Of all the tactics available to the Republican party to overcome the 12-point gender gap,* this would be… one of them.
UPDATE: A tweet from Ross Douthat suggests that it was supposed to be a joke, or at least retconned that way. NRO took the article offline. (Good move.)
* A Fox News poll published August 9, 2012 shows 51% of women respondents supporting Obama and 39% supporting Romney in the upcoming Presidential election. See page 14, question 2.
My goodness.
Best line: “Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.”
Is it possible this is a DNC mole that got a job at NRO? Cause that’s the only explanation of that call to women voters that I can think of.
The article is so full of jaw-dropping astonishment it’s hard to pick out a best moment. Although that’s a candidate.
I’ve been asked to cross-post all my FP writing on the sub-blog because some of my meatworld acquaintances say they find that more convenient to track down my writing. You got in before I could close and refer comments to the front page. (I notice you cross-pollinated again, though, so no worries.)
The article is visible at NRO again; I think the site just crashed due to traffic.
I believe that Williamson thinks some of his lines were funny, but the thesis that the whole article was a joke doesn’t actually make sense.