Mike Huckabee Reminds Us of the GOP War on Women

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LGBT citizens are not the only targets of Republican bigotry and oppression.  Women are another favored target as Christofascist lunatic Mike Huckabee - Huckabee has stated on television that he wants the Bible to replace the U.S. Constitution as America's governing document - forcefully reminded us in his recent comments on women at the Republican National Committee winter meeting.  Even conservative columnist Kathleen Parker - one of the generally still sane conservatives - was offended and takes Huckabee - and by extension the Republican Party-  to task for this continued batshitery.  Here are highlights from Parker's column:

What Huckabee was saying was that women are not just packages of reproductive parts whose lives are circumscribed by access to birth control. This is the thinking he ascribes to Democrats. Instead, he said, Republicans are fighting a war for women “to be empowered to be something other than victims of their gender.”

Not bad so far, but then . . . uh-oh.

“And if the Democrats want to 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, then so be it, let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be.”

That is one long sentence, punctuated with several highlight-worthy words — “helpless,” “libido,” “Uncle Sugar” and, never far from the male Republican mind, “reproductive system.”  Paging Dr. Freud . . .
 
As Republicans can’t seem to learn, it’s all in how you say things. Even if Huckabee was only describing how he believes Democrats think of women, he may have parted the curtain on his own unconscious processes. Who, really, is worried about women’s libidos? 

No one in the debate about health insurance coverage of birth control has concerned himself with libido-related concerns except, notably, Rush Limbaugh. It was he who made the leap from Sandra Fluke’s insistence that health insurance should cover birth control to his conclusion that Fluke is, therefore and obviously, a “slut.”

One is justified in wondering: Why do these men concern themselves so much with what women do with their, ahem, “reproductive systems”? 

Does Huckabee really think that Democrats are wedded to the idea that women can’t function without “Uncle Sugar” offering medications to thwart ovulation and fertilization? Even Uncle Sugar is creepy. No doubt intended as a clever twist on Uncle Sam, he sounds like the lurking uncle who trades chocolate for a smooch on the upstairs landing.

Rather than end the idea of a Republican war on women, Huckabee has merely provided fresh fodder to Democrats, while reminding women why they don’t want to associate with this crowd. Clue-less.

One does indeed have to wonder why this angry aging white men are so utterly obsessed with sex whether it be gay sex or women's body parts.  To me it suggests that they all need a serious mental health care intervention.