Apparently Santorum just got the memo that women make up 51% of the population and (gasp!) they have the right to vote and (double gasp!) they don't like being talked down to by some slimeball Puritan in a sweater vest. Who would have thought women like to have their rights and life choices respected?
Last night, during his concession speech, he shared with the audience that his mother worked all through his childhood as a nurse, and made more money than his father! The nerve of some women.
Santorum's wife also worked as a nurse when they met, "but after we got married, she decided to walk away, yet didn't quit working. She was a mother..."
That was his completely lame attempt at showing women that he's not a misogynist, who hates women and has major mommy issues (if you would please just ignore every statement he's made about women and revoking women's rights based on religious principles and that he basically married his mother).
Funniest quote from the speech below the squiggle.
In the lamest attempt to include women and give them credit (but not where credit is due, because this is a wildly inaccurate statement) he said the follow sentence...
"The men and women who signed the Declaration (of Independence) wrote the final phrase, 'We pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor".
Since when did women sign the Declaration of Independence? Of all the things women have actually accomplished in the past 100 years, he's giving us credit for one of the few things we had no part in?
Sorry Ricky, even when you're trying to be inclusive and falsly complimentary, it comes off as condesending and patronizing. Instead of trying desperately to prove to female voters that you know women who don't think of you as a woman-hating, backward thinking asshat, maybe try not being a woman-hating, backward thinking asshat next time and women won't come to that conclusion about you. Just a thought.