Ohio governor at Romney rally: Our wives are at home doing laundry

[TroyD]

Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio said Wednesday at a Romney campaign rally that his wife was at home doing laundry while he gave political speeches.

“You know, Jane Portman, Karen Kasich, and Janna Ryan, they operate an awful lot of the time in the shadows,” he said in Owensville, referring to the wife of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, his own wife, and the wife of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, respectively.

“It’s not easy to be a spouse of an elected official,” Kasich continued. “You know, they’re at home, doing the laundry and doing so many things while we’re up here on the stage getting applause, right? They don’t often share in it. And it is hard for the spouse to hear the criticism and to put up with the travel schedule and to have to be at home taking care of the kids. And where is the politician? Out on the road.”

Like other Republicans, Kasich has had to fight off claims that he is engaged in a so-called “war on women” because of his opposition to reproductive rights.

“Since the 2010 elections, Governor Kasich and the legislature have conducted a relentless war on women passing legislation that bans later term abortion care without an exception for rape or incest,” Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, said in August.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/12/ohio-governor-at-romney-rally-our-wives-are-at-home-doing-laundry/

[davidpdx]

1. How 16th century of him

[fasttense]

2. I guess it's like being a military spouse.

Being the spouse of a well know, rich politician is like being a military spouse except no one is trying to kill your loved one, and the pay in the military is really lousy, and services for military spouses like health care keep getting cut back, and political spouse have no worries about uniforms......ok, I guess it's nothing like being a military spouse at all.

But it's hard work like the bush use to say all the time while he took more vacation time than anyone in history.

[Botany]

3. Yes but John's wife also has a full time job of covering up who John really is ......

.......

[newfie11]

4. They just go out of their way to piss off women

And ITS WORKING!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. ...while we're out here doing our best to take America back to the 1600's

Up yours, Kasich.

[gkhouston]

6. She must go through a lot of stain remover and bleach.

That guy's so full of shit, it must leave a lot of skid marks on his clothes.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I've known women like that.

About 20 years ago in NJ, I was sharing a house with 3-4 men. One of them was dating a girl who visited often. One day I came home to find her ironing a pile of shirts. Instead of greeting me, she proudly exclaimed "John's letting me iron his shirts!" Sad thing was she meant it.

No, they didn't marry.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Stay at home wives are just fine. Making political hay out of that fact is NOT.

Any political house-hubbies staying at home?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. ... if the housewife chose freely and has options. Hard to have perfectly free choices though. nt

[jsr]

10. Yeah right

[Thrill]

11. And those women standing behing him

think its funny? Sad

[ellie]

12. He is such an asshole.

[avebury]

13. I cannot believe that he said this in public.

This shows women exactly what the Republicans think of them.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. And you say the Republican Party has a problem connecting with women voters?

Can't for the life of my figure out what that would be the case.

P.S. Ann Romney is home doing the laundry? Uh....no.

[NYC_SKP]

15. Meanwhile, among the 99%, nobody can afford a stay at home wage earner, everybody has to work...

....and work for decreasing wages and growing costs to get fewer and fewer goods and services of lower value and quality.

Day after day after...

How the fuck do these guys every win an election???

[HopeHoops]

16. Good fucking grief.