Kellyanne Conway thinks Republicans can win back women in 2024 by saying, “We took away your abortion rights, but we’re letting you keep contraception”
Kellyanne Conway thinks Republicans can win back women in 2024 by saying, “We took away your abortion rights, but we’re letting you keep contraception”
A real slogan for the ages.
Something you’ve probably heard by now is that the Republican Party’s decision to decimate reproductive rights—and celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade like it was the greatest thing to ever happen to America—has not gone over great with voters. The 2022 midterm elections, which were supposed to be a red tsunami for the GOP, were anything but: Democrats picked up a seat in the Senate and Republicans just barely took back the House, with voters in critical states citing abortion as the most important issue of the day. A year later, the right to an abortion was enshrined in Ohio’s state constitution; Kentucky voters reelected pro-choice governor Andy Beshear; and Democrats took control of Virginia’s state legislature, preventing the GOP governor from limiting abortion moving forward, which he’d planned to do. The results were unambiguous: The American people want abortion rights.
Now, with the 2024 election less than a year away, what are Republicans running for higher office to do? According to GOP strategist and Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, the answer is simple: make their campaign slogan something like, “Yeah, we took away your reproductive rights, but, hey, we’re letting you keep contraception, and that’s something!”
And then as they always do, the second they win, they'll be coming for that too.
Start? Already coming after it.
Oh we already know that, but they're gonna be two faced and try to play it off like they're not.... then the mask comes off 1 microsecond after they win.
If you are a woman voting R you absolutely are a traitor.
And they themselves will be betrayed. Just ask any recently divorced Florida woman what happened when they put time limits on alimony payments. Women who voted for the "Leopards Eating People's Faces" Party shocked when the leopards ate their faces.
Just ask any recently divorced Florida woman what happened when they ended no-fault divorce.
Did this happen in the last 2 months? I found an article from this past October saying FL is still no-fault.
Or Woefully ignorant. I know some of those
Ooh, someone finally realized current polling is way off from the actual results at the voting booth.
The #GOP finally caught the car, now they are getting pulled under the tire.
I'm looking forward to the GOP joining the Know-Nothings in the trash bin of history.
The number is 10k per day.
I did the math a few years ago because I couldn't find anyone else who had published it. This is rough and IANAM (mathmagicman).
Every single day 8,000 boomers and above die, and 12,000 people turn 18 and those numbers are actually accelerating. If you use existing data to estimate conservative/liberal and likely voters within those groups it works out to a delta of 10,000 per day on a national scale. That's 5,000 votes switching every single day. That might not seem like alot. Because it really isn't. Out of 155 million votes cast, 10,000 is .006 percent. But here's the thing. It's cumulative. And it just doesn't stop. It is relentless. it's 300k a month, 3.6 million per year. And that pace is accelerating. Between 2020 and 2024 it's a 15 million vote difference. By 2028 it's 30 million. It used to be that people age into conservatism. But that is not happening with millennials. The demographics are changing, and changing quickly. The most conservative group in the country is dying. While the most liberal group is rising.
We just have to hold on to democracy for a few more years. This will all be behind us. Another 10k today.
This isnt even factoring in the mass extinction event that was the covid pandemic. At first it hit everyone equally but once the vaccine came out and they decided to die on their stupid little hill the numbers skewed disproportionately towards the unvaccinated being the ones impacted in subsequent waves. We have confirmed this now in a few studies and I saw it first hand working in the emergency department.
That absolutely accelerated the trend you're describing and I think they are just now realizing that the maga train is careening towards its demise and their bold strategy to worship a conman is going to cost them everything.
This year will be the final deciding factor on that. If we can rid ourselves from trump we can prove that there is still hope for this nation. I'm not so naive to think that there won't be a new conman to take his place and we won't find ourselves in an endless fight. But if we can't stop trump and he somehow gets back in power then there's absolutely no hope for this nation.
Um, the correct term is "Mathemagician." /j
But I agree that if we can hold on long enough and not slide into apathy, we can outlast the Conservatives.
Potential problems with your theory are that old people voting percentage isn't way higher than young people and that people tend to get more conservative as they age.
The boomers were the ones out protesting the Vietnam War and fighting for civil rights. Now they are the establishment and behaving the same as those who they protested in their youth.
Hopefully, the batshit craziness will die down, but there will be new conservatives to replace the ones who die off.
That's basically where they are in California. No GOP candidate has won a state-wide seat in a long time and in the legislature they seem to be permanently in the minority.
I just can’t wrap my head around how the party survived the Bush administration. Oh wait, propaganda. Thats how
And racial hatred
"We're letting you keep contraceptives"
- No, they are not.
- Who the fuck do they think they are?
“We promise we won’t rape you if you let us fuck”
It's the implication.
How are there enough Americans supporting these facists that they feel comfortable saying shit like this?
I don't think I want to live here anymore.
There aren't. Supreme Court is compromised, the fifth circuit is compromised. Gerrymandering and other nonsense that weakens our democratic ability to vote.
We could make so many changes from one person one vote to ranked voting to ending the two political party dominance and we'd see these people disappear overnight.
But they have the money and the friends to prevent that from happening
And if we had a simple popular vote for president, majority could not be terrorized by minority cult, because they would have veto power over insane legislation. But y'know... "if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bicycle."
My dad was military, pro constitution (even though he's said multiple times that the right to bare arms was written into the deceleration of independence) and has said he needs to fight the woke left to protect America. I pointed out how republican states are banning books, going against the 1st ammendment. His response was "some times you need to take away people's rights for their own good." It would be hilarious if it weren't so scary how the right is willing to sell out every ounce of morality just to win.
“some times you need to take away people’s rights for their own good.”
Sounds like something he'd imagine Stalin might've said.
Dark money insulates them from the consequences of their words and actions.
Be about 30 immigrants willing to replace anyone who wants to leave. My plan is simple: as of now my family can legally flee, thanks to my wife's duel citizenship and right to return rules for descendents in her country. I will remain and stick it out no matter how bad it gets.
I will remain and stick it out no matter how bad it gets.
Waiting for you username to become relevant?
Translation: get over that we're taking away your rights. We'll give you some privilege we can take back whenever we want to in exchange for your votes for long enough for us to take away voting rights and then we won't have to offer you shit
But they're not letting them keep contraception? That's just an abject lie.
An abject lie from the GOP, how predictable.
They're letting you keep contraceptives in the same way that Roe is settled law
Look, sure the Republicans lied about wanting to ban abortions in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Sure, they lied about not wanting a national ban. And sure they lied about not wanting to prosecute women. But you can totally trust that they aren't lying this time! Ignore the hand behind their back. They aren't crossing their fingers. They promise!!!
I am still "debating " with an idiot conservative, that claims that both sides are bad, but heck, I am still waiting to see the democrats removing rights from the population.
My brother goes there. He knows I'm gay and have been oppressed by conservatives, but his brain just can't get past the culture/identity wars.
"we're letting you"
I'm sorry, isn't kellyanne Conway the one who abused the shit out of her daughter and used her political position to brush it under the rug? I don't think I'd like to take parenting advice from an abusive parent, but that may just be me
Sure, but only if you count stealing nudes off her underage daughter's phone then keeping the child porn in her possession for an undetermined amount of time until she found a spiteful enough reason to tweet them out to her 3.5 million followers being abusive.
Yeah, literal gender swapped Skeletor is whitewashing what Conservative "Justice" Thomas said when they stripped abortion rights away.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/thomas-constitutional-rights-00042256
Sadly this will probably work because people are stupid and forgetful.
we're letting you keep contraception
Jesus fucking christ
For now.
They don't need to "win back" women. The conservative voting bloc lost very few votes due to women switching their vote from republican to democrat after Roe fell. It caused a small surge of new women voters.
Trump is currently leading the polls against Biden. I feel like people don't understand this. The Republicans need to do very little to keep their current level of power. What Conway is talking about is EXPANDING their vote advantage.
These articles that make it seem like they're losing are just idiotic. They're winning and Roe didn't make a big enough difference to change that. We all need to grok that fact.
Yeah but that isn't a convenient fact so...
Kellyanne's comment is an embarrassingly dumb take of course, but I don't know if she's wrong in judging voters. I am mentally preparing for the worst this year...because it really does seem like the GOP just cannot underestimate the voting population.
For example, check out the poll citations at the end of this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/biden-trump-new-years-message
The USA Today and Suffolk University survey, condensed by the Guardian, found that Biden had 34% support among Hispanic voters surveyed, down from 65% in 2020, compared with Trump’s 39%. Biden’s support among Black voters had also declined, from 87% to 63%.
Among younger votes under 35, Trump leads Biden 37% to 33%, a spread that four years ago was 24 points in Biden’s favour.
It's dumbfounding that in any poll, any time that Trump leads among voters under 35 and hispanic voters, and has 24 points less Black support. Yes, it's one poll, yes, it's too early to really matter. But Biden is somehow underwater in 538 polling by double digits. And this is following an election that Biden won by around 50,000 total votes.
My point here is not to discourage people from voting or to be nihilistic, or resign themselves to Trump. It's the opposite. We need to get very fired up, because we are in an echo chamber, and the world outside of it seems to have the memory of a goldfish and a similar capacity to recognize fascism. I'm saying this because we are going to need every single vote in November, and we need to start talking to people outside of our bubble sooner rather than later.
... for now
Exactly. They've already been beating that drum, too. Republicans are terrified of women that aren't controllable.
Wow. A real vote winner for sure. If the Dems weren't so horribly, utterly useless they would be running this on billboards across the country.
“Let them eat cake”
"Conservative" women are in an abusive relationship. With their minority-hating Party, and probably with their controlling partners as well...
I say this from the bottom of my heart….
Fuck off Kelly.
I don't know that "we admit we made your lives worse, but look what we could have done and be thankful" is the big sell Kellyanne seems to think.
"Look, I've beaten your half to death, but I could have beaten your FULLY to death! Vote for me!"
Kellyanne Spillway, as on point as ever.
Many people are saying she was behind the bowling green massacre. More and more.
Okay, so did she actually say that? Because this author is using quotes a lot and I think they don’t understand “air quotes” aren’t actual real quotes.
Is there a video? Audio?
She is the most specialest flavor of stupid.
Fool-proof plan. I highly encourage them to spread this message.
Anyone else keep misreading “voters in critical states” as “voters in critical thinking states”
She should try running on that.
The only thing I can think of in response to this is that meme of a crying cat giving a thumbs up
K.C. is a failed abortion.
It's only failed if we stop trying
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Thats way super thoughtful. Thank you so much.
Well, we all know how delusional they are...
Simple: Don't believe it.
It honestly doesn't matter what they choose to say because nobody will believe them anyway. And not that this will persuade voters in the near future, but maybe they should try writing contraception rights into the constitution. That would at least be a good start.
The Crypt Keeper speaks!
Kinda funny coming from someone who got divorced last year because her husband couldn’t stand her, and issued Twitter burns on her and her cohorts on a regular basis.
Even her daughter started up with the burns against her. Read your own family, much less the room.
Removing Roe v Wade without a solution to allow abortion in some form is the biggest political blunder since obamacare.
