When the GOP has 2014 Senate candidates saying on the floor of the U.S. House that schools should teach traditional gender roles, like Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey did a couple months ago, it’s easy to start conjuring visions of Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, “legitimate rape,” and a Democratic electoral victory. It’s more complicated than that, as the panel on Up with Steve Kornacki discussed Saturday, but even if primary voters keep rewarding conservative views, general elections could get harder to win.
Former RNC chairman and msnbc commentator Michael Steele put the dilemma of his party in simple terms. “This is not where our country is,” he said of Gingrey. “Affect policy, change the structure of government so it works for people.” How does Steele think this could happen? “I’m looking for Republican women to tell these men to shut up.”
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Meredith Clark
Meredith Clark is a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a senior news producer for "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj," a reporter with MSNBC.com, the digital politics and culture editor at Glamour and a senior news and politics editor at Refinery29. She has written for Vulture, Rolling Stone, Self, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast and Bustle. Recommended
