It Continues to Be a Real Mystery Why Republicans Aren't Connecting with a Majority of Female Voters

[Content Note: Misogyny.]

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN???!!!

Rick Perry's latest hire as a top campaign staffer was embroiled in controversy in 2012 over a private email which suggested children's lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president, according to the Des Moines Register.

Jamie Johnson is a longtime Iowa Republican activist who was hired by former Texas governor and likely 2016 presidential candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday to organize conservatives in Iowa and other early primary states. Johnson is a member of the party's state central committee and was a staffer for Rick Santorum's caucus-winning campaign in 2012.

The controversial email, which Johnson sent to a friend in the summer of 2011 and which was then leaked to the Des Moines Register a few months later, included the question, the paper reported: "Is it God's highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will ... to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?"

...In an interview with the Guardian, Johnson emphasized both that it was a private communication and that the email in which he wrote those words was taken out of context.

LOL okay, player. I can't wait to hear the context in which questioning whether "God" wants a women to be president because it might hurt children makes perfect sense.

He said the email was "sent to one person, speaking as a pastor, to someone who is a personal friend of mine". Johnson emphasized this was a "private message" and not intended to be shared publicly.

Oh. That context.


*that face*