Comment Re:Tweedledee won ! (Score 1) 1576
This was the election where the simmering misogyny - there's no other word for it - of the Republican base caught up with it. I'm not exactly a hardcore feminist - I even do agree with some of the men's rights issues (in things like custody battles, etc.) but characters like Akins and Mourdock set a tone that no one really sought to repudiate. Opposing the equal pay legislation is another.
The things that you see as respect for law - natural (abortion, contraception) or Federal (immigration) is seen, somewhat rightly, as a smokescreen for nativism and cultural chauvinism and a nostalgia for the dominance of men. When you see the videos of Romney backers talking about having lost "our" America, complaining about the loss of a white majority, it becomes more and more obvious.
The Republican party is paying the cost of the Southern strategy. It's become the party of the white south, of the Confederacy. It will have to reinvent itself to remain relevant. And it will have to realize that the perception that it has become the party of misogyny and lingering racism is not without basis.