The Republican National Committee announced Wednesday it is launching an initiative “designed to advance the role of women within our party.”
Chairman Reince Priebus will help kick off the initiative at a news conference on Friday in Washington along with a handful of female lawmakers, including Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Diane Black (R-TN), and Lynn Jenkins (R-KS).
The initiative is called Women on the Right UNITE and was described in a news release as “a joint project to promote the recruitment of and support for Republican women and women candidates.”
The news release came the same day as a Republican lawmaker in Texas compared state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) and her allies to terrorists.
The “Women on the Right UNITE” effort, in other words, is likely to run into occasional stumbling blocks. Its launch, for example, comes on the heels of restrictive legislation, insulting rhetoric, unnecessary medical procedures, inexplicable rhetoric on rape, opposition to pay equity, and antiquated views on gender roles.









