deltex1
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A little more attention to personal responsibility, a few less single mothers and delinquent fathers.Nah. Nothing shallow about insulting single mothers. It's a problem the GOP has. They don't take personal responsibility. Instead they come up with excuses and blame others for why their viewpoints and policies aren't embraced by a majority of Americans.Associated Press
GOP Candidate: Single Moms Are 'Automatically Democratic Because Of The Benefits'
New Jersey Republican Senate candidate Jeff Bell said Monday that he is unpopular among women voters because of a rise in single mothers who "need benefits to survive," theAsbury Park Press reported.
Bell, who is lagging 20 points behindincumbent Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) among women voters, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll, told APP that his socially conservative views are not to blame for the gender gap.
"I've done a lot of thinking about this and looked at a lot of different polls, I think it has more to do with the rise in single women," Bell said. "Single mothers particularly are automatically Democratic because of the benefits. They need benefits to survive, and so that kind of weds them to the Democratic Party."
Single women without children, Bell continued, are "also that way," while married women "aren't that different from married men. So it's really a problem with the decline in marriage rates. The Democrats do benefit from that."
And they wonder why they do so poorly with women.
Um, largely, yes, people are often liberal either by ignorant default, or because they want more Government Cheese. This dude may be have been inarticulate in this sound bite, which may or may not even be accurate, but the sentiments are spot on. The GOP has good reason to be unpopular with a great many people, but not for the shallow reason you represent here.