How to prove that you're not a sexist patriarchal asshole....

[MelissaB]

Tell everyone that your wife didn't actually mean what she said because it's the opposite of what you said.

[h3]Rick Perry walks back wife’s abortion remark[/h3]
By KATIE GLUECK | 10/1/13 4:38 PM EDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday appeared to walk back a remark by his wife recently that abortion is “a women’s right”, according to a new report.

“From time to time we’ll stick the wrong word in the wrong place, and you pounce upon it,” the staunchly anti-abortion rights Republican governor told reporters in New Jersey, Bloomberg News reported.

Texas first lady Anita Perry said on Saturday that abortion “could be a women’s right, just like it’s a man’s right if he wants to have some kind of procedure. But I don’t agree with it, and that’s not my view.”

Perry’s comments came at a campaign event with GOP Senate hopeful Steve Lonegan, who is squaring off for the New Jersey Senate seat with Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the Democratic candidate and expected winner of the Oct. 16 special election.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/rick-perry-anita-perry-abortion-remark-97672.html#ixzz2gVk9HsKh

[seabeyond]

1. didnt the same happen with bush and his wife. wasnt laura pro choice? nt

[MelissaB]

2. I think it did.

I'm not sure if he was still president, though.

[seabeyond]

7. i seem to remember he had to do a bit of backtracking and scrambling. and i kinda feel like she

cowarded out and pulled back a bit.

[fitman]

3. Many mainstream conservatives and republicans

politicians/celebrities/radio host are pro choice and for gay marriage except they know their constituents would skewer them alive if they found out...

There are many conservative women with websites etc who claim to be anti gay/prochoice but in fact they are the opposite in real life..it is a job for them away to make money..a living...to be faux conservative

[Warpy]

5. That's exactly why abortion isn't illegal

They held all 3 branches of government for a full six years. If they had been seriously antichoice, they could have shut down every abortion clinic in the country and the USSC would have upheld it.

But they're not antichoice, they're just pandering to crazy people.

[fitman]

6. My wife

has a female friend who operates a conservative prepper/political type website-makes money from sales/ads etc..she is liberal in real life but conservatives have the money and give it to her..she said if they only knew.

[tanyev]

4. Aw, c'mon. The little lady just didn't understand what she was saying.

*pats on the head*

[Rex]

8. Does His Royal Idiocy mean 'the right word in the wrong place'?