Is there anyone who doesn't think the Republican Party has a woman problem? Oh — maybe the Republicans themselves. Or, at least, Republican men.
Take the GOP caucus in the House of Representatives. Stunned to be facing minority status (many for the first time), with their female members down to just a handful, they still think that if they only improve their messaging, they can stage a comeback with women in 2020. It's the PR — not the policies — that's the problem, they aver.
We cats say, fine, let them think that. But the Republicans could have already taken a small, symbolic step in the right direction last month, by electing a woman as chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) wanted the job, and it would have been a nice gesture to female voters that maybe, just maybe, the GOP hears them.
But whoops! — guess what? They didn't. Tom Emmer of Minnesota will spearhead the Republicans' efforts to climb back into the majority. Yep, a very conservative white dude will lead the charge to keep Republicans from being abandoned by American women for generations.
Here's how we'll judge his performance: How many of the candidates Emmer recruits to run for the 40 seats the Republicans lost will look and think exactly like him? We cats think we know the answer, and we HISS and PURR at the same time.
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