I've had lots of time to watch MSNBC lately, and I noticed that they have tried to find conservatives, especially women conservatives, to respond to Mike Huckabee's comments about women and their libidos. And there is now an article up from TPM obtaining more Republican views on Huckabee's comments. I could have saved them all a lot of time and effort if they had just asked me what the Republican response would be to Huckabee's sexists remarks: "Nothing to see here." What else do you expect from people who want to work for the Republican noise machine?
Placing microphones and cameras in front of Republican politicos, pundits, and activists and asking embarrassing questions is NEVER going to produce some Perry Mason moment in journalism. While in theory it may seem fun for liberals to watch conservatives squirm when asked to defend anachronistic, obnoxious sexist views from one of their own, conservatives never squirm. No matter how badly the comments would make a Homo erectus male cringe, conservatives are a "Never say die!" bunch. Part of this is pure tribalism, but a larger part is that most Republicans want to become part of the corporate welfare organization that is the Republican noise machine. And you don't get those well paying corporate welfare jobs if you criticize fellow Republicans.
So what we get instead is the usual drivel that Huckebee misspoke, or the media took what he said out of context. There is a larger more important message buried deep in Huckabee's bullshit, if only you morons on the left would scrap it off and look at the underlying message. Or Huckabee does not speak for everyone in the Republican Party, blah, blah, blah. All of it amounts to "Nothing to see here."
Do not be surprised when you see some conservative Republican woman dressed as a Gorean slave girl gets licked from head to toe by some old white guy who then chortles like Jabba the Hutt at the next conservative meeting dealing with women's issues.
This is not the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last. The only lesson to draw from this sorry cycle is that both men and women are susceptible to the lure of big money, and they will tolerate the worst in human behavior to obtain it.