You know what’s hilarious? Talking about your “hot wife” at a campaign rally, and when asked where your wife is, claiming that she’s “at home doing the laundry.”
And by “hilarious,” I mean really fucking stupid:
Last year Kasich defended his very low number of female cabinet appointments by talking about his family life, claiming he makes all the big decisions in his family and his “wife makes all the minor decisions”.
We later revealed that Kasich pays his male staffers 56% more than his female staffers and, more recently, only one of the nine members appointed by Kasich to the board of JobsOhio—the private corporation responsible for awarding incentives to Ohio businesses— is a women.
So when Romney and Ryan invited Kasich to speak – without any prepared remarks – at their rally near Cincinnati today, could they really be surprised when he let loose another crazy comment?
In this little clip from the speech, Kasich talks about his (“hot“) wife, and the wives of Romney and Ryan, and the reasons they couldn’t be at the event today:
“They’re at home doing the laundry” and “at home taking care of the kids.”
The statement that Kasich pays his female staffers less than his male staffers is entirely unhelpful without information about the positions the staffers held. The nitwits on the right have been crying neener! and pointing out that various Democrats don’t pay their female staffers as much as they pay their male staffers. (I wrote about that here.) Of course, if the employment positions are not the same — and the aforementioned nitwits do not make an effort to determine such — then such a claim is useless. To PlunderBund‘s credit, however, in determining the pay disparity among Kasich’s male and female staffers, PlunderBund did some calculations and math and whatnot and it all looks scientific, but math and I don’t mix, so I’m moving on to the crux of this post, which is — WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, JOHN KASICH?
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khead
I’m currently helping my wife with the laundry.
I guess I will never be POTUS.
gnomedad
Why do you democ-rats hate moms? I’ll bet Obummer is one of them laundry-doin’ “sensitive men”, also, too.
jl
Maybe its just me, but I have a hard time believing that a governor’s wife does much actual ‘doing the laundry’. Unless talking with the personal staff about how she wants it done counts as ‘doing the laundry’.
I want a video of Kasich’s wife doing average weekly laundry, or I don’t believe it.
Geeno
Wow, ABL, that’s a loaded question.
Disco
I think maybe the message was acceptable. The way he said it flat wrong.
Disco
I think maybe the message was acceptable. The way he said it flat wrong.
Disco
I think maybe the message was acceptable. The way he said it flat wrong.
jl
Sorry for double post. Might be my fault, since I did click on something to get my whole damn monitor screen unfroze after I submitted the comment. But it wasn’t the submit button again.
Disco
I think maybe the message was acceptable. The way he said it was probably flat wrong.
Chris
Kinder, Küche, Kirche!
Kinder, Küche, Kirche!
White men! White women! The swastika is calling you! The ancient symbol of your race, since the beginning of time! The
JewMuslim is using theBlackMexican as muscle against you. And you are left there helpless. Well what are you going to about it, Whitey? Just sit there? Of course not! You’re going to join us! The American National Socialist White People’s Party! An organization of decent, law-abiding white folk, just like you!throwin stones
As to your last question – plenty!
throwin stones
As to your last question – plenty!
Disco
Horseshit web server :p
RedKitten
Idiot. It’s nice for a politician to acknowledge that his or her spouse is doing the lion’s share of the work at home while said politician is campaigning. And maybe that’s what he thought he was doing. But man…the way he phrased it was just BRUTAL.
Chris
@RedKitten:
Not as disgusting as when you hear similar stuff from Republican women bragging about the fact that they know their place, which really does happen.
beltane
Does Mrs. Kasich have to tie her laundry into a bundle, balance it on her head and walk down to the river to scrub her husband’s underwear on a rock?
RedKitten
@Chris: Ugh. Seriously.
Don’t get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for stay-at-home-parents. It’s a tough job. I couldn’t do it.
But these people who yammer on about how being a SAHM is Woman’s One True Role(tm)?
Fuck them. Seriously.
mainmati
@khead: Yeah. I guess everybody I know is an “imasculated” male because we share laundry, cooking (which I love), child soccer, etc., etc, duties and am also assigned my guy (construction/repair) duties by the wife.
We also live next door to a military family who are reliably and conventional Republicans (i.e. not Tea Partiers) and they also parcel out the family duties in a similar fashion. Maybe, part of it has to do with Rethug politicians who may just have slavish spouses OR maybe they’re just lyin’. My guess is the latter.
Villago Delenda Est
That’s what he thinks they’re doing.
Actually, they’re entertaining the pool boy, in the San Fernando MILF fashion.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Fox News Personality John Kasich (self styled King John of OH)is almost as big of a dickweed as Romney. He should be run out of the state on a rail.
In other OH news,following the first full day of sales, Obama leads by 12 points in the Buskens cookie poll, 56% to 44%. That’s tough to do in the redder than a rose SW Ohio region. And I haven’t voted my cookie yet.
Emma
Bless his heart. He better have his poison-taster check everything she puts in front of him…
Mike in NC
What an asshole. But we already knew that.
Roger Moore
@mainmati:
I assume that some of it is aspirational. Not every man who shares the chores with his working wife does that by choice. A lot of them pine for the Ozzie and Harriet ideal and look up to men like Mitt who managed to live it. More women than you might expect are nostalgic for that lifestyle, too.
Citizen Alan
@jl:
This! It’s not just that he’s a misogynistic neanderthal. It’s that he has to pretend to be an even bigger misogynistic neanderthal than he actually is in order to appeal to the ultra-misogynistic hyper-neanderthals who make up the GOP base. I do not for one second believe that John Kasich’s wife has done a single batch of laundry since they moved into the governor’s mansion. I’ll be surprised if she’s not really a lot like Mark Sanford’s wife, Jenny Sanford, who told Jon Stewart (to his absolute mortification — go look up the clip, her lack of self-awareness is simultaneously chilling and hilarious) that the worst thing about leaving the governor’s mansion was not having a fleet of “trusties,” prison inmates who worked as unpaid servants in the governor’s mansion, to attend to her every need.
JenJen
Purely anecdotal, but here in Cincinnati I’ve noticed a sudden abundance of Gary Johnson signs.
I think my neighbors are looking for an out.
OH! IO!
Omnes Omnibus
@khead: When I was married I always did the laundry; my ex would just jam everything into the machine and hope for the best. In her view, if something cashmere got ruined, it could be replaced. OTOH she did all the folding afterwards because I suck at it.
Chris
@Citizen Alan:
They’re all acting out a fantasy world. Most of the neanderthals probably can’t say the same either, but it’s how they think the world should run, so they’re all going to go on pretending they believe the guy.
(Much like they all pretend to be rugged individualists who “built that” even though none of them are or did).
Narcissus
As Pat Robertson said, he could just go to Saudi Arabia, beat her, and then come back.
Problem solved.
eemom
When my daughter was about 8 we were watching teevee and an image of a woman ironing came on the screen.
“I thought only men did that,” she remarked.
Nuff said.
Hmmmm......
Did Kasich really say he has a “hot” wife? In certain parts of underground culture, that has a VERY specific meaning.
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus:
Always works for me.
What?
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: So skill and technique never come into play?
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: Are we still talking about laundry?
OTOH, I don’t own any cashmere – all cotton and blends, so my strategery might need to shift if I ever stumble upon something in one of those “other” fabrics.
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts:
I had moved on to rock climbing.
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: In that case, my skill and technique would only be evident were I ever to actually climb a rock. But I imagine I could knock out 40 fourteeners in a coupla days.
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: Paul?
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: No, I can do math.
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: You might be lying.
Ash Can
If M-80 talked about me like this he’d be picking his teeth out of the chandelier.
columbusqueen
Funny how the women-hating of a closeted gay man just comes bubbling up when he can’t help it. . .
mdblanche
@Chris:
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I’d like to see a transcript to see if Kasich at some point referred to his wife as “the little woman”.
Jay in Oregon
So who will be the first Tea Partying asshole to start telling jokes about what you say to a woman with two black eyes?
I’m seriously beginning to wonder.
Allan
Yes, they’re doing the laundry, all right.
virgini
Kasich has always been an ass. Where’s The Great Cornholio when you need him? Would love to see him yank the mike from Mr. Mighty Man and proclaim his all consuming need for TP.
The part that gets me chuckling is the notion that it’s oh so hard, yeah right, to be the “spouse” of an elected official. Cry me a river. A fine and mighty river of tears with which to tackle what I’m sure is a boatload of pretty dirty Kasich laundry.
Use of the word “spouse” = super tacky to begin with. These are some of the same folks who insist on saying “passed away.” Underneath all the BS steely grit they insist on projecting, guys like this one are soft as butter.