Howie Cowie repeats his error for Calvitto
In the Rapid City Journal this AM, Celeste Calvitto's column covers the Gordon Howie "I should have never have said that gaffe" where he refers to women as cows.
Gordon Howie enrages people who don't share his views? How about "he irritates people with his stupid ignorance?"
On a purely political standpoint, implying that women are akin to cows just makes them mad. And mad women will not vote for you.
I'm someone who has said before, and will continue to say, that we need more women elected to office in the Republican party. And I have 5 daughters whom I would like to be active Republicans in the party as they mature.
And having Gordon Howie being such an unabashed boob is not helping the GOP cause when he says stupid things like that.
(Consider that the SDWC beating you about the head and shoulders).
"We place value on life in South Dakota, and even with a mother cow, as soon as you can demonstrate she is pregnant, an even higher value is placed just because she is pregnant," Howie said. "I said that, and it was a clumsy way to make a point. I probably deserve to be beat upon the head and shoulders for it."and...
Howie said he "enrages" people who don't share his views "because I just don't mince words. I don't choose them well, either. ... Any person who really knows who I am knows I don't place women and livestock on the same level."Read it all here (And you should have already, since I've told you to get a subscription like I have).
Gordon Howie enrages people who don't share his views? How about "he irritates people with his stupid ignorance?"
On a purely political standpoint, implying that women are akin to cows just makes them mad. And mad women will not vote for you.
I'm someone who has said before, and will continue to say, that we need more women elected to office in the Republican party. And I have 5 daughters whom I would like to be active Republicans in the party as they mature.
And having Gordon Howie being such an unabashed boob is not helping the GOP cause when he says stupid things like that.
(Consider that the SDWC beating you about the head and shoulders).
Comments
, where in the world did you learn to read? As quoted, Gordon’s statement was "We place value on life in South Dakota, and even with a mother cow, as soon as you can demonstrate she is pregnant, an even higher value is placed just because she is pregnant." Unless you maintain that Gordon’s statement was different from that quoted, must you be so politically correct that his statement can somehow be misconstrued as “insensitive”? By what stretch of an overactive imagination does his statement imply that women are akin to cows? I would be delighted if all five of your daughters enter the Republican party when they mature, but to deliberately misconstrue the meaning of someone’s statement because you happen to disagree does not set high standards in logic, and I would maintain that the “unabashed boob” might be suitable for your very own lapel.
Gary Howie
PS Gordon certainly doesn’t claim to be perfect, and my own views may actually be closer to yours than to his on some topics. Yet I will actively support Gordon because I know him well, admire what he is and what he has accomplished, and consider myself very fortunate to be his brother. I place a very high value on integrity and a willingness to be candid, and I have no need to deliberately misconstrue the intent or statements of those with whom I disagree. Shouldn't we all lean (Oh, my! By your standards I may now be disparaging the weight-challenged) a little more that way?
First, you have no idea of how conservative I am, or are not. I suspect I'm quite a bit more conservative than you or your brother are, but I also try to be objective in how I look at politics. (18 years of involvement in SD Republican politics have taught me that much).
Secondly, you're assuming that examining the statement "intellectually" means diddly. Because it doesn't. Anyone who reads it, or hears it, keys in on two concepts: cows and women. And that's it. It was a debate about pregnancy, and he brought a cattle into it.
I've spoken with women, and leaders in the life movement in SD, and in all cases, they absolutely cringe that someone would let that come out of their mouth. Because the only thing that will be remembered is that he compared women to cows.
And from a political standpoint, that's what any opposition (R or D) is going to use against him - and ANY time he tries to defend it, he's going to discuss the statement again (as he did with Celeste Calvitto)and everyone will become that much more acquainted with it.
Looking at it intellectually is moot. It's how it's going to be viewed by voters on a knee-jerk basis that he needs to worry about.
That, and what I hear through the grapevine the dems are planning on hitting him with. I hear it's a doozy.
And the majority of run of the mill voters I've spoken with (and as mentioned, I asked women and leaders in the SD pro-life movement) they don't think it was a smart thing.
The topic at hand was "Human Abortion," which typically involved human females. The illustrative situation that Gordon invoked involved that value of cattle.
Seems to me that the value of pregnant cows was used to illustrate why we should value unborn human life (as typically carried by women).
And as my own wife commented when I asked her opinion, she said "trust me, women don't like to be compared with cows."