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Democrats Love Women

DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stood beneath the Love statue in Love Park and asked Romney where was the love for women in his agenda.

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Democrats Love Women

POSTED: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5:19 PM

Troy Graham @troyjgraham on Twitter

With Mitt Romney traveling around Pennsylvania ahead of this month's primary, state voters are not only getting their first up-close inpsection of the somewhat presumed GOP nominee. They're also getting a preview of the attack lines the Democrats are likely to use against him.

There was little subtlety to the Democratic message today, when DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stood beneath the Love statue in Love Park and asked Romney where was the love for women in his agenda.

Behind her, 13 supporters stood with signs reading, "Keep Your Mitts(s) Off Birth Control."

During the primary season, Schultz said Romney has tracked right to satisfy the conservative base, taking positions that are "callous and dismissive of what matters to women." She said Romney has promised to defund Planned Parenthood, overturn Roe v. Wade and repeal the Obama health plan -- all positions, she said, antithetical to most women voters.

Schultz said Romney won't be able shake the Etch-a-Sketch and emerge with more moderate views in the general election.

"Women aren't interested in being pawns as he panders his way to the GOP nomination," Schultz said. "No amount of shaking can get rid of Mitt Romney's dismissive and out of touch positions when it comes to women's health."

Schultz was joined by U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, the only female in Pennsylvania's 19-member Congressional delegation (21, including the two male senators).

Schwartz said there's a growing "gender gap," and women are "are walking away from the Republican party."

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:54 PM, 04/05/2012

pol-in-chief cannot run on record. they generate a false topic such as birth control to try to change the conversation. schultz is so one note overvand over. thank God she down in Florida. maybe she can get better care in cuba. let her go on and on to the castro brothers.

— jstash

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:13 PM, 04/05/2012

Democrats are destroying everything that made this country great by giving handouts rather than making people accountable for their own choices.

— eaglephanatic

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:22 AM, 04/06/2012

The Leftists want to talk about a war on women? Maybe they should explain why their political soul mates in China have murdered 40 million women over the last 30 years? Talk about a war on women. Ms. Wasserman Schultz, why are there 40 million more men in China than there are women? Care to explain?

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:58 AM, 04/06/2012

What's offensive and out-of-touch is when Wasserman-Schultz and Schwartz remain silent when Democrat Babette Josephs refers to female PA GOP legislators as "men with breasts."

— featherman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:22 AM, 04/06/2012

Thankfully, all you wingnuts will have to return to your holes when President Obama is reelected in a landslide in November. Until then, however, we'll have to listen to your rabid rhetoric, such as equating birth control to the Chinese. On women's issues, the Republicans are right at about "The Handmaid's Tale" level. If you haven't read it, you should, for the positions taken in the Republican primaries are that alarming. However, on the basic issues, President Obama has done a tremendous job in reestablishing the wrecked economy he inherited and saved the banking system. He saved the American auto industry (and finally forced automakers to produce gas-efficient vehicles, something Reagan had eliminated to our disadvantage), got a health care plan through (that no matter what you think about the mandate, provides pre-existing condition coverage and coverage of children to all) that all REPUBLICAN Presidents through GHW Bush supported, got us out of Iraq, got rid of Gaddhafi, and re-entered the world community in important issues such as environmental policy and trade policy. Probably most importantly, he has rejected the Republican insistence that the middle class pay for the entire cost of government and has set in motion the expiration of the disasterous Bush tax cuts on the rich, which more than any other single factor has caused the massive deficits we now face. I know all of you guys think that these things are wrong, but the country will disagree with you come November. So scream away, but we're all voting this time and Angry White Males aren't enough to elect Mitt.

— Palestra Jon

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:39 PM, 04/06/2012

Count 'em, 13 supporters. A bakers dozen. What a display of wide-spread support for the intellectually challenged.

— junethe4th

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:47 PM, 04/09/2012

Democrats love women...LOL. Have you seen the lib/dems women in office lately... how can you love that!?!

All the great looking ladies in office are Republicans!!!

— FocusTruthFully