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Legislation introduced not just about abortion but about contraception. and i think when people talk about the war on women, what they say is also sort of the rhetoric. the foster freeze comments of course, but also -- i dont want to butcher the quote, but lawmakers have locally said you should just close your eyes and deal with it or have it done. >> youre talking about the -- >> in texas, the results of this are that women -- that the least fortunate women are not getting basic screening and h...

Its not just men in the back rooms of country clubs that are putting these pieces of legislation together. women have really mentioned that for people who havent been to a republican meeting. >> although it is mostly men in the legislature. >> thats right. trying to get the votes of men and women. >> but youre right, there are a lot of women on that side of the abortion issue who write me the same emails that they write you. but the public face of whats happening, and indeed the actors behind wh...

>> from all sides. >> its staggering. >> the real contest obviously will be between obama and the republican nominee, but there will be that other contest of the super pac war. but in a way, those of us in the news business are going to have to look at those ads because its going to be a lot of poison, a lot of garbage in them, and sort it out and say this is true, this is untrue. but if you look at the reforms that supposedly have been put in place in the last four decades since nixon, where we...

>> the head of the rnc compared its problem with women voters to an invented problem with mythical caterpillars. >> if the democrats said we had a problem with war on caterpillars, and the mainstream media talked about it, then wed have a problem with caterpillars. >> rick santorum promised to fight on in a fantasy he had where he is george washington, and the rest of the field are german mercenaries. >> and thats why he crossed the delaware, surprised the hessians, and turned the tide of the re...

Of what you think about him politically, and a lot of people on the left dont like him, but ed gillespie -- if romney is smart enough to let ed gillespie come in and put in a professional that knows how to run a presidential campaign, if they give ed the power, i think youll see issues like this start to go away. >> well, i just think the conversation is naturally going to move on to different topics. we have been in about a month and a half and two-month period where something comes up and we a...

Waging a war on women. i know you dont agree with that. but looking at the polls, you have a gender gap problem. recent polls show a huge, huge margin for democrats among women voters. how big a problem is it, and how do you close it? >> well, for one thing, you know, if the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars, and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that the republicans have a war on caterpill caterpillars, then wed have a problem with caterpillars. the fact of the matte...

Youll save a minor amount of money and youre just burdening lower income women who really have trouble getting access to health services. so that seems unfair to them to put the burden on their backs. >> well, i think, again, a war on planned parenthood is not seen by a lot of women in america as a war on women. and there are a lot of women who rolled their eyes during the big controversy over planned parenthood and the rights for -- i forget, susan -- >> susan g. komen. >> and look at that and ...

How do you close it? >> well, for one thing, if the democrats said we have a war on caterpillars and you talked about it then wed have a problem with caterpillars. the fact of the matter is its fiction. >> of course, they immediately pounced on his remarks calling them, quote, callous and dismissive of what matters to women and its completely out of touch. they cited a recent poll that puts the president ahead of romney ahead by 18 points among women in swing states and 34 points among caterpill...