Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., was criticized harshly for telling a roundtable of women in Wisconsin in early September that Republican Gov. Scott Walker was giving women “the back of his hand” and “pulling us back” by the hair.
But that apparently wasn’t the first time Wasserman Schultz had accused a male Republican governor of domestic violence. In late August, following Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist’s primary win, Wasserman Schultz allso accused incumbent Florida Gov. Rick Scott of the same kind of slap.
“It’s Charlie Crist, the Democrat, that had my back,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Rick Scott has given us the back of his hand.”
Notice how she had to remind people Crist is a Democrat.
The unearthing of this second example suggests a calculated effort by Wasserman Schultz to tie Republicans rhetorically to domestic violence. She got away with the language the first time in Florida, so she expanded on it in Wisconsin by adding that she believed Tea Party Republicans were “grabbing [women] by the hair and pulling us back.”
She — or more likely, her staff — came up with this line and saw no problem with it, and she probably would have used it again if it weren’t for those meddling media types.
