The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News of the Tautological
“Police Chief: Home Invasions in Ann Arbor Contributing to Increasing Crime Rate”–headline, AnnArbor.com, Feb. 23
What Do Women Want?
We got a chuckle out of this Washington Post piece:
Over the past several weeks, Republicans have watched squeamishly as presidential contender Rick Santorum has waded into multiple controversies that risk alienating half the 2012 electorate: women.
But in fact, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth control and his view that the federal government shouldn’t pay for prenatal screenings. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows not only that Santorum is doing better among GOP women than he was a few weeks ago, but also that he is less unpopular–and also less well known–among Democratic and independent women than his Republican rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
So apparently women are more diverse in their views than the political stereotypes might suggest. Imagine that! It’s funny how the people who claim to be most devoted to the proposition that men and women are equal also are most devoted to the notion that all women do, or should, think alike.
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