Oh no, Rubio, Cruz and Trump side with the baby killers
by digby
I have to admit that I find this hilarious:
At the end of last night's GOP debate, moderator Jake Tapper asked the candidates which woman they would choose to put on the $10 bill. Several of the 11 candidates on stage named their daughters or wives. Mike Huckabee awkwardly poked fun at his wife's spending habits in nominating her. "That way," he said, "she could spend her own money with her face!"
But Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump went for gravitas. All three picked Rosa Parks, the civil rights leader whose refusal to give up her seat sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, to be the first woman pictured on US paper currency. "An everyday American that changed the course of history," said Rubio. "She was a principled pioneer that helped change this country," noted Cruz, clarifying that he would put her on the $20 bill, in order to keep Founding Father Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.
The candidates are right that Parks was a "principled pioneer," but her advocacy went beyond racial justice. Later in life, Parks was an avid supporter of Planned Parenthood, and she even served on its board.
Hahahahaha!
Sorry boys, when you appropriate liberal icons to pretend that you care about equality and liberty when you only care about such things for people whose ideology conforms with your own, this is the sort of confusion that happens. Rosa Parks believed women had rights too.
Best stick with naming their wives and mothers. Let's face it, those are the only women they respect anyway.
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