So It Runs in the Family?
Oops?
Remember when Anita Perry, wife of Rick Perry, said she thinks abortion is a woman’s choice?
“That could be a woman’s right, just like it’s a man’s right if he wants to have some kind of procedure,” Perry was quoted as telling editor-in-chief Evan Smith.
According to her husband, who is an expert in this kind of thing, says she “misspoke.”
Now, I watched that interview and Evan Smith asked her three times if she was sure about what she was saying. She assured him that she was.
So …. she was either drunk, dopey, or like her husband, couldn’t make it to three.
Thanks to Texas Trailer Park Trash for the heads up.
“Misspoke”? I guess to the Gee Oh Pee that’s a euphemism for accidentally telling what they REALLY think instead of lying through their teeth.
Riiiiiiiggggghhhhhhhttttttttt.
1Rickster, you done been told! And by your wife-mate! Pony up, boy! Its not all about you no more!
2Revise history,check. Revise christianity,check. Revise wife’s statements,check. No control freaks here.
3I admire Anita’s courage. He has no right to say what she can and can’t say but I betcha they are having a big fight about it right now.
4If that isn’t just like a Repug dominator.”She doesn’t know what she’s saying.” (she’s a woman, after all)
5Bwaahahaha … Anita is pretty much rubbing his nose in it!
6I knew Rush Limbaugh was deaf. Rick Perry too? Maybe for Perry it’s just the higher frequency ranges, in the upper register where he would hear a woman’s voice.
7Rick Perry isn’t evolved enough to be Neanderthal
8Poor Anita. She said what she believed, but according to Ricky, she didn’t really mean what she said. I’d love to be the fly on the wall when she & her lady friends get together.
9crp: “Rick Perry isn’t evolved enough to be Neanderthal”
Only his hair is.
10When Evan said she was making news and she realized that it would get portrayed that way, she was a little flustered, said it wasn’t news and DID NOT WALK HER STATEMENT BACK. She said she wouldn’t have an abortion, but that it’s a women’s right if she chooses to.
She didn’t seem drunk, dopey or nothin’. It looked to me that at that moment it was more important for her to stand as a woman than to mouth something her husband would have liked.
And I bet you’re right, Marge, that there have been words in that household.
11In her interview she came across as quite rational. In fact, the only evidence that would make me doubt her rationality is that she married Rick Perry.
12So in the GOP dialect is “misspoke” the same thing as “Oops, I inadvertently told the truth for a change?” In an email from my congressidiot, he wrote about the ACA and how “bureaucrats will make all healthcare decisions.” I’m trying to learn the dialect, and I believe this is the updated GOP version of the fictious “death panels.”
To Anita Perry, I would say, “Stand your ground, woman!”
13Rick to Anita: “Now get back in the kitchen and make me a sammitch.”
14Misspoke? Misspoke? Really? How about missusspoke. What she did was voice her opinion or, spoke her mind.
15She forgot that as the wife of a Republican, she can have no thoughts, nor speak any words except ‘what would you like for me to do now, DEAR?’
Jeez, even from nearly 2,000 distant, he speaks for her?
There will be lots of women who will come forth this next election and vote. The vast majority of them will feel more than comfortable saying what Anita Perry said, and didn’t walk back on. I watched her interview. She had a Barbara Bush moment. Laura Bush would probably say the same thing. It is a deeply held belief, common to most women.
If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one. Putting a bunch of politicians between a woman and her doctor, during one of the most stressful, difficult decisions she will ever make, is simply wrong. Abortion should be legal and safe. And accessible.
16I used to think that a governmental late-term abortion ban (with exceptions for risk to the woman) was an acceptable compromise. Then I saw what happened when the government interferes in medical decisions and makes it political: Terry Schiavo, Savita Halappanavar, etc.
Doctors and patients should always be in charge of medical decisions and that’s all that abortion is. (Contraception, same thing.)
17Anita may very well be part of Wendy’s silent army who will vote their minds and never tell their husbands. Greg Abbott’s wife may do the same thing.
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