First it was Big Bird, now it's Binders?

In Tuesday night's Presidential Debate, Romney discussed his cabinet being made up of a number of women.  Here is the transcript:

CROWLEY: Governor Romney, pay equity for women?

ROMNEY: Thank you. And important topic, and one which I learned a great deal about, particularly as I was serving as governor of my state, because I had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men.

And I — and I went to my staff, and I said, "How come all the people for these jobs are — are all men." They said, "Well, these are the people that have the qualifications." And I said, "Well, gosh, can't we — can't we find some — some women that are also qualified?"

ROMNEY: And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet.  I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women. I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my Cabinet and my senior staff, that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states, and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.

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It was during this answer that Romney made the now infamous "Binders of Women" comment.  Since making that comment the Democrats have seized upon this as if it were yet another example of Romney's and the GOP's sexist view of women.  Seriously?

Rather than talking about how the price of gas doubled over the last 4 years, or how the number of people on welfare has grown by 32%, or how we need to get 23 million people back to work, this is the hot issue that comes from the Democrats?

Can anyone really with a straight face sit there and say that Romney meant anything other than "Binders full of resumes of qualified women candidates?"  Set the politics aside for a second and really ask yourself if you truly believe otherwise.

Furthermore, reading that answer that Romney gave, WHERE is there any example of sexism?  I don't see it.  In fact it looks like to me that he referenced a 3rd party to reinforce the fact that he is NOT a sexist!

Of course the main stream media won't report on this, but a number of women that worked for Romney's administration, including one or two that were on his cabinet, have come out in support of Romney and said that they enjoyed working for the man.  One in particular said in an interview that while he didn't always agree with her opinion, she always felt like he respected her opinion on a topic.  Does this really sound like a man that is sexist?

This is all just "noise" to distract the voters from the real issues.  Can we please get back to the real issues at hand?!?!  Seriously?  Frankly all of this talk about Binders and Big Bird just makes President Obama and the Democrats look very desperate.

As a voter, I don't want to have all of this "noise" thrown at me.  Tell me what you are going to do these next four years to address the high gas prices, how you are going to improve the economy so that more people are working and less people are on welfare.  Tell me how you plan to address the budget deficits and the overall national debt.  These are the issues that the American Voter is concerned about.