“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’s take that discussion all across America, because women are far more than Democrats have made them out to be.”
-- Mike Huckabee addressing a Republican National Committee meeting
Hey, ladies, listen up. Mike Huckabee
Gets where you gals are at. The GOP
Rejects those Uncle Sugar Democrats
Who want you doing it like alley cats
While taxpayers shell out for your libidos.
We live by holier free-market credos.
You do the reproductive heavy lifting,
We do your thinking for you. We are gifting
You with a chance to raise your girlish voices
And cry, “Please, fellas, take away our choices.
Please give us more deception and distortion
Regarding contraception and abortion.
We don’t want rights. We don’t want dignity.
Give us prescription-strength Mike Huckabee.”
Chris O’Carroll is a writer and an actor. In addition to his previous New Verse News appearances, he has published poems in BigCityLit, the Kansas City Star, Lighten Up Online, Umbrella, and the Washington Post, among other print and online journals, and also in the anthologies The Best of the Barefoot Muse and 20 Years at the Cantab Lounge.