Republican creeps: The year the GOP war on women reached the subway flasher level

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Republican creeps: The year the GOP war on women reached the subway flasher level

by Amanda Marcotte at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/13/republican_creeps_the_year_the_gop_war_on_women_reached_the_subway_flasher_level/

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No discussion of this would be complete, of course, without acknowledging that the Republican presidential race is between two men that seem like exactly the sort of men women try not to be left alone with.

Donald Trump does so love talking about how he just looooooooves women and will “take care of them” (not in the way that mobster friends would use that phrase, hopefully). It is not worth belaboring the point, beyond pointing out that this, of Trump’s many lies, might be his most laugh-out-loud ridiculous one. Even language of “taking care” of women itself belies his claim to “respect” women. You don’t respect women by talking about them as if they are children to be carefully guarded from the real world. But he can’t even hide behind a pretense of meaning well but simply using insensitive language on this front, because Trump’s lengthy public record of being a leering creep and a pig is not particularly hard to find.

Ted Cruz doesn’t have a public record of sneering about how beauty pageant contestants aren’t hot enough, but that hardly recommends him as being any better than Trump. Mother Jones published a piece by David Corn on Monday that examined the war on dildos that Cruz waged while working as a solicitor general in Texas, a story that somehow pulls of the miracle of making Cruz seem even creepier than he already is.

It’s not that he took the case, exactly. Cruz’s job was to defend the state laws, not write them, after all. But it’s safe to say he really put he and then attorney general (now governor) Greg Abbott threw themselves into this case with a passion that indicated that they are true believers in the mission to stomp out the scourge of women getting sexual pleasure from anything but the almighty penis


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[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. When you said "creep" you reminded me of

http://billmoyers.com/2012/04/13/nixon-creep-and-watergate-they%E2%80%99re-baaacck/

Nixon, CREEP and Watergate: They’re Baaacck!

Those of us who cut our journalism teeth covering Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal(s) were caught up in a wave of nostalgia this week as our colleagues at ProPublica reported that a new super PAC has registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — called CREEP, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President.

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2. Who would choose to use that name again?