Conservative Women: We Like Sex Too!

Republican women aren't sure what's worse: conservatives ignoring women’s issues, or conservatives addressing them.

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But you know, good for those lady Republicans that they're giving some thought to their little problem with the majority of the country. Nice to see them acknowledge that their party is completely wrong when it comes to women. Or not:

When prodded by audience questions, the panelists said that contraception was a non-issue. As [conservative blogger Mollie] Hemingway put it, contraception was thought up by Democrats who found it tested well in focus groups despite being a completely settled issue. Her response was to urge Republicans to respond with their own accusations that are “just as crazy,” something like, “they’re stealing your hot dogs!”

Yes, the extremely popular plan to cover basic health care for women is an evil plot invented by Democrats to make Republicans look bad and also something something hot dogs. Huh?

At least one audience member understood the damage Republicans had done to themselves by attacking popular things like, you know, sex. And women. And health care:

“I just want to say one small word and the word is sex,” audience member Leslie Paige, 55, said when she got the microphone. She works for advocacy group that pushes for smaller government and described a situation in which college-aged women see Republicans as “a bunch of prudish, anti-sex, anti-reproductive freedom people.”
Paige suggested Republicans create a bumper sticker that reads, “We Like Sex Too.” After a moment’s pause, this drew a big round of applause and even some supportive hoots from the audience.

Sure, they like sex too. As long as it's heterosexual sex, between a married couple, without any birth control, for procreative purposes only, and if you get pregnant and your pregnancy is going to kill you, so be it, you can just die because Jesus said so, and besides, that doesn't matter because what women really care about is the deficit and "rising energy costs."

So yeah, go with that, ladies. Print up some bumper stickers advertising that you also like sex. Just don't forget the asterisk.