Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich defended a comment he made about preventing sexual assault by avoiding parties where alcohol is involved Sunday in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Kasich gave the self-described advice during a town hall in New York last week after a freshman female student asked him how he would make her feel safer regarding sexual assault. His campaign later clarified his position.
“I mean, my daughters are sometime going to go to college, and they’re going to go to parties where there’s alcohol. It’s just you have to be careful,” Kasich said. “My only comment on it, you know, it gets to be when alcohol’s involved, it becomes more difficult for justice to be rendered for a whole variety of reasons. But we can still find a perpetrator.”
Kasich said he didn’t understand how someone could view his comment as victim blaming and talked about his record in Ohio addressing sexual assault.
“I don’t care if they’re at a party with alcohol. Just be careful. That’s what I would tell my daughters, be careful,” Kasich said. “But are you kidding me? Somebody gets sexually assaulted? Of course we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”
Problem is so many rapists and even jurors think the act of raping a drunk and incapacitated woman is not as bad as raping a sober one because they focus on the victim as if she was at least partly responsible for the rape.
I have no problem if Kasich told his daughters that drinking to excess impairs judgment and renders one more vulnerable to sexual predators. But he did not say this.
Governor is about the highest office this man should ever attain. I would never want to see this man in the oval office
He’s already ascended far, far to high.
She asked what he would do about sexual assault, and his answer was to be careful because he was not going to do anything.
“I don’t care if they’re at a party with alcohol. Just
be careful.don’t rape. That’s what I would tell mydaughterssons, if I had sons,be carefuldon’t rape,” Kasich saidFixed it for you, John.