He ‘Doesn’t Care About’ GOP’s Future: Abby Huntsman Hits Erick Erickson For Calling Wendy Davis ‘Abortion Barbie’

Co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle and daughter of former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Abby Huntsman, savaged Fox News Channel contributor and RedState.com co-founder Erick Erickson on Wednesday. Speaking with MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, Huntsman said that when Erickson called Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) “abortion Barbie,” he demonstrated that he “doesn’t care about the future of the Republican Party.”

“It is a bit embarrassing that Abortion Barbie doesn’t even have her facts straight on Kermit Gosnell considering abortion is her issue,” Erickson recently tweeted.

“It’s stupidity,” Huntsman said when asked to react to this statement.

“When you use the word stupidity, that suggests irrationality,” Bashir interjected. “This is an educated, highly articulate man describing Wendy Davis as an abortion Barbie.”

“He also knows exactly what he’s saying,” Huntsman agreed. “He knows how offensive that is.”

“He wants the people to get excited about that and rally behind him,” she continued. “What he clearly doesn’t care about is the future of the Republican Party, that clearly has a serious problem with women, and that language isn’t going to invite women into the party.”

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Huntsman added that, “as a Republican women,” she found Erickson’s tweet offensive and hopes that sort of discourse is discouraged.

Watch the clip below via MSNBC:

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