National Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not Have The Right To Vote
National Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not Have The Right To Vote
John Derbyshire, a British-American conservative author and columnist for the National Review, has written a new book titled We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism. The book contains a section called “The Case Against Female Suffrage.” Yesterday on his radio show, Alan Colmes asked Derbyshire to articulate his argument.
“What is the case against female suffrage?” Colmes asked. “The conservative case against it is that women lean hard to the left,” Derbyshire responded nonsensically. “They want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it — and in the present days, they’re not much — then they’d like the state to do it for them.”
Colmes then pressed Derbyshire on whether women should have the right to vote. “Ah…” Derbyshire sighed, attempting to dodge the question initially. “I’m not putting forward a political program here,” he said. But then Derbyshire slowly began to open up:
DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I’ll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn’t lose a minute’s sleep.
COLMES: We’d be a better country if women didn’t vote?
DERBYSHIRE: Probably. Don’t you think so?
COLMES: No, I do not think so whatsoever.
DERBYSHIRE: Come on Alan. Come clean here [laughing].
COLMES: We would be a better country? John Derbyshire making the statement, we would be a better country if women did not vote.
DERBYSHIRE: Yeah, probably.
Derbyshire reasoned that we “got along like that for 130 years.” Colmes countered by asking if he also wants to bring back slavery. No, Derbyshire responded, “I’m in favor of freedom personally.” Colmes noted that freedom didn’t extend to women’s right to vote, however. Derbyshire said, “Well, they didn’t and we got along ok.” Listen here:
Later in the interview, Derbyshire said there’s also a case to be made for repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act because you “shouldn’t try to force people to be good.”
If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
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The women of this forum will just love this guy….. snark.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:48 pmHow the hell did you find someone to make Palin look intelligent and modernistic?
September 30th, 2009 at 12:48 pmIt is always nice when these people come right out and admit they are idiots.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:48 pmNational Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not The Have The Right To Vote
– - Oh, and they can’t run for office either. Sarah Palin wants a word with you, John.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:49 pmShorter GOP: “The only things keeping us from winning elections are those damn voters!”
September 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pmOh please run on this republicans… please, oh please?
September 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pmthis guy is never getting laid…
September 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pmSo mAnn and barbie and fillus will go along with this?
September 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pmHey Democrats — here’s your first gift to be used as a campaign ad in 2010. Play this audio in every single television and radio spot and pin it squarely on conservative Republicans and I guarantee you will pick up seats instead of losing them. Alan Grayson just showed you all how it’s done — give them a does of their own rhetoric and watch them squeal like stuck pigs.
Just saying…
September 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pmDear self-loathing males and females of the Republican party:
There’s a tall building with roof access in your nearest downtown.
GO THERE NOW.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:52 pmHoly Hell! I couldn’t even listen to it for more than a minute. How do they let these people get air-time? Add another name to the list of people who make me want to create a law criminalizing stupidity. At least this brand of stupidity anyways, common garden-variety stupid is usually just amusing.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:53 pmkrazeeinjun says:……….. Like your name as I’m one also.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:53 pm“The conservative case against it is that women lean hard to the left,” Derbyshire responded nonsensically. “They want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it — and in the present days, they’re not much — then they’d like the state to do it for them.”
In Derbyshire’s world, women are not quite human.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Wow.
(shaking my head)
Just, wow.
Must be all those decades of never “getting some” has finally destroyed any remaining part of his brain which would be considered viable.
Wow.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:56 pmThis guy is known for making utterly inane statements with incredible smugness.
Re: the VA Tech Shootings –
Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn’t anyone rush the guy? It’s not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness’ sake—one of them reportedly a .22. At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him. Handguns aren’t very accurate, even at close range. I shoot mine all the time at the range, and I still can’t hit squat. I doubt this guy was any better than I am. And even if hit, a .22 needs to find something important to do real damage—your chances aren’t bad.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:56 pmPS
Most people think about what they say before they say it.
idiot.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmIt is such a stretch than a tighty whitey righty would not only be racist, but mysoginistic too? These neanderthals oughta show up at these interviews with a loin cloth and a club. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say he’s probably not the only republic that feels this way.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmJohn Derbyshire? What kind of name is that? Take your glasses off wuss so I can slap you upside the head.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pm…I’m left speechless…almost.
What the HELL is wrong with these sick pervos? A better idea is to take away their right to vote.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmJust when you think the radical right wing can’t sink any lower, they find a new way to hit the dregs. Boggles the logical mind.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmPolitically Superior says:
September 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
You don’t know the first thing about women.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pm***
#14,
good meth?
:|
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmHey, if you add up the years that Politically Inferior and Derbyshire have spent not getting laid, you probably would be in triple digits!
September 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmWas that picture taken just after someone asked Johnny if he knows the difference between “suffrage” and “suffering”?
September 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pmBummer! I saw his pic and I was like, “he’s so totally hot and stuff, I wonder if he would be my boyfriend.” Then, like, I saw what he said and I chipped my nail and I was like, oh no! I’m so sad now, I better go eat some ice cream and watch a rom com.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pmExit Stage Left,
I think you could walk a mile on that limb and not see the end of it.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pm#13, in Derbyshire’s world, women lose sexual desirability once they’ve hit puberty.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pm***
“…women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.”
coulter’s describing herself.
**
September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pmPolitically Superior, yeah, you would rather have a leader that thinks thing out before acting, like bush. We know and understand your mental disability.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pmYou’ve got a point too. And with your head wedged so firmly up your rectum you’re likely to puncture something.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pmNext whacko will be saying giving women the vote wasn’t the worst idea. Teaching them how to talk was. That will really endear them to society.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pmSandoz76 says:
September 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I wish I could vote up your comment several times. :-D
September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pmMy crystal ball is forecasting the next wing-nut conservative to be caught soliciting sex in an airport men’s room will be . . .
Just come over to the pink side already, Derbyshire. You’ll like women a lot more if you don’t feel obligated to fake a sexual attraction to them
September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pmThis Derbyshire is a real piece of work. He would repeal women’s sufferage because they vote wrong in his mind. Too bad Colmes didn’t ask him about African-Americans or Hispanics because they surely vote wrong in his mind as well. So much for Democracy.
But he wasn’t satisfied to leave it there. He basically called women lazy. See for yourself.
I don’t see any other conclusion from “they’d like the state to do it for them”. Derbyshire makes Sarah Palin look downright normal in comparison and nobody will book Palin now because she is wo weird and far out. Good grief!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:00 pmwatertiger says:
#13, in Derbyshire’s world, women lose sexual desirability once they’ve hit puberty.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Excellent point.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:00 pmCouldn’t we just add up minutes spent getting laid and that way we’ll have the other hand free for typing.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:01 pmI the fantasy world of the radical right, only white males, 45 years old, with income of more than $100,000 income would be allowed to vote.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:01 pmPolitically Superior says: Most women, like liberals, vote on raw emotion. He’s got a point
YOU LIE!!
…Oh, sorry, I let my emotions get the best of me.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:01 pmwomen, another constituancy the gop has kicked to the curb.
Not much left now but it still seems to be shrinking.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pmJohn Derbyshire and “Politically Superior” say NO GIRLS ALLOWED IN OUR CLUBHOUSE! Girls are stupid!
That’s either pretty adolescent or pretty gay. Maybe both.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pmWell, I’m all for Sen. Blanche Lincoln not having the right to vote…against a public option.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pmCan we get a high school picture of this guy and see what his problem was?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pmIf Coulter doesn’t think women should vote, why was she so intent on voting she voted at the wrong place? And now the former CEO of eBay is apologizing for not voting previously. Hell, spin anything and everything to make yourself look good. Thank goodness it’s Palin leading the way for all these ice princesses.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:04 pm14.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:04 pmA Point?! This guy wants to upend one of the biggest civil rights victories in human history and you think he has a point?! You sir, are a failure in logical thinking, throw yourself off a building and quit contaminating the gene pool.
Politically superior: “Most women, like liberals, vote on raw emotion.”
Conservative christians, circa 2002: “I believe God wanted the right man to be president and that man was George Bush.”
September 30th, 2009 at 1:04 pmShayne says:
Couldn’t we just add up minutes spent getting laid and that way we’ll have the other hand free for typing.
Well heck, if you also include a partner, that should free up both hands!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pmThat pic of Derby looks straight from the pages of the FBI’s Sex Offender database.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pmIf that fop gets paid to think and say that,
then we should all be getting paid for showing up to mock him.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pmDerbyshire’s ‘opinion’ is meaningless and irrelevant . .
On a serious note, we can be sure this masygonist is in the CLOSET for every single vice or ‘perversion’ he espouses to be immoral!!
And betcha if he was asked to drop trou, he’d be wearing his wife’s panties . .
September 30th, 2009 at 1:06 pmUh, Rich H, that IS his high school picture.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:06 pmI think the reason Coulter thinks it is ok for women not to have the vote is …. “she” is a man.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:06 pmIs PS delivering more of his “junk political science”?
Poor, sad fool.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:06 pmPLC,
Hilarious – thank you!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:07 pmDon’t vote Politically Superior down, he said the funniest thing I have ever heard.
Women vote with raw emotion, huh?
What is:
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Those are facts, little boy.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:08 pm“What is the case against female suffrage?” Colmes asked. “The conservative case against it is that women lean hard to the left,” Derbyshire responded
umm… you could make the same case for denying the right of urbanites to vote. Or residents of coastal states. Or artists. Or African Americans.
You sure you want to go there, Derb?
What am I saying? Of course he does.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pmPIG much?
Well, maybe this guy should not be allowed to vote, it certainly seems to me that he does not have the mental capacity to make a rational decision.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pmWasn’t that pretty much the political landscape when the Constitution was adopted?
no wonder they think of themselves as “originalists”.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:10 pmRich H, what? Did I say something funny? It was inadvertent.
OK, no it wasn’t. One of the things I like about TP is the humor we generate. I especially enjoy what I call the “leap frog” jokes where we build one upon the other. Humor is often the most brutal truth.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:11 pmUSNclerk says:
14.
A Point?! This guy wants to upend one of the biggest civil rights victories in human history and you think he has a point?! You sir, are a failure in logical thinking, throw yourself off a building and quit contaminating the gene pool.
Is that your first troll smackdown here? You did quite well in my opinion but I think I’d have left off the “sir”.
:)
September 30th, 2009 at 1:12 pmLater in the interview, Derbyshire said there’s also a case to be made for repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act because you “shouldn’t try to force people to be good.”
Once again, this same argument could be made for repealing laws against fraud, theft, assault, murder… basically, pretty much everything except illegal immigrants getting health care. That one you’d want to keep on the books. Right, guys?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:13 pmDERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I’ll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn’t lose a minute’s sleep.
COLMES: We’d be a better country if women didn’t vote?
DERBYSHIRE: Probably. Don’t you think so?
COLMES: No, I do not think so whatsoever.
DERBYSHIRE: Come on Alan. Come clean here [laughing].
COLMES: We would be a better country? John Derbyshire making the statement, we would be a better country if women did not vote.
DERBYSHIRE: Yeah, probably.
A**HOLE!!!!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:13 pmPeople like this make me giggle. Great job on getting more women into the big tent. The reality of the situation is that the crazies like this fellow have self esteem issues and are afraid of women. The pubs are falling on the sword to appeal to the uneducated misogynist men and the women that are ok being thought of as less of a person.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:13 pmWiz says:
I think the reason Coulter thinks it is ok for women not to have the vote is …. “she” is a man.
That cross dressing thing has to be getting old.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:14 pmDerbyshire believes women shouldn’t vote because they lean Left.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:15 pmBy inference, he would not want minorities to vote because, they tend to vote Left as well. Meaning, anyone that doesn’t vote conservative should not be allowed to vote. Which of course, would mean that having an election at all would be unnecessary. That is the conservative version of democracy.
PatrioticLiberalChristian says:
Humor is often the most brutal truth.
Which is why republicans have no sense of humor.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:15 pmHoodathunk says: That cross dressing thing has to be getting old
This makes me wonder: perhaps John Derbyshire IS Ann Coulter. Until I see them together on stage, that’s what I’m going with.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:17 pmActually, We’d Probably Be A Better Country If Only Women Voted.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:17 pmAnn Coulter’s comment is very interesting. Why the surgery? It’s like converting to Judaism and then joining the Aryan Brotherhood.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:18 pmDerbyshire offers further proof that, at the heart of every position taken by self-proclaimed “conservatives”, there rests a kernel of “waa, somebody else might be getting something for free!”. In this case, it is the very ugly contention that single women want “the State to raise their children”.
Kind of upends the allegation of emotion ruling certain people’s thinking, doesn’t it?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:18 pmto mary lacewing:
September 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pmYes, it was indeed my first I believe. In hindsight, you’re right, I could have left it out. :)
Do you guys suppose that the editors of the National Review saw the hits their side was taking today, what with the “military is gonna take out the President” column from Newsmax and the “Palin is a blithering idiot” confirmation from the Washington Speakers Bureau, so they grabbed Derbyshire’s pale-blue Oxford shirt and said, “John, we need a diversion! Get out there and draw some fire!”
September 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pmI call on any woman who thinks that women shouldn’t have the right to vote, to set an example by not voting. Of course, Ann Coulter is such a hypocrite she actually tried to vote twice.
I look forward to the GOP officially running on this platform in the next few elections.
Colmes shouldn’t be giving nutjobs like this a platform unless he intends to thoroughly excoriate them. His technique of just asking counterexample questions doesn’t go nearly far enough. Dude’s still a milquetoast.
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Politically Superior says:
Most women, like liberals, vote on raw emotion.
Right wingers vote solely on emotion these days. The only difference is their emotions are hate and fear.
.
mary lacewing says:
You did quite well in my opinion but I think I’d have left off the “sir”.
Yeah, that’s a bit too Olbermannian.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:21 pmUnder the same reasoning, conservatives shouldn’t be allowed to vote because they tend to lean right.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:22 pmsuperid, are you trying to find logic in Ann Coulter’s existence? Waste of time. If there was a surgery performed to make “Ann”, it is probable that the brain was removed simultaneously by accident as the target organ and the brain resided in close proximity. ‘Tis better to have pity than to criticize.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:22 pmPLC, Derbyshire doesn’t have the Adams apple.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:23 pmLet’s take away the rights of everyone who isn’t conservative and call ourselves a democratic republic, even though we are more like a fascist controlled state.
Oh yeah and I am even more convinced that Ann is a dude.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:23 pmvery astutely observed. But I would say that Republicans have a sense of humor; it’s just really bad. Lame and unfunny. Built on the pain of the powerless.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:23 pmPolitically Superior says:
Most women, like liberals, vote on raw emotion.
So Politically Sexist, have you ever dated before in your life outside of dating Mary Palmer?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:24 pmYa know, John, you have a point. I agree, we should just go back to feudalism and royalty. Things were much easier then.
Of course, the average person died by 40 but a small sacrifice to pay. For giggles, we could see if the Black Death is still available for a weekend gig.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:26 pmMaybe Ann Coulter doesn’t think women should vote because she knows who difficult it is for them to vote in the proper precinct.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:26 pmHoodathunk, you sure are observant! So, there goes that theory. Actually, that’s good because if Derbyshire and Coulter ever do appear on stage together I am no longer obligated to attend to witness. Thank you for that.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:26 pm78. Built on the pain of the powerless.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:26 pmIsn’t this what know as sadism?
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FEAR is an emotion…
.. Is that why the G(no)P uses it to manipulate and persuade it’s base?
Eh, P.(o)S.?
.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pmsorry… should have been “she knows HOW difficult it is for them…
I hate when a typo ruins a perfectly serviceable joke.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pmWhy yes… I believe it is.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:28 pmThis guy says it right on the money. For years i always said men (particularly Conservatives) were resentful women could vote. They want absolute power. They will never treat woman as equals.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:29 pmAnytime, PLC. Some sacrifices just have to be made but attending an event with John and Ann is bordering on masochism.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:30 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian says:
This makes me wonder: perhaps John Derbyshire IS Ann Coulter. Until I see them together on stage, that’s what I’m going with.
Hehehe…I’m with ya. Why hasn’t Derby publicly stated that he is NOT ann coulter.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:31 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
So Derbyshire thinks women shouldn’t vote because they lean to the left.
Following this logic, I think Republicans shouldn’t vote because they lean to the right.
Ann Coulter thinks if women didn’t vote we’d never have to have another Democratic president.
I think if Republicans didn’t vote we’d never have to have another Republican president.
Which scenario is better for the country? It doesn’t really matter — in either one, democracy is dead.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pmTo all the old skool TP’ers,
It just dawned on me.
The hatred towards women.
Trying to act intelligent.
The justification of old conservatives values overriding liberal ideals.
And then, the picture.
Dear gawd, John Derbyshire IS Jason M. Hendler!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:33 pmAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Off Topic:
On the MSN startpage: “Arizona says it’s legal to bring guns into bars.”
This isn’t going to end well. Personally, I thought only Texas was this stupid.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:33 pmReally, now.
I think all men should be neutered,
unless they serve some purpose for pleasure or reproduction.
John Derbyshire doesn’t fall in either category.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:34 pmP.S.
On average the things you post are stupid. It’s not an insult, it’s a fact.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:34 pmOh YEEEEEESS!
Long for them good ol’ days when cancervatives held close sessions and butt slapped each other wearing skirts until the “winner” had his first turn on a goat.
I can’t wait for Piggie Rove’s memoirs.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:35 pmPolitically Inferior Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 1:36 pmMost men, on average, who believe that men on average are smarter than women, have never dated. I know. I’m the test study.
If you don’t like the results, change the rules. It worked for the GOP in 2000, which just encouraged them. I’m a little surprised this nitwit didn’t recommend returning to the “original” voting rules, which would have limited suffrage to white males owning property. Under those rules, the GOP could probably reign forever. No more women, no minorities, no poor people… a perfect world!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:37 pmI think the conservatives and reactionaries should paste that one right at the top of the Republipimp platform for the next election.
That’s an absolute classic. One of the founding principles of liberalism was the extension the franchise, the right to vote, which includes women’s suffrage as well as extending the vote to any minority group that has been excluded.
So, Darbyshr, go the frack on; do it. You got Anal Annie on your side and Pudge (’Lumpy’) Limpo can’t be far behind.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:37 pmPS, being able to stand up to pee is not a measure of intelligence. Why don’t you just blurt out the rest of your fantasies all of the other disproven claptrap you have hidden in your little pea brain? Get it over with, you will feel better after and we will all get a good laugh.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:38 pmralph the wonder llama says:
livelongandprosper says:
PatrioticLiberalChristian says:
Humor is often the most brutal truth.
Which is why republicans have no sense of humor.
very astutely observed. But I would say that Republicans have a sense of humor; it’s just really bad. Lame and unfunny. Built on the pain of the powerless.
Republicans thought It’s a Wonderful Life was a comedy until George got his house back.
“George Bailey: Merry Christmas, Mr Henry F. Potter!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:38 pmMr. Potter: And Happy New Year, In Jail! They’re At Your House Right Now!”
Politically Superior says: Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts
This makes for a real dilemma: should we assume that PS is male and, therefore, trust his intelligence OR assume that PS is a female and, therefore, incorrect?
Of course, as a progressive I see more that binary. I assume that PS is a sexless troll who just pulls ideas our of his a** and throws them out there. So, there is nothing to learn here – only something to laugh at.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:38 pmDrxJ – I do remember Jason “what did we miss?” M. Hendler, and I’ve gotta say he outclassed today’s trolls by a power of 10.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_intelligence
Politically Irrelevant- can you continue to let people know your feelings regarding sex and intelligence?
I think it’s so, soo, sooo important to let people know the Conservative opinion on this before the next election, thank you!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pmWhat we all wanted! Taxation without representation! Wait, didn’t we have a revolution to overcome this? Oh, women should rebel! OK, I’m all for it.
Idiot.
Besides, Ann Coulter may be against women’s suffrage except for HER, because she thinks she should be able to vote wherever she feels like it.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pmNational Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not The Have The Right To Vote.
A village of idiots have lost their way back to the village. And this is coming out of the mouth of a moron who is married and has a daughter. What messsage is he sending to his daughter and wife?
“Previously, Ann Coulter has suggested that women shouldn’t have the right to vote:”
And I bypassed Mann Coulter’s comment since I am no idea what species she belong to.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pmI could say so much about this knuckledragger but, I’ll restrain myself. I wonder though; where do these people come from? Are they grown in a lab?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pmJohn Derbyshire should get together with Ron Paul
September 30th, 2009 at 1:41 pmand reminisce about the 19th century.
@90, Men are not smarter than women, YOU certainly are not. And as for the woman on this site, they are far more intelligent than you are. You are just a common troll.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:41 pmPolitically Superior says:
Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.
Congratulations, Pat Pomery would pass the mantle onto you…if he were here.
You know, this is probably the dumbest thing about intelligence ever said. Especially without proof.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:41 pmWhat a surprise… our “Superior” troll espouses a claim of “fact” with no support.
Who could have predicted that?
BTW, what’s the general thought about those who proclaim themselves “Superior” as a way of self-identity? An attempt to disguise serious inadequacies or what?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:41 pmBetween these people and the ones suggesting a coup, I’m surprised we haven’t heard yet from the out and out authoritarian monarchists. Most of them would probably relish living in their model state, Saudi Arabia. Just change “King Abdullah” to “King Cheney” and they’ll take it.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:41 pmPolitically superior: “Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.”
Your “facts,” stupid. Your facts. There really isn’t any legitimate un-arguable evidence to support that position, but just for the sake of argument, how about this:
College graduates are, on average, smarter than those who don’t go to college. Should we restrict voting to just college graduates? We await your politically superior prognostication.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:43 pmPolitically Superior says
September 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.
____________________________________________________________
If it’s a fact, you won’t have a problem giving us a link to your source, will you?
However, the idea of one gender being more intelligent than the other is moot — eligibility to vote has nothing to do with intelligence. If it did, we’d never have a Republican holding office again.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:43 pmPolitically Superior says:
Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.
Which facts are those, exactly? Not the ones you pulled outta your ass, I hope.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:44 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
“They want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it — and in the present days, they’re not much — then they’d like the state to do it for them.”
This moron, who evidently hates women and thinks they are stupid, is also incredibly insulting to men. As a father who loves his children, I find his statement above horrendously insulting & condescending to both sexes. I hope this idiot has neither a wife nor daughters, and feel sorry for any women in his family.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:44 pmPolitically Superior:
September 30th, 2009 at 1:45 pmI really hope you’re not factoring yourself as one of the smarter men out there. Just by saying something that stupid in public has demonstrated you have the intelligence of kitty litter.
Poiltical Posterior says:
I like ice cream.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:46 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Politically Superior says:
Now that I think about it, all my professors are men.
So, they also block women from getting good jobs in your corner of the country, eh?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pmPolitically Superior says:
Now that I think about it, all my professors are men.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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“Now that I think about it…”?
you don’t sound too sure.
:)
September 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pmbureaucrap: “Between these people and the ones suggesting a coup, I’m surprised we haven’t heard yet from the out and out authoritarian monarchists.”
Modern corporate culture is the equivalent of monarchy and was set up as a new way to sustain a landed aristocracy when it was clear that monarchy, as a system of maintaining a landed aristocracy, was dying. How many multi-millionaire CEO’s or Presidents of large corporations are there because of family and not talent?
Thomas Jefferson was the first American to start worrying about this attack on our democratic system and to see it as an extension of monarchy.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pmNO! NO! NO! YOU LBRULS HAVE IT ALL WRONG AGAIN!
The reason why mAnn Coulter opposes women voters is because…
he is malnourished fellow with dubious Adam’s nutz, or apple… or something like that.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pmPolitically Inferior says:
Now that I think about it, all my professors are men.
That happens when you attend Oral Roberts!
Dum Bass!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pmkws
we already know you’d kill a kid’s puppy to save yourself 2 bucks in taxes.
there’s really no need to keep repeating it.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pmNow that I think about it, all right wingers are always wrong.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pmUnbelievable. The things that are coming out of the mouths of conservatives these days is becoming downright scary. Why is it that they are not concerned about the fact that only 18% of Americans call themselves Republicans today? And that percentage has dropped from over 30% after the last election. Don’t they see what they are doing to their party and this country?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pmThe converse of Coulter’s idiocy would be that if ONLY women could vote we’d never have to worry about ever having another Republican president. As a male, I could live with that.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pmPolitically Superior says:
Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.
As evidence to the contrary, I present… you.
.
Politically Superior says:
Now that I think about it, all my professors are men.
Where you going to school, the Vatican? Oral Roberts U? Are you presenting this as evidence of something?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pmPolitically Superior says:
Most children in college wouldn’t have any trouble remembering their professors’ genders, but Skylar Popcollar here had to think about it… really hard.
Was it the binge drinking or the failure to attend class that gave this frat boy so much trouble?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pm***
#125,
doc,
he’s taking an online course in taxidermy.
:/
September 30th, 2009 at 1:50 pmUh-oh… Derbyshire has failed to convince kwsventures that women should be denied the right to vote.
If an intellectual heavyweight like kwsventures doesn’t buy Derb’s conclusion, that’s not a good sign for this “Votes For Men Only!” campaign.
perhaps Derb can give it another try and win over kwsventures. After all, he’s already got Political Posterior on board. Whether Posterior’s moivation is trollogic or resentment against all the women who laughed when he asked them out doesn’t matter. He’s still on board.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:50 pmI’m suggesting a new ad campaign for the GOP, something along the lines of the following.
Performing the duties of an elected Republican:
SO EASY, A CAVEMAN CAN DO IT.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pmCan I get the concession on the hide clothing and club kiosk for these morons?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pmNow that I think about it, most of my professors in chemistry (Inorganic, Organic, and Medicinal) were….
Ready?
WOMEN!
What does this prove?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:52 pmNothing really, except that Politically Inferior is as his namesake suggests.
And a mucking foron.
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#125,
and then they vote palin
and read coulter.
:)
September 30th, 2009 at 1:52 pmThe women feel overwhelmed with financial burden and stress.
So you and Rosy Palms go back how many years?
Fidelity is such a good thing, isn’t it?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:54 pmI forget now. Exactly why is there such a thing as a conservative woman?
September 30th, 2009 at 1:54 pmPolitically Superior says: Now that I think about it, all my professors are men
Well, then, by your theory, I would predict that your ability to BS these professors and obtain a decent grade is severely compromised.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:54 pmThis bass ackward Derbyshire CANCERVATIVE is reaching back to the times when women were denied the right to vote because they were not considered “full” human beings.
Guess who else were not considered “full” human beings.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:56 pmkwsventures says:
Women should be able to vote. But, I agree with the above statement. I have worked with dozens of women with kids and no husband or child support payments and nearly all believe in the welfare/nanny state should be for them to support their kids. Think about all the women you know. Do they feel the same way? The state/tax payers “owe” them entitlements to raise their kids. Be honest now. The women feel overwhelmed with financial burden and stress.
And the reason why these women sometimes need to rely on welfare is….. Could it be because their husbands are not paying child support? Could it be because before their husband left them for a new model they were a stay-at-home mom and have no job skills? Nah…couldn’t be anything like that.
I once worked for a social service agency interviewing potential welfare recipients. And you know what? NOT ONE OF THEM thought they were “owed” anything other than child support and a chance to find a job to help them support their children.
You are an idiot and your inherent hatred of women is coloring your views. My theory is that women will have nothing to do with you and that pisses you off. Too bad so sad for you.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:57 pmThat is highly unlikely, given that your existance brings down the average so far.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:58 pmshoeless says:
I forget now. Exactly why is there such a thing as a conservative woman?
I don’t know. But what I do know is that all of them who are in Congress are really UGLY women. Not ugly to look at, but ugly inside where it counts.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:58 pmUSNclerk say:
Welcome aboard, USNclerk!!!!!!!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:59 pmGiven the ridicule heaped upon Political Posterior for making a claim of fact without providing any support, I’d suggest one of three explanations for his continued refusal to provide said support in the form of a link, as Belac has done to prove the counterargument:
1) Posterior just doesn’t give a flying fu(k about any damage to his reputation for integrity, because there’s nothing there destroy to begin with.
2) Posterior has been frantically googling for something, anything that will back up his claim but has been unable to find it.
3) Posterior doesn’t give a flying fu(k about any damage to his reputation for integrity because such a concern is immaterial to his purpose here: to rack up trolling points that can be traded in for surplus McCain/Palin ‘08 beer cozies.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:59 pmkwsventures: “I have worked with dozens of women with kids and no husband or child support payments and nearly all believe in the welfare/nanny state should be for them to support their kids.”
If you really want a rational and fair society, then you’ve got two choices on this one. You either agree that we have an interest as a society to make sure women who have been left alone to take care of their children are going to survive.
Or, you must believe the state should prosecute and force men to live up to their moral duty to help take care of their own children.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:02 pm#114 missmolly,
September 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pmP(o)S doesn’t need facts when making baseless arguments.
The GOP Christian-right & Fox/Clear Channel Wurlitzer is chock full of sociopaths. Sick, really mean and armed to the teeth with a “Faith” that says they can do what ever they want because they and only they know the will of their God and that God is down with denying civil rights, bearing false witness and calling from all corners of the country for armed insurrections of their hated “secular government”.
How is this in any way good for our country? They are a movement. Not a political party. A movement of clinically verifiable sociopaths with a hideous intelligence and disastrous agenda.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pmshoeless: “I forget now. Exactly why is there such a thing as a conservative woman?”
Self-loathing.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pmWhat John and PoS and others are advocating is the ultimate welfare society. Superior white males don’t need to do anything but impregnate women, tell other inferior types to work to support them while they hit the country club for some well deserved relaxation.
No raising smelly, noisy brats, no getting their hands dirty with work, just sit back, give orders and collect money.
Welfare at its best.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:05 pmFor Derbyshire, I guess that’s an improvement from wanting them to be murdered http://bit.ly/PppX
September 30th, 2009 at 2:05 pmSame reason there are women who stay with men who beat them.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pmRalph, PoS thinks? I thought he just typed and collected the occasional nickel.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pmThis is all good stuff. The right is obviously losing their marbles. So far this year we’ve got a lot of great sound and video for Democrats running next year. Let’s see…
We’ve got repubicans saying women shouldn’t be able to vote.
We’ve got republicans saying Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional and should be abolished.
We’ve got republicans screaming at the president during a joint-session speech.
We’ve got republicans calling the president a fascist, racist, communist, socialist, dictator, Maoist, Stalinist along with a huge pot of steaming racial slurs.
We’ve got repubs tearing down the first Latino member of the Supreme Court.
Great election year stuff.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:09 pmI guess that’s a fourth possibility, and… actually the most likely.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:10 pmWe now know Pat Pomery’s real name. HAAAAAAAAAAAA
September 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pmMaybe you should try taking something besides shop classes. They’ll probably let you take home economics, it shouldn’t be too challenging for you. Bring your apron.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pmPersonally, I think that the female vote is one of the few reasons that this country has not emploded, but let’s play the game. Women have been the problem since Eve tempted Adam. Funny how it is women–not religion or men that are even considered a contributing factor.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pmConsider this from the Eagle Forum this weekend by Phyllis Schlafly “My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%. [...] I’m talking about drugs, sex, illegitimacy, drop outs, poor grades, run away, suicide, you name it, every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
Well, that’s that. Women are responsible for all of the drug dealers, corporate crooks, warmongerers, child abusers,rapists, homosexuals, non-church going infidels, dropouts, welfare cheats, murders, insurance scammers, and tax-cheats. Oh, my god–who knew they had so much influence and power! Phyllis is right–all our fault.
So women, you should stay home, barefoot and pregnant, take the beatings and abuse–if it is dished out,and have no income or independence of our own. No need for an education–how smart do you have to be to do what you are told?
All will be well–the republican right will take care of it all. When they get to govern by biblical law, we will quickly learn our place again. Abortion and divorce will be outlawed. Beatings will be OK because it’s in the bible, pre-martial sex for women will be punished by public stoning–men–not a problem. Civil rights legislation will be overturned, all social programs, can be eliminated–there will be no need for them. Men in this counrty will step up, take charge, make us all happy and secure, provide for our common defense, and our general welfare. And all will right with America.
Guess its going to be called
the he man womans hater club
or male only white wing party
that should take there 18% down to what 12% shaking my head.
LMAO but shaking my head anyways on just how stupid some one can be
September 30th, 2009 at 2:23 pmkwsventures says:
I have worked with dozens of women with kids and no husband or child support payments and nearly all believe in the welfare/nanny state should be for them to support their kids.
What do the absent fathers believe in, self-reliance? Try to raise some kids without help and then whine at me about people who need help raising kids. This is the sort of crap that only a man could believe in. Has it occurred to you that the perspective of people who actually have to raise the next generation might actually be more enlightened than yours? Sorry, stupid question – of course it hasn’t.
Children should not be punished by society for their parents’ situation.
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NinerFan says:
This is all good stuff. The right is obviously losing their marbles. So far this year we’ve got a lot of great sound and video for Democrats running next year.
And all of the GOP pols will have to pander to this crap in order to get past their own primaries. They can’t distance themselves from the crazy, which means they’re a long ways from hitting bottom still.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:28 pmPoiltical Posterior says:
my breath smells like cat food.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:30 pmAs contrary evidence, I offer the GOP in general and the Teabaggers specifically! They are mostly men, and are driven entirely by their emotions and lack of facts or education. Set, Match, Game! ;)
The troll is pwned again! ;)
September 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pmAs contrary evidence, I offer the GOP in general and the Teabaggers specifically! They are mostly men, and are driven entirely by their emotions and lack of facts or education. Set, Match, Game! ;)
And another step, if women ‘think’ on an emotional level and men don’t, does this mean the Republicans and their toadies responding to their emotionally charged fear tactics are all women at heart?
September 30th, 2009 at 2:40 pmHey Blue, let’s not forget NO MIXED FIBERS! and NO SHELL FISH!
September 30th, 2009 at 2:42 pmThis was exactly the reason that men gave to keep women from getting the vote.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:42 pmWomen have too much compassion.
John Derbyshire, a British-American conservative author…
Wait a sec, this guy’s just another foreign immigrant? He probably swam the Atlantic just so he can get free (corporate) welfare.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:42 pmRecent studies, however, have raised questions about the validity of this claim, he said. One such study showed that men have larger brains than women, a 100 gram difference after correcting for body size. Rushton found similar results in a study of gender and brain size.
This is pulled from this link http://www.livescience.com/health/060908_brainy_men.html
So, in response to :Politically Superior says:
Men on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.
Men have bigger brains, but as you’ve proven by jamming both feet in your oversized mouth, bigger does not mean better.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:43 pmHoodathunk — Don’t forget the Repubs did target the “soccer moms” in 2004 for votes.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:44 pmMen on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts.
Must explain why more women are getting college degrees than men these days.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pmGee, conservatives. Why don’t you just try to ban all those who lean left from voting…Hell, you had no problem denying others civil rights until we had to fight for them…At least this guy’s being honest…
September 30th, 2009 at 2:47 pmThank You Mr. Derbyshire and Mr?, Ms? Ann Coulter for reminding us why you and your party are called the 20 percenters…Ann Coulter against women’s right to vote…hmmm, maybe there is validity to the internet rumor after all, makes sense they call ‘her’ Man Coulter…
September 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pmHey PS–
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-10-19-male-college-cover_x.htm
plus this:
The U.S. Census Bureau has released information about educational attainment in the United States and the Population Reference Bureau is reporting that significantly more women than men are obtaining their four-year college degree. They report that, “About one-third of women ages 25 to 29 had a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2007, compared with 26 percent of their male peers, according to tables recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.”
That’s 33% to 26% if you can’t do the math.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pmWe see here the logical extension of the Right’s whole strategy to dealing with the pesky problem of elections and voters: disenfranchise the voters who don’t vote for us.
In practice this is done with “electoral engineering”: seeking pretexts for cutting voters from the rolls, creating artificial obstacles to voting, creating artificial obstacles fair vote counting, and maybe changing critical votes here and there were there is no audit trail. All of this done either under a variety of pretexts, or behind the scenes.
Now we get a right-winger who is foolish enough to state the strategy plain as day.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pmYou know, there seem to be a lot of conservatives who really want to return to the days of the while male being in charge of everything without anyone else having a voice in family, social or personal issues. I don’t know what world they believe we live in, but this 18th century thinking will never again play in America.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:51 pm@ 32. Hoodathunk says: Next whacko will be saying giving women the vote wasn’t the worst idea. Teaching them how to talk was. That will really endear them to society. September 30th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Nah. He’s saving the “Teaching them to talk was the worst idea” line for the day he proposes taking away their cell phones and Blackberrys.
As an aside to another comment (Shayne), it’s name is spelled Derbyshire and pronounced Dar bish er. And he probably has a bunch of neonutzi skins for buds.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:00 pm@ 49. tombaker says: If that fop gets paid to think and say that, then we should all be getting paid for showing up to mock him. September 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Watch it, tombaker. No need to insult the fop crowd. Darbisher doesn’t qualify. To be a fop, ya gotta look like Bowie or Jagger back in their flash days, or maybe George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic on a down day. Darbisher don’t cut it.
He looks more like a Nick Nolte mug-shot.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:09 pmHoodathunk says:
And another step, if women ‘think’ on an emotional level and men don’t, does this mean the Republicans and their toadies responding to their emotionally charged fear tactics are all women at heart?
Conservative men confuse women being more “in touch” with their emotions with women being “driven” by their emotions. If women are more driven by their emotions then men, why do men more commonly get overwhelmed with their anger and fight each other? Men have far less control over their emotion and its proven out by the levels of violence (domestic and otherwise), anger and fear that Republican men in particular exhibit.
Republican men hate facts because facts have a liberal bias and their emotions have a conservative one! ;)
September 30th, 2009 at 3:12 pmSo…does this mean I’m only 3/5ths of a person – like President Obama…??
September 30th, 2009 at 3:15 pmAnother aspect of this thinking thing is that obviously the Republicans think men are superior because they don’t think with their gonads. The obvious fallacy in this is that since most of these conservative types suffer from cranial, rectal inversion the proximity of brain and gonad is directly effected.
For the trollish types who have a difficult time understanding…if a Republican’s head is up his butt, it isn’t hard for his nuts to do his thinking for him.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:32 pmJohn Derbyshire: building a bridge to the 19th Century.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pmSince more men than women are in Congress and voted for keeping women below the poverty level through Welfare, stopped women from earning equal wages with men, passed laws letting men who rape children out of prison, spend more money on prisons than schools, let corporations outsource jobs unemploying Americans, illegally invade countries like Iraq where thousands of Americans in the armed forces died needlessly, let the American roads, bridges & levees crumble, allow insurance companies steal our money & then refuse to cover medical illnesses, yep they sure are smarter than women, absolutely NOT
September 30th, 2009 at 3:49 pmThe Free market/Social Darwinist Right has a problem with children. They delight in the Randian Superman refusing all help and succeeding by the sheer force of his (always his) genius and will. And, from their college dormrooms, they fantasize about the glories of a gladiatorial free market state where no mutualist help and you end up with a 300-club nation of heroes and geniuses. And they build ttheir starships and conquer the universe!
Kids, however, screw things up. We are born dependent and helpless, and we are not able to compete for a long, long time , during which we need an awful lot of stuff. Inferior beings. Complete losers–but if you throw children into the arena, you die out as a species within a century.
So their lovely talk about personal heroism, when confronted with this problematic fact, decays immediately into family social darwinism. They can lecture the deadbeat parents and say they shouldn’t have had kids in a world where misfortune can strike, and they need help! they find themselves slipping from individual heroes to powerful families, andlose much of what they like about their collegiate vision.
Because in a world where families are the power units, Powerful families throw up their idiot sons and destructive daughters, and individual heroes are squashed with regulrity. In the name of No Help, They find themselves on the side of the villains and of the bad old system we fought a revolution toget out from under.
Face it: You have to have a society that protects children or you die out. In real evolution, the ONLY criterion is number of offspring. Not how big and strong you are, or how many Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscrapers you build. Just number of offspring. And a culture that encourages childbearing, and has a strong support network for mothers will win, no matter how many Howard Roarks the other systems produce.
When you’re in college, it’s easy to sneer at the adult who compromises his principles to feed his kids. It’s even easy for some morally stunted specimens like Derbyshire to sneer at the woman expecting help for her kids.
Ae there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
The truth is the right wing fantasy fall apart when you stop imagining a world completely constituted of unappreciated 14-year-od geniuses. It falls apart into dreadful evil–as we’ve seen.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:07 pmPoS, your experience with “inflatable” women doesn’t count… ;)
September 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pmI hope everyone has seen the movie “Iron Jawed Angels” starring Hillary Swank.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:20 pmI think we should send a copy to this neanderthal from the 19th century.
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Are all our trolls getting out of school today at the same time?
Maybe they all ride the short-bus together, mmm?
September 30th, 2009 at 4:49 pmLadies and gentlemen, I think these remarks by John Derbyshire should irrefutably prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that…
Neoconservative = Neanderthal
I mean, for the love of all that’s sacred…how misogynistic can you get?? Not only does he think that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, he apparently doesn’t see anything terribly wrong with deadbeat dads either and doesn’t think that women should be given any support when a man decides after the fact that he doesn’t want the responsibility of fatherhood.
And, of course, let’s not forget this little gem…
Later in the interview, Derbyshire said there’s also a case to be made for repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act because you “shouldn’t try to force people to be good.”
WTF? Why bother having any laws at all, then? What purpose does the law serve and what function does it have in society, if not compelling the people to conduct themselves in a fair and ethical manner and exacting penalties for failure to comply?
How much do you want to bet that this refugee from the Dark Ages, to top it all off, claims to be a Christian…???
September 30th, 2009 at 4:58 pmCG, you are right this voting business is highly over rated. Only people who make more than half a mil a year should get to vote. Aw, lets not be pikers, make it a cool mil.
Anyone making less than that just ain’t trying.
Saves mailing you a ballot, don’t it?
September 30th, 2009 at 5:02 pmconservative guy says
September 30th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Another group that shouldn’t be allowed to vote is anyone on the government dole.
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Which means you’re in favor of disenfranchising anybody collecting Social Security. Did you know that our senior citizens tend to vote more conservatively than our younger set?
You may want to rethink your position. But thinking isn’t really your strong suit, is it?
September 30th, 2009 at 5:12 pmSo Ann Coulter thinks that women need a man to tell them how to vote. Somehow if a man attempted to tell Ann Coulter to vote for Obama she would tell him to go jump off a cliff — or worse.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:26 pmI seriously can’t believe that people are saying this stuff in seriousness. Is the right wing turning into a vast practical joke that I don’t “get?”
September 30th, 2009 at 5:52 pmMen on average are smarter than women. It’s not sexist, it’s the facts. — “PoliticallySuperior”
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Clearly, you aren’t aware of the research studies which have explored the relationship between parental intelligence levels and those of their children. You hardly need to be a rocket scientist to realize that genetic factors probably play some role in intelligence — people who score well on measures of intelligence are more likely to have children who similarly score well on such measures. However, while the researchers found significant positive correlations between the intelligence levels of parents and children generally, they also found that the intelligence levels of male children correlate most strongly with those of their mothers rather than those of their fathers or a parental median. The intelligence levels of female children, on the other hand, were found to correlate most strongly with a parental median — suggesting that the intelligence level of daughters is attributable to both parents in roughly equal measure.
Read it and weep, PS…since it seems fairly clear from your comments that you’re male, the fact is that you probably owe whatever kind of brains you have in your head to your momma!!
(And in case anyone’s wondering…yes, the use of quotation marks was intentional.)
September 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pmDerbyshire is one (or more) of the following:
1) gay.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:08 pm2) angry that last nights hooker not only beat him up but laughed at his dinky winky.
3) In love with sleeping on the couch.
OMG, I think the Ann Coulter quote pisses me off more, and not just because it’s a woman saying it. Did you all read it?!?
September 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pmRE: conservative guy @ 186:
So does this mean that any recipient of taxpayer-funded corporate bailouts should lose their right to vote?
I’m totally down with that. They should also be subject to assets forfeiture so they can’t buy Congress off.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:16 pmconservative guy says:
Women not allowed to vote. I like it. Another group that shouldn’t be allowed to vote is anyone on the government dole.
So you’re opposed to employees of wall street firms, banks, big oil, big coal, defense contractors like Halliburton, and Senior citizens not being able to vote? To name a few? LOL! That’ll go over great at your next teabagging session! LOL!
September 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pmActually,Conservative guy,kwsv,and PS could probably make a case for withholding the vote from anyone who disagrees with them.Ahh,how they yearn for the good old days where blacks sat in the back of the bus and store owners could refuse service because,after all this is America and as a store owner I’ll serve whom I please.Those liberals who took away the rights of store owners should not be allowed to vote.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:05 pm~they want someone to help raise their kids and if men aren’t inclined to do it — and in the present days, they’re not much~
Women. And “their” kids. So have there been a lot of virgin births that I’m unaware of?
Derbyshire seems to be saying that women have children without any assistance from men so the children belong solely to the women and men have no responsibility for their offspring.
I don’t guess I should be so surprised anymore but the overabundance of ignorance in this world nowadays just continues to astound me!
September 30th, 2009 at 8:28 pmI went to the Corner, National Review’s blog, to see it they had any comments about their colleague’s viewpoint. Nothing. They jump on the most innocent comments and blow them out of proportion, but Derbyshire makes a time bomb of a statement and you can hear crickets chirping.
Hi-larious.
I will keep saying this: National Review, the supposed hotbed of conservative intellectuals, must continually pander to the knuckle dragging tea baggers, and in doing so it makes them into…knuckle dragging tea baggers. Their readers don’t care about William F. Buckley, they want to talk about birth certificates and Acorn!
Keep up the good work!
September 30th, 2009 at 9:36 pmPerhaps Repugnican stupidity should be grounds for taking away THEIR right to vote. After all, STUPID IS FOREVER, and this is about as stupid as it gets.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:05 pmOf course, Derbyshire is the guy who said in 2005 that the only that women (girls, really) are really only “interesting to look at in the buff” between the ages of 15 and 20. A very advanced thinker indeed.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:11 pm@ 177. Virtual Pebble says: “@ 49. tombaker says: If that fop gets paid to think and say that, then we should all be getting paid for showing up to mock him. September 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pm ” Watch it, tombaker. No need to insult the fop crowd. Darbisher doesn’t qualify. To be a fop, ya gotta look like Bowie or Jagger back in their flash days, or maybe George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic on a down day. Darbisher don’t cut it. He looks more like a Nick Nolte mug-shot. September 30th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
It occurred to me that I wasn’t entirely accurate. Derbyshire looks like a Nick Nolte mug shot without the benefit of a nice Hawaiian shirt. Wretched arse, he is. Mouthbreather, too.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:04 amPoliticallySTUPID
Once again regurgitates what Rush told him to think. You are a moron PS. The liberals here have more logic after a week long drug binge than your weak substandard brain will ever be able to understand. You are stupider than a doorknob. You wouldnt know logic from Kung Pow pork. What an ignorant worthless punk you are.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:11 amPolitically STUPID
No it is not a fact. You are very stupid. I keep trying to tell you that the idiocy you pull out of your ass does not become a fact because you say it. All you are doing is showing everyone how staggeringly stupid you are.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:14 amWow, politically stupid, 35 vote downs at #14 !!! What’s the record? Have you broken it already?
Go up a thread to Cong. Virginia Foxx. Is that anyone’s idea of a nuturing liberal? Ann Coulter? Margaret Thatcher? Golda Mier? Laura Ingraham? Mary Matalin? Karen Hughes? Michelle Malkin? Sarah Palin? Squeeky From? Ma Barker? Lizzie Borden? First Lady Barbara Bush?
How about our Founding Fathers who let only white Protestant land-owning men vote?
October 1st, 2009 at 12:58 pmnuturing should be nurturing. damn fingers not working.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:00 pmNo doubt Mr. Derbyshir has not met the nearly 900 Libertarian women in my Libertarian Moms Group who have and will continue to cast their votes for the principles and practices of individual freedom, personal responsibility and limited government.
We Libertarians Moms are working overtime reminding our representative (both R’s AND D’s) to stop their habitual unconstitutional spending/programs on all fronts!
October 1st, 2009 at 4:21 pmHmm if women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, since they tend to be “liberal”,then maybe we shouldn’t allow idiots like this guy to vote eaither, since they tend to be “conservative”. Nice idea, hunh?
October 1st, 2009 at 5:03 pm@207. Keith says: nuturing should be nurturing. damn fingers not working. October 1st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Oh, sure, we know you meant neutering, not nurturing.
Golda Meir was, in the proper sense, very probably a liberal; she was also tough as nails. Most of our conservative and reactionary friends are of the chickenhawk variety of politician, so their idea of tough is mean-mouthed trash talker; they don’t understand that a lot of liberals have been through crap that those same liberals wouldn’t wish on anyone else.
Of course, who the hell knows what Ma Barker’s or Lizzie Borden’s politics were and Lynn “Squeaky” Fromm’s politics had to be completely irrational; given Charlie Manson’s ideas, Squeaky would have been found on a politico-social line that runs from Aryan Nations prison gang to dingbat flower child.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:33 pmI think that Derbyshire is quite possibly mentally ill. I listened to his podcast until last fall, when he became so gratuitously disrespectful to the incoming first family that I unsubscribed. I understand that some people probably consider him to be a harmless curmudgeon, but I find him to be toxic.
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm68. “Actually, we’d probably be a better country if only women voted.” Pure genius.
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:23 pmThank for your article. I am glad I found this.
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