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
You can call an apple a lump of coal and it still isn’t. She deserves criticism because of her performance at her job, not because she’s a woman.
These people are stupid.
There’s way more evidence of a republican war on women than any war by democrats on that gender. For a republican to call out democrats on this is laughable.
A gaffe can be defined as somebody revealing what he was thinking when he wasn’t supposed to reveal it.
Akin’s comment wasn’t cherry picked. It harmed him and other GOP candidates because most folks believe that many in the GOP really do believe that, and Murdouch underscored that point a couple of months later.
I have problems with the trumpeting of anonymous attacks by Beltway media. That’s just bad journalism. But the claim that Wasserman Schultz spent money on clothing is no more sexist that giving John Edwards grief over his $800 haircut.
Ah, but to the G.O.P. mind, only women like “pretty things,” so attacking someone for spending money on clothing is sexist.
You have to learn to think like they do, even at the risk of having your head explode.
Politico was the one saying democrats were saying bad things about the DNC chair, but they never mentioned any democrat’s names saying this. I think this is a republican ploy to smear democrats. The WH came out and said that had complete confidence in the DNC chair.