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CTyankee

(63,893 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 09:55 AM Jan 2014

I am loving Thomas Roberts today on Morning Joe...

in a great discussion about Mike Huckabee's "libido" remark, Roberts said (and repeated it) "If old white men could get pregnant, abortion would be a constitutional right."

It was funny because for women, it already IS...

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CTyankee

(63,893 posts)
2. I think he did mean it that way but didn't dare say it that way....
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 10:07 AM
Jan 2014

but what he said was clever cuz it made you stop and think

boston bean

(36,219 posts)
7. Huckabee really was inferring that contraception makes women sluts.
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 10:22 AM
Jan 2014

without the fear of pregnancy, they are opening their legs to any and all penises.

Sorry, to be so graphic, but this is really how they see things.

CTyankee

(63,893 posts)
13. I wonder if they know how repulsive they look to the average woman voter out there...
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 03:43 PM
Jan 2014

I swear that Reince Priebus is so repugnant to look at and listen too, I don't see how any thinking woman would want to hear his message about ANYTHING.

I'm beginning to think these republican men all share a form of mental illness. They can't seem to help themselves when they talk about women. I think it is hopeless for them. It's not just that they don't "get" it. It's that they mental disorders that make you wonder what else goes through their diseased minds and how on earth they got this way. I think most women kind of shudder when they hear them talk...

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
4. What he should have done was challenge Joe Scumbag on the fact that the federal government
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 10:14 AM
Jan 2014

subsidized Viagara with no debate, no questions asked. Doesn't that say more about male libido not being under control than women's.

CTyankee

(63,893 posts)
5. but, but...Viagra is for REAL health problems, birth control "isn't."
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 10:17 AM
Jan 2014

Cuz men should be able to be horny all the time and wimmin need to just close their legs and everything will be fine...

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. He's riffing on the 70's original 'If men could get pregnant abortion would be a Sacrament'
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 10:35 AM
Jan 2014

Attributed to Florynce Kennedy, a lawyer and civil rights activist.

CTyankee

(63,893 posts)
12. Oh, I know that, but I just was wondering why he said "constitutional amendment." Maybe he didn't
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:54 PM
Jan 2014

want to upset religious folks...

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