow that women are going to feel good about the party. It is not about the messenger. It’s about the message. And until we figure that one out, while it’s nice that we have a woman as a spokesperson, if the message itself doesn’t get changed a bit, it’s not going to work.
— Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R), quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on Republicans picking a woman to rebut the State of the Union address.
