Huckabee Doubles Down On Women Can't Control Libidos Comment

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DANIEL STRAUSS – JANUARY 24, 2014, 9:45 AM EST
Not only is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) not apologizing for saying Democrats think women can't control their reproductive system without the help of the government, he's fundraising off those comments.

"I am apparently the worst conservative ever or at least the most annoying one according to the left wingers in Washington today," Huckabee wrote in his regular MikeHuckabee.com email to supporters Thursday night. "My remarks to the RNC today were immediately jumped on and blown sky high by hand-wringing, card carrying liberals from coast to coast, some of them in the media."

The email came hours after the former Arkansas governor, during a speech at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, said Democrats "insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government."

In the email Huckabee also asks for donations to his political action committee so his critics can look at the committee's fundraising and "say see we told you so. Guess what liberals? If you can't stand to look at yourself in the mirror, then get ready for more of this talk, because conservatives are going to continue to fight back against your destructive policies towards women and families," Huckabee continued in the email.

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Santorum: Huckabee Comment On Women's Libidos Was 'Off The Cuff'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251350126

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No, Mike Huckabee Wasn't Speaking "Off the Cuff"

By David Weigel

Catherine Thompson captures some comments by Rick Santorum on Crossfire, made in the wake of Mike Huckabee's "libido" speech.

I think what Gov. Huckabee was saying is that we've seen an unprecedented assault by the Democrats against Republicans claiming there is a war on women... I think Gov. Huckabee would probably have phrased it differently. Mike speaks off the cuff, as some of us are known to do, and probably would have chose different words to communicate that.

This is basically the opposite of true. Like I mentioned yesterday, the RNC speech was only the second time in a week that Huckabee went on a riff about how Democrats were talking to women as if they couldn't control their lady urges. From his weekend Fox News show:

The ridiculous claim that a pro-life position is a "war on women" is an insult to the millions of women who make extraordinary sacrifices for their children. For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

more:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/01/24/no_mike_huckabee_wasn_t_speaking_off_the_cuff.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&mc_cid=5d36922fc2&mc_eid=7a8b58c8c3

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Pelosi: Huckabee's Remark Wouldn't Have Passed Muster 100 Years Ago

TOM KLUDT – JANUARY 24, 2014, 6:27 AM EST1216

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Mike Huckabee's head-scratching remark about women and their "libidos" would have been a retrograde sentiment even a century ago.

One of Capitol Hill's most outspoken supporters of women's reproductive rights, Pelosi used Twitter on Thursday to zing the former Arkansas governor.

Nancy Pelosi ✔ @NancyPelosi
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Even 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine a man making a statement as ridiculous as what Mr. Huckabee said today.
5:39 PM - 23 Jan 2014

Huckabee made his bizarre comment Thursday at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pelosi-huckabee-libidos

[riversedge]

1. What a smug simple mind he has!!

[Jakes Progress]

124. What simple minded idiots are the women

who vote for such an ass.

(Actually, anyone who votes for him is a simple-minded, mean, idiot. But a woman that stupid and self-loathing is disgusting.)

[Mass]

2. He should talk to Santorum. Even this idiot recognizes

the comment was damaging.

[mpcamb]

129. That does sound like a great GOP ticket to me.

[get the red out]

3. He doesn't make me wring my hands

That evil piece of shit has me balling them up into fists every time he opens his mouth.

[Paladin]

31. He makes me clap my hands and shout "Encore!"

With enemies like Huck, our need for friends is greatly reduced.

[get the red out]

66. Damn good point!!!

And they still wonder why more women don't vote for them.

[whathehell]

127. Correct. They are very slow learners. n/t

[arely staircase]

83. no kidding, he should run for president again. nt

[Cha]

101. Touche' with your "Encore!"

[MADem]

4. This is, oddly enough, the very argument used to justify the enforcement of 'hijab' regulations

in countries like Iran and Afghanistan, and additional restrictions on movement and requirements to be accompanied by a male relation in places like Saudi Arabia.

You see, if 'those women' are left to their own devices, they'll be frigging in the rigging all over town, and a poor fellah won't know if that child is his (never mind the modern convenience of DNA, now!).

I wish I could say I'm joking or engaging in but this is how the leadership feels over that way. It's deadly serious to them, and the women endure the consequences.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. +1000

[Berlum]

40. Repubbie Males in bed with Arab Ideals on "a place & a look for the little ladies"

[Fred Sanders]

55. The Huckster is actually claiming it is Democrats who think women can not control their libidos.....

though Republicans are the ones who want women forced to to undergo probes and lectures and forced births with a threat of jailing.

[FlaGranny]

110. Add to that the fact

that "wives should submit to their husbands." What kind of marriage must one have that requires the wife to submit, for god's sake? There is no submission in a good marriage. Add allowing no birth control AND requiring submission, what you get is always pregnant women, a country full of Duggars! Ugghh. These crazy people are cavemen.

[CBHagman]

113. I wish we had a "like" button for posts...

...because thumbs would be going up all over DU for yours.

[TBF]

5. Fascist moron. nt

[George II]

6. Ever notice that it's always liberals who are "card carrying"? We never refer to conservatives as..

..."card carrying".

I've been a liberal for more than 40 years, never had a card confirming that I'm a liberal. Where have I gone wrong?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. No, conservatives force their members to sign loyalty pledges, remember?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. BAM!! You are so right!!!

[Maeve]

10. I've got my ACLU card--does that count? eom

[rbixby]

19. I've always wondered that

I do have a DNC card and a DFL card......so I guess I'm a card carrying democrat

[TransitJohn]

22. It's a McCarthyism Communist Red Scare Thing™

eom

[underpants]

26. Yep. Card carrying commie....... Liberal

[AAO]

25. I'm actually a "card carrying member of the ACLU".

I have the card just so when this comes up in not so polite conversation with a teabagger, I can comfirm his total worldview by whipping it out.

So sad they don't realize the ACLU protects and fights for us all - the really do "fight for our freedoms".

[Rozlee]

57. I loved that quote from "The American President."

I generally don't like Michael Douglas and "The American President" got panned, especially by conservatives, but I liked that the character stood up to the religious right and defended his membership in the ACLU and even bragged about it.

[arcane1]

56. And "hand-wringing" too n/t

[MADem]

58. You didn't sign up for the Commie Club...or the ACLU! Those are the "cards" to which those dorks

refer!

[frylock]

61. i'd like a nice ID card as well. something with a hologram watermark.

[pangaia]

63. Exactly.

The 'card carrying' thing is about being a card carrying Communist..just updated a bit.

[phylny]

93. I noticed it, too.

I want my card, dammit!

[Cha]

102. I got one...

[LittleGirl]

112. thanks for sharing that.

I've copied and saved to my 'political' folder. cheers!

[Cha]

119. You're Welcome LittleGirl~Thank you!

[Maeve]

8. Actually, Huck, we're not wringing our hands, we're laughing our asses off at you

Yo think you're getting attention because what you say is "true"--no, it's because what you say is appallingly stupid.

Please continue.

[lastlib]

15. I'm not laughing because that idiot wants to run for office and make law and policy....

based on his knuckle-dragging Neanderthal views. This is serious stupid, and it needs to be crushed. Making light of it doesn't accomplish that.

[Maeve]

82. I think ridicule works very well against such nonsense

He's a fool and should be treated as such.

[House of Roberts]

11. What does he think contraceptives do?

He seems to have the same mindset as Limbought, that you only take birth control pills when you have sex?

[George II]

62. They don't realize that.....that's why they made such a fuss over Sandra Fluke....

...They also think that women get pregnant all by themselves.

Maybe that's the way rightwing men have sex, but......

[Eleanors38]

68. He needs a full-body condom to cover his mouth.

[nxylas]

13. Good

The more Republicans speak their "minds", the less electable they become. I live in the UK, where a slick PR man became Prime Minister precisely by deceiving people about what the Conservative Party really stands for. No chance of that happening in the US as long as idiots like Huckleberry continue to shoot their mouths off.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. Tell this fucker to keep talking. Just keep saying racist and anti-women shit. Keep talking!

[Plucketeer]

16. Maybe ol' Huckadunce thinks....

...that because any women close to him seem to be able to resist "engaging" with HIM, it's just that easy!

[lame54]

17. The Republican Plan...

Say something stupid - cash in

[BootinUp]

38. Bingo

thats exactly whats going on.

[MrModerate]

18. Keep it up, Huckles . . .

Every time you bleat out something stupid like this, hundreds of potential votes for Republicans disappear for good.

[blue neen]

20. Hmm. Mike Huckabee might be helpless without Uncle Bariatric.

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He cannot control his appetite, can he?

[Swede Atlanta]

21. Hey Huck....

Access to contraception is not a controversial issue. Even Santorum acknowledged that the issue of contraception is not controversial as between Democrats and Republicans and Santorum is about as religious nutty as they come.

Huckabee seems to suggest that the government shouldn't be paying for the contraception because heaven knows women will be sluts if they could get pregnant. And for him of course sex is only for making babies.

The reality is the federal government does not provide a prescription for contraceptives to any woman. He is very confused. Contraception is, however, under the ACA, covered both under Medicaid and private insurance policies. The federal and state governments may provision contraceptives for Medicaid patients as part of the Medicaid insurance program. But it is under the regi of the Medicaid insurance program. Those insured privately have no government involvement in their contraception other than we require insurance companies to cover.

See for Huck he likes Sharia Law. He thinks women should keep their legs shut if they aren't married and not working on making more babies.

If women dare to have recreational sex and especially with someone to whom they are not married, she should be on her own for contraception because otherwise we are demeaning her. What kind of crap is that?

But I'm sure he is all for ensuring Viagra is available and included in Medicaid and private insurance.

[Thinkingabout]

23. As we stand looking at Republicans shoot themselves in the foot, this should be a time we

do fund raising to stop the crap tired dumb old white men are inflicting on women. I wonder what part of the bible did he find the backing for this statement. Also is he a professional who reads minds of Democrats? Hell no, but he wants to blame the Democrats for his twisted mind of how he feels about women. If one wonders why I left the Baptist religion, crap like comes out of the mouth of Fundies and the born-again bunch. Is anything these crazy people change how I feel about my belief, no, but I do not choose to sit Sunday after Sunday and listen to crap like this.

[catbyte]

24. Why don't bastards like him ever tell MEN to shut down THEIR libidos?

[Demeter]

27. Huckabee probably doesn't have one

How could he? He hates women so, wouldn't want to soil himself by consorting with one.

[underpants]

29. He's a preacher preachifying to the choir

The Thumper crowd. Them women are temptresses AND property at the same time.

[Chemisse]

92. Exactly what I was wondering

Women don't have sex that requires contraception by themselves!

It's the old 'boys will be boys, but if women do it they're whores' lecture I got as a teenager.

I thought those days had been left in the dust.

[underpants]

28. Solution: "Uncle Sugar" buys every woman a picture of Mike Huckabee

Libido "problem" solved

[notemason]

30. Memory Lane

My first job as an adult was with a company called Civic Reading Club and we sold magazines on an installment basis. Magazines. We were not allowed to sell to preachers because they wouldn't pay their bills.

[malthaussen]

32. There is nothing quite so pathetic as a guy who looks like a pile of play-dough...

... trying to act tough.

-- Mal

[spooky3]

37. I know I shouldn't, but LOL! Nt

[EC]

33. You know, I've told acquaintances of mine

that are Republican that their side has been trying to take the pill away since it was legalized. To a one, they would deny it...I hope they are listening now. They want to make the pill illegal again or worse, make it only with husband's approval again. I remember when I needed my husband's signature for it, but they sure didn't ask for my signature for his vasectomy.

[HockeyMom]

70. I DID have to sign consent for my husband's vasectomy

listen to a lecture, and he had to wait 24 hours. I even told that doctor I found all this was very insulting to not only him, but to me. This was in NYC in 1984.

On the other hand, I never needed my husband's permission for BC going back to 1974. In fact my employer's insurance covered it and it was FREE back then when ALL meds requiring a script were covered by insurance and free.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

34. Primaries, the only political institution more ridiculous than the electoral college

When these people get to set the national agenda:

[RC]

45. The purpose of the primaries is so the party leaders can choose who we are going to vote for.

We actually have less choice in the matter, than we are lead to believe.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

50. I seriously doubt the Republican leadership finds the "clown car" exercise helpful

[Elmergantry]

126. Am I supposed to know who they are?

Is there something evil about them I am not aware of?

[Renew Deal]

35. He's not annoying. He's a joke

[colbertforpresident]

36. I applaud Mike Huckabee

for helping the Dems raise campaign money!

[Deep13]

39. moron nt

[freemay20]

41. Comprehensive reading anyone?

I listened to what Huckabee said about 6 times now. He did not say or give an opinion on libido. The part about libido was in a section of his talk where he wrongly attributed the view to the way the Democratic Party view women and contraception. Come on people, let's not be a secondary Faux News and twist things as we want to perceive them. I have seen a whole lot of this at DU lately. I sometimes have to wonder if I am reading a page at the Onion or at DU.

[Capn Sunshine]

44. not sure what you mean. He said what he said.

Democrats "insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government."

[freemay20]

49. Libido :)

People are on him for saying women have uncontrollable libidos. He did not say this. He said the Democratic party views women as having an uncontrollable libido. He in no way took ownership of saying women had an uncontrollable L. I hate the guy but had to say something as DU is changing so much. Change is not a bad thing but intelligence still needs to be used. Many of the people I know that were regulars on here no longer come to the site because people start threads without representing the truth or facts. Have a good one Capn

[knightmaar]

53. Actually ...

What he said was: "If you need birth control, you're a slut and the government is helping you be a slut if it mandates birth control provisions."

It's right there, between the lines. Let's not pretend it isn't.

[FlaGranny]

111. Don't agree

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Huckabee is saying that's what Democrats think, and no Democrat I know of feels that way. Those thoughts are in HIS mind and he (I can't think of the right word right now) is attributing his own thoughts to others. Classic. Just like the guy from the south a few years ago that seemed to think that all country boys had sex with animals (obviously because he did or wanted to).

Edit: Ah, remembered the word - PROJECTION!

[SoapBox]

42. ...what an asshole.

[Capn Sunshine]

43. WHERE ARE THESE WOMEN THAT CAN'T CONTROL THEIR LIBIDOS?

It's very important that I speak with one ASAP. Preferably in Southern CA.

[efhmc]

72. You made me laugh.

[Ezlivin]

78. Where are the white women at?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

128. Lot of guys are asking that question.

Unfortunately, they don't teach the guys how to pick up girls in engineering school. Or how to talk to them.

My suggested course: Fashion Tips for Nerds: Unbutton the top button on your nerd shirt, dammit!! Bathing and shaving are also important.

[knightmaar]

46. Ignorance.

He seems to think that the purpose of the pill is to reduce a woman's libido, as opposed to preventing conception.

This reminds me of Limbaugh and his expectation that the number of pills a woman takes is proportional to the number of times she has sex.

They're both ignorant of the way the pill works.

(Mind you, controlling a woman's libido is a long term goal of the Conservative Christians, so maybe that's why it's on his mind.)

[DirtyDawg]

47. Seems to me...

...that until all men are castrated, or that a man that engages in sexual intercourse without 'protection' is a felony, then this 'women's libido' thing is merely the rankings of a stupid motherf$&kin, Bible thumper that long ago should have been put out of his misery.

[PatrynXX]

48. Republicans with small minds

seem to think this is just about birth control. They even went after Sandra Fluke the other day. like hello she wasn't fighting for that part, it was for her friends illness. So if the so called Pro Lifers really are Pro Life they'd be Pro Sandra fluke. Unless we wanna start banning men's Prostate Cancer drugs because maybe it's related to their libido (smh)

[Scuba]

51. I'm a liberal, but don't have a card. Where can I get one?

Or is that just a "card-carrying Commie" slur the Huckster's using?

[Pedoviejo2]

114. Card Carrying Liberal

I'm one.
It is called a Voters' Registration Card.

[2naSalit]

52. He's a good buddy of wangotangoman

How can anyone profess to engage in independent cognitive function while also openly claiming a close relationship with that nutcase? They think (if you can call it that) along the same theme/lines.

[47of74]

54. We need to come up with a description

We need to come up with a description for Huckabee like they did with Santorum. Any ideas?

[onehandle]

59. GOP Spokesman Calls American Women 'Sluts.'

There is no need to identify him.

It's the party.

[warrant46]

73. Huck A Bucks view of women

[amuse bouche]

60. Please Proceed Governor

[Justitia]

131. Ahhhhh, memories

Best debate moment ever.

Also, yes, Mike, keep talking, just keep talking.....

[Dustlawyer]

64. A "speech" is absolutely by definition not, "Off the cuff!" They were his prepared remarks!

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!

[Dawson Leery]

65. The Christian Taliban continues it's war on women.

[Liberalynn]

67. Hey U.S Chamber of Commerce

How's that plan to shove the extremist nut jobs into the background of the Puker Party coming along so far? Keep talking ass hats and we will see you at the polls in November.

[bkanderson76]

69. This 'card carrying' liberal Democrat of

forty years is glad to be on board with DU.

[TexasTowelie]

104. Card carrying isn't a requirement.

Welcome to DU, I think you're going to have a great time here!

[hedda_foil]

71. OMG, I think I've got it! Please talk me down.

I think where he's coming from is the very old, very ugly point of view that it's the woman's job to just say no unless she's married, and that if she doesn't keep her legs closed at all times, she's both weak and a slut. (If she's married, of COURSE, her role is to submit willingly ...but not enthusiastically... to her husband's manly "needs.&quot Thus, by enabling women to obtain contraceptive care, Dems are encouraging them to submit to their baser nature's, instead of allowing them to exercise their true moral strength by denying any nasty sexual urges.

[RainDog]

74. Huckabee: STILL worthless

Huckabee: proof that god has a sense of humor, if she exists.

[catbyte]

75. I'm a liberal--where the hell is my card?!?

[JDPriestly]

76. If the number of criminal rape indictments against women equalled that of rape indictments

against men, Rev. Huckabee's statement might be more credible.

Birth control is everyone's business.

This earth can feed and clothes just so many people. We don't know what the limit on God's gracious bounty on the earth's is, but if we look around us at the hunger, drought, and need, we can easily see that we are approaching it.

[warrant46]

115. Anti-birth control activists

Anti-birth control activists are not pro-welfare programs. Anti-birth control activists are not pro-school lunches. They’re not pro-food stamps, pro-funding foster care or pro-taking-care-of-children-after-they’re-born. . But the anti-birth control activists are laser focused on life until it becomes viable—then that “life” becomes a lazy taker and part of the 47 percent “who believe that they are entitled to health care.”

[VWolf]

77. Any of you folk seen my liberal card?

I was carrying it earlier, but I can't find it anywhere!

[CTyankee]

79. I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU, HUCK!

Dems are fundraising off of you, too! Like crazy!

I just got a solicitation from Allison Grimes in my email. I'll betcha every Dem in the House is out there soliciting money and support using your stupid comments like gangbusters.

Hey, repukes, you think you had trouble with women in 2012? You ain't seen nothin' yet...

[yellowcanine]

80. Chuckles apparently subscribes to the "Vatican Roulette" method of birth control.

And by the way Chuckles, it takes two to tango so it is not just women's libidos which are part of the mix.

[MoreGOPoop]

81. Huckabee represents

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants- Southern Baptist flavor:
Shut up, roll over, then go fry me up some suppah.

[Demenace]

84. I see a lot of people here post how simple minded Huckabee is...

Well, folks look in the mirror and you will see a reflection of yourselves! Why, because just like this simple minded worldviews the Right-wing has fallen prey to, the Progressive side is also allowing itself to fall prey to simple minded positions - reducing the complexities of the Snowden/ NSA issue to a simple minded one is good, the other is bad positions.

We may not be different from the Huckabees of the world after all!

[noiretextatique]

85. actually: you are Huckabee

your post makes about as much sense as his stupid comments: none.

[Demenace]

86. My exact point. a lack of curiosity...

...not as much as asking for explanation for a thing one does not have an understanding of. Just the simple minded attack of things you fail to understand.

So, here is the answer, you failed to ask for! Like Huckabee, we, Progressives, have developed a worldview that buys into certain narratives which produce these Huckabee-like reactions on our part. Please, tell me there are no individuals amongst us who have held dogmatically to sometimes very questionable positions and have made equally questionable comments in defense of such dogmatic positions?

If your answer is: No, there are no such Progressives then you need to go back to my original post and take my advice! It might help you to take a hard look at that mirror in front of you!

[maindawg]

88. could you be specific?

There is a constitutional amendment that is supposed to protect us from what the NSA is doing. As a matter of fact, there is a constitutional amendment that guarantees a womans right to make decisions concerning her health. I am strongly in favor of the proetctions provided by US constitution.

[Demenace]

90. So, I take it, you do not ever think we as Progressives, have not fallen prey to dogmatic views?

That we are becoming as dogmatic about our beliefs no matter what they are and as such becoming Huckabee-like in our views!
That is all the specifics you need!

[Scalded Nun]

87. The true GOP mindset shines through

It is all about (and has always been about) control.

It is also a brazen example of why sexual abuse reforms in the military have been either worthless or, at best, half-assed.

How can 'real' soldiers control themselves with all of those fucking libidos running all around the battlefield?

Romney gave you 'binders of women'...

Huck gives you buckets of libidos.

Why any decent person would vote for a single sorry-ass GOP candidate is truly beyond me.

[Marthe48]

89. Ah, Libido Loca

Let's rock it! hahahaha

[blkmusclmachine]

91. Of course he does.

[Jazz Tazz]

94. Willful Ignorance Raining Down from the Right

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Is it possible that these MEN ON THE RIGHT, don't know what birth control is actually used for? If that is the case, do they believe that a contraceptive actually helps women to increase sex drive? IF that is the case, why are we not banning Viagra when we KNOW the purpose of that drug is to increase sex drive? How stupid are these so called MEN???? Should they sign up for sex education 101? They are either stupid, or willfully ignorant or complete male chauvinists. I used birth control for many years for more reasons than to control births and one thing I can guarantee, it NEVER increased my libido!!! In fact, the side affects were very risky for me but I also could not afford any more children and really bad health issues anyway. I never had a 4 hour orgasm that I needed to go to the emergency room for!!!! Birth Control Pills are used for exactly what the name implies. Shocking, isn't it?

Some are saying(in this thread) that this is not exactly what he said. It pretty much is in a nutshell BUT, IF that is not the exact statement that was made, does that make the meaning of what he was saying any less impactful? If he isn't saying those exact words, he is certainly implying that women cannot control their sexual desires without HELP from a drug of SOME SORT, wouldn't you agree? Or an Uncle Sugar, which I have never heard of in my life. I assume he is referring to a SUGAR DADDY which definitely makes it clearer as to what he is calling females. How disgusting that ANY MAN would say such a thing and worse, THAT ANY MAN FROM THE LEFT, RIGHT OR MIDDLE would defend a man for saying such a thing. At the very least, his comments lead to a very sexist statement. I would like to believe that we have come a long way from where we were but it seems to me, we just haven't. THIS is NOT the only issue in which the RIGHT proves and shows willful ignorance . It proves the very point that they have NO RESPECT for females in any way. Why else do they force us to fight for every thing that a man seems to have an inalienable right to? How many times do we need to fight? Some men act as though this is something THEY OWN and that only they can decide who has these rights and who doesn't. Why is that?? How did MEN inherit the right to decide what another human being should have or not have? Should own or not own? Should control or allow someone else to control? Especially something as important as one's body? Why do MEN even have this power??? How long are we going to allow men to FEEL LIKE THEY OWN OR SHOULD OWN THIS POWER? Women have to stop this trend now because it is LONG PAST DUE!!!

I am sorry, but I can find no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt that he is NOT a sexist, or misogynist. He has demonstrated that in no uncertain terms. There are a number of ways he could have disagreed with the use of birth control than what he said. There IS NO DEFENSE for this male chauvinist pig and I don't personally know a single woman who is not insulted by it. You can try to defend it by saying his words are misconstrued (which they aren't) but it still goes back to their RELIGIOUS belief that the only purpose and right of a woman to have sex is to have children and they should have no say in that one way or another. THAT is what it all boils down to AND THAT MY FRIENDS DOES MEAN WAR. If they think women were loud in 2012, let these so called men keep talking. It won't be a hard on that last four hours they will need to be concerned about, that is for certain! Women have had and heard enough of the bull crap from the right to last a lifetime. The effect you will feel with comments and attitudes toward women that even come close to resembling what Huckabee said, will last much longer than 4 hours and there will be no medical cure for it. Thanks for allowing me to share my opinion.

[TexasTowelie]

105. Very powerful and important statements.

Welcome to DU!

[nenagh]

107. Excellent comment...

thanks

[TBF]

109. He's a dangerous loon.

But your rant is awesome and spot on.

Welcome to DU!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

95. ...uh huh....

[3catwoman3]

96. I think Huckabee's last name must have been changed.

Surely, the first letter is supposed to be an "F" rather than an "H".

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

97. Going to be an interesting campaign season to arrive at a GOP nominee

There's the Huckster, the runny Santorum, and the Blob for a new and improved clown car.

[toby jo]

98. If you don't have a card, no sex for you.

[RainDog]

99. ooh! revealed: the book on Huckabee's nightstand

[Cha]

100. Good! Take that shit into the

2014 Election! Stupid musta missed the seminar.

[madamesilverspurs]

103. Yeah, whatever. . .

[struggle4progress]

106. Huck was just trying to say we should repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, but he sometimes has trouble

expressing himself clearly, so instead it came out sounding like he's trying to cover up some trouble controlling his libido around Democratic women

But a look at what the Republications have been doing around the country for the last few years shows they really really really want to repeal the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments

Just about everybody misspeaks now and then. So let's cut Huck some slack here and help him get his message out: he was just trying to say we should repeal the Nineteenth Amendment

[DeSwiss]

108. K&R

"I am apparently the worst conservative ever or at least the most annoying one according to the left wingers in Washington today."

No Mike, I still think you're just an idiot. Apparently one with delusions of granduer. As well as being another typical aging white-boy, testosterone-soaked, religious hypocrite who claims he be loving him some Jebus but can't seem to remember anything he said we should do regarding our relations with one another.

- Of course those are your more redeeming qualities as a Republican. Your only qualities, in fact......

[Rosa Luxemburg]

116. The right's war against women

[LTR]

117. All while he advocates that the government control women's bodies

Am I the only one who sees the irony here?

[bucolic_frolic]

118. it's subliminal

what he means is women need help controlling their vaginas

and they need the church for that instead of the government

It's all about subliminal mind control and twisting words and meanings

[Crunchy Frog]

120. And Huckster can't control his gluttony

without "Uncle Sugar" US government stapling his stomach shut for him.

What a fucking hypocrite.

[Martin Eden]

121. If a woman submits to her husband but HE doesn't want another kid, is contraception then OK?

The wife must submit whether she wants to have sex or not, but HER libido is what's out of control here.

[Botany]

122. Liberals did not make you say your stupid sexist comment Mike .... you did that all by yourself

BTW Always the hustler Huckabee uses this to make $$$$.

"In the email Huckabee also asks for donations to his political action committee so his critics can look at the committee's fundraising and "say see we told you so."

BTW part 2 Mike, how about the people you let out of jail so they could rape and kill more people?

[HoosierCowboy]

123. The Best Way to Control a Womans' Libido...

....is to show them a picture of Mike Huckabee.

[Rob H.]

125. Translation: "I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it."

This song's for you, Huckster. (Warning: NSFW language, obviously.)

[alfredo]

130. I want more from him. I want him to become the face of Republican intolerance.

[siligut]

132. Huckabee is attempting to turn a strength into a weakness

"Guess what liberals? If you can't stand to look at yourself in the mirror, then get ready for more of this talk, because conservatives are going to continue to fight back against your destructive policies towards women and families,"

The female vote helped get Obama elected, Huckabee wants to use rhetoric and twisted logic to garner votes without altering the war on women and the long term goal of white male supremacy.