in the rewrite tonight, what happens when a republican congresswoman tries to explain to her fellow republicans how to win the hearts and minds of women voters? what happened first is she got a very bad review in the conservative washington examiner, under the headline, the republican plan to change the war on women narrative needs work. republican congresswoman renee elmers of north carolina was not pleased at how she was quoted in that article, especially the line about how you can successfully communicate political ideas to women only if you can bring it down to a woman s level. if a statement, she claimed her comments were taken completely out of context. she said, i am a woman and i find it offensive and sexist to take my words and redefine them and imply that women need to be addressed at a lower level. she blamed certain leftist writers who were trying to trap her in gotcha journalism.
we re the mothers. we re the wives. we re the grandmothers. we re the big sisters. we re the little sisters. and we are the daughters. you know it s true, don t you? i love you women! and i hear your voices. no, no. that didn t work. much better to put forward women of their own, to tell the conservative story in a woman s voice. last friday a group of conservative women, mostly members of the republican study committee, did just that. they met to talk about how the gop can better reach women with the message of how their policies would improve women s lives. just one reporter was allowed into the session. ashe schow of the conservative washington examiner. she wrote a piece about the session in which speakers explains it s not conservative
if a statement, she claimed her comments were taken completely out of context. she said, i am a woman and i find it offensive and sexist to take my words and redefine them and imply that women need to be addressed at a lower level. she blamed certain leftist writers who were trying to trap her in gotcha journalism. the writer who gave her the bad review in the washington examiner, previously worked at the conservative heritage foundation and she now works at a conservative newspaper that is not in the business of making trouble for republicans. she also has an audio recording of what the congresswoman actually said. so you can be the judge of just how out of context that quote is. here she is talking to a group of women about how to talk to women.
the difference is that obama wants to avoid them. this is in the washington examiner. a conservative paper. yeah, exactly right. i read the speaker s op erksz d in the journal. it was quite a disz aster for him. the sequester is something that has to be avoided at all costs. and both you and i agree on that. and then the second half says here are all the reasons why we ll refuse to compromise with the president on it. you can t say this is a disaster for the nation u being an elected public official who presumably comes to washington not to generate disasters and self-inflicted wounds, but to actually solve problems that
representatives, almost fwies as many as the number of democrats said you know what? our preferred policy is, in order to force the democratic party, in order to force the president to cut spending, quote unquote, we re going to put in place this sequester which does these huge cuts to social problems. this is the policy they voted for. now that it s about to happen, they tried to blame barack obama. they voted for it, as you stated u almost 2-1 in terms of party lines for this. some of the right are starting to point out that boehner has stopped making sense. for example, byron york, of the conservative washington examiner, he wrote the effects of boehner s argue make it seem reasonable in come parson.