These AssHats Want To Be President ... And This Is What They think Of Women

I watched the GOP debates last night. Well, I watched for about a minute at a time and then the stupidity and the idiocy and the [t]Rump began annoying me so I switched back to a Modern Family rerun. I got most of my debate news from Facebook this morning, and this story really showed me how the GOP feels about women, if they know any women at all.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked the 11 candidates — not the full slate, the other 187 candidates didn’t have enough poll numbers to sit at the big kid’s debate — which “historically important female American” they would like to see on the $10 bill and this is what went down:

• Rand Paul called it a “tough question” and then settled on Susan B. Anthony, an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Rand has obviously been paying attention.
• Mike Huckabee said the “historically important female American” on the $10 bill should be his wife because she had cancer and raised three kids. Um, Mike, you dick, so did my Mom but she doesn’t need to be on a $10 bill. He played the whole thing like a joke because the idea of a woman on our money is a joke to him
• Marco Rubio said Rosa Parks—“an everyday American who changed the course of history”—and who is known to many as the First Lady of Civil Rights and, well, my choice as well.
• Ted Cruz said we should put Rosa Parks on the $20, and keep Hamilton on the $10—perhaps he has a grudge against Andrew Jackson who is now on the $20 bill.
• Ben Carson wants his Mom on the $10 bill because she was one of twenty-four children and married at thirteen and had a third grade education. Um, again, “historically” important Ben?.
• Donald Trump thinks it should either be his daughter—of whom he once famously said that if they weren’t related he’d be dating her—because she’d been sitting in the audience for three hours … yes, he said that  and then added, “Other than that we’ll go with Rosa Parks.”
• Scott Walker would like to see Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross honored this way.
• Chris Christie chose Abigail Adams
• Scott Walker: Clara Barton.
• John Kasich chose Mother Teresa—and said it probably couldn’t be done—a Roman Catholic nun from Macedonia because he’d once met her. Seriously..
• Chris Christie: Abigail Adams because she was  the wife of President John Adams and the mother of President John Quincy Adams; I guess that qualifies.

But I saved the best for last:

• Jeb Bush think the iconic American woman  on the $10 bill should be … drum roll … British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, proving W isn’t the dumbest Bush ever. He said it was “probably illegal but what the heck” proving, again, that he doesn’t give a thought at all to the important women who helped shape and continue to help shape this country.
• Carly Fiorina, the only female GOP candidate currently running for office—though more and more Republicans drop into the race every day—thinks there should be no woman at all on the $10 bill because it’s just a “gesture.” Yes, a female Republican doesn’t believe that there are any women who deserve being honored this way.

And that’s your GOP candidates. Nearly half of them chose women who are not “historically important female Americans” to be on the $10 bill because the GOP doesn’t like women, think much of women, or care about women, enough to even remember any names.

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