Former Republican presidential candidate and current village idiot, Mike Huckabee:
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told NBC/NJ today that the recent wave of potentially-damaging news stories about Sarah Palin – including news that her teenage daughter is pregnant – represents a "sexism that is really, really disgusting and embarrassing," and could ultimately galvanize support for the GOP ticket.
Calling media critiques of Palin "unprecedented" ("they never did this to Chelsea Clinton," he said), Huckabee predicted that Palin's victimization would rouse support even from non-Republicans outraged by sexist sentiment.
Hell, Mike, you want to talk about Chelsea Clinton? You seriously want to open up that can of worms? Great, let's do it. We would be thrilled to have that discussion.
Perhaps we can bring Sean Hannity in on it too:
On Hannity & Colmes, Hannity said, in reference to Internet rumors about Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, "[T]hey tried to make the attack that she has a young daughter, pregnant and engaged. Is that fair that they would attack that? I mean, I don't remember Chelsea Clinton being attacked. I don't remember Al Gore's children being attacked. I thought there was a general rule that children of candidates ought to be left alone."
We ought not to be surprised that Hannity's memory seems to go back all of five whole minutes. However, some have longer memories than that. So if you want to talk about Chelsea Clinton...let's have at it.
Your party's most prominent media personality, on Chelsea Clinton:
Columnist Molly Ivins reported (Arizona Republic 10/17/93) this incident from (Rush) Limbaugh's TV show--"Here is a Limbaugh joke: Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?" And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old.
Wait, that wasn't enough for you, Mike? Let's kick it up a notch. Hell, let's go all the way to the top of the GOP food chain. Let's see what your Vaunted Maverick Straight-Talking Heroic Shiny Happy Presidential Nominee used to say about Chelsea Clinton:
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father".
-John McCain, 1998
Righteous. Absolutely righteous. Your party's champion thinks it's absolutely hilarious to mock the appearance of an innocent teenage girl at a GOP fundraiser, not to mention make a crude lesbian joke about the Attorney General and First Lady of the United States.
That's not sexist at all. Just a little straight talk for you, isn't it? Stay classy, John McCain.
You want to talk about Chelsea Clinton, Governor Huckabee? Let's talk about Chelsea Clinton. Let's keep talking about how your party and its anointed leaders loved so dearly to make sport of mocking a teenage girl in the 1990s whose worst offense was being born to a father who had the gall to win the Presidency of the United States.
I can only imagine what might have occurred at your hands, Governor, if she'd had the misfortune to become pregnant at 17. For her sake, the country's sake, and the sake of common decency, we should all be relieved that we never had the opportunity to find out.