Huckabee: I wish I could've identified as female in high school gym

CNN ^ | Tue June 2, 2015 | Eric Bradner

[MinorityRepublican]

Washington (CNN)Mike Huckabee says there's a time he wishes he could've been transgender: When it was time to hit the high school showers.

If he "could have felt like a woman," the Republican former Arkansas governor joked earlier this year, then he could have seen his female classmates without their clothes on.

"Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE," Huckabee said.

"I'm pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, 'Coach, I think I'd rather shower with the girls today.' You're laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn't it?"

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What a numbskull.

[KC_Lion]

Ohh... That kind falls flat there.

I have joked many times that I tried to get my parents to send me to an All Girls School (wink!)

But coming from Huckabee, that is kinda, ehh!

[dp0622]

I wouldn’t vote for him but he has a point. it is ridiculous. but not to a lot of Americans.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Guess he’s no longer running for President.

Wow...

[Norm Lenhart]

Nope. I’m no fan of Huck but he nailed it here.

[Celtic Conservative]

It’s not unusual to think things like this.
It is however, almost always unfortunate to say them out loud in public.

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[Vendome]

Not for Huck but, he nailed it and when you get beyond the headline....well....

“I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’ You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?”

[Norm Lenhart]

Granted, he’s far from the best delivery vehicle for the line, but it needs to be said and said often.

Or like us...er I meant some of my classmates (YEA!) he could have become familiar with crawlspaces and plumbing fixtures ;)

[Norm Lenhart]

No it is unfortunate we don’t. Thats why gays now rule America. No one spoke up.

[South40]

SOunds like something that pervert Bill Clintoon would say.

Must be an Arkansas thing.

[GeronL]

Huckabee outs self as perv

[cuban leaf]

In the US it is easier to get elected than get hired.

Apparently.

[rabidralph]

Yep.

[cuban leaf]

It’s not unusual to think things like this.
It is however, almost always unfortunate to say them out loud in public.

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Precisely. I know what was mean by the phrase “legitimate rape”, but the way it was said was a career killer.

Same here.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

He’s an idiot. Wouldn’t mind him playing bass behind my pedal steel,,, but that’s about all.

[Vigilanteman]

No fan of Huck, but this might actually win him a few points with the male adolescent crowd.

[MSF BU]

I wish he could of identified as ‘recruit’ at Fort Benning when he was younger.

[vmivol00]

We used to treat the mentally ill. Now we put them every on the cover of Vanity Fair, encourage their behavior, and exploit the hell out of them.

[choctaw man]

Oft times it’s better to keep one’s mouth shut.