After Hilary Rosen’s heavily criticized attack on Ann Romney on
Wednesday night, Republicans find themselves in a position to recover
ground on one of this year’s mostly highly charged political narratives:
the so-called war on women.
“Talk about overplaying their hand,” Tim Miller, deputy communications
director of the Republican National Committee, told POLITICO. “Given the
economic numbers showing the Obama economy disproportionately impacts
women and a top Democrat attacking stay-at-home moms, it’s clear that
the President has the woman problem.”
For more than a month, Democrats and liberal groups have used Rush
Limbaugh’s comments about Sandra Fluke and Republican views on
contraception to suggest that the GOP has been waging a “war on women.”
At the same time, they have cited Mitt Romney’s low polling numbers
among female voters to suggest that the candidate — and the party — is
out of touch with women.
