"While Mississippi Democrats chose to reject two female candidates for governor last week, the GOP ticket is full of strong, principled Republican women, like Treasurer Lynn Fitch and Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith."
— Joe Nosef, Mississippi Republican Party chairman, on what he calls Democrats' "tired old lines about the so-called 'war on women'"
Why it stinks: We should have a discussion about how an unknown candidate with a man's name who did little campaigning beat two eminently qualified women candidates. That hardly makes the Mississippi GOP the party of and for women, though. We can't remember that party giving a woman its nomination, either. And if you can stomach it, spend five minutes on conservative blogs and see the hate and sexism anonymous male commenters spew at women like Fitch. That's to say nothing about Stacey Pickering's swipe at his November candidate Joce Pritchett's LGBTness. Democrats have their work cut out for them, but elephants should be careful in glass houses.
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