As the world began to celebrate International Women's Day, Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama began a State of the Union response from her kitchen.
The "rising star" may be the youngest-ever female senator elected in the GOP, but analysis shows young women and moms aren't buying what she's selling.
The Washington Post revealed Friday that the talking points Britt sent around to Republicans encouraged them to call her “America’s mom.”
Post columnist Monica Hesse noted, "If you were watching with the volume down, you would have assumed you had stumbled upon a commercial for either stain remover or Il Makiage," referring to the makeup company.
Hesse said it's hard to say if she was effective in conveying the message she was trying to get over.
Britt began by "saying that her proudest role was being a 'wife and mother,' before segueing into describing a violent gang rape, before calling Biden 'dithering and diminished,' and explaining that we were all “steeped in the blood of patriots,” wrote Hesse. "Which, ladies — if that’s a menstruation euphemism, I hadn’t heard it before. Somehow, she wrapped up by talking about how America put a man on the moon."
The idea is that Republicans are desperately trying to sell Republicans as pro-women or pro-mom, she wrote.
"The trouble," Hesse continued, "is that they are trying to sell it that way once a year, via a televised State of the Union rebuttal, rather than by selling it via policies and legislation. So much of the rest of the night revealed a contrast between what Britt’s party had done for women, and how women and mothers were actually living their lives."
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Biden, by contrast, brought women and mothers to the address to talk about their desperation to survive life-threatening pregnancies or the heartache of trying to get pregnant and the sorrow of having the last option for families, IVF, taken from them.
The policies, Hesse said, are off for the GOP, and women know it. She closed by noting that Britt might be a wife and mother, but so are the other women who attended the State of the Union in an effort to argue that the GOP's legislation has been dangerous for them.
Read the full column at the Washington Post.