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RUSH: You know, liberals, ladies and gentlemen, are still in a state of shock and disbelief over the notion that “social issues” don\u2019t hurt Republicans. You see the reason for the manufactured, false, it-doesn\u2019t-really-exist attempt to convince people Republicans have a war on women… Which, again, as mayor of Realville: Republicans date women, they marry women, they have children with women.<\/p>\n

They take women to dinner. They buy women diamonds and open car doors for women. Yet there\u2019s this Republican war on women, and the Republicans want to actually somehow reach into their purses and grab their birth control pills and take \u2019em away from \u2019em. The Democrats actually think that they\u2019re going to win with this! The Democrats in the media actually believe they can convince (in this era) the American people that Republicans hate women and are actually at war with them. The Democrats are like Obama. Obama spends money on green energy and expects it just to happen by magic. He invests in all this green energy<\/a> infrastructure and when there aren\u2019t any new jobs his literally befuddled.<\/p>\n

“Why?” He asks his advisers. “I\u2019ve invested in all the infrastructure! I\u2019ve spent all the money. Where are the jobs?” <\/p>\n

“Uh, the companies have gone bankrupt, Mr. President.”<\/p>\n

“No, no, I spent all that money.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>By the same token, they go out and coordinate with the media about a Republican war on women, and then Republican women in Republican primaries go vote for Rick Santorum who\u2019s leading the war on women in their minds. He wants to take away their contraception! Santorum wants them barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen all the time. Santorum wins and they can\u2019t figure it out. It discombobulates them. They think that bringing up social issues will doom Republicans to defeat, and a lot of Republican establishment types think the same thing. They\u2019re in a state of shock over a lot. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re in a state of shock over the fact that I\u2019m still here, that you\u2019re still here, that the “war on women” isn\u2019t working. They\u2019re in a state of shock that a guy like Bill Maher is a “casualty” of all this. He\u2019s a hero to them! So last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews spoke with USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page about Republican primary candidates talking about social issues. And Matthews said, “On these social issues, these issues that women are particularly politically focused on — although they affect both men and women pretty darn well — is Mitt Romney getting in trouble, Susan?”<\/p>\n

PAGE: Clearly the Democrats think this is a great issue for them because I got 115 e-mails today from Democrats decrying what Mitt Romney said about Planned Parenthood. But the fact is if you look at, uh, the data in both the Gallup poll and the Pew Research Center poll out just today, there isn\u2019t evidence that this issue cuts disproportionately with women.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (doing impression) “Ah, what\u2019s going on, it doesn\u2019t make sense. Women ought to be hating Romney. Women ought to despise the Republicans, and they like Romney, they like Santorum, it\u2019s not happening. They\u2019re voting on the economy. These women, they came out and they said the economy was most important to them and don\u2019t they understand the Republicans are trying to take their health away?” They actually believe this, folks. They actually believe that all they\u2019ve gotta do is level the accusation and then all of you are gonna believe that Santorum and Romney and Newt are at war with you. Now, Romney, Planned Parenthood, he didn\u2019t say he was gonna shut it down. He said he was gonna take federal money away from it. He didn\u2019t say that he was going to wipe it out. He said he was going to stop spending and giving federal tax dollars to Planned Parenthood. To the media and to the Democrats, that\u2019s the same thing as shutting it down, as far as they\u2019re concerned.<\/p>\n

Last night also on Hardball, Chris Matthews had Melinda Henneberger. I think she used to be at US News or Newsweek or TIME. I forget which. Where is she now? Is she at the Washington Post? Yeah. I thought she was at a blog somewhere. Anyway, Matthews spoke with Melinda Henneberger who\u2019s at the Washington Post. He said, “It\u2019s astounding to me after all the talk on television, especially about what happened with regard to going after Planned Parenthood, right? All this talk about Rush Limbaugh, and all this talk about the Catholic Church, all this talk about contraception, all those issues which you would think would have put the Democrats with an advantage over the conservatives. Not a big, powerful impact yet in terms of big changing and how people are voting yet.”<\/p>\n

HENNEBERGER: I do think that it\u2019s a very powerful, good issue for Democrats because it energizes the base, it energizes women, they\u2019re raising a lot of money on it. But to quote Ann Romney, women are concerned about other things besides contraceptives, too. So, you know, I mean a friend of mine who\u2019s an independent voter said, “You know, I am worried. The top issue on my mind is not who\u2019s gonna be paying for contraception with my tax dollars. Oops, I\u2019m unemployed, I\u2019m not paying taxes.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, Melinda has an independent friend. That\u2019s noteworthy. And even her independent friend is not worried about contraception and who\u2019s gonna be paying for it. She wants a job. Shock. “I think it\u2019s a powerful, good issue for Democrats.” You hear Matthews, he can\u2019t believe it. All the talk about me. All the talk about the Catholic Church. All the talk about contraception. All this talk, all this talk, all this talk, and it hasn\u2019t hurt the Republicans yet. Why not, Melinda? The whole point here was to hurt Republicans. Why hasn\u2019t it hurt Republicans? They can\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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