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Thereās not much that you can say that canāt be edited into something that will hurt you. In Kasichās case, someone has done us all a favor.
As someone who just signed a bill that hurts women, he really shouldnāt be talking about them at all.
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It is true his district at that time had a lot of stay at home moms. My mother was one of the few that worked outside the home.
But donāt vote for the SOB
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Shorter Kasich - When I got into politics, middle class families could get by on one income. After a career going after wasteful spending and writing budgets, now everyone is working two jobs. Youāre welcome.
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They can come out of their kitchens to vote for him as long as they donāt come out of their kitchens for birth control, reproductive healthcare, or an abortion.
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The middle class and upper middle class suburban women who āhit the streetsā for him go to the doctor, not PP for their healthcare.
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The part about āwomen left their kitchens and went outā¦ā is superfluous and basically not relevant to the point heās trying to make. Heād have been much better off omitting that. But a part of me wonders if that isnāt his mindset, based on other things heās said on the campaign trail. I suspect his mind is still in the 1950ās.
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Still sounds a bit awkward, as saying āin the kitchenā as a substitute for being a homemaker is itself a bit antiquated. Yes, heās referring to a time when being a homemaker was more common, but there are still stay at home moms, and if they volunteered for him and he thanked them for coming out of the kitchen, it wouldnāt be received particularly well. Not horribly offensive, just a little awkward.
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If the governors office was not in downtown Columbus he would stay in with all his exurban friends and never see the city at all.
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Iām sure that there are very, very few political issues on which Kasich and I would agree, but heās the last vestige of a decent conservatism left in the Republican Party. Sad, really.
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Are they all bare foot and pregnant too?
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As a Democrat interested in seeing our Party succeed in 2016, I am thrilled that the Repulsive Party is too stupid to see that the only competitive candidate that they have is Kasich.
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Even back then, it took a particular class of stay-at-home wife to be able to drop all the other things she was doing and go out and be an unpaid campaign worker for a few months.
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Is he saying his comment would have been less offensive in 1978? Umā¦ no.
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Gee I wonder why people would think he doesnāt see the value in women? Could it be the 18 anti-women bills he signed as Governor and the usual condescending tone he takes when speaking to and about women??
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The unedited remark is almost as bad. I mean way, way, way back in the ancient times ofā¦1978.
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Obviously not. But if you told me that a Republican was going to be elected President in 2016, he would be my choice out of those left, no doubt.
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Yeah, but Kasich still signed the large cuts to Planned Parenthood of Ohio funding. Heās a pig.
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Heās really not. He just plays it on TV. Kasich is dangerous because he convinces people that he is a ādecentā conservative. He isnāt as up front about it as others but he isnāt that different.
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Now that Kasich has slashed Planned Parenthood, womenās health and abortions will be in the kitchen.
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