Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says that there shouldn’t be an abortion exception for rape because “It is something that God intended to happen.”
I’d like to bring our troops home from Afghanistan and focus on fighting the American Taliban. They’re a much bigger threat to this country.
The GOP tells us that this is a watershed election. I agree, but not for the reasons they say. This isn’t about whether or not we’re going to switch to vouchers for Medicare or what the Medicaid budget is going to be. This is about whether we’re going to continue down the Republican path to the Dark Ages.
To their shame, the GOP has let extremists take over their party at the state and national level. The question on November 6 is whether we’re going to let the crazies take over our country.
I grew up believing that some things were settled in our society — that evolution was established science, that Keynesianism was established economics. But now the GOP presents laughable, long-discredited science and economics as the truth.
With 435 congressional districts, we’re going to get people like Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin. But fringe people like him should not be elevated to the Senate. And they definitely shouldn’t become Vice President, but Paul Ryan and Todd Akin are Tweedledee and Tweedledum on social issues. Ryan is a little more careful about what he says in public, but their views and votes are the same.
We are outraged about the Taliban shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan because she defended the right of girls to go to school. We rightly think the Taliban are sick barbarians. But if Ryan and Akin had their way, we’d have 14-year-old rape and incest victims dying from illegal abortions. That is every bit as sick and barbaric.
I voted for Bush 43 in 2004 and McCain in 2008 because I was afraid of the radical Muslims. I’m still a registered Republican, but I’m voting for Obama because I’m afraid of the radical Christians. I want to defeat the Christian Taliban here at home.
Four GOP senators — Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, James Inhofe, and Lindsey “Butters” Graham are hosting a fundraising lunch in D. C. for Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin next Wednesday. For $2500, you can meet Mr. Akin and learn how lady parts magically distinguish rapists’ sperm from consensual sperm. Every time!
Seems all is forgiven by the GOP.
But not forgotten by the voters of Missouri.
The GOP think they can win the Missouri Senate race if they lock Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin in a closet between now and November 6:*
“You know, if you’re that close with Claire McCaskill, then there are some ways to win this without ever having to be in public — or being public in controlled ways,” another Republican strategist who has worked on several Missouri campaigns said. “You wage a campaign without him physically being there, [with] television ads that are very tightly scripted, through mail pieces.”
“He’s an idiot, and everybody knows it,” the source continued. “But, he’s our idiot and he could be helpful to us but only if they get him under control.” Emphasis added.
Akin’s latest? He called McCaskill a “wildcat out of the cage.”
* “‘He’s Our Idiot’: Why Republicans Still Might Back Akin If He Can Just Keep His Mouth Shut,” Pema Levy, Talking Points Memo
Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, newly back in the GOP bosom, says that his opponent, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, wasn’t “ladylike” in their last debate.
What does he consider ladylike? I guess quietly carrying to term the baby of your rapist.
If this man would agree to go back under his rock, I would drive to Missouri to lift it for him.
Following up on his endorsement of Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, SC Senator Jim DeMint is now putting his (or his Tea Party group’s) money where his mouth is. DeMint’s Senate Conservative Fund just promised Akin $300,000.
Keep your eye on the money as the GOP now turns its back on its turning its back on Akin. If DeMint’s in, Preibus and Rove won’t be far behind.
After six weeks of suffering the GOP’s “punishment,” Akin will bask in six weeks of their passion to gain control of the Senate.
The extremists in the Middle East chant, “Death to America!” To me, giving power to idiots like Akin represents a death to the America I love. We are dying from within.
I posted earlier that the GOP is moving back to supporting Missouri Senate candidate Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) just issued a statement that they “hope Todd Akin wins in November and we will continue to monitor this race closely in the days ahead.”
Translation — Those ads buys we cancelled in August? We’ll be reinstating them.
The tiff with Todd is over; the war on Claire McCaskill is just beginning.
When the GOP tried to distance itself from Missouri Senate candidate Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, it was a case of false outrage meeting the false belief that only false rape claims can result in a pregnancy.
Well, as I’m sure Todd Akin himself knew would happen if he hung tough and stayed in the race, the GOP is now embracing Akin instead of pushing him away.
Because the truth is that there’s no daylight between this current crazy incarnation of the GOP and the crazy Akin. The anomaly was their pretending he wasn’t one of them, a hypocrisy that Mike Huckabee had the honesty to point out about Akin’s August 19 remarks.
But now instead of throwing him under the bus, they’re circling the wagons for Akin.
Newtie campaigned for him on Monday, and today Rick “Frothy” Santorum and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, the Tea Party’s favorite senator, endorsed him.
DeMint’s endorsement is huge because he controls the Senate Conservative Fund, which has millions to spend. Aside from his own fund, DeMint wants the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to put back the funding it pulled from Missouri.
This obviously isn’t just about Missouri. Voting for the GOP in any congressional race or for Mitt tells them that their Taliban views on women are okay. If they get the votes, they won’t change. Why would they?
The GOP must be decisively told to lose the crazies or lose elections.
A couple of losers hanging out in Missouri — Newtie is going to campaign with Senate candidate Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin next week. Newt will do a joint press conference and a fundraiser with the crazy congressman.
Mrs. Newtie has another crappy children’s book out, so look for a book signing event and some poor bastard dressed in an “Ellis the Elephant” costume standing next to the bejewelled and helmet-haired Mrs. G.
I love Josh Marshall and his site Talking Points Memo. But I think he’s wrong about this one.
Yesterday on Meet the Press, Mitt said he’d keep the popular stuff in Obamacare, like making sure people with preexisting conditions can get insurance. Not long after, his campaign walked that back, saying that it wasn’t a policy change, and that it was only for those with continuous coverage, not those buying insurance for the first time or coming back into the market.
Josh Marshall says that shows either a “disorganized campaign” or Mitt’s “ingrained flipfloppery.”
I think both the comment yesterday and the walkback today were planned and on purpose.
Meet the Press attracts moderate and independent voters, many of whom are undecided. Mitt was trying to appeal to them, to make them think he’s a reasonable guy.
By contrast, many of those viewers will never find out about the campaign’s walkback. So Mitt gets credit with them, while calming down his base, which does pay more attention.
The campaign is fully aware of this, that you reach out to moderates in a high-profile way, and then pull back in a quieter way, knowing a chunk of them won’t notice.
If you want more evidence, Mitt did exactly the same thing quite recently on abortion. All of a sudden, he said that he supported the right to an abortion in the case of rape, incest, health and life of the mother. He had been saying rape, incest, and life, but not health. So the reference to health of the mother was a change, one intended to make him seem more reasonable. It was taken back by the campaign right after. But many more people heard Mitt and read the reports of his softer position than heard his campaign spokesperson disavow it.
Disorganized, my tush. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Embattled Farmers 