COMMENTARY | The remaining candidates seeking the Republican nod to run against Barack Obama keep digging themselves deeper into holes with shovels made of pure misogyny. Their websites and campaign rhetoric show them to hold views detrimental to women's rights and the sanctity of their bodies.
Mitt Romney made the mistake of allowing unscreened voters into a news conference on Monday, according to CNN. That's bad for him but good for Americans because it lets people with tough questions reach the microphone. The first questioner put Romney under pressure by calling him to the carpet for wanting to deny women easy access to birth control pills. A pre-selected audience would never have held him so accountable so quickly.
Romney stumbled over his answer by saying, "If you're looking for free stuff you don't have to pay for? Vote for the other guy, that's what he's all about, OK? That's not, that's not what I'm about."
It's only under pressure that politicians make dumb remarks. Romney just handed the Obama administration ammunition by claiming that voting Democrat will get women better access to, well, almost anything. His wording was vague enough to be taken to mean almost anything.
He also made it apparent that voting for him will cost voters money. Clearly, "that's not, that's not what" Americans want to hear. We like free stuff -- and the more the better. We don't like being overcharged or made to pay for things that should be basic human rights.
Karen Santorum said women have "nothing to fear" from her husband, candidate Rick Santorum, in an ABC report. She has reason to say such things purely from self-interest. A Santorum victory would make her the first lady. Is her statement accurate? In light of the candidate's stance on issues it seems blatantly false.
Santorum said in a CNN report he would force one of his daughters to carry a baby that resulted from her violent rape to term and give birth to it. That proves he is so anti-abortion that he'd tread on the rights of his own child. Santorum would not protect the rights of other women if he's not prepared to do so for his daughter.
With candidates like these it should be clear to all American women that their interests lay in voting for Obama.
