what are you going to do with mike huckabee and the rest of them? >> you opened it, the chairman and myself, hey, the governor was making a point how the democrats treat women. i don't know we would have used the words that he did, so we do go out there, and i think if you look at the last two years, it's our party, not theirs. wendy davis down in texas attacked greg abbott for not following her footsteps, a guy disabled and can't walk and her staff laughed about it. that's not something i find at all appropriate, yet there seems to be a lack of accountability there. there are official after official on the democrat side from county officials on the way on up that have said completely inappropriate things. all of us should be held to a standard with a better tone and dialogue. you mentioned the chairman's comments a few minutes ago during his speech. there's something we as a party have the most effective policies and positions when it comes to what's best for this country, families and individuals. we have to do it in a way to bring more people int

i was. >> mike huckabee's fox news colleague greta van susteren said, "i like governor huckabee, buts point are insulting to women." but huckabee's friends, who objected to his language, did not object to his factual error. uncle sugar, by which he means the u.s. government, does not provide prescription each month for birth control. it simply requires under the affordable care act that health insurance policies cover birth control. that is what mike huckabee is opposed to. mandating that health insurance policies cover birth control. it sounds like he really doesn't like birth control, but it's very clear that he hates health care mandates, especially the mandate that health insurance policies cover birth control. he just hates it. and he hates it because it is based on the belief that women cannot control their libido without the help of the government. why else would obamacare mandate that health insurance policies cover birth control? there's just no other reason that fox news preacher mike huckabee can think of. but he didn't say anything about anyone's libido when he was govern

and frankly, mike huckabee up there talking about women's libidos, it's -- listening to mike huckabeemen to control their libidos. look, i think that the governor is -- if the governor is going to be the spokesperson for republicans on public policies geared toward women, then democrats have nothing to worry about being the staunch supporter, about being the party that staunchly supports women's issues. and, look, after mitt romney lost back in 2012, the republican party did a lot of soul-searching and was finding ways it could be more inclusive. it discussed immigration reform and talked about needing to win over, you know, somebody other than old white men. and there has been a lot of lip service given to this. right now they're shooting themselves in the foot if they're going to make abortion a central issue of the next campaign with the national security threats that we face, the economic instability and insecurity people face. nobody wants to talk about abortion. >> what is so interesting, they know they have a problem. they took it on task last march. but let me show you somethi

cringe-worthy record of standing up for kentucky's women and families effortlessly aligns with mike huckabee'srhetoric. and debbie wasserman schultz put out this statement. hike huckabee has no idea what he is talking about. if this is the gop rebrand a year later, then all they have gotten is a year older. sam, this question mark here. i looked at the numbers that barack obama probably owes his reelection to women voters, as often is the case for democratic winners, and i also know there will be more women voters in 2016 when the republicans thirst to get the white house back, and hillary clinton looks now to be the nominee or the potential nominee of the democratic party. who are they aiming for among the ranks of women voters with this kind of talk? >> that's a really good question probably best directed to reince priebus or mike huckabee. i think you sort of hit the nail on the head with your last question which is you choose the topics you want to choose. and in this case, they're playing on unfriendly terrain. and i talked to a senior republican who said, you know, it would be best if la

completely agree with mike huckabee.t has been a long time coming. , except for a few -- a fewve -- if yo quacks, have remained silent on the issue. in the last 41 years we have 55 million plus abortions. they are slowly gwendolyn due to technology. -- democrats know that slowly dwindling due to technology. the democrats know that. it is not something more than just sponge. i think what mike huckabee said is good. it is time we took the debate to the country. if you think that 55 million abortions and contraception hasn't been preventing then there is a bit of a libido issue. say -- i cannot believe there are that many women walking around unmarried but who are single moms who think they are nothing more than a uterus walking on two legs. is sandy for virginia. coming up on "the washington --rnal closed quote we are on "washington journal" we are going to be looking at benefits for veterans with tom tarantino. up next we want to introduce you he is the wallance, former assistance u.s. attorney for new york. he was part o

from new york, this is mike huckabee. "justice with jeanine pirro" ke next. the spin stops here, because we're always looking out for you. >>> did you just see that mike huckabee segment on "the factor"? well, you will want to watch what is next. >>> that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido. >> governor mike huckabee in a firestorm over women and birth control. he is here in a kelly file exclusive. and then? >> obama has a dream, a dream from his father. >> the man behind the documentary challenging president obama is now under indictment. see why his supporters think this is political payback. >>> plus, nothing but a 2.0 upgrade. >> the left ramps up its tea party attacks with an eye on the mid-term, we have one fierce debate just ahead. >>> and what about aaron? >> when you put me with a guard like crabtree that is what you're going to get. >> see why one of the favorite sports reporters is getting attacked on the side show. tonight, on "the k

it really isn't even what mike huckabee meant to say.ean, he had a pretty good message -- and overshadowed by a choice of words that -- it was just a little bit off, that's all. >> why did you invite a guy -- when i think about mike huckabee and the things the republican party is trying to do to appeal to different voting groups, mike huckabee on economic populism as a form of reaching out, that would have made sense to me. why did you have mike huckabee -- the last republican in the country, essentially, standing shined todd aiken in 2012, arguably the guy only supporter of todd aiken at some point, why did you invite him to speak on these women's issues? >> chuck, growing our party -- we had, obviously, tim scott. we had rebecca clayfish from wisconsin, mitch mcconnell, mike huckabee, growing a party means you go -- you have to go where you're weak, you have to go where you have to be stronger. you have -- obviously, you have to tap into that type of growth. but you also have to go, too, where you're pretty strong and you want to be st

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture mike huckabee doesn't want democrats plain uncle sugar to women in america as huckaby's attempt to dispel rumors about a republican war on women done more harm than good that and more and tonight's big picture rumble and in the one nine hundred sixty s. and nine hundred seventy s. america's americans fled the cities for the peace and quiet of the suburbs now the children are fleeing the suburbs for the hustle and bustle of the big city is this a trend or is it just a blip on the demographic radar or a sign the suburban life is on its way to the dustbin of history last league gallagher assistant managing editor of fortune magazine and author of a new book on this topic in tonight's conversations with groupon. you need to know this republicans are going green like you know weeds. publicans across country seem to be changing their views on marijuana legalization on tuesday the jersey governor. christie said it's time to end the failed drug war in america on wednesday louisiana governor bobby jindal one of the most conservative governor

day that harvard's kennedy school of government, the institute of politics has announced that mike huckabeeits visiting fellows this spring. where i'm sure the students will have some questions for him. i just want to play a little bit more of what huckabee said today to his republican audience. let's listen to this. >> i think it's time republicans no longer accept listening to the democrats talk about a war on women. because the fact is the republicans don't have a war on women. they have a war for women. for them to be empowered to be something other than victims of their gender. >> joy reid, are you appreciative of the war for you that he just identified? >> if anyone is going to fight for me? i think uncle sugar is who i pretty much want on my side, lawrence. >> the reality is, if you unpack what they're doing at this point, you're seeing the religious right in the republican party move from what really is in terms of polls maybe a sounder ground on the issue of abortion which there is real ambivalence .among the public and a real closer polling, even among women on the questions regar

. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. (applause) and thank you. thank you very much. d welcome to huckabee. from the fox news studios in new york city. okay last week in this very segment, i explained that i think democrats that accuse republicans of a so- called war on women were outrageously insulting and condescending to woman by treating them victims of their jeopardier, for democrats to reduce women for beggars for cheap funded birth control is demeaning to the women i know who are far more complicated that the li biddo and management of the reproductive system. >> well, the reaction on facebook was positive and from women. we got this from christina web. amazing monlog for life. deplore said loving tonight's opening monlog. and carolyn. bravo on your opening monlog. well said. >> and well, folks, i got a strong well educated and capable wife who can do things i can't do and she is a lot tougher than me in many ways. i assure you, she is not helpless. she conquered cancer and raised kids and run disaster relief for the red cross and build houses in the work for ha

mike huckabee is the host of a television program, not an unpopular one.e's not some official republican spokesperson. i also think it's important to keep in mind that if you are going to fault mike huckabee, it's for being ungenerous to democrats rather than insulting women. he was characterizing how democrats think about women. he wasn't saying that women themselves are people who can't run their own lives. >> hillary, i hear you laughing. you've got a smirk on your face. i have heard conservative media say, hey, listen, his comments are being taken out of context on the left. what he's basically saying is that democrats are being condescending to women. >> well, first of all, i've never heard any democrat say that women need to control their libido as a rationale for legitimate family planning and birth control, so these words are actually a figment of mike huckabee's imagination. that's what mike huckabee obviously thinks about women to put those words in somebody else's mouth. it is ridiculous and disrespectful and obnoxious for him to kind of frame i

because as a woman i sit here and say shut up, mike huckabee.e stop talking about our libidos. please stop talking about our sex lives, and please afford us some privacy and human dignity. but as a democrat, again, i'm torn. i want to say please keep talk, mike huckabee, because you are making sure there will be not a single woman who votes republican in the next cycle. your wives will not vote for you. what are you talking about, and why with all the issues that exist in the world for men and women, but for women, why do you keep coming back to this one relatively small issue? why are you obsessed with our libidos? >> maybe michael can help me, because he has consorted with these people. >> poor michael. >> michael, you go into your medicine cabinet and you're a woman, and you open up the medicine cabinet in the bathroom with all the illuminated light or whatever you call it. and you look in and there is this little guy from arkansas, and he is talking to you about your prescription. and you go how did you get in my medicine cabinet? what are y

and i think mike huckabee's problem here is there is a real disjunction sometimes when some republicans who can at times speak rather movingly about the poor, as huckabee has done. but suddenly when you get to these hot button issues that become litmus tests, they get all wrapped up in that social issue politics, and they forget what they have just said about poverty and what needs to be done to alleviate it. >> but melissa, he is not backing down. and clearly, if he continues in this way through the midterm elections in the 16, it begins putting pressure on a more moderate candidate and who may be having a chance at winning the white house. because huckabee today in fact came out saying that, a, if you support me, send some money to my pac. and i think that when you look at the fact that he is not backing down and you have this kind of growth, he says get ready for more of this talk, this is huckabee. and if you agree with me and want to keep calling it like i see it, please give an immediate donation to my political action committee. that would be scary to me if i was trying to give t

thanks for having me. >> okay, we have to start with former arkansas governor mike huckabee.was coming. he is saying uncle sugar has to provide birth control because women can't control their preproductive system without the help of the government? he says democrats are insulting women with this thinking. but many would fiercely argue that huckabee is the one being offensive here. >> yeah. you know, he sounds like a conservative shock jock. actually, that's what his day job is right now. there are some people are wondering whether he'll run for president in 2016. but i got to make a point here and that is that more than a year ago if you think back the republican establish. and leadership came out and said that they were going to try a rebranding effort after the 2012 electi election. but comments like that are ammunition to critics that perhaps those changes were nothing more than a marketing ploy. and already we've seen democrats question us. it's one thing, betty, to question obamacare. but it's another thing to use that rhetoric. >> yes. it's interesting rebranding if thi

it is almost like, we're talking about the debate on mike huckabee.tuff. you don't have to call people liars, if your argument is strong enough, you don't have to mock religion, but their argument is weaker. >> in their world they believe this is edgy and rebellious, and gets attention. >> sure, sure, but we have to do it because this stuff is part of the landscape in america. >> and mohammed, that would be out of the question. >> absolutely. they wouldn't do it for judaism or muslims, but they do it for christianity. >>> and justin bieber. >> isn't that a little too easy? >> no, because people are punishing him for other reasons, not mine. you don't drag race in a car, because no one can win the pink slip. >> i don't know what that means. >> if you're going to drag race, the ownership, the pink slip, you can't drag race in a car that you don't own. and also the crime doesn't involve turpitude, his crime immigrant moral twerpitude. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, i will now be leaving? >> do you think the wind did that to his hair? >> he is unbelieva

>> i have news for mike huckabee.'t know how it is in his household but most guys i talk to are saying that their wives guess prescriptions once a month not because of the wives libido but because they are afraid of other people's libido inside the house is going to get them pregnant. i don't think it goes that way with most of the guys that i talk to. oh, my god, my wife, my wife is just going crazy! she is having to go out and get that pill! >> they should not talk about -- scrap the word libido. >> what is the point that have? did he say that women are -- i'm just going to say -- >> i think they are trying to turn back and what the winter meeting wanted to do is turn back the war on women message and get that away from democrats so when these conversations do come up for people who are pro life that it isn't already -- >> that is very intellectual. >> he is saying only thing democrats care about is access to birth control pills. >> what was the point? >> he did just say what mika just said, that was the last part a

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debbie wasserman schultz says "mike huckabee has no idea what he's talking about. this is the gop rebrand a year later, all they've done is gotten a year older." huckabee made the remarks at a conference where less than an hour later, reince priebus held a meeting on gop rebranding. >> alison, how can the party better connect with independent women on our conservative principles? >> i think right now there's an opportunity to reach out to women. >> the gop chairman surrounded by republican women talking about the outreach program he launched a year ago after mitt romney lost heavily to president obama among women and the party lost a number of what were expected to be fairly easy senate races in part because of republican candidates and gop supporters saying some things like these. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> what does it say about the college coed, susan fluke, who goes before a congressi

because again, that is the whole reason why mike huckabee went down this road.ecause they understand inside the republican party that democrats have been very successful about branding republicans as waging a war on women. that's why it's during this three-day meeting that the republicans have been having here in washington they have been trying to urge republican candidates to not just, as the rnc chair said to me, take a punch. not just to be sitting ducks. they want to be more aggressive in fighting back in order to try to appeal to women. the problem is that the road to appealing to women has pitfalls when you don't articulate it the way that you should. and democrats as you said, wasted no time in pouncing. they put up a video online in about a half an hour and they're trying to frame this in a way that republicans would rather not. >> on a lot of liberal web sites as well obviously throughout the day. dana bash, appreciate it. >>> today the nation's best-known fugitive from justice held an online q and a session. the law enforcement signalled a willingness

well, mike huckabee is not backing down. he is doubling down as we enter day two of libido-gate. >> some of you may become somewhat uncomfortable as parts of this film unfold, but i think if you will listen carefully, you will agree that the concepts will contribute to the rearing of a mature person who has a healthy, responsible attitude towards the sexual side of his life. >> given the gop's track record of talking to women about their own reproductive health, the rnc's winter meeting was the perfect opportunity to roll out a new, more female friendly republican party. instead, they got this. >> if the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. >> but this was no off-the-cuff remark. huckabee had said something similar before, as in this past saturday. >> for d

from new york this is mike huckabee. tion each month for birth control because they cannot control their bib bid doe. >> mike huckabee in the center of a firestorm over women and birth control. he's here to react in a kelly file exclusive. and then... >> obama has a dream. >> the man behind a documentary challenging president obama is now under indictment. see why his supporters think this is political pay back. plus...

a big problem for the republicans right now, mike huckabee's comments?ublicans did not do well with women in the 2012 elections. >> this lack of discipline is a real problem for republicans and no one on my side of the aisle has been more willing to admonish republicans. on this particular incident, though, i've got to say that i feel like i'm in the twilight zone. it's so 100% clear that mike huckabee was talking about the democratic treatment towards women and not his own feeling or the republican party's feeling about women. i have never seen lazier, more intellectually dishonest analysis of this moment than i have today. i mean, it's shocking to me. it is clear what mike huckabee's intention was here. >> well, the way that i interpreted that is the contraception policy, which allows women to get contraception with no out of pocket costs makes them dependent on uncle sugar. >> it's supposed to be uncle sam. >> if the democrats want to insalt the women of america by making them believe they are helpless without uncle sugar. i don't understand where rep

>> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> thank you. ome stew hto "huckabee." >> i thinks democrats who accuse republicans of a so-called war on women were insulting to women treating them as victim thousands of their gender. for democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government funded birth control is demeaning to the women that i know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. the reaction on facebook was overwhelmingly positive and overwhelmingly from women. we got this from kristina web who said amazing monologue for life. lori said loving tonight's opening monologue. from caroline, bravo on the opening monologue. well-said. folks, i got a strong, ewell educated capable wife. she can do things i can't do. and a lot tougher thanways, she conquered cancer, raised kids. run disaster relief for the red cross and built houses for people in poch poverty in work habitat for humanity. i explained saying women wouldn't survive without the government bailing them out with free aborti

and mike huckabee is usually a better politician than this. he should be aware of it whether or not he thinks the words are misinterpreted. you can't leave your words open to be misinterpreted if you're a republican, national figure, talking about women's issue given what has happened within the party and to the party over the last four or five years. >> susan, take a look at what nicolle wallace had to say on quts morning joe, former romney and white house adviser. >> i don't think any man should sit around and talk about female libido on television or in a stump speech. i think as a political matter, keeping it focused on what you're for instead of trying to characterize the democrats' efforts would have been wiser. >> susan, while we talk about this, let's talk about another issue, gender issue, if you will. this makes me crazy. full disclosure, this is another cover on hillary clinton. we saw the "time" cover and i asked nancy gibbs about that with the high heel last week. this is the sunday "new york times" magazine, planet hillary. when

former arkansas governor mike huckabee gave a keynote address. here is a little bit of his speech.video clip] >> i think it is time that republicans no longer accept listening to democrats talking about a war on women. because the

i was looking at cecile richards, who came out in defense of mike huckabee.ead of concerned women for america. and she said, "the president and others have profited politically from the false narrative that women are weak and need big government to be our savior." if you want to look at this in another light, is it good to get the debate out there, because i think a lot of folks figured, yes, the abortion question was still out there, but birth control kind of still wasn't on the table, and it does seem to be and maybe the debate needs to be out there, people need to understand what the questions are. >> well, you know, we had gotten to a point where even if you've disagreed with a woman's right to choose an abortion, i mean, 99% of women of reproductive age have used birth control. it's the responsible thing and the healthy thing for women to do, not only for their own bodies, but for their families. and i wasn't quite sure, chris, about that quote about cecile richards. >> i'm sorry, it was penny nance. let me just correct that. >> i was going to say, doesn

i think it's going to be mike huckabee. now, let's put into context here.s doing was saying that republicans are not waging a war on women, that they are waging a war for women and he accused democrats of trying to portray women as some weak figures who need protection. but this is the way he phrased it. >> if the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it, let us take that discussion all across america, because women are far more than the democrats have played them to be, and women across america need to stand up and say enough of that nonsense. >> that was mike huckabee trying to say that women don't need birth control and the democrats shouldn't be demeaning them by making them appear so weak. but the way he phrased it is only going to add to this past arguments and continuing arguments about

let's talk about the controversial comments from mike huckabee. he descended the gop against -- defended the gop against allegations on the war on women. now why scientists are having trouble tracking where >> mike huckabee says democrats have invented a phony gop war on women to lower female voters. he made the remark at a pub -- republican committee meeting in washington. >> they want to make women believe that women are helpless because they cannot control their libido or the reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. >> during his speech, he said the gop needs to broaden its appeal and its internal divisiveness. in 2008 and is considering another white house run. arrest wasieber's enough to bring him to tears. the 19-year-old pop star cried his alice -- cried his eyes out after appearing in court. he was released on $2500 bond after being charged with dui, dragracing, and driving on an expired license in miami. the prosecutor says his fame will not affect his case. >> everyone gets treated the same. the laws the law

i mean, mike huckabee doesn't have a massagistic bone in his body. daughter made over 800 phone calls for mike huckabee in iowa and my wife wouldn't put up for anybody like that. >> why would priebus come out and say, we've got to watch our words. >> this is what we're talking about t about. the over reaction. >> really, over reaction? >> the reason priebus is upset is because the republican men talking about contraception, about women's sexuality, has just not really gone very well for the gop over the last two cycles. and, you know, they've been trying to move past this. the hout republican caucus has actually had classes for their gop congressmen over the last six months on how to talk about women and how to show more respect in their political rhetoric around women. you know, and this is exactly why they need that. >> but it's a catch-22, isn't it, because how do you appeal to women without talking about things and issues that appeal to women? >> well, the way you talking about issues is to put women in -- if huckabee had just started with his ec

. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >>> thank you. is a great audience here in new york and we are so glad to have you, welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. well, there is one thing standing in the way of republicans adding to the majority in the house and releasing the september from harry reid from the democratic foils and that was other republicans. jesus said a house divided against itself can't stand. and neither jesus' statement and obama care have been repealed. many are not finding enough work to pay their bills and the economy favoring those connected with washington and wall street. and our standing in the world bungled by policies like spying on other leaders. if something doesn't change it is going to be a disaster for republicans. and we run the risk of seeing nancy pelosi back in the speaker's chair. republicans, my audience doesn't like that too much! but republicans shouldn't allow the parties process hijacked by advertising campaigns. provide weapons so that conservative can slice other cons

. >> mike huckabee in the center of a firestorm over women and birth control. he's here to react in a kelly file exclusive. and then... >> obama has a dream. >> the man behind a documentary challenging president obama is now under indictment. see why his supporters think this is political pay back. plus... >> nothing but a 2.0 upgrade. >> the left rants up in tea party attacks with an eye on the mid term. we have one fierce bee date just ahead. >> what about aaron? >> that's the result you are going to get! >> see why one of america's favorite sports reporters is now getting attacked by the sherman side show tonight on "the kelly file." >> breaking tonight the man at the heart of a new political firestorm peoples out on the kelly file. >> for more than 24-hours we have seen fierce criticism being leveled against former arkansas governor mike huckabee over remarking he made at a republican national committee meeting yesterday. dana bash taking to twitter to say, at rnc meeting@mike huckabee said fed government shouldn't help women who can't control their libido

it really isn't even what mike huckabee meant to say. i mean, he had a pretty good message -- >> i'm just curious, though. >> and overshadowed by a choice of words that it was just a little bit off. that's all. >> actually, mike huckabee completely meant what he said. here he is defending his comments this weekend. >> i think they wanted to change the subject. because if they were honest, they would have to admit that democrats are the ones who have denigrated women and demeaned them. >> of course. >> by the way, the uncle sugar comment, some of them were scratching their heads. what does that mean? is there something hidden? if you lived in the south, you have heard the term, uncle sugar, uncle sam. when he becomes a sugar daddy, he becomes uncle sugar. >> oh, good. now that we know who uncle sugar, it isn't offensive at all. but the war on women isn't about word choice. it's about anti-women policies. tomorrow, the house will consider yet another anti-choice bill. at the state level, more abortion restrictions have been enacted in the

did you see the mike huckabee speech? >> i did. >> that was unscripted, right?o. >> mm-mmm, let's talk about mike huckabee and how women are responding this morning after the break. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. he was a matted messiley etables in a small cage. ng day. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie's list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie's list. join today at angieslist.com >>> welcome back to "early start," everyone. this morning there are some raised eyebrows after the republican party's rebranding efforts towards women had an interesting twist yesterday, shall we say, thanks to some comments from former republican presidential candidate m

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mike huckabee and his comments regarding women and the democratic party. let me play for our audience a little of what he said and get more on how the crowd reacted. let's play it. >> and if the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it, let us take that discussion all across america, because women are far more than the democrats have played them to be, and women across america need to stand up and say enough of that nonsense. >> obviously this is following up on what democrats called a war on women, directed at women by the gop. what was the reaction from the crowd there? >> well, tamron, just as you said, this language that huckabee used was actually in the context of discussing the war on women and the way that democrats have framed the gender gap between the two parties at this point. and w