Women legislators are a severe minority in the Republican Party. Enough to warrant special attention.

I mean, it’s pretty obvious why given their policies, but it is still quite alarming. You expect this stuff from a Third World nation, just not here. Hell, even Pakistan has had a female leader, but we have a party actively against the rights of women recently hold all the levers of power in the United States.

Case in point: in Rethug Texas, if you are a woman who is raped and work with the police to prosecute your assailant, they will charge you for your rape kit. The implied message is “rape is okay, don’t raise a stink”. A similar charge was exacted in Palin’s Alaska.

The point was really drove home recently when Rethug Hero (and Felon) G. Gordon Liddy launched a race and gender-based attack on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor which included the following statement:

“Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something.”

Stay classy GOP.

I read this article awhile back and was actually dumbfounded by the idea. Apparently, a substantial amount of conservatives think Stephen Colbert’s character is for real.

Granted, I have my issues with the show. I think it toes the line into even pretend angry bigoted too often and too close to be real. Also, it isn’t all that funny overall. That said, I’m still pretty convinced he’s play acting. Don’t take my word for it, here’s an interview Colbert recently did with the Los Angeles Times.

For more on the study, go here.

Robert Reich weighs in on the topic of Rethug vitriol against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. They’ve gone to the standard plan of letting Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al speak the racist BS while the elected types go “aw shucks, them guys” and pretend to focus on issues.

So far, no one has really called them on it. Hell, Mitch McConnell doesn’t even pretend to speak out against the bigoted statements.

Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. They’ve attacked her for “having feelings”, re: being a woman. As mentioned in another post, Traitor Liddy had some VERY chauvinistic things to say about her.

Aside from calling Spanish “illegal alien”, the GOP has also gone out of it’s way to label Sotomayor a racist. What is telling is that since they are damn near ALL saying it, doesn’t that kind of make them the racists? Or is calling her “Sonia from the block” not a racist statement.

Among the racist fearmongers are Liddy (see above link), Tom Tancredo, and Limbaugh and Beck and their ilk. Trust me, it isn’t hard to find links to this.

And while trying to pin a racist label on a federal judge, one of Tancredo’s aides (who also worked for Pat Buchanan) confessed to accosting an American-American woman on the street, karate chopping at her head and calling her the N-word. And he has not been fired from Tancredo’s employ.

Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.

But they aren’t the racists. Right.

Wait. Isn’t Sotomayor actually qualified for the job she’s up for?