Huckabee: Men Hunt Together, Women Go To The Restroom Together

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – APRIL 9, 2014, 3:40 PM EDT

Mike Huckabee's latest speech in Iowa drew plenty of press coverage, but there's been little context given about a line that apparently played up gender stereotypes.

As she live-tweeted the former Arkansas governor's speech Tuesday in Waukee, Iowa, Des Moines Register columnist Kathee Obradovich passed along this line.

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.@GovMikeHuckabee says men like to go hunt/fish with other men. “Women like to go to the restroom with other women.” #iapolitics #iacaucus

8:39 PM - 8 Apr 2014

"Yes, he really said that," Obradovich said in an email to TPM on Wednesday, adding that she ultimately did not write a column about the event.

The comment has received little coverage. The Register covered the event, but its news report didn't include the line.

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[el_bryanto]

1. Man - I've been doing things all wrong. I'm so embarrassed. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. women cook together, work together, sew together, do lots of creative, hard work together

his comment is very sexist

[cyberswede]

3. Some even hunt together.

Huckabee is a tool.

[Politicalboi]

4. I enjoy going to the bathroom with friends

Riding the toilet, fighting the whitecaps in the sink, and wipe my hands on dead trees. There's nothing like the smell of a bathroom in the morning.

[Warpy]

5. Gotta love the way they're reaching out to women

Yeah, we just love to vote for old white men who think in 1950s stereotypes.

[LondonReign2]

6. I love when Republicans talk

They never fail to paint themselves in the worst possible light and shoot themselves in the foot. They can't help but say what they really think, and it is uniformally awful.

[City Lights]

18. Haha, I know!

Open mouth, insert foot. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

[SummerSnow]

7. Hmm, guess Huckie doesnt take showers or baths with his wife.

[onehandle]

8. More gay sex happens on men's hunting trips than during women's trips to the bathroom.

You can take that one to the bank.

[toby jo]

11. Well shit now. I'm gonna put up some trail cams this here hunting season comin' up.

[LuvNewcastle]

34. That is true. A friend of mine who goes hunting has told me that

he's gotten laid plenty of times at the hunting camp. I'm happy for him, but drunk rednecks just ain't my scene.

[Skittles]

9. he really cannot hide his disdain for women

sexist asshole

[Initech]

33. Huckabee just proves my theory: those that can't get laid take it out on those that can.

[Enrique]

10. last time he was telling us about women's libidos

now he's telling us about their bathroom habits.

What place does any of this have in a presidential campaign?

[dionysus]

12. thisis a guy who cooked squirrels in a popcorn air popper in college, where you expecting

something profound?

[Ilsa]

29. makes me wonder if he's spying on women in the loo. nt

[etherealtruth]

13. Bless his heart

He just can't stop "the stupid"

[Blue Owl]

14. If he only knew what those women in the bathroom were saying about him...

n/t

[Paladin]

15. Thanks, Huck. Keep up the good work, back there in the 19th century. (nt)

[PCIntern]

16. Like "Wide-Stance" Congressmen...

or not...

[alp227]

17. TMI, Hucksterbee. nt

[nomorenomore08]

19. The guy's at the intellectual level of a grade-schooler. Just who the hell elected him to the

same office once held by Bill Clinton???

[frylock]

20. Assholes act like Assholes together

[Eleanors38]

21. Speaking of thunder boxes, I'm catching a whiff of Register protectionism.

[Jamaal510]

22. What about those of us men

who don't hunt?

[Initech]

23. Wow second time I've had to use this picture in five minutes:

[clandestiny]

24. Ditto!

[calimary]

25. Welcome to DU, clandestiny!

Glad you're here. I'm face-palming so much about this huckabee quote that I'm almost about to throw up. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

[clandestiny]

28. He may as well have told us to go make him a sammich

[calimary]

35. Hah! Or go watch the kids. Or clean his bathroom. Or finish the dishes.

[Initech]

30. This was the other thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024801116

[trotsky]

26. LOL, perfect. n/t

[Ilsa]

27. YES! We pee, practice witchcraft and lesbianism in

the bathroom while we plot to take over the world while making 77 cents on the dollar compared to our male coworkers! And it's going swell.
(Sometimes we give each other abortions in the loo, too. Shhhh.)

[rustydog]

31. Yea, you Man's man Huckster! We all go hunting together!!!

But< Republicans go hunting and shoot their partner in the face.

[3catwoman3]

32. I swear, I am about to...

...get callouses on my forehead from too much of this -



Damn, but this is a special kind of stupid.