What’s With Republicans and Phone Sex?

Sure are an awful lot of "wrong numbers" hanging around the Republican Party these days.

The Republican Party has made it pretty clear recently that they have a lot of interest in getting inside the American bedroom, between attempts to cut of reproductive health access and declaring marriage as only a legal arrangement fit for members of the opposite sex.  But maybe they are thinking about sex a little too much these days?

For the second time in under two months, Republicans have launched a new initiative, with its own 800 number, and accidentally gave out a phone sex hotline number instead.

Note to GOPers looking to brand a clever slogan: 1-800-CUT-GOVT, which certainly sounds like a Republican spending-slashing enterprise, is actually a phone-sex line.

A call to the number (which an HOH tipster pointed out sounds a bit like the “YouCut” initiative that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor rolled out Wednesday) is greeted with a breathy message. “Ooh, baby,” a woman’s voice intones. “Want to play with me and my hot friends?”

Clearly, she’s not hot for fiscal conservatism either, judging from the rest of the message.

You would think that they would be double checking their numbers better before going public. It was only last month that the RNC also gave out a phone-sex number, that time to potential donors.

[I]t turns out the RNC inadvertently listed a phone-sex number on a fundraising letter sent to potential donors. People who tried to call the committee were instead offered “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl” for $2.99 a minute.

RNC spokesman Doug Heye said a typographical error caused the letter to contain a toll-free 800 number rather than Washington’s 202 area code.

Good thing that one was just a typographical error. With so many repeat instances, you have to wonder if they’ve got a bunch of phone-sex hotline numbers just circling around the offices.