You can’t blame Republicans for wanting to change the subject. Rush Limbaugh’s slut-shaming of Sandra Fluke turned into an unmitigated disaster for the GOP, making clear how the campaign to defund Planned Parenthood—supported by all the pillars of the party, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney—ultimately derives from a Cro-Magnon view of women’s place in society. Two short years after the “Year of the GOP Woman,” it was all too much for some of them; Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski said, “It makes no sense to make this attack on women,” explaining to the male attendees of a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon, “If you don’t feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters.”
