Fresh off of signing a law cutting funding for low-income women's health care, Ohio governor and still-striving Republican presidential candidate John Kasich showed what a friend he is to women:
How did I get elected? I didn’t have anybody for me. We just got an army of people, and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put yard signs up for me ...
They left their kitchens! Did they even put on shoes to venture from their native habitats? I sure hope they had permission from their husbands to leave the kitchen. It would be pretty bad if some man went unfed because his wife was out campaigning for John Kasich.
If Kasich is elected president, will he show his dedication to equal hiring by producing binders of women volunteers, complete with their best recipes?
Monday, Feb 22, 2016 · 6:27:34 PM +00:00
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Laura Clawson
A Kasich spokesman clears it all up and/or keeps digging:
"John Kasich's campaigns have always been homegrown affairs. They've literally been run out of his friends' kitchens and many of his early campaign teams were made up of stay-at-home moms who believed deeply in the changes he wanted to bring to them and their families," he said. "That's real grassroots campaigning and he's proud of that authentic support. To try and twist his comments into anything else is just desperate politics.
Um. Okay. Do you see where “I am the candidate of women for whom it is a big deal to leave the kitchen” does not exactly say “I am the candidate of equality in the year 2016”? I’m not sure what Kasich’s words are even being twisted into—they’re pretty damn clear.