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Republican War on Women turns into war on themselves, Pat Oliphant cartoon

Republican war on themselves

Why can’t these Republican men help themselves from going there?  Is it ALL about having their first allegiance to talking snakes and invisible sky creatures? Or is there something else at work here?

Circa Fall 1969: I was a veteran marching in a campus peace rally. On the sidelines stood some of my veteran friends throwing beer cans at us with their NUKE THE GOOK signs. They yelled nasty slogans in their short hair and old fatigues, embracing each other with a beers in hand. In my colorfully patched bell bottoms, a shirt with embroidered flowers and my hair in a small tail, I gave my pals a wink and a wave as I peaceably meandered forward with an arm around the blonde I was with the night before and my other arm around the brunette I was about to have an afternoon delight. Could that still be what this is all about you think?

Or for those in their GOP bubble who don’t like or understand stories… Is the GOP men’s War on Women caused by the anger men have with a lifetime of being left with the leftovers? I get Angela Jolie, Beyonce and Jennifer Lawrence. You get Ann Coulter, Gretchen Carlson and Nancy Grace. But oh you say, we have Sarah Palin! And I admit that if you wash off all the moose blood, the fish smell and take her glasses off she would do before the lights come on…