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You left out the IMO.
How dare they take what Romney said and claim it is what he meant!
You left out the IMO.
When you build memes, the larger context is intentionally discarded.
Gecko's "Binders of Wimmen" brings his Mormon anti-women ethic to forefront, as if his/Repug misogyny hadn't already pushed the female vote to Barry. Gecko is one stupid mother er.
btw, Anne Coulter says women's suffrage was a huge mistake and women should denied the vote.
Pics, not photoshopped or I call BS.
The context was how awkward he was when talking about women.
hehehehehehehe.
Funny.
A bit of context:
The Governor didn't really act on his own to get women in his administration as governor.
That was pushed as a pledge on both him, and his Democratic opponent in the race by a bi-partisan group seeking to increase women's participation in government.
I won't hold his ham-handed phrasing against him, but the larger point underlying this is that he is claiming it was his priority and his alone that made it happen.
He is, in essence, taking credit for something he didn't do. Shocking in a politician, I know.
A bit of background:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...ra-massgap.php
The advocacy group that provided Mitt Romney’s 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial team with the “binders full of women” Romney referenced in Tuesday night’s presidential debate says the Republican presidential nominee didn’t exactly have the facts right when he told the tale at Hofstra University.
The binders of prospective female appointees that Romney claimed to have had compiled upon being elected to the top job in the Bay State a decade ago were actually made without his guidance before he won, officials with MassGAP, an advocacy group focused on getting more women into top Massachusetts government jobs, said Wednesday.
“While MassGAP is a nonpartisan effort, its organizers feel it is imperative to set the record straight about the efforts it spearheaded in 2002 and the results of that effort,” Marissa Szabo, associate director of the MA Women’s Political Caucus (lead sponsor of MassGAP) told TPM Wednesday.
Here’s how Romney told the story on the debate stage Tuesday.
“We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet,” he said. “I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.”
The binders of prospective female appointees that Romney claimed to have had compiled upon being elected to the top job in the Bay State a decade ago were actually made without his guidance before he won, officials with MassGAP, an advocacy group focused on getting more women into top Massachusetts government jobs, said Wednesday.
So?
So he's a liar?
So Willard should stop fronting like he gives a about women, tbh...
So, this MassGAP group approach Romney and not the other way around? Mmmmkay. That should be a dagger in the next debate.
Right-Wing Media Opponents Of Affirmative Action Silent On Romney's Binders Full Of Women
Mitt Romney revealed his gender-conscious hiring policies as governor of Massachusetts -- based on "binders full of women" -- during the October 16 presidential debate, a comment that was immediately recognized as an endorsement of affirmative action by several commentators in the media. But The Wall Street Journal editorial page and other conservative media outlets that have harshly condemned such affirmative action policies have yet to fully address Romney's statement.
Contrary to Mark Shields' joking "prediction," The Wall Street Journal editorial board has not commented on Romney's support of affirmative action as of this posting, even though it recently called on the Supreme Court to "reclaim [its] cons utional and moral bearings" by rejecting a University of Texas Law School admissions policy which takes race into account in order to promote student body diversity.
The National Review Online also ignored the substance of Romney's debate comments and instead claimed the anecdote was unremarkable, in contrast to their past objection to affirmative action on the basis of both gender and race. National Review Online and The Wall Street Journal should note that Kerry Healey, Romney's Lieutenant Governor from 2003 to 2007 and a current surrogate for his campaign, further told Fox News that the "binders full of women" program amounted to a so-called quota system in which hiring targets were linked to the percentage of women in the Massachusetts population.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10...e-actio/190738
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