Seriously Republicans: why does Todd Akin have to go, but Paul Ryan gets to stay? A tip of my hat to Christine Pelosi for asking this great question on Politico yesterday.
In fact, Congressman Akin has got to be scratching his head at the recent turn of events.
Why are the Republicans so breathlessly chasing him from the field when they all - and especially Paul Ryan - have advocated essentially the same thing?
It's about the policy - there should be no rape exception to abortion. It's got to be confusing, especially since the Republicans put that in their party platform yesterday.
Congressman Akin has apologized for his dumb remarks about rape biologically preventing pregnancy. Repeatedly. But the Republicans are still professing to be "outraged" - shocked and stunned by Akin's comments.
"There's no excuse" for such caveman-like statements, they are saying. He's a Neanderthal, they claim. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell says Akin's a "lost cause." The National Review says his views are "abhorrent." Check out these statements from Republicans in the video below:
Surely these same Republicans were equally outraged when Paul Ryan joined Akin to sponsor a bill, HR-3 -- which shows it was a top priority among House Republicans -- defining "forcible" rape. After all, even Akin himself admits that when he said "legitimate," he meant to say, "forcible." So were all the Republicans equally outraged by that bill? Of course not -- 177 of them actually signed on to the bill.
After lots of outcry the word "forcible" was removed, but the point was made. What they're saying is that "real" rape is only when the woman is hurt. If she doesn't get hurt, she must have enjoyed it, so it obviously wasn't rape. The women who are drugged and raped, they're not conscious so what's the harm? The women who don't fight back, who succumb in order to save themselves from further harm? Well, they obviously must secretly want it.
Yes, the whole Republican Party is now aligned against Akin in name, but solidly behind his ideas. With no exceptions for rape or Romney.
The party platform - what they stand for - matches Akin and Ryan's no-exemption-for-rape position, and it's their governing document. But none of the Republican establishment is jumping up and down about that, are they? So why are all these Republicans so quick to banish Akin from their ticket? Because he said out loud what they're all thinking and what they're all legislating, but hope we don't notice.
If you're outraged about Akin's comments, you should be outraged by the entire Republican establishment. But let's just start here and go one man at a time: if Akin is drummed from the Senate race, Ryan should go, too.
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ie He spoke bluntly, during a major election year, about something that the party didn't want the public to focus on at the moment. They wanted a referendum on O, NOT on their own radical positions
And often, as in this case, she says what needs to be said.
So...the value of human life....is based upon whether someone adopts a child??? Really?? Really?? Your contention is illogical and flawed. Human life has value. We should protect that valuable human life. PERIOD.
He also represents one of the most absurd, extreme views of any Republican I've seen in 68 years. The moderate Republicans of the past are gone and along with them, sensability and reason. This bunch are not willing to negotiate or work together with anyone on anything. They have brought about gridlock in the legislative process for the past three years and if elected, would force their selfish, unfair agenda down all our throats.
They've been crushing the infrastructure until it's so hostile women can't afford to breed a new tax base for the rich to exploit.
By your logic, God tapped Mother Nature to send Isaac to shut them up!
Do you see how that DOESN'T work?
It is wrong to infringe on the free will of others.
God isn't Santa Clause, you know.
"Freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it."
A line from a particularly frustrated angel in Supernatural.
It might seem like that on a bad day, but freedom is a gift that no one has the right to step on because the point is what we DO with it.
Otherwise, people will sit in their rooms, with their bibles, doing nothing, but NOT sinning.
Be Tee Dubs, lying on Jesus, doesn't help your case.
Live by ALL of Leviticus or NONE of it.
At the very least, consider this. My daughter remembers choosing me.
If you return reincarnation and read about the guff, you're missing some pieces.
Also, God left the Earth in our care.
EPIC FAIL
There was an outcry by these young men and their families, understandably, because the lives of some of these young men, tried without a trial, were being greatly harmed. It was a practice running rampant through the colleges/universities by young women.
I read an article about this in Parade Magazine, and was shocked to find the feminist University Presidents defending the young women, and laughing that turn about was fair play. They were smug. It really was a tragedy. Was this the democrat war on young men?
Equally, there is concern that young boys are being dimissed, forgotten, set aside in the class rooms in order to make up for what feminists term, social justice for young girls. Is this the democrat war on boys?
This is a researchable subject. I have no reason to lie.
CRY ME A RIVER!
Equally obvious, you regard the law of the jungle as superior.
That said, when it bites you in the ***, who's fault is that?
Shall I then say, Cry me a river?
Actually, given the law of the jungle, you will have my sympathy too.
Ryan's "credentials" are further besmirched since he was the co author of two bills with Akin, in addition to his worship of the atheist Rand, who didn't regard the family as a social unit.
And he purports to be a member of the Party of Family Values and God.
How can the Republican Party live with these contradictions? Are they so confident their base has been that dumbed down?
It was that he downplayed the crime of rape and used made up science backed by imaginary doctors to do it.
It's abortion politics 101. Defend the rights of the unborn without o