The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, claims that all of the Republican presidential candidates are so anti-woman that they want to kick women out of the country.
There are many jokes to be made here. Go ahead and make them if you want. Seriously, though, I realize that political rhetoric today often consists of demonizing your opponents and making them out to be as bad as humanly possible. But don’t we need to recognize some moral limits? Do we just dismiss this remark as mere political exaggeration, or should we think less of those who resort to such ridiculous calumny?
Quoted in Video DNC Chair GOP Saying Let’s Kick Women Out Of Country | The Daily Caller:
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I believe that any one of our candidates will stand in stark contrast, when it comes to the priorities of the American people and how they’re going to make their decision on who they’re going to vote for for President, to any of the Republican candidates. The Republicans are trying to out-right wing each other. Look, between the fifteen Republican candidates who are left — all of whom are trying to out-Trump Donald Trump — by saying, “Yeah let’s kick women. Let’s kick them and immigrants out of this country. Let’s take away health care from women.” … Yes, I think any of the candidates on our side of the aisle … will be chosen and eventually elected as the 45th president of the United States of America because of that contrast.
The link also provides a video of her saying this in a CNN interview.
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