Team Mitch’s dubious efforts to win over women took another hit this week after a top Republican re-election flack referred to the female Democrat seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as “an empty dress.”
...Even Matt Bevin, the Republican challenging Mr. McConnell in the primary, chivalrously spoke up on her behalf, saying as a married father of six daughters, he found the comments “highly offensive.”
The Republican establishment blasted Mr. Bevin for aiding and abetting the enemy. But Mr. Bevin, to his credit, is standing his ground on his party’s blundering efforts to win back women voters, commenting: “That‘s not the way to bridge the gap.”
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Empty dress? Empty rhetoric
An editorial from today's Courier-Journal:
