'Abominable doucherocket': Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky explains why conservative women are so dumb

That’s the least he could do.

Yesterday, Kirsten Kukowski, an RNC press secretary, appeared on MSNBC to discuss the so-called gender wage gap. The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky got a big kick out of it, because conservative woman:

Apparently @mtomasky believes the only people who can talk about women are democrats… and him #waronconservativewomen

— Kirsten Kukowski (@kakukowski) April 9, 2014

In story that drips with sexism, @mtomasky tells me how to talk to women http://t.co/3xMojdZ7az

— Kirsten Kukowski (@kakukowski) April 9, 2014

According to Tomasky, conservative women are better off being seen and not heard:

New Column: Repubs don't want women to have equal pay. They've proven it many times. Believe them. http://t.co/FYTZ38McUS via @thedailybeast

— Michael Tomasky (@mtomasky) April 9, 2014

Here are some highlights:

OK, on reflection, I do feel a little sorry for her. That she had only gibberish to spout in response to that question isn’t really her fault. It’s the fault of her party, all those men in her party, all those Southern men and their Southern beliefs and ways. One is tempted to believe that Republicans vote against things like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act because of the demands of their corporate contributors, and that’s undoubtedly true, to some extent. But it isn’t corporate benefactors who make Todd Akin and some of these other men say the batshit crazy things about women they say. That’s culture.

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Kukowski had nothing to say because George W. Bush sat in the White House for eight years, six of them with a compliant Republican Congress, and never passed or that I can recall even introduced or even talked about one bill aimed at workplace gender fairness. She had nothing to say because since Barack Obama became president, the Republicans have voted no no no on any measure of this sort. Four Senate Republicans did vote aye on Lilly Ledbetter back in 2009. Yep, you guessed it: the “girls”—Collins, Hutchison, Murkowski, Snowe. Not a single man. In the House, Ledbetter got three.

It’s partly a corporate thing, a business thing. But mostly it’s cultural. Women just aren’t supposed to be that pushy. “All Republicans support equal pay for equal work,” claimed the first sentence of the memo Kukowski and two colleagues released Tuesday. Of course, they have to say that. But obviously, all Republicans do not, or they’d have done something, on their terms, during those six years Bush and Denny Hastert and Bill Frist were running things. Very few Republicans do. Especially the Southern ones, who by and large run the party, or at least provide its cultural ballast. It isn’t how they were raised, and it doesn’t feel right to them. They think the Paycheck Fairness Act has its origins in that night when a likkered-up Mickey Gilley slashed Johnny Paycheck’s tires.

Shorter Tomasky: Damn sexist southern Republicans … Also, can you believe conservative women are so stupid?

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/453915024948330496

Very impressive.

Don't worry, ladies! @mtomasky must have been trying out #irony in a piece about how sexist "other" men can be. #oink http://t.co/njFQ80WaTi

— Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons) April 9, 2014

#mansplaining brought to you by @mtomasky. Refers to republican female senators as "girls." #classy http://t.co/njFQ80WaTi

— Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/lordhelmet832/status/453926272100753408

tool of day award goes to @dailybeast @mtomasky for demeaning women political operatives

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/453914523150188544

Thank goodness I have a man to explain the female experience to me…and a wedding he went to once. #really @mtomasky http://t.co/njFQ80WaTi

— Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons) April 9, 2014

PSA for ladies: If you don't introduce yourself to @mtomasky, you dont believe in #equalpay. #Pushy

— Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons) April 9, 2014

We call that mansplaining, @whignewtons, @mtomasky seems to think he's good at it.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 9, 2014

Which R women aren't "pushy" enough @mtomasky? Senators u called "girls" or female marines protecting your freedom to write drivel? #oink

— Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons) April 9, 2014

Wait @whignewtons, so lefties have banned bossy but pushy is appropriate? OKAY @mtomasky

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/453886684690518016

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/453916263186571264

@hboulware @mtomasky Ladies: if you think this is bad, you should see them drive!

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/hboulware/statuses/453916976125992961

.@hboulware @mtomasky It's amazing they can make it to the polls with all the fainting and swooning!

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/453917683025580032

.@hboulware @mtomasky Particularly when we're expected to be barefoot all the time, leaving the kitchen is such a pain.

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/hboulware/statuses/453918390600482816

.@hboulware @mtomasky To be fair, they'd have to leave their cooking and cleaning and then what would their husbands do?

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) April 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/453919461838290944

Hi @mtomasky, where is your article about the White House paying women less than men as Obama whines about gender equality?

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 9, 2014

@hboulware Being liberal means never having to account for your personal #waronwomen. @mtomasky @kakukowski

— Spam Elliot (@jones4440) April 9, 2014

It was VERY kind of @mtomasky to #mansplain to me my role as a conservative woman today. #sarcasm #waronconservativewomen

— Ellie Hockenbury (@EllieHockenbury) April 9, 2014

Michael’s quite a catch.