Here we go in Missouri again.
Who can outdo Todd Akin/Michelle Bachman/Phyllis Schlafly/Sarah Palin for senseless inane simply stupid remarks?
But this time, it’s a 2016 GOP candidate for Governor who is also the former Missouri Speaker of the House and a former U. S. Attorney General. Not exactly someone NOT educated but a woman who is riling up her supposed base of “women-haters”. This from a woman who works outside of her home and leaves her children exposed to the ways of the world. Even Salon noticed.
We know Catherine Hanaway and her ways well. An educated accomplished working woman dissing women just like her as downright evil.
Good try Catherine. You lose.
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Editorial: Catherine Hanaway channels her inner Todd Akin. How sad.
St. Louis Post Dispatch Editorial – February 5, 2015
Perhaps the most famous moment in the history of national vice presidential debates came in 1988, at the Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Neb. Republican candidate Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana had compared his career arc to that of John F. Kennedy before the Democratic scion had become president. Mr. Quayle’s Democratic opponent, Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, pounced with this memorable line:
“Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
Let us consider how that applies to remarks made recently by Catherine Hanaway of Ladue, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Missouri governor in 2016. Last Saturday in St. Louis, at a conservative political conference jam-packed with invective-spewing speakers like Phyllis Schlafly and blogger Jim Hoft, Ms. Hanaway made several outrageous comments about women, liberals and child pornography that bring to mind former U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comments in August 2012.
Ms. Hanaway, the first female speaker of the Missouri House and a former U.S. attorney, said that the so-called liberal “culture of sexual permissiveness” leads directly to the belief that “everything is OK” including, she said, child pornography. To borrow some of her words, if you “pursue the course” of her logic in the rest of her speech, Ms. Hanaway demeaned working women, single mothers, people on welfare, and gays and lesbians.
Like Mr. Akin, she also got some facts wrong: The “record” number of out-of-wedlock births she decried actually have been going down for several years. Most scientists blame the recession, not any particular political philosophy.
Her comments included this Victorian gem: “If you pursue this course that sexual permissiveness is to be valued, which is the liberal framework, and that you should protect sexual permissiveness through abortions and other things, you lead to a conclusion where every sexual preference is acceptable. Now, I still think and pray that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that those who have a sexual preference for children are evil.”
We don’t know who Ms. Hanaway hangs out with these days, but we’re quite confident the overwhelming majority of Americans — regardless of political affiliation — find “a sexual preference for children” to be evil. To even try to imply otherwise is the lowest form of political opportunism.
She thus staked a claim on the Akin vote in her primary race against state Auditor Tom Schweich.
Well, Ms. Hanaway, we know Todd Akin. We even endorsed him a couple of times. Ms. Hanaway, you’re no Todd Akin.
See, Mr. Akin was a very special kind of cray-cray: He believed every word that came out of his mouth. To this day, he believes that the female body has a way to “shut it down” if a “legitimate” rapist tried to impregnate her.
Ms. Hanaway, on the other hand, is pretending.
Someday, should she lose to Mr. Schweich or Democrat Chris Koster or whomever, she’ll go back to her lucrative law career. She will find herself in a conference room with her fellow attorneys at Husch Blackwell, a firm with high national ratings for diversity. About 45 percent of its attorneys are women. We’d wager that at least a few of the firm’s attorneys are gay.
Here’s what we guarantee: In speaking to her colleagues, she won’t regurgitate the self-loathing, anti-woman, anti-intellectual garbage she spewed last weekend to try to pander to the sliver of Republican voters who she thinks can help her win a primary.
She wouldn’t disrespect her partners who are gay, or single moms or — God forbid — liberal. She knows damn well that every single one of them (unless there’s a criminal in their midst) despises child pornography.
The Catherine Hanaway we have known throughout her political and professional career is better than that. That she thinks she has to demean herself in order to win a primary says a lot about what she thinks of Republican voters.
It says even more about her own values.
Frankly, Ms. Hanaway, you’re worse than Todd Akin.
At least he was sincere.
The Whole Editorial HERE.