| The war on women comes to California as Jennifer Kerns, the new communications director for the California Republican Party, unleashed a brutal twitter attack on former Democratic congressional candidate Krystal Ball for defending a woman's right to birth control:
Stripper, or strategist? Democrat strategist on MSNBC raging against Limbaugh, her name is supposedly "Krystal Ball." Speaking of #sluts...
and
Dem "strategist" Krystal Ball. What has happened to MSNBC... #smh http://t.co/MHtoLJXN
And in case the Tweets get taken down, here's a screenshot (via Lisa McIntire):
California Republicans alienated Latinos, Asians, Blacks and young people in droves by 2010 and lost the governor's race by 13 points. They haven't won a statewide political race since 2006 and haven't picked up a seat in the legislature or Congress in even longer. I guess they've now decided to alienate women as well.
No wonder we've called the CRP the Zombie Death Cult for many years here at Calitics. This is what a dying political party looks like - a party that only cares about inside jokes with its tiny, shriveling, pathetic, hateful base.
We'll see if the CRP fires Kerns for this, especially as Republicans across the country are trying to distance themselves from Rush Limbaugh's similar attack on a young law student, calling her a "slut." But the damage is done, and Californians are now aware that the Republican Party has added women to the list of people they hate.
UPDATE: David Atkins points to a statement from CRP Chairman Tom Del Beccaro from last January about Kerns' hiring:
Del Beccaro said in a statement that she "brings not only an unrelenting desire for our Party and for its goals to succeed, but also a great deal of creativity that will help us drive our message in 2012."
And that message is apparently that women who disagree with the party's policies are sluts. |
