Megyn Kelly Reminds Us, Republican and Sexist are not Synonyms

It is not often that pen gets put to paper here and it is not about something negative that has bubbled its way forth to my attention. Last week there was an excellent segment on the news that I would like to call attention to...

Megyn Kelly featured pundit Erick Erickson, of the (admittedly Republican, but that's not the point) blog RedState. Erick was defending a stance against working mothers; arguing that it is natural for the female of a species to be "submissive" and that the male of the species was the protector and provider.

Don't mention that to her

Ms. Kelly's remarks are a reminder that successful women are not necessarily the wilting flowers that Dem Terry McAuliffe would like you to believe they are, and illustrates that McAuliffe is trying to play Virginia's women to win the governorship.

The story  was referring to these new statistics. They have found that 40% of females are now the breadwinners in their homes. Erickson was in the middle of a poorly-reasoned argument that gender roles are not interchangeable (well, that's what he was trying to say anyway) and tumbled down the road to damn-near-misogyny. Kelly took Erickson's pseudo-science to the net,

"In this country in the ’50s and ’60s there were huge numbers of people that … said it was science and fact if you were the child of a black father and white mother or vice versa you were inferior and not set up for success. Tell that to Barack Obama." 

"Why is this important?" you may ask. Well, it really is heartening to see a strong Republican woman who is standing up to idiotic and archaic absolutes of gender roles without someone dropping misplaced blame at the feet of conservatism. 

The backdrop of this campaign in the Commonwealth, and Terry McAuliffe's underhanded half-truthing antics make for a lot of misdirection and smoke-and-mirrors for Virginia's women. This is the Terry McAuliffe who left his newborn and recovering wife in the car and ditched her on the way to the hospital BOTH so he could collect a check . Oh, he also got kicked out of the delivery room in 1993 for yelling at the doctor about healthcare reform.

Terry McAuliffe's respect for women only reaches the exact distance to the bank; naturally, he wants to demonize his opponent. 

Terry would have you believe that Ken Cuccinelli and all Republicans behind him are cackling boogeymen, come to take away the Nineteenth Amendment and cast us all into the Dark Ages! That is false.

This is the perfect illustration to respond to the tripe that the McAuliffe campaign is spewing about the Attorney General waging a war on women. Republican and sexist are not synonyms and that is not always acknowledged in less-than-sportsman-like Dem campaigns. Megyn Kelly has reminded us of that.

Ken Cuccinelli is no more fighting a war on women than Megyn Kelly is. Terry and the Democratic party are trying to play those women for chumps by saying so. That tired old rhetoric out of the 19-whatever Democratic campaign book is getting old and no one believes it anymore.

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