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RUSH: Here\u2019s Denise in Charlotte, North Carolina, as we head to the phones. It\u2019s great to have you, Denise. Thanks for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, and congratulations on your book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I really do.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, getting back to the election in Virginia. I know we\u2019ve analyzed and there\u2019s a lot of different reasons why Cuccinelli lost, but I think the primary reason that really needs to be taken seriously is that he lost because of the War on Women. The women\u2019s issues hit him hard. It was the same reason that Romney lost to Obama. In close elections, this issue, this strategy from the left is killing us. And the Republican Party is doing nothing to fight back and counter it, and I\u2019m telling you, in 2016, we are going to get beat up with this. And the other thing is is that while Obamacare can be an advantage for us, the left is going to tie and fuse Obamacare and the women\u2019s issues together so that it will weaken the advantage we have to fight against Obamacare.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What would you do? What would you do out there to counter the War on Women meme?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Number one, I would use all that money that the Republican Party is not spending on qualified candidates to have a ad campaign that counteracts the propaganda on the left. When they say we are against women, we put out that they\u2019re against women. You know, fight fire with fire and show that they are actually undermining women.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I agree with that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that\u2019s exactly right, but the Republican Party isn\u2019t doing that on any issue. It\u2019s not just women. Look at what they\u2019re doing. They destroyed the black family. They\u2019re destroying minorities families. Look at what they\u2019re doing to women with their policies. I mean, they\u2019re demeaning them. They\u2019re turning \u2019em into nothing but abortion machines. I mean, there\u2019s so much that we could be doing if we just fight back, but the Republican Party, even if they had all the money in the world right now, doesn\u2019t seem inclined to do any of this.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Our last caller had a point. If you look some of the exit polling data, McAuliffe beat Cuccinelli by nine points with women. He was up 24, though. The gap was shrinking — and it was shrinking rapidly — as they got near the election. On abortion, the voters that care about that as their number one issue, The Punk was ahead by 20% on that. But on the economy and on Obamacare, Cuccinelli cleaned up. So the caller has a point. <\/p>\n

This War on Women thing? Can I take you back to how this started? I know some of you are new to the program. You may have joined us since, say, the Republican primaries, which is when this started. I\u2019m gonna tell you exactly how this whole thing started. It was a strategized event between the Democrat Party and George Stephanopoulos<\/a>, who happened to be moderating a Republican primary debate.<\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

It was January of 2008, I believe. Yeah, yeah, just right at the very beginning of the year. Stephanopoulos was moderating as the ABC Good Morning America anchor and a couple of other people, and in the middle of the debate he started asking Romney about contraception. It came out of the blue and Romney didn\u2019t know what to do with it. He said, “No, I favor contraception. What are you talking about George?” <\/p>\n

“I just want to know. Do you think it\u2019s states should have the ability to provide contraception or not provide contraception, whatever?” Romney was just totally flummoxed. He had no idea why Stephanopoulos would ask this, and neither did any other Republican. What the hell is this all about? Romney said, “George, nobody\u2019s talking about this. This is not an issue.”<\/line>