Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the letter from reader Jeffrey Paul, “Rep. Akin’s words proof of misogyny in GOP,” published in the Daily Lobo last Thursday. In the letter, Paul argues Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) and Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) are recent examples of the GOP “driving the bus off the moral cliff.”
Editor,
Jeffrey Paul starts with bizarre remarks by Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) in “Rep. Akin’s words proof of misogyny in GOP” in Thursday’s Daily Lobo. To this he adds an insensitive comment by Rush Limbaugh and a supposed vote by Paul Ryan to find a GOP “War on Women.” Does Paul expect a university audience to generalize from this scant evidence to the thinking of an entire political party?
But, since it’s been started, let’s play Paul’s little game.
Former President Bill Clinton was a serial woman abuser. He was accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape, respectively, by Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick. The only case to come to trial resulted in Clinton paying an $850,000 settlement to Jones, and perjuring himself with regard to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In 1969, former Sen. Ted Kennedy did not report for nine hours that he drove a vehicle off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Clinton and Kennedy, leaders of the Democratic Party, didn’t utter stupid words; they did awful deeds.
Now, finishing Paul’s little game — which party has a “War on Women?”
Donald Gluck
UNM student
