Slate’s Dave Weigel has a tick-tock of what he calls the birth, life and death of the oft-repeated Democratic talking point “war on women.” After Thursday’s rhetorical battle over CNN contributor Hilary Rosen, Weigel catches the DNC crying uncle on the use of the term:
On Thursday, as the Rosen saga unfolded, DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse echoed her plea for peace. “I’m not a fan of the term,” he said in an interview. “I mean, I’m sure I’ve probably used it. We all fall into these easy vernaculars … but we in the DNC have not been running a campaign based on the term ‘war on Women.’ That’s a myth cooked up by Republicans.”
