Today In GOP WTF: Huckabee Edition

[Content Note: misogyny, racism, anti-agency.]

Via Think Progress comes this amazing quote from an interview with New Republic. Read on for special gender insights from former Arkansas governor, failed presidential candidate, and all-around garbage-making machine Mike Huckabee:

“I’ve twice run against women opponents, and it’s a very different kind of approach,” he tells me. Different how? “For those of us who have some chivalry left, there’s a level of respect. ... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.” A male opponent is “common,” a woman requires “a sense of pedestal.”

“I’ll put it this way,” Huckabee says. “I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn’t worry about calling them on Valentine’s Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.”

LOLOMGWTF.

You may recall that Huckabee was recently in the news attacking advocates of low-cost birth control for allegedly making women think "they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government.”

But hey, he calls on Valentine's Day and puts all the gal-type politicans on pedestals! What more do those ungrateful special-treasures WANT?!!!

Or, as Melissa put it to me: IT CONTINUES TO BE A MYSTERY WHY REPUBLICANS AREN'T CONNECTING WITH THE LADIES!