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MI Congressional Candidate A Long-Time Opponent of Women's Sufferage

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Your Republican Party at work, America....

A Michigan candidate for the US House backed by former President Donald Trump once railed against giving women the right to vote, arguing that America has “suffered” since women’s suffrage.

John Gibbs, who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the early 2000s praising an organization trying to repeal the 19th Amendment which also argued that women’s suffrage had made the United States into a “totalitarian state.”

As a student at Stanford University in the early 2000s, Gibbs founded a self-described “think tank” called the Society for the Critique of Feminism that argued women did not “posess (sic) the characteristics necessary to govern,” and said men were smarter than women because they are more likely to “think logically about broad and abstract ideas in order to deduce a suitable conclusion, without relying upon emotional reasoning.”

Hosted on Gibbs’ personal page at Stanford in 2000 and 2001, the Society for the Critique of Feminism argued for a patriarchal society run by men, calling it “the best model for the continued success of a society.”

Anne Marie Schieber, a spokesperson for Gibbs’ campaign told CNN that Gibbs believed women should be allowed to vote and work.

“John made the site to provoke the left on campus and to draw attention to the hypocrisy of some modern-day feminists. It was nothing more than a college kid being over the top,” she said in an email. “Of course, John does not believe that women shouldn’t vote or shouldn’t work, and his mother worked for thirty-three years for the Michigan Department of Transportation!”

Gibbs requested the website for the think tank be removed from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in 2016, according to a spokesman for the Internet Archive. But CNN’s KFile reviewed it on a different archiving service.

On the site, Gibbs actively argued against women being granted the right to vote, saying it led to an enlarged federal government. “Some argue that in a democratic society, it is hypocritical or unjust for women, who are 50% of the population, not to have the vote,” Gibbs’ website read. “This is obviously not true, since the founding fathers, who understood liberty and democracy better than anyone, did not believe so. In addition, all people under age 18 cannot vote, although they too comprise a significant portion of the population. So we cannot say that women should be able to vote simply because they are a large part of the population.”
 
Lol! In 2000! My political stance has changed dramatically in 22 years like abortion. Desperate junk article!
 
Lol! In 2000! My political stance has changed dramatically in 22 years like abortion. Desperate junk article!
Doesn't matter; he's your candidate and where the hell do you get off complaining?

Your side elected a decades-long grifter, mobbed-up real estate hack and thrice-married serial sexual predator so spare up the moralizing, m'ikay?
 
Doesn't matter;

Peoples opinions changing over decades doesn’t matter???



he's your candidate and where the hell do you get off complaining?

Complaining?


Your side elected a decades-long grifter,

We didn’t vote for Barry.



mobbed-up real estate hack

😂


and thrice-married serial sexual predator so spare up the moralizing, m'ikay?

Being married multiple times now makes you a sexual predator 😂
 
Peoples opinions changing over decades doesn’t matter???
If you're going to use someone's past opinions against them (remember Bernie Sanders' alleged rape-fantasy writings from the early 70's?) then poring over your side's candidates for dirt is fair game. Our side can play from the Lee Atwater School as well.
Complaining?
You guys complain whenever we try to hold Trump to account but then you scream bloody f'n'ing murder when someone on your side also does something....
We didn’t vote for Barry.
I was talking about Trump; focus, Floridian....
Being married multiple times now makes you a sexual predator 😂
Trump cheated on Wife #1 with his second, then cheated on #2 with now-wife number 3. Come to think of it, he also sexually assaulted a couple dozen women (remember "grab them by the pussy"?)...
 
If you're going to use someone's past opinions against them (remember Bernie Sanders' alleged rape-fantasy writings from the early 70's?) then poring over your side's candidates for dirt is fair game.

Never heard about those😂 He believed food lines were great back then and the best thing since government sliced bread today though. Even though I wouldn’t use it against him today when there is plenty of bad things from his past he still believes today. I’m going to say fantasizing raping someone and not allowing women to vote is not even remotely the same.





Our side can play from the Lee Atwater School as well.

Please, let’s do it and it will be clear who is the worst.


You guys complain whenever we try to hold Trump to account but then you scream bloody f'n'ing murder when someone on your side also does something....

When you have something actual let me know. You take a bit of fact and mix in a ton of bullshit which makes it a load of stinking nothing.



I was talking about Trump; focus, Floridian....

We know, a lot of rent do in many brains thanks to trump.


Trump cheated on Wife #1


Which 70% of our presidents have done. Which most of the worlds leaders in the past have done while getting their people through the hardest times. It made good leaders flawed men.



with his second, then cheated on #2 with now-wife number 3.


Read above.


Come to think of it, he also sexually assaulted a couple dozen women (remember "grab them by the pussy"?)...

And there is the bullshit I mentioned above, but if you find a diary from I don’t know?? Say a daughter that wrote about a dad raping her you let me know.
 
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