Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018, and he’s apparently willing to say just about anything to gather support for his campaign. As CNN reports:
“The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined,” Josh Hawley said in a December 7 speech to Christian pastors at an event hosted by the Missouri Renewal Project…
…”You know what I’m talking about, the 1960s, 1970s, it became commonplace in our culture among our cultural elites, Hollywood, and the media to talk about — to denigrate the biblical truth about husband and wife, man and woman,” Hawley said.
Hawley argued that there’s a “human trafficking crisis” because “our culture has completely lost its way.”
“We must also deliver a message to our culture that the false gospel of ‘anything goes’ ends in this road of slavery,” Hawley said. [Pols emphasis]
Incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill took to Twitter for a response:
I didn’t go to one of those fancy private schools, but the history I learned in public schools & Mizzou taught me that the evidence of trafficking of women for sex goes back to before 2000 BC. It didn’t begin with women’s rights and the birth control pill. @HawleyMo
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) January 31, 2018
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McCaskill, who famously trolled the Missouri GOP electorate into selecting Troy Aikin as her 2012 opponent, apparently thinks Hawley will be her 2018 opponent whether she wants him or not. Good of him to provide such great ammunition to start things off…
Actually she would prefer Mr Courtland "Make Me Dinner" Sykes to be the nominee and I'm sure she's trying to figure out how to make that happen
http://time.com/5119712/courtland-sykes-missouri-senate-candidate-womens-rights-dinner-table-feminists-snake-filled-heads/
Hawley seems in a mad rush to out-Sykes Sykes.
Yeah – there's him, too. But Hawley has a vast lead over Sykes and the other relative non-names on the GOP side.
McCaskill is quite possibly the luckiest politician in the country!
Were it not for worries about her health, she'd be my choice for president.
Between Sykes and Hawley, it's a feeding frenzy for the Todd Akin wing of the Missouri GOP. Which will Todd endorse?
Missouri once again appears to be rising to "Show Me" state status, answering the question "just how impolitic does one need to be to run as a Republican?"
Add the current Governor (famous for his pictures of a mistress and, more recently, "use of Confide, a messaging app that automatically deletes text messages"). Now, even Republicans in the state House and Senate are asking him to resign.
And yet … Republicans maintain a super-majority in the Legislature and have voted R for President in the past 3 cycles.