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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJD Vance tries, fails to clean up his 'childless cat ladies' mess
Addressing his childless cat ladies controversy, Vance wants people to know he has "nothing against cats." The Republican is badly missing the point.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vance-tries-fails-clean-childless-cat-ladies-mess-rcna163862
The future senator specifically included Vice President Kamala Harris who has step-children, but no biological children of her own in his societal condemnation.
Link to tweet
......As part of an apparent attempt to put things right, the Ohioan sat down with Megyn Kelly today and addressed the controversy, arguing:
Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. Ive got nothing against cats. ... But look, this is not people are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said, and the substance of what I said, Megyn, Im sorry, its true. It is true that weve become anti-family. It is true that the left has become anti-child.
I have a hunch this wont make matters better. For one thing, for Vance to say he has nothing against cats suggests hes under the impression that the controversy is feline-related. Its not. The underlying question is about whether he has something against women, not something against cats.
For another, his 2021 comments were many things, but they werent sarcastic. On the contrary, he appears to have doubled down on the comments that sparked the controversy in the first place.
Finally, if Vance has credible evidence of liberals being anti-child, hes kept it well hidden.
I can appreciate why the vice presidential hopeful is trying to clean up his mess, but Vance has had plenty of time to work out a defense, and if nothing against cats is the best he can come up with, the Republicans problem is likely to linger for a while.
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mobeau69
(11,389 posts)Ms. Toad
(35,131 posts)The childless cat ladies comment (in which he included Pete Buttigieg . . . ahem, homophobia anyone?) was at least made before Buttigieg actually had children.
I didn't recall the comment from the time, and thought it was something he had said recently.
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,249 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(50,249 posts)onetexan
(13,460 posts)Scrivener7
(52,011 posts)the author of the editorial seems to think Vance doesn't realize that the problem with his original statement was not that Vance has something against cats but that he has something against women.
I think Vance knows exactly what he's doing when he says now, "I've got nothing against cats." I think the whole statement was meant to be a wink to assure his base that he was and remains a person who DOES have something against women. I believe that was completely intentional. And I think Vance thinks he's being hilarious by saying it.
As the Harris campaign said: he's just weird and creepy.
Freethinker65
(10,686 posts)JFC.
The guy is pro-fertilization and pro-birth. He is anti-child and anti-family.