Perry refuses to apologize for his consultant’s remark that Hutchison is making the GOP into a ‘whorehouse.’
Perry refuses to apologize for his consultant’s remark that Hutchison is making the GOP into a ‘whorehouse.’
On Saturday, the Dallas Morning News published an article about the battle between Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry for the Republican spot in the Texas gubernatorial election. In the article, a political consultant to Perry said that Hutchison is making the GOP into a “whorehouse“:
Hutchison supports embryonic stem cell research and abortion rights, though she backs restrictions on abortion such as a ban on federal funding for organizations that perform abortion and a ban on late-term procedures.
Perry political consultant Dave Carney said the Republican governor agrees the party should welcome new voters.
“But that doesn’t mean you take your principles and throw them out the door and become a whorehouse and let anybody in who wants to come in, regardless,” Carney said.
A group of GOP women are now calling on Perry to apologize for Carney’s remark, saying that it is “disheartening when we see people resort to behavior aimed at belittling women.” Perry’s spokesperson simply replied to the Houston Chronicle that Carney “does not speak for the Governor.”
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Perry political consultant Dave Carney said, “The Republican governor agrees the party should welcome new voters, as long as they agree on every issue with the 20% of people who remain in the Republican party.”
May 20th, 2009 at 11:29 amSo women GOPers are offended about being belittled? HELLO! The Repug Party always belittles women. The old rich white dude network is still pissed off women have the right to vote.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:29 amPerry, he’s your mouthpiece…man up & accept some responsibility.
Is Senator Hutchinson really the ‘best ‘lil one in Texas’?
Nah, that would be the Governor’s Mansion!
May 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am“But that doesn’t mean you take your principles and throw them out the door and become a whorehouse and let anybody in who wants to come in, regardless,” Carney said.
Uhhhh…wonder why the GOP tent is shrinking? Keep the ridiculous comments coming geniuses. Seems like people are trying to get away rather than come into your little tent.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:31 amShe may be a whorehouse but she’s the best little whorehouse in Texas.
PEACE
May 20th, 2009 at 11:32 amTexas needs a Democratic governor. You had Richards once, that’s good leadership for Texas.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:32 amThis is a bit misleading. The consultant said he didn’t want THE REPUBLICAN PARTY to be a whorehouse.
Of course, the only response to that is – too late. Your party already screwed the American public and got paid for it.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:36 amA group of GOP women are now calling on Perry to apologize for Carney’s remark, saying that it is “disheartening when we see people resort to behavior aimed at belittling women.”
Here is a good resource for GOP women.
http://www.abusedwomen.org/
May 20th, 2009 at 11:36 amLook, freedom of speech is one thing, but freedom to supply idiotic metaphors–that only puts your foot directly into your mouth.
GOP Logic. It’s as easy as AB3.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:37 amTexas is still worrying about governors? I thought they’d be holding presidential primaries for their new country.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:41 amHistory shows us that you can’t. But if you’re unhappy with the content at TP feel free to leave.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:42 amGOP reminds me of that plane crash in the Andes
May 20th, 2009 at 11:45 amSo, when Kay Bailey Hutchison was in Congress prostituting herself to Big Oil, her fellow Republicans thought she was the cat’s meow. Now that she has come out in favor of life saving medical technology, they immediately turn on her and call her a whorehouse.
I’m not going to miss the GOP at all, when they finally fade away into oblivion.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:45 amClayton Williams stumbled badly with sexist talk. It benefited Ann Richards.
Rick Perry could study history, but ignorance abounds.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:49 amHey, they’re the REPUBLIC FASCIST PARTY and they’re probably working on plans for their own Final Solution at this very moment. They’re all about ideology purity, and women, blacks, gays and Jews be damned!
May 20th, 2009 at 11:50 amMore GOP infighting.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:50 amPopcorn time again.
CFP, there you go. TP fixed the headline to be more accurate. Now, about those misleading whole stories on FOX… Never mind, they aren’t interested in fair, balanced, or truth.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:58 amConservativeForProgress Says:
This above story is highly misleading. Neither the governor nor his consultant called Sen. Hutchison a “whorehouse.”
May 20th, 2009 at 11:38 am
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You’re right. He didn’t call her a whorehouse. He called her a whore. That’s so much better.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:58 amI think there are any number of metaphors that could be used to describe an entity where all are welcome, regardless of how unqualified or ill-fitting they might be (community colleges, Amway distributorships, Delta House, etc.). So why use “whorehouse”?
Two reasons:
1. The word is loaded enough to get attention, and
2. Using that term in ANY context about a woman will put that woman in a negative light.
This was a deliberate act on Carney’s part. Conflate Hutchison with prostitution without actually making that accusation.
Ironically, the term “whorehouse” isn’t really a good fit for a “letting everybody and everything in” concept. Because brothels are illegal everywhere in the country except Nevada, they’re actually kind of picky about who they let in — kind of like speakeasies during prohibition.
And Perry’s claim that Carney wasn’t speaking for him is pure BS. If his mouthpiece wasn’t speaking for him, who was he speaking for? Does he think Texans are that stupid? Oh, wait…
May 20th, 2009 at 12:04 pmCFP can’t debate honestly or otherwise.
Throwing out Rush’s latest talking points is not debate.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:05 pmPerry’s right, ya know…
It’s SOOOOOOO much better for the GOOP to become a complete three-ring circus w/ skin-heads, separatists, and “armed militias” in the cheap seats, and Michael Steele as the Ringmaster…
And now, presenting Rinkyding Bros. and Bunkum & Failing
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!!!!!
Oh goody!!! Here comes the Clown Car!!!!!!!
May 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pmMisleading? Perhaps. I do take debate at the wording.
However, Carney made this metaphor to grab attention with a bad image. Whether he’s associating the “whorehouse” image to Hutchinson or not, the point is that Carney is associating the “whorehouse” mentality at every party other than the GOP.
This has turned into an indirect jab at the Democratic Party. If you bring up the metaphor, you need to live with the imagery.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:10 pmTRoHS, the GOOP Clown Car is my favorite. I was disappointed to hear they may have to replace it with a Clown RV in order to fit their expanded roster of clowns.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pmThe reason Dave Carney does not speak for the Governor is because he is a political consultant. He represents the brains, not the mouth.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:13 pmmisscoleopteramolly Says:
Ironically, the term “whorehouse” isn’t really a good fit for a “letting everybody and everything in” concept. Because brothels are illegal everywhere in the country except Nevada, they’re actually kind of picky about who they let in — kind of like speakeasies during prohibition.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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Though, to be fair, that does make the term’s use as a metaphor for the Republican Party much more appropriate.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pmHey CFP, what’s next? are you going to trot out the “You libs don’t care about the dying troops, instead you focus on this trivial crap” line? Don’t stop being a bottom feeding rethug just because you got called on it.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
TRoHS, the GOOP Clown Car is my favorite. I was disappointed to hear they may have to replace it with a Clown RV in order to fit their expanded roster of clowns.
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Clown Greyhound bus?
Ever see any footage of the St Stoopid’s Day parade in SF?
When they have the Precision Lawn Chair Team marching?
May 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pmBlack, Hispanic, Gay, Women Republicans= Stockholm Syndrome.
These are your Grandfathers, Fathers, Husbands, Brothers, Uncles, Sons. You have lived with these idiots forever and stood there when they made statements like these towards other groups, and only now when its YOU that is the target you want an apology. Lie down with dogs……………you know the rest.
RIP
May 20th, 2009 at 12:31 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Perry is just mad because he has a worthy challenger in “best hair” category of the primary beauty pageant.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pmWhat’s up with Republican women anyway?
May 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pmOkay, a new filter.
figgered
May 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pmOkay, you cant say pedalfile
May 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pmHe is guilty of voicing what the republiscum think of women anyway — they can hardly accuse him of anything more than stating their own opinion.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:41 pmRepubliscum have always “defended” and “protected” the little ladies – patted them on the heads and said just don’t worry, go cook dinner, iron my shirt and wait for me in bed.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pmUnder the transparent guise of their so called “respect” for women, they actually work tirelessly to keep women down at home and in the workplace.
Perry is counting on Texas secession from the Union,so he can start his own dictatorship in Texas.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pmSomething not even the Mafia believes in…!!
Heh. Perry Does NOT want to tick off the women who vote in Texas. He should remember Clayton Williams and Ann Richards (RIP) in the 90’s. It was not pretty. When Texas women get their back up, then all hell’s gonna break loose.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pmYou stay classy now, Gov. Perry, ya here?
Shouldn’t she be home bakin’, cleanin’, and stuff, anyway?
I hope he gets his succeeding @ss Kicked!
May 20th, 2009 at 2:02 pmThanks, Conservative for Progress. We are not capable of reading the story and understanding that. We are like “ditto heads” that way.
Two important things to remember:
1. TP does not bill itself as a “fair and balanced” news organization. Note the “P” for Progress, as in Progressive.
2. TP does not bill itself as a news organization. We know that coming in without even your help.
Thanks anyway, (anal much)
May 20th, 2009 at 2:10 pmHappy with TP Leftie
I really wish I could hear what Molly Ivins would say about all this.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:21 pmPerry, Dewhurst see pet projects trimmed by Republican budget negotiators
AUSTIN – Lawmakers are whacking many of Gov. Rick Perry’s priorities in the budget. And they haven’t quite turned cartwheels for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, either.
In a two-year spending blueprint that House and Senate budget negotiators are close to finishing, many Perry priorities such as the deal-closing Texas Enterprise Fund and a border security effort with South Texas sheriffs are being cut.
The Republican governor’s casualty list is long. A Dallas Morning News accounting shows he’s getting only about $690 million of the $1.73 billion he requested for nine key items.
LINK
What a blowhard, fake secessionist, weaselly POS.
(As if you didn’t already know that.)
May 20th, 2009 at 2:32 pmAs I happen to vote in Texas, the GOP race for governor seems to have begun. I suppose all the “good ol boys” may chuckle at this little piece of “tx humor”, but they are in the minority. If Perry had a brain, he would…oh nevermind, he’s too busy trying to backstep out of the cowpie of secession to worry about KBH.
Anyone notice that she has been very low profile in DC for most of this year…and she’s not talking to Cornyn, which makes her more worthy that Perry on any day.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:42 pmMisogynistic slurs to attack a woman opponent? And a member of your own party, too. Any minute now they’ll say Obama is out of his “cotton-picking” mind.
Seriously, though, we need to take a strong stand against all forms of bigotry, including misogyny. Randi Rhodes went after Hillary Clinton and Gerri Ferraro using the same damn slur and I don’t believe much of the so-called left condemned her use of bigotry.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:07 pmHopefully, women will remember this– that Perry doesn’t give a S**t about you.
May 20th, 2009 at 6:58 pm