Posted by: ST on June 15, 2010 at 6:51 pm
This is more of what happens when conservative women don’t toe the radical liberal “feminist” line:
[TN] State Republican Chairman Chris Devaney today denounced as “petty and insulting” a Democratic legislator’s statement about her Republican women colleagues.
“You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women. You sure can’t find out by how they vote,” said Rep. Janis Baird Sontany, D-Nashville.
The remark at a Saturday Democratic breakfast was initially reported by blogger Dru Smith Fuller. Sontany acknowledged the statement when asked and described it as “a glib, off-the-cuff remark” that “was inappropriate on my part.”
Devaney said in a GOP news release that “Rep. Sontany’s comments are very strange and definitely inappropriate.”
“Questioning the other side’s voting record is one thing, but using this verbiage to get your point across is petty and insulting,” said Devaney. “It is a bit disturbing that Rep. Sontany would speak this way about her colleagues just because she felt she was in the presence of ‘friends’.”
Sontany said in an interview that the remark came during a discussion of state-funded pre-kindergarten classes, which some Republicans have criticized. Sontany said she noted that Sumner County has the only county school system in the state with no pre-K classes. School systems must opt into the program to receive state funding.
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“It was not a well-thought out remark,” said Sontany. “I did not mean to offend and, if I have offended, I am sorry.”
The classic, infamous Democrat non-apology “apology.”
Michelle Malkin had a spot-on response to this (all too common) nonsense:
Skirt checks. Bra checks. Womb checks.
What will conservative women be subjected to next?
So much for “My body, my choice,” eh, libs?
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Heh. Andy Levy tweets: “What’s amazing is that Sontany doesn’t realize that ‘You sure can’t find out by how they vote’ is a compliment.”
Exactly, but that would mean an acceptance of a true “diversity” of opinions, which liberal “feminists” say they practice but in reality only preach.
And – just to be a little on the catty side – if we were to take Sontay’s remarks literally, well, let’s just say in a crowd of pro-lifers vs. pro-abortion types that, even without signs, it’d be pretty easy to distinguish the women who wholeheartedly embrace their femininity from the women who are repulsed by it. And we wouldn’t even have to look under anyone’s skirt, either.
Yeah, I went there.
LOL…Sister, they don’t call them FemiNazis for nothing!
Show up at a NARAL meeting with a skirt on and the “ladies” will send you home to change into pants.
Does anyone else find it strange that diversity of opinion only counts if one agrees with the Nazis, be they female or just run-of-the-mill jackasses?
If this female’s tolerance level could be measured, I’d bet that it would be off the scale – on the negative side.
And she probably isn’t the least bit grateful her views and her ability to espouse them are protected by the Constitution that she, in her heart of hearts, wants to destroy.
Well, isn’t that the new standard for the left? Shoot your mouth off and say something offensive – and it’s “not well thought out”. Assault a citizen who dares ask you a question – and it’s merely “inappropriate”.
A donation to the ST Tip Jar in your name to the first person who can recall the last time a leftist did have a “well thought out” response to anything. Anything at all.
That’s a fool’s bet, GWR, and you know it because that’s what makes them the brainiacs they are – they can’t think things through simply because of the nature of the beast that is leftism.
To them the law of unintended consequences is just a quirky thing that rears its head because of unforeseen circumstances. To us, those are the logical conclusions when human nature is disregarded and people are assumed (as a whole) to be good. They have no clue that there are, in fact, truly evil people in the world and most people will do what benefits them individually the most before they will do what’s right.
Want examples? BP. Obama and any number of people in his administration. Congress. State legislators. Bureaucrats. People who voted for Obama.
The list is endless.
Sontany’s crocodile tears !
It’s the old “sorry I got caught” apology.
another of those classic Dems “misspoke moments”, of course the GOP has theirs as well….Jake Knotts calling the GOP candidate for governor in SC a raghead.