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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

2012 And Now the Truth About the Binders Full of Women

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:45 AM

Romney boasted that during his term as governor, Massachusetts had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America. "Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort," he said.

This statement, too, is misleading. While 42 percent of Romney’s appointments during his first two and a half years as governor were women, the number of women in high-level appointed positions actually declined to 27.6 percent during his full tenure as governor, according to a 2007 MassGAP study.

Another lie is exposed, and another lie will have little or no impact because what gets Romney in trouble is not lying; it's telling the truth: 47 percent.

UPDATE: for a great laugh on the whole binders things, go to, of course, Twitter.

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The binder has officially replaced the chair.

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Rmoney deliberately tiptoed to hover over 'Lorena' when she asked her question on immigration. He doubled up ~ misogynist in one attempted intimidating moment. And why? Were there uncommitted voters he was hoping to win over by being a dick? What is it about US culture that makes people assume misogyny and dickishness are leadership traits?

Posted by Keister Button on October 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM

@1,

Maybe it just comes naturally. In my experience, there are a lot of men who become unnaturally aggressive when confronted or questioned by women, and don't show that kind of aggression when confronted/questioned by men. I suppose it could be a deliberate action on their part, but I doubt it.

Posted by keshmeshi on October 17, 2012 at 8:39 AM

On average, women working in Obama’s Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator . . . . Of the five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one – Obama’s administrative manager – was a woman.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on October 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM

I grew up surrounded by men like this. Everything a woman does that's not subservient is a threat to their poor, besieged masculinity and delicate egos. My experience tells me it's a lack of character and maturity.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on October 17, 2012 at 8:54 AM

@3 Dude, I'm usually one of the few people here who likes to bring attention to Obama's murdering of US citizens w/o charge or trial and shit like that, so I know the guy ain't perfect, and even I know he's a billion and a half times better than Romney when it comes to women. Mostly because of that whole, hasn't jumped on the Republican bandwagon to destroy Planned Parenthood and hope to appoint justices to repeal Roe V. Wade stuff.

Posted by OuterCow on October 17, 2012 at 9:10 AM

If you look at someone cross-eyed, according to Stranger sheep, it's racist, sexist, ageist, or whatever "ist" is popular this week. Quit being a bunch of victims. Oh, that's right. It's your voting block.

Posted by Stranger'sWorstNightmare on October 17, 2012 at 9:15 AM

@6 - Stop punching yourself! (*grabs Stranger'sWorstNightmare's hand and slaps him with it...*)

Posted by Karla Canadian on October 17, 2012 at 9:19 AM

@6 the Stranger's worst nightmare would be nobody reading them online and nobody commenting and no accumulation of pageviews to sell to advertisers, so why don't you do that?

Posted by bedipped on October 17, 2012 at 9:35 AM

So did he lie when he gaffed or gaffe when he lied? Gosh, it's so hard to keep track of this guy!

Posted by pfffter on October 17, 2012 at 9:41 AM

Another lie: Mittens never asked for that binder. And it was created by someone else:

http://m.thephoenix.com/boston/blogpost.…

Posted by Space Funk Guru on October 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM

Binders full of women t-shirts (and binders!):

http://currenteventstees.blogspot.com/

Posted by Scarebaby on October 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM

The better point that Romney hammered home for several minutes (and which almost all ignored) is that a bad economy, of the sort we've had the last four years, is effectively a "War on Women"...of the worst sort.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on October 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM

Romney's response reveals he genuinely does not understand the difference between tokenism and equality. Contrast that with Obama eloquently framing reproductive health as an economic issue (my absolute favorite moment of the entire debate). That's your gender gap, right there.

Posted by blip on October 17, 2012 at 10:50 AM

@12 No. A bad economy is bad for everybody. A bad economy where the government (read: Republicans) is defunding organizations that provide free or low-cost health care for women affected by the bad economy is a war on women.

Posted by blip on October 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM