Kasich Prefers His Women Barefoot and Pregnant

Filed in National by on February 23, 2016

Okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Remember with Kasich was consider the normal one? Kasich recently said, “How did I get elected [to the legislature]? I didn’t have anybody for me. We just got an army of people, who, and many women, who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put yard signs up for me. All the way back when — you know things were different.”

So people may or may not include women. And if you do include women as “people”, we know where to find them.

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  1. jason330 says:
    February 23, 2016 at 10:36 am

    In 1978 the normal (in relative terms) Kasich ran for the state legislature. But to be fair…1978 Ohio was like 1958 everywhere else.

  2. liberalgeek says:
    February 23, 2016 at 10:44 am

    And the next sentence was about how different the world is today (and it is not a lament, as it would be with Cruz).

  3. pandora says:
    February 23, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Here’s the real story with Kasich:

    Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Sunday signed a bill that effectively defunds Planned Parenthood in his state.

    The bill strips state and some federal funding from health clinics that perform and promote “nontherapeutic abortions,” including Planned Parenthood facilities.

    While the bill grants an exemption to abortions performed in cases of rape, incest and preserving the life of the mother, it jeopardizes the fate of other vital women’s health programs.

    For example, the $1.3 million in state grants that Planned Parenthood is slated to lose was allocated toward HIV testing, cancer screenings and programs that help prevent domestic violence and infant mortality.

    […]

    As HuffPost’s Dana Liebelson and Samantha Lachman reported earlier this month, Kasich’s decision to sign the bill should not come as a surprise. Although the GOP presidential hopeful has been hailed by many in his party as being moderate, he has long supported abortion restrictions in his state.

    Just months after becoming governor, Kasich signed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the fetus is nonviable. In 2013, Kasich signed a budget that stripped roughly $1.4 million in family planning funds from Planned Parenthood, required abortion providers to perform ultrasounds on patients seeking abortions and allowed rape crisis centers to be stripped of their public funds if they referred victims to abortion providers, among other measures. The budget also blocked public hospitals from entering into transfer agreements for medical emergencies with abortion clinics, threatening clinics with closure if they couldn’t get a private hospital to enter into those agreements. Because private hospitals often have religious affiliations, this arrangement often wasn’t possible.

    In all, nearly half of Ohio’s abortion clinics have closed since Kasich took office.

    He’s no moderate, no matter how hard he tries to pretend.

  4. anonymous says:
    February 23, 2016 at 11:25 am

    oh, come on. if they were housewives, they probably spent some time in the kitchen. they got enthusiastic for kasich. why is that a slur? i guess you can’t say things that are true if they suggest even the mildest diversion from one’s political dogma. a current action like the planned parenthood stuff is a different matter.

  5. liberalgeek says:
    February 23, 2016 at 11:38 am

    Pandora is kind of making my point. There is a lot of stuff that is unpleasantly conservative and out of step with America that we don’t have to selectively edit his speeches to challenge him.

  6. pandora says:
    February 23, 2016 at 11:42 am

    Kasich has made quite a few comments that don’t sit well with women.

    This:

    My hand was raised, my body half-way out of my back-row seat, when Gov. John Kasich finally acknowledged me.

    “I’m sorry, I don’t have any Taylor Swift concert tickets,” he said, his eyes meeting mine.

    […]

    What continues to strike me is the hypocrisy of his condescension. He touted his ambitious energy as an 18-year-old man, but as soon as I, an 18-year-old woman, exhibited ambition, I became the target of his joke. The same passion that drove Kasich to speak with President Nixon drove me to ask the candidate a question I care deeply about. In a way, I was taking the governor’s advice: “Always ask.”

    In a half-hearted attempt to connect with young voters, Kasich entered the town hall forum with the 2014 hit song “Shut Up and Dance With Me” blasting from the speakers. While my friends all found it out of place, I realized that the song’s title accurately reflects Kasich’s message to young voters: shut up and elect me. If the candidate wants to connect with my peers, he can’t do it through superficial pop culture references. If he wants our votes, he needs to listen to our voices and address the issues we care about. The president leads the country, not the VMAs, and it’s insulting that the governor doesn’t think we can distinguish between the two.

    I didn’t go to a town hall forum for Taylor Swift tickets, Gov. Kasich. I went because it’s my civic duty to be an informed voter. Please start treating me like one.

    And this:

    Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich reportedly told a female student at the University of Richmond Monday that he was sure she was invited “to all the parties,” according to the college student newspaper.

    So, yes, there’s a pattern here.

  7. pandora says:
    February 23, 2016 at 11:44 am

    I hear ya, LG. What Kasich says about women pales in comparison to what he’s doing to women. That said, he’s a sexist who I don’t feel the need to give the benefit of the doubt.

  8. Mikem2784 says:
    February 23, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    Kasich’s appeal isn’t that he’s moderate…its that he’s not as batshit crazy as the rest of the field or as incompetent and robotic as Rubio. Its sad that the bar is so low, but that, by far, makes him the best Republican. Doesn’t mean we agree with his conservatism or his old fashioned view of women….just that we acknowledge that he’s better than the other psychos.

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