GOP Panelist: Attack On DNC Chair Part Of Democratic ‘War On Women’

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Republican strategist Ana Navarro on Sunday criticized Democrats for the apparent attacks on Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, suggesting those out to get her are sexist.

“And you want to talk about war on women. Why don’t we talk about the war that Democrats waged this week against the woman who heads the DNC,” Navarro said during a panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week.” “You saw all sorts of gossip and you saw all sorts of innuendo against Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”

The other panelists quickly tried to jump in, prompting host George Stephanopoulos to tell them to “Let her at least make her point and then answer.”

“Let me tell you something, if a Republican had gone out and talked about how somebody wanted to spend all this money on clothes and say all the gossipy things that they said about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, with the White House’s fingerprints all over it, you all would be screaming bloody murder,” Navarro then continued.

Navarro was referring to two pieces published in Politico and Buzzfeed this week, which cited sources recounting various incidents and issues that could spell trouble for Wasserman Schultz’s position at the DNC. The pieces, both published within minutes of each other on Wednesday, suggest that someone is looking to oust the DNC chair.

Democratic strategist James Carville responded to Navarro.

“We’ve got tens of millions of women living at the poverty line that need the minimum wage, that need the health care coverage, and need all of this, and we’re going to talk about one story about a DNC chair in Washington as being some evidence of a counter war on women?” he asked.

“That’s what Democrats have been doing the entire time,” Navarro his back. “You have maybe some crazy Todd Akin say some stupid remark, and you pick on that one remark.”

H/t Mediaite

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