Kind of like the war on the unborn Boxer and her allies are waging?
(Ballot Box) — The Republican Party has launched a war on women, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Tuesday, flanked by five of her female Senate colleagues at a fundraiser for Democratic female candidates.
Republican efforts to curtail family planning and infertility treatment, and to repeal clean air regulations that protect pregnant women and others, have created a dire need for a stronger voice in the Senate representing women’s needs, Boxer told donors for EMILY’s List, a PAC that supports Democratic women who favor abortion rights.
“The best way to fight back in this war is to elect more women, and these women have stepped up to the plate,” she said.
At her side were major forces in the Democratic party and female senators up for reelection in 2012, including Sens. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Maria Cantwell (Wash.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.). Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, also made an appearance.
“We’re in a world of hurt right now. Karl Rove’s group came in, and they’re going to come in against all of these women,” Boxer said, decrying the unflattering photos outside groups unearth for their attack ads. “I kept my grandchildren away from the television. ‘Oh, my grandmother is so ugly.'”