Uh-Oh. Mike Huckabee Is Talking About Women Again.

[ismnotwasm]

Mike Huckabee has some important ideas about how to run against female candidates, which is very different from running against ordinary human people candidates, and he thought he'd share them in an interview with Nora Caplan-Bricker of the New Republic. Male opponents are "common," he explained in an interview published this week. Women, on the other hand, require a "sense of a pedestal." "You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common," he added, describing women and then men, though neither gender is significantly rarer than the other in nature. Huckabee elaborated, in case Caplan-Bricker couldn't hear him from way up there on her pedestal:

“I’ll put it this way,” Huckabee says. “I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn’t worry about calling them on Valentine’s Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.”
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Valentine's Day must be pretty confusing for Mr. Huckabee: When he stops by the store to buy flowers, how does he remember if they're for his wife or the woman campaigning against him for public office? They're all women, you know, so there's just one blanket way to treat them.
Lest there's any doubt that Huckabee just made a mistake or was misquoted, he reiterated his points in an email to Salon:

“I believe in equality, and I have a record of transforming that belief into action,” the ex-governor told Salon in an e-mailed statement. “However, equality doesn’t mean sameness.”
He went on at length, but notably avoided sharing any details about what these all-important differences actually are when it comes to political campaigning. He just continued to insist, without explanation, that fussing over women in a manner designed to make their gender seem unusual and out of place is a form of respect:

“I was raised to treat women with respect,” Huckabee told Salon in his afternoon statement. “I still will invite a lady to go first, will open a door for her, and will place her in the center of the photograph. And yes, I would seek to treat a female opponent with the same respect I give to all women, even though we may disagree on the issues.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/03/11/mike_huckabee_on_how_to_run_against_female_candidates_treat_them_like_a.html


Huh. Another door-opening fan. Who knew?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. wonder if he posts on DU?

[ismnotwasm]

2. There is a certain very, very familiar ring to it

But naw-- I think it's just a weird cultural deal. Needing strict and well defined 'rules' to figure out how to act like a decent human being.

In Huckabee's case he failed the day he claimed to be a a republican

But the familiarity is very strange

[CTyankee]

3. Oy.

Run for president, Mike. No, seriously, run against Hillary...I want to see how she takes you apart when you spout that in a debate with her...I esp. like the part about the photographs he takes...my, whatta prince....

[JustAnotherGen]

4. This times 1000!

[ismnotwasm]

7. Right?

Run Mike, Run!

[geek tragedy]

5. doors!!!! nt

[ismnotwasm]

8. ...

[redqueen]

10. lol

[Squinch]

11. Blaaahhhh!!!!

[seabeyond]

6. i wanna know how us women get thru those doors all day if there is not a man to open it for us.

i mean, he almost feels as if there is a necessity, not merely politeness in opening those doors for women.

didnt know my inherent right to be the center of a photograph.

[ismnotwasm]

9. Me either

all the women in the center with the protective males on the outside I suppose is the deal.