I give up. It's official. The Republicans are deliberately trying to ensure the gender gap is so awful that they never win another national election. There seems to be no other explanation for why, even in the wake of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, can't stop making stupid and offensive comments about women. If it's not Phil Bryant bashing working mothers, it's Trent Franks and the supposed lack of rape pregnancies. If it's not Marsha Blackburn opposing pay equality (way to stand up for the sisterhood, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!), it's Erick Erickson and Lou Dobbs and their "science" on gender roles. And if it's not Governor Ultrasound Version 2.0, it's this A-hole and his views on male and female brains. And just when you think they can't insult women any more than they already have, along comes another one.
Today, we get Rep. Phil Gingrey, who has already shown himself a banner member of the GOP Neanderthal caucus, having actually defended Todd Akin's remarks, only to later backtrack and try to weasel out of his remarks. (Did I mention he's an OB-GYN?) Yet he apparently didn't learn enough about his fiasco, or maybe, as he eyes the crowded Senate primary to replace Saxby Chambliss, he feels he needs to outcrazy Paul Broun. Because that might explain this comments today, made in defense of DOMA:
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) told colleagues on the House floor on Tuesday that young boys and girls should take classes on traditional gender roles in a marriage because there are some things fathers do "maybe a little bit better" than mothers.
"You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important," Gingrey said in a speech supporting the Defense of Marriage Act. "This is what a father does that is maybe a little different, maybe a little bit better than the talents that a mom has in a certain area. And the same thing for the young girls, that, you know, this is what a mom does, and this is what is important from the standpoint of that union which we call marriage."
Congrads, Phil, you managed to insult women
and gays at the same time. If you managed to thrown in some Latino bashing you'd have Rush Limbaugh popping his Viagra pills in excitement.
Steve Benen seems to be thinking along the same lines as I am:
Is it possible Republicans are trying to make the gender gap worse? Are politicians like Gingrey embracing misogyny as some kind of deliberate campaign tactic?
Given the rapid-fire nature of these offenses, you have to wonder. And while it may help you win over the primates in the GOP primaries, it certainly won't help the GOP solve it's ever-worsening situation with women (along with any other demographic group that isn't aging white men).
Hate to see what Gingrey's pick-up lines are like.