I grew up in the Pittsburgh, about 20 miles from where Kasich grew up.
Dad worked and Mom ran the house and cared for my special needs brother. Back then, when unions were strong, a single wage earner could feed a family of four. Women did not have the economic opportunities back then - the game was rigged again them even more than now. But there was also not the pressure on working class families to have two wage earners to survive.
Mom prepared lunch for me just about every day I was in grade school, except if she had a doctorâs appointment or something like that. One exception was always election day. Her friends would take turns coming over to watch my little brother, so Mom could leave the kitchen and canvass the neighborhood, making sure all her friends had voted.
Forgive my lack of outrage at Kasichâs comment, but my Mom was one of those who âleft the kitchenâ to work for Democrats in the '60âs and '70âs, balancing her care for a Down syndrome child with her passion for social justice.
When you discuss this issue, please take care not to degrade my Mom or other women who actually did leave the kitchen to take part in politics. For some it was a choice - to raise their children to honorable adulthood. For others, societal factors and economics left them no choice. But do not look down on stay-at-home Moms.
He just has real bad timing, donât run over to your State and defund Planned Parenthood then jump back on the campaign trail and refer that way to women, that is packing a whopper and calling out females, wait until Gloria Steinem hears about it on she gets done cleaning the kitchen.
Their credo since 2006.
We canât see todayâs occurrences as a new normal.
It wonât be normal again until the (R) party isâ deadburiedexhumedshotstabbedtorturedreburiedandentombedinsolidcured-amber.
Please understand that my outrage about Kasich doesnât put your motherâŚor mine down. (I am a 67 year-old woman, and my mother stayed home with us as well. No special needs amongst us, but four kids; without a doubt your mother had it worse â there was simply no support at that time).
I was fortunate to be able to stay home with my three children until the younger twins were 17. Not many women my age could do that.
Two big things happened economically since your mother and mine brought up their families:
1- You alluded to: because salaries havenât risen in any realistic way in the past 50 years, double income has become a necessity to make ends meet. So these women who âleft the kitchenâ to support Kasich, did so after they had also likely put in a long day at work, cooked dinner, and then probably did some laundry as well.
2- Credit cards: that is the way that lower and lower middle-class families afford things that they CANâT AFFORD! Buying a TV, computers, video games, clothing, phones, etc, etc etc, and just letting the balances add up with NO WAY of getting ahead of that debt has become a (pathetic and unacceptable) way of coping with the need, desire, or social requirement of having âstuffâ that they actually canât afford.
So, please understand that the objections arenât against your mother; they are to the point that he is insinuating that women (and particularly wives and mothers) have the same security that your mother and mine had 50âyears ago.
They no longer do, and he is oblivious. That is the problem.
At least he left âbarefootâ out of that sentence.
The problem is less his use of âwomenâ and âkitchenâ in the same sentence, and more that he used these words in the same sentence on the same day he cut funding to Planned Parenthood. Even Trump acknowledges the âgoodâ that PP does.
âDesperate politicsâ is clear projection.
Kasich is hanging on to hopes of a Cuban Crisis and a Trump faceplant and has no faith in his own ability to win, just in being the last clown standing.
He has no backbone and this proves it.
He is also sorry that he is John Kasich and that he approves that message.
They were running to defend him, though. I got into it with a couple of them on twitter today. They were trying to defend it as if Kasichâs first election was in a by-gone era when women didnât work outside of the home.
So I tweeted, âHe is talking about an election in 1979, not 1949â. Somebody immediately sent me a link to some labor stats on women participation to âmake their pointâ
And yes, true to form, they looked at the pictures without reading the words. Women were 43% of the work force in 1980âŚ47% in 2012.
I swear, anymore its just too easy with these folkâŚits like they donât even try.
John Kasich is a sneaky far-right lunatic. Heâs too dishonest to admit that heâs as radical as either Cruz or Rubio. Instead, he either lies or refuses to comment on his actual positions. He is a very deceptive, manipulative weasel.
I would think that Kasichâs comment would have offended every woman in America â unfortunately, Republican women often donât have enough self-esteem to be offended.
âMy comment was taken so out of context Iâm on my knees right now begging for your forgiveness.â The context, Mr. Kasich, is that you are a RW asshole who is no different than Rubio or Cruz or Trump or Carson. As Samantha Bee gloriously and superbly showed last night, you can only be perceived as a moderate if you are compared to someone like Idi Amin. She filleted your balls on TBS last night, and showed that you have a helluva lot more to apologize for than any âkitchenâ remark.
2006, my ass. Theyâve been pulling this shit since before the end of WWII. Teabaggers have been the base of the Republican Party for decades. Itâs just the name thatâs different - the base has always been the same.
Wait, is that the face of Jesus or Elvis or the Virgin Mary or Breitbart on that piece of toast? Iâm not a Tea Party member so itâs rather hard for me to tell, since I am not delusional.
Itâs like Portman in Ohio, who tearfully opines about how much he looooooooooves his gay son, and then supports every insane Teabagger anti-gay motherfucker the Republican Party throws in front of him.
Yeah, they just love, love, love their gay kids. But, of course, everyone elseâs can either go to hell or take gay conversion therapy because, you know, JEBUS!
