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Pro-abortionists try every which way to “prove” that Texas Gov-Elect Abbott didn’t win women voters

Nov 12, 2014

 

By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion Texas state Senator Wendy Davis and Pro-life Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott

Pro-abortion Texas state Senator Wendy Davis and Pro-life Texas Governor-elect Greg Abbott

When “progressives”—pro-abortion Democrats—are crushed (as they were last Tuesday), they tend to respond as pro-abortion President Barack Obama has: with non-sequiturs, evasions, blame the voters, and a call for solidarity among the righteous (which would be those who think just as they do).

For example, they strongly suggest that had the real electorate turned out (or not been “suppressed”); had they done a better job of “selling” their accomplishments (Obama implied on “Face the Nation” that there had been a “failure of politics” on the part of his team—he had built “the better mousetrap” but nobody seemed to appreciate it); and had everyone understood that Republicans are the devil incarnate (which should have been everyone but ESPECIALLY women), then November 4 would have been a reasonably successful day.

This has played out in many forums and about many different races. The two most obvious examples are Iowa—where a strong pro-life woman, Joni Ernst, trounced Rep. Bruce Braley, a connect-the-dots pro-abortion man, by almost 100,000 votes—and the gubernatorial failure of pro-abortion heroine Wendy Davis who carried a miniscule 38.9% of the vote as compared to pro-life Greg Abbott’s 59.3%.

To put it mildly, having their “icon” obliterated by almost a million votes makes pro-abortion feminists seethe and turns them exceedingly testy. To take just one example, there is the absurd rant that it is wrong, wrong, wrong to say Abbott carried the woman’s vote.

Pardon? Didn’t the exit polls say Abbott prevailed 52% to 47% over Davis among female voters? One Salon writer insisted this is misleading because Abbott won only among white women. To say he “won women,” she argued, was to imply that women of color didn’t count as “women.”

No, it does nothing of the sort. It is merely to say that among people who are of the female gender, Abbott prevailed. It does not say he won among African-American women or Latina. (Pro-abortionists glide over the fact that Abbott won almost 40% of the female Hispanic vote. That doesn’t fit the narrative so down the memory hole.) He won among all women collectively.

The irony is, of course, that the pro-abortionists are doing exactly what they accuse others of: those white women who voted for Abbott are not really “women” because they did not vote for Davis.

Subsequently, there’s been a lot of backfilling to “prove” that what various pro-abortionists were clearly saying wasn’t what, in fact, they were saying. This is painfully embarrassing, so they like to return to the real topic. Which is….

That every woman should understand that only pro-abortion Democrats, preferably women but not only women, have their interests at heart. If they don’t see this, they are the prisoners of what the Marxists used to call false consciousness: they don’t know who their oppressors are.

But Imani Gandy, a Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check, does:

If we are to make any inroads in the fight to ensure that women don’t end up corralled in Republican-funded breeding farms, serving as little more than brood mares in a dystopian landscape that would make even Margaret Atwood shudder, then we need to figure out a way to reach the women who are currently voting against their interests and the interests of their women of color sisters.

NRLC President Carol Tobias wrote about this you-don’t-count-if-you-don’t-agree–with-me mentality last week [http://nrlc.cc/1syKbeA].

Pro-abortion figures such as Hillary Clinton and Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards tried to tell voters that female candidates who oppose abortion know nothing about what women really want.

Clinton, at a pro-Braley rally, told voters in Iowa, “It’s not enough to be a woman, you have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women.” Because Joni Ernst (who defeated Braley) thinks unborn babies should be protected, she isn’t committed to expanding rights and opportunities for women?

What a condescending slap in the face to women who vote pro-life, or who run as pro-life candidates: “You are too dumb to know what’s good for you—in fact you are hurting the cause by enabling our oppressors.”

At the risk of stating the obvious, what would be the response if a man talked to women collectively as if they didn’t have the brains they were born with?

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