House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Mike Huckabee’s head-scratching remark about women and their libidos would have been a retrograde sentiment even a century ago.
One of Capitol Hill’s most outspoken supporters of women’s reproductive rights, Pelosi used Twitter on Thursday to zing the former Arkansas governor.
Even 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine a man making a statement as ridiculous as what Mr. Huckabee said today.
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) January 23, 2014
Huckabee made his bizarre comment Thursday at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting.
“If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government then so be it! Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be,” he said.
