Tuesday, May 3, 2016

A female GOP operative on the negative effects of Trump misogyny.

From a POLITICO article about some Republicans getting Ready For Hillary:
"If we nominate Trump, [the party] is lost beyond this cycle. I think we lose women for a generation, in big numbers,” said Katie Packer, who served as Romney’s deputy campaign manager and now leads the Our Principles super PAC that spent $10 million in an effort to stop Trump. 
“There’s a feeling among Republican women that I talk to that the people who would nominate this guy don’t have any real respect for us as women—especially professional women. They would rather see us in a Mad Men era, where women knew their place and catered to their husband, cooked dinner and met their sexual obligations and didn’t have any other role in society. And there are other people who are supporting him because the guy’s a blatant racist and they identify with that.
“So there’s a sense that if this is who my party is, I don’t really identify with it anymore.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/republicans-clinton-trump-indiana-222778#ixzz47fJbZ15e 

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