Ramesh Ponnuru wants you to stop worrying about this so-called “gender gap,” Mitt Romney, because it does not actually “exist.”
The evidence that Romney is lagging in the polls because voters are upset about a “war on women” — rather than because of a bruisingly negative primary campaign or the recovering economy — is pretty thin. But Republicans are responding not just to the polls but to the persistent mythology of the gender gap.
Yeah dudes no gender gap. Also Ramesh Ponnuru, please stop saying the economy is “recovering,” you know better than that! GAS PRICES! OBAMA HATES ALL LADIES AND PERSONALLY INSULTS THEM PERSONALLY! 92 PERCENT!
And making an issue of the statistics about job loss by gender will come back to haunt Republicans. Romney claims that 92 percent of those lost since Obama took office belonged to women. Does he have any plan, as president, to ensure that women get the right percentage of jobs? Does he realize that cuts in aid to state governments — like the Medicaid cuts that are an important part of his agenda — would inflict disproportionate job losses on women?
Shit you guys, Ramesh Ponnuru is getting high on his own supply! You are not supposed to listen to FACTS, Ramesh Ponnuru, about why the second half of the recession was particularly devastating to women (because Obama and the Dems wanted to help out states that were about to lay off all their workers — disproportionately female — and the GOP was all nuh uh can’t have the economy improving before an election derp). Can you please just go back to making shit up? No, you’re done for the day? Oh well.
One time we were watching The Daily Show (JEALOUS?) and there was a guy on there whose face was so punchy, and we were like, why is this guy’s face so punchy, and then a little bit later it turned out he was Ramesh Ponnuru and we were all OH IT IS RAMESH PONNURU THAT’S WHY, The End. [Bloomberg]
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That's some fine whistling Ponnuru does past the graveyard, you betcha!
It's OK, he's on our side. False flag ops; mum's the word.
Needs more Stepford wives.
Lindsey Graham is the only person who is excited about pink slips, especially if they come in his size. He tends to be high waisted.
Does he share them with Miss Marcus?
Would Miss Lindsey have a crotchless teddy?
I'm sure it started out having a crotch……
Crotch rot?
Ew.
The farmer's wife got hold of a Frederick's of Hollywood catalog one day. She ordered a pair of crotchless undies as a surprise for her husband. On the day the panties arrived, she quickly put them on as her husband was due back from the feed store any minute. When he walked in the door, she lifted up her cotton dress and asked, "Would you like some of this?"
"God, no, woman! Look what it did to your undies!"
Isn't this the guy that's on Bill Mahr's show once in a while? He is a genuine fool.
You may be thinking of Reihan Salam.
But still right about him being a genuine fool.
Naga… Naga… Nagana Work here anymore anyway.
Na-een-a-na-ja….how difficult is that?
Too.
Now that is a guy with a punchy face…
Bill Mahr is a genuine fool. Oh, were we talking about someone else?
All arguments, not just those using statistics (although those are good), would come back to haunt Republicans, if the media ever revisited past arguments or tried to objectively measure the success of candidates. We don't have a news cycle, because that would involve eventually coming back to the original argument. Instead, we have a news corkscrew, where we never actually return to the original claim to judge its merits, because the media won't let us.
Did I just blow your MIND, Ramesh?
"we never actually return to the original claim to judge its merits, because the media won't let us"
We tried that with Reagan. It didn't work. He denied all the stupid fucking things he said, even when confronted with videotape of him saying said stupid fucking things.
So that block quote is from Ponnuru? And it's factual and reasonable? Shit. The Aliens are in the duct-work now y'all. We're screwed.
As Freud once pondered 'What do women want?'
Didn't Mel Gibson ask that too, also?
"Sometimes a cigar is a dildo because their husbands are dicks."
They want other people to pay for birth control for all the sex they're having. You know what that makes them?
Hitler?
Whatever it is, they apparently want it good and hard.
"What do women want? Shoes."
- Mimi Pond
The women in the picture look like they have no problem with orgasms.
Or Cheetos.
Yeah, there's no gender gap. More like a gulf. Continental divide. Huge landmine-covered wasteland between, etc. No gap.
Ya gotta love the conservatards who venture into the alien territory of "The Daily Show" or the "Bill Maher is a Big Asshole Who is Correct From Time to Time" show. They (the 'tards) think they're smarter than any liberal, and that the force of their superior reason will win out.
Or they just like to be on teevee, and Fox News only has so many slots.
As for Michael Steele on MSNBC…no one can explain that.
Considering it's Michael Steele, lesbian bondage must be involved somehow.
^^
^
Shhh… Don't talk bad about Limey LIzzie's secret boyfriend.
Talking points memo goes in. Talking points go out. Never a miscommunication.
Well, conventional wisdom told me the only reason ANYONE rooted for Massive Newt was to see him mop the floor with POTUS at a debate. But Barry would be all like LOL moonbase, then cut to Depends commercial.
Republicans are just as opposed to birth control and abortions for men as they are for women. So no gender gap.
I never thought of it that way; sort of the corollary to "It's just as illegal for a rich man to sleep under a bridge as a poor man."
They really are champions of equal rights.
The evidence that Romney is lagging in the polls because voters are upset about a “war on women” — rather than because of a bruisingly negative primary campaign or the recovering economy — is pretty thin
This is even greater denial than was put forth by the tobacco lobbyists when they were fighting to keep those Surgeon General postings off cigarette packs.
"The evidence that Romney is lagging in the polls because voters are upset about a “war on women” — rather than because of a bruisingly negative primary campaign or the recovering economy — is pretty thin."
Unlike Ann Romney, the heavy weight champion of never working day in her life.
"Planned Parenthood? We'll get rid of that" WHAT WAR ON WOMEN?? Guys go get their cervix-es scraped and boobs smashed flat to check for cancer there all the fucking time.
Guys go get their cervix-es scraped and boobs smashed flat to check for cancer there all the fucking time.
Don't threaten ME with a good time, babe…
Is this that "chicks dig it rough" meme thats going around?
More Weakly Standard bullshit.
There goes your guest spot on Hannity.
Last week's Oval Office picture reminds me that If he married Star Trek's Uhura, she'd be Uhura Ponnuru
Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah.
Could those six women please come by my office sometime today? Thanks.
Looks like they're on their way.
Looks like they did.
They came and went!
That was delightful!
Who stole the picture of the womenz in their undies??? Do we have a fapper bandito loose on the Wonkette?????
Yes, iceberg penis demands sexxy lady parity.
Weren't those the Dove women?
Frankly, I'm getting a little concerned about the escalating War on Alt-Text we're seeing around here.
You know that awesome and frightening scene in "Alien" when the robot dude goes haywire and tries to shove a porn magazine in Sigorney Weaver's mouth ? So, I'm thinking a printed copy of a recent poll and one of the girls above, maybe the nice lady 2nd from the right? Ramesh Puttana can play the Sigorney part, Though this time loosing the struggle. It would be an homage.
That was a porn magazine? I just assumed it was an equipment manual or something.
I guess either way, you've got some pretty heady man-vs-machine symbolism going on there.
yeah, poetic right? True story, yrs ago I met the film's artistic director, the Alien's saliva is shake mix from a well known fast food joint. One of the guy's had worked there and been psychologically marred by coming in contact with the stuff and suggested it. Again, poetic eh?
Yeah, the gender gap is just a myth! I mean why would women overwhelmingly disfavor Republicans just because one of their main policies is that women should be treated as second class citizens with no rights?
Well, much like minorities disfavoring Republicans and racism, it's clearly because women and liberals are the REAL sexists.
Come on, women! Leave the Democrat Kitchen of comprehensive health care and fighting for workforce participation free of discrimination!
and public hoohaws.
Mr. President. We cannot allow a poontang gap!
'Ramesh Ponnuru' sounds suspiciously brown in color. Doesn't he know he's only allowed to eat at the big boy's (Republican Party) table after he promises to bus it?
Mr Ponnuru feels everything is hunky dory between the Repubicans and the ladies. Even after vaginal probes and end birth control and no pay equity and state mandated medical scripts and … and … well, even after all that, it's "no harm, no foul".
So go for it Repubicans! Propose more laws about the ladies and their parts. YOU CAN'T GO WRONG! Mr Ponnuru says so and he's a man so he must be right.
If you consider how often Republicans actually have (consensual) sex with (adult) women, it's understandable why they might not think women actually exist.
Now, now. There's all sorts of reasons why Mitt Romney is astoundingly unpopular with human American voters; there's no reason we can't both be right!
It might be a good strategy [the GOP reaching out to women], if the women’s vote existed…The [Republican] party should take the further crucial step of seeing that women don’t have to be courted on the basis of their sex at all.
Oooookay. If I follow this correctly, women who care about so-called "women's issues" will always vote Democratic, so the GOP should just say, "To hell with even considering that sector of the voting public, since they're a lost cause." Wow. But at least being willfully ignored would be a step up from having my hard-won gender rights actively stripped away one after the other by GOP-elected idjits.
I just want to say to all the fine, and lovely, ladies on Wonkette, that Baconz doesn't endorse this war on the females. I honestly don't understand it and I think that these people are douche bags for using you to score political points. You woman are strong, smart, and won't be duped.
p.s. Can I touch your boobs?
PSSST!
You might get further by referring to them as "lady bumps," or "girls," instead of boobs.
How does a guy who is named Ramesh get to be a Catholic. Wouldn't that be equivalent to being called Thor?
But what’s mystifying is just which women Republicans are trying to reach. The number of voters who are deeply concerned about the treatment of Democratic women in the White House and will vote for a Republican as a result has to be, as a rough approximation, zero.
What the fuck? If I understand Mr. Ponnuru correctly, he's saying there's no gender gap — just that women aren't going to vote Republican. Which is a far cry from the accusation of reasonableness Rebecca was levelling against him (which I knew couldn't hold up for a whole 700 words).
Anway, his conclusion is still basically sound — that if you're a woman and you vote Republican you're a damn fool. Also if you're a man.
Ramesh Ponnuru, graduate of Princeton, argued on Palin's behalf four years ago by declaring that Wasilla, with a metropolitan population of more than 600,000, was not a dinky little Arctic Circle outpost at all, but a bustling, thriving cosmopolitan dream city. Despite having to quickly eat his words, Ramesh, in the interests of diversity and fair-play for idiots, still turns up on the NYT op-ed page every so often.
For anyone mid-fap and without inspiration, I found the sexy ladies here
I prefered the honkin' huge Campbell Brown ads. You could almost make out her nipple.
Yes, if you restrict the category to married women who attend megachurches and Reba McIntire performances, Romney is doing just as well with them as with males across the board.
Isn't he the guy who lost the war on Ann Coulter's snatch? Oh, wait. It was the other one.
The evidence that Romney is lagging in the polls because voters are upset about a “war on women” — rather than because of a bruisingly negative primary campaign or the recovering economy — is pretty thin.
I can't help but wonder what Ponnuru and the rest of the Reeps would find convincing: should we womenfolk be out in the streets throwing rocks at Mittens and Co? Stage a protest that features live abortions on stage? Go Lysistrata on their asses?
I'll settle for voting their sorry asses out of office…
Ramesh, like George Will and a few others, occasionally writes something that is actually true about Republicans. Therefore he has "credibility."
Because nothing makes voters more upset than a "recovering economy."
Women might as well not exist so far as you're concerned, Ramesh. I've seen you and I'm guessing you've never been laid, never will be.
Ramesh Ponneru does not exist.
False.
He's blue and has 6 arms.
Ramesh Ponnuru
sounds suspiciously blah to me.
Shorter Rajesh Pazuzu: "Chicks! Amirite, guys?"
Audience: WOOOOOOO!!!
Panini is just saying all those assy things because he heard somewhere that women like jerks.
Aw, he just has a bug up his ass about women because he can't even *talk* to them unless he's drunk…
Oh, wait, that's Rajesh, not Ramesh.
*dismissive hand wave*
Carry on.
Excuse me, could I speak to someone who speaks English, please????
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