Amanda Carpenter is a contributing editor at Conservative Review and a CNN political commentator. Previouslyshe was communications director to Sen. Ted Cruz during his presidential campaing, and before that a speechwriter to Sen. Jim DeMint.
She has a piece up at The Washington Post that has the title One GOP woman wonders why the men in her party won’t defend her.
It is well worth reading. Carpenter remains a strong Conservative Republican. She makes clear that she will vote for down-ballot Republican, but leave a presidential selection blank.
Her focus is less on Trump than it is on the failure of the Republican party elders to listen to and apparently even to value women voters.
She begins by noting that Eric Trump tweeted out what an electoral map would look like if only men voted, to which she responds
It was a mistake, but fitting nonetheless. The way Trump has conducted his campaign, it’s as if the Republican Party would like female voters to fall off the map completely.
She recounts how she and other Republican women have for years attempted to defend the party against Democratic charges of being anti-women, then writes
What did we get for it? The nomination — by way of a largely older, male voting base — of a brazen and unapologetic misogynist.
And she is just getting started.