Andy Borowitz:
NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report)—With
less than two weeks to go until Election Day, there is a deep divide
among Republican leaders over whether to emphasize misogyny or racism as
the campaign’s closing theme.
In one camp is the Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who
says that his view that God is sometimes O.K. with rape is “gaining real
traction with a key demographic: men who don’t like women very much.”
“I can’t tell you how many misogynists have
come up to me at my rallies and said, ‘Thank you for saying what you
said,’ ” he told reporters today. “I think they’re like, finally,
someone’s taking a more nuanced position on rape.”
But in the other camp is the former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who worries that the Republican Party’s emphasis on misogyny is threatening to drown out its “winning message of racism.”
“I understand the appeal of Mourdock’s anti-woman theme, but I worry that it’s going to overshadow our core value of racism, which is still our best shot at winning this thing,” he said. “In politics, you’ve got to dance with the one who brung you.”
Hoping to heal a possible rift with so little time left until Election Day, the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus said today that there is room for both views in today’s Republican Party: “Our ‘big tent’ message to voters should be this: come for the misogyny, stay for the racism.”
But in the other camp is the former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who worries that the Republican Party’s emphasis on misogyny is threatening to drown out its “winning message of racism.”
“I understand the appeal of Mourdock’s anti-woman theme, but I worry that it’s going to overshadow our core value of racism, which is still our best shot at winning this thing,” he said. “In politics, you’ve got to dance with the one who brung you.”
Hoping to heal a possible rift with so little time left until Election Day, the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus said today that there is room for both views in today’s Republican Party: “Our ‘big tent’ message to voters should be this: come for the misogyny, stay for the racism.”
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