When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! Mike Huckabee apparently has never heard that wise old adage. Huckabee needs to put down the shovel and stop digging.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee on Friday defended recent comments he made about women’s libidos, saying “it was just a colorful expression” about something that’s wholesome and God-given.
“My point was, not that I believe this, but I said the Democrats act as if women are only concerned about these reproductive issues,” Huckabee said on Fox News’s “Cavuto.
Huckabee last month came under fire when he slammed Democrats for accusing the GOP of waging a war on women.
“If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without ‘Uncle Sugar’ coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government, so be it,” he said at a luncheon address to the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Washington.
Huckabee told Cavuto that he wouldn’t take back his libido comments.
“No, why would I? What’s wrong with — even the word? It’s a wholesome thing. God gave us sexual drive. It’s not something dirty,” the former governor said. “It isn’t vulgar. It’s a wonderful gift from God in the context of a relationship between a man and a woman who have committed to each other as life partners. That’s a good thing. There’s nothing unholy or untoward about that.”
He said he wouldn’t let his language be filtered by Democrats.
“I refuse to let the Democrats control my lexicon. I’m sorry but I’m not going live in a world where everything I say has to be run through the filter of people who aren’t going to like anything I say. What’s the point of that?” Huckabee said.
Republican men still just don’t get it. There is a war on women and they are living proof, each and every time they open their mouths on the subject of reproductive rights. All the snickering, sneering, winking, nudging, equivocating, and giggling isn’t going to make the gaffes go away.
MEN! ATTENTION! AVOID THE SUBJECT OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS LIKE THE PLAGUE. DO NOT BRING IT UP. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY DISCUSSION.
It isn’t the “dems” who are going to get you and make whatever stupid remarks come out of your mouth take on a life of their own. It is women who are going to get you. We are just sitting here waiting, with baited breath, for some good old boy (read–m-a-l-e) to tell us what we think, feel, or really meant about reproductive rights. We are waiting for some jackass to explain our libidos to us. We are waiting for some moron to attempt to slut-shame us.
Treat these discussions as war. That is how they are perceived. From every last one of us who couldn’t go to the college of our choice or get the career we wanted to have because of our gender, know that the resentment is still strong. Just scratch the surface of company policy after company policy in America. You will find out that women didn’t get professional jobs because after all that training, they would marry and get pregnant and drop out of the work force. Secretaries could be replaced. The real investment was in the professional staff. Professional women also couldn’t go on the road with their male counterparts. (enter the slut factor) Yea, it was real.
Men, especially Republican men who have continued to put their feet in their mouth really need to look at history from the not so distant past and just SDASTFU. It’s in their own best interest.
It coes as no surprise to me that this man says stupid things, and defines himself with idiotic discussion. I never liked this buffoon.
I must drag out Fprrest Gump’s admonition: Stupid is as stupid does.
And a conservative politician extemporizing on women’s issues is like a box of chocolates. You just never know what you’re gonna get.
Sitzkreig.
I don’t know why they just don’t leave it alone.
I don’t come out talking about men’s prostate problems.
@Wolverine
English, por favor.
Phony war.
“Phony war”…what a silly and ignorant statement.
Another act of desperation is the right wing’s rehashing of the Clinton/Lewinsky affair. They’re so frightened that Hillary Clinton will beat the pants off any candidate that they can field that they want to drum up old news. And they think this will win them votes with women. Someone ought to tell these clueless twits that they need to just STFU about women and concentrate on economics. Oh, and maybe think about how the two are intertwined.
Amusing little rant, Censored.
It’s nice to see that chauvinism is alive and well. How dismissive.
I am surprised you didn’t pat the little woman on the head. 🙄
@Wolverine
I hope you’re as amused by recent election results.
Win some, lose some, BSinVA. It’ll come around again. BTW, are you amused by the prospects for 2014? Looks like the Repubs are determined to put off the budget/deficit battles for the time being and guarantee that ACA will be the biggest target. Whatever is left of ACA, that is. Haven’t see a Washington screwup like ObamaCare since Watergate.
Living in a cave?
Chauvinism horse hockey, Madam. I seem to recall Censored stating some time ago that she enjoyed playing the troll here. I just think she is so darn cute trying to be a troll shock jock. Grump, grump, grump, and “STFU.” Ha, ha. Consider her patted on the head in absentia.
So, Madam, it is to be war, is it? Well, no problem. As we used to say, just another day at the office. But, unfortunately, the schedule is pretty much booked right now. Maybe, if you contact me later, we’ll be able to fit it in somewhere. In the meantime, I recommend you all calm down a bit before you stab each other with your own bayonets.
Now, let’s see. All this got started because of some comment by a guy named Huckabee? “Slut-shame”??!!! “Treat these discussions as war??!!! “It is women who are going to get you”??!!!Good Lord Almighty. Call out the Guard!!
@Wolverine,
I don’t recall Censored ever saying that. She is anything but a troll. She has been a member of this blog since its inception, however many years ago…can’t remember at the moment.
As for my war…I have been at war since I was a young woman. I didn’t accept the conventions established for “my type” by the good old boy network then and I don’t accept it now. I never read Betty Friedan either. I came up with it all on my own…somewhere along the way. Actually, I believe it was instilled in me by my very conservative father. That has always been an enigma to me.
Being dismissive of me is going to be like water off a duck’s back. Also, perhaps you missed the state election? Hmmmm….I wonder why that happened. Let’s me see…maybe some of you Dudley do-Rights didn’t watch closely and sat on one of our bayonets. You can have your peeps call my peeps and they can check the calendar. Maybe something will open up around 2017.
Bayonet removal doesn’t hurt for long and of course, its for your own good.
I plead guilty to telling Wolverine that he could always be counted on to take the bait. If that makes me a troll, I’ll own it. There’s nothing like some old geezer (ha ha – I’m of the generation myself) telling women what is or is not important or a woman’s issue. It’s particularly silly in light of his candidates’ election losses. The old Cold War battles he’s fought in the distant past are going to be replaced with different ones – and that doesn’t make the combatants any less American, just more representative.
As my daddy used to say, “if mama ain’t happy nobody’s happy.”
It was sexists but showed women’s elevated stature in politics and society over men. Men’s source of power always existed outside the home and now that is being eroded as women gain power in business without ceding any control of home life to men.
When will men have the reproductive right not to pay child support? When will men get to spend even 40% of household income? (Women talk about earning power but never spending power, which they dominate.) When will society value men so they live as long as women? Why do women get so much health care compared to men but pay less in insurance premiums. Why are men incarcerated at such a high rate compared to women? (Answer: laws and courts are favorable to women’s view of the world, but is that fair?)
The voices of inequality need to be heard but both from men and women. The war should be over inequality and not women’s rights.
“When will men have the reproductive right not to pay child support?”
Tricky issue … no time soon.
“When will men get to spend even 40% of household income?”
They have that ability now. Men need to get away from the concept that they should be “the man” and provide. It’s archaic. My advice, don’t ever get married without a prenup and don’t ever start to think your money isn’t your own.
“Why are men incarcerated at such a high rate compared to women?”
That’s nature. We’re more aggressive.
Two words of advice to knuckle dragging GOP men…….SHUT UP.
Let men like Wolverine continue to choose to stay disconnected from reality. They will keep losing elections and the GOP will become weaker and weaker.