The Republican National Committee, home of the Republican Party and the GOP, hosts several websites, including “RNC Women,” which has been dormant and has not been updated in months. Some stories above the fold are five months old, and the newest item appears to be a video uploaded to YouTube in January of this year.
Given the Republican War on Women, it’s not surprising they would ignore and take for granted this valuable and important segment of their base, Republican Women, but this seems extreme even for them. Under Reince Priebus, the RNC and conservatives in general have committed foul after foul, losing the battle for hearts and minds — not only of their base, but all Americans — on a plethora of women’s issues.
From contraception services, Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen issue, Darrell Issa’s all-male Congressional hearing on women’s contraception, the Sandra Fluke and Rush Limbaugh crisis, and now, this week, their war on women moves to domestic violence issues, as they battle minorities like lesbians and immigrants over a formerly uncontroversial bill, the Violence Against Women Act, originally passed under wide bi-partisan support two decades ago, in 1994.
The RNC Women site is linked to at the very top of the RNC’s homepage at GOP.com, but apparently it’s just for show.
The banner at the top of the site claims, “You asked and we listened,” but it’s apparent they haven’t been listening in quite some time.
The very first item on the site, “WEBSITE LAUNCH,” refer to the RNC’s Latino website. “I am happy to announce the launching of our Latino Website today,” the text reads. The RNC’s Latino website was launched in October, 2011, as indicated in this message from the New York Republican State Committee on October 16, 2011.
The center item, a video, was uploaded to YouTube on January 23, 2012. Below that, a press release, links to an expired Constant Contact email page that reads: “The web page version of this email has expired. The original email was sent over 30 days ago.”
We should expect no more from the RNC, given their deplorable treatment of women. It truly is the very least they can do.