Minnesota GOP Congressional Nominee Has Fun, Creative Views On Women, Slavery, Everything

Minnesota Not-So-Nice


Minnesota GOP Congressional Nominee Has Fun, Creative Views On Women, Slavery, Everything


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Minnesota Republicans chose a real winner in their primary for Minnesota’s Second District: a former talk-show host, Jason Lewis, who among other achievements founded a social network for Ayn Rand fans, argued that the federal government probably couldn’t legally outlaw slavery, thinks young women are too dumb to vote, and worries white Americans are on the road to extinction because they aren’t making enough babies. The district tends to vote Democratic, so Democrats who dream of taking back the House of Representatives are no doubt trying to suppress their grins.

Let’s just review some of Lewis’s greatest hits, shall we? On slavery and the civil war, Lewis claimed in his 2011 book, Power Divided Is Power Checked: The Argument for States’ Rights, that the federal government probably didn’t have the power to outlaw slavery, and of course that the Civil War was a fight over states’ right to secede, not really about slavery. Hey, Dinesh D’Souza, looks like we found a Republican who’s OK with slavery! As long as it’s implemented by the states, not the federal government, at least. When he was asked in a 2011 Daily Caller interview if the Civil War had been worth fighting, he talked around the question a bit and finally decided it was “kinda hard to say.”

Then after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, Lewis released an updated version of the audio version of his book, to keep up with new developments, in which he compared marriage equality to slavery, because Logic:
In fact, if you really want to be quite frank about it, how does somebody else owning a slave affect me? It doesn’t. If I don’t think it is right, I won’t own one, and people always say ‘well if you don’t want to marry somebody of the same sex, you don’t have to, but why tell somebody else they can’t. Uh, you know if you don’t want to own a slave, don’t. But don’t tell other people they can’t.


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Then there are his enlightened thoughts on women! Although his radio show has for some reason removed a lot of his older broadcasts, the Star-Tribune thoughtfully transcribed his thoughts from a 2012 broadcast, in which he was shocked, shocked, that women thought their insurance should cover slut supplies:
I never thought in my lifetime where’d you have so many single, or I should say, yeah single women who would vote on the issue of somebody else buying their diaphragm. This is a country in crisis. Those women are ignorant in, I mean, the most generic way. I don’t mean that to be a pejorative. They are simply ignorant of the important issues in life. Somebody’s got to educate them. […] s that really the most important thing to a 25-year old unmarried woman — uh getting me to pay for her pills? Seriously?! Is that what we’ve been reduced to? You can be bought off for that?

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