Republicans just can’t help themselves from revealing their true beliefs and thus making fools of themselves in public. So it was that last night Republican Governor Mike Huckabee spoke at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition fundraiser in Waukee and announced that while men like to fish and hunt together, women like to use the restroom together.
This quote came courtesy of Kathie Obradovich, a political columnist at The Des Moines Register, covering Iowa state politics and the Iowa caucuses:
.@GovMikeHuckabee says men like to go hunt/fish with other men. “Women like to go to the restroom with other women.” #iapolitics #iacaucus
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— Kathie Obradovich (@KObradovich) April 9, 2014
We also got the IRS is a criminal enterprise as honey for the paranoid:
.@GovMikeHuckabee refers to the IRS as a “criminal enterprise.” #iapolitics #iacaucus
— Kathie Obradovich (@KObradovich) April 9, 2014
And just as a reminder, Huckabee can’t win a national election because when he isn’t putting women in the restroom together while the men do real things like hunting and fishing, he’s hung up on misreading the Bible and pretending it’s not homophobic to steal rights from certain citizens based on their private lives:
.@GovMikeHuckabee says he’s not homophobic but one-man/one-woman marriage is being “on the right side of the Bible.” #iapolitics #iacaucus
— Kathie Obradovich (@KObradovich) April 9, 2014
Rumor has it that men also use the restroom, and still manage to do other things, but apparently the same can’t be said of women. Women do not enjoy hunting or fishing, quilting or crafting, writing or painting, or going to political rallies to stand up for their rights so that men like Huckabee don’t get to decide what they can do with their lives…
Huckabee might make noise again but he will never win a national election like this. For that matter, no Republican candidate will with talk like this.
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