Rape is God’s Plan
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 24th, 2012
Good morning!
Richard Mourdock On Abortion: Pregnancy From Rape Is ‘Something God Intended’ [UPDATE]
WASHINGTON — Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declared Tuesday night he opposes aborting pregnancies conceived in rape because “it is something that God intended to happen.”
Debating Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in their final Senate race showdown, a questioner asked them and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning to explain their views on abortion.
All three said they were anti-abortion. But Mourdock went further, putting himself in territory near Missouri GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, the anti-abortion congressman who infamously asserted that women don’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
“The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother,” said Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed state treasurer. “I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”
Mourdock unseated veteran Republican Sen. Richard Lugar in the May primary, and has battled Donnelly for the longtime senator’s supporters since. Abortion has been a touchy issue for the candidates, with Mourdock accusing Donnelly of lacking strength on the issue because Donnelly backed the health care reform law. Donnelly has criticized a requirement that ensures women can get birth control, even when their employer objects to contraception.
“I believe in pro-life,” Donnelly said, carving out somewhat more moderate anti-abortion stance. “I believe that life begins at conception. The only exceptions I believe in are for rape, incest and the life a mother.”
Horning argued that the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision was unconstitutional, and that abortion issues should be state matters.
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has endorsed Mourdock and cut a campaign ad on his behalf that began running in Indiana on Tuesday, took issue with the abortion comments Tuesday night.
“Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock’s comments, and they do not reflect his views,” said Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul.
Mourdock tried to clarify his comments soon after the debate, saying God does not intend sexual assaults.
“God creates life, and that was my point,” Mourdock said in a statement. “God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick.”
Nevertheless, Democrats jumped on the comments as further proof that Murdock is an extremist.
“I think rape is a heinous and violent crime in every instance,” said Donnelly in his own statement. “The God I believe in and the God I know most Hoosiers believe in, does not intend for rape to happen — ever. What Mr. Mourdock said is shocking, and it is stunning that he would be so disrespectful to survivors of rape.”
“Richard Mourdock’s disturbing comment about rape is a window into Mourdock’s extreme view of the world, ” said Shripal Shah, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Indiana can’t afford to send a self-proclaimed ‘zealot’ and Tea Partier like Richard Mourdock to the Senate.”
Mourdock has been trying to soften some of his postions for the general election after running on a platform that described “compromise” as when Democrats came to agree with him.
Horning had argued earlier in the debate that Mourdock should stick with the harder line.
“As I was reading about the extreme stands of Richard Mourdock I was thinking, ‘Hey, there’s hope for this guy.’ A lot of the stuff that he said was correct,” Horning said, referring to Mourdock’s suggestions that entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security may not be constitutional.
“He has repudiated a lot of those statements. Some of it was about the unconstitutionality … right on,” Horning said. “We need somebody who is going to stick with principles.”
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Readers: Richard Mourdock, GOP Senate candidate*, is not a supporter of women and our rights. How big of a man to say rape is something HE struggled with. Men don’t “struggle” with rape; men rape women and it is the woman left to “struggle” with the aftermath.
If a woman, accepts a man’s premise that the life that results from a rape is a “gift from god,” then she should accept being raped by a man as a planned act for her by God and just lay back and enjoy it. That life the man is talking about that he claims is a “gift” from God certainly couldn’t happen if that God the man is talking about didn’t plan for the woman to be raped.
When you think about it, Mourdock is actually advocating that if a man rapes a woman he is doing it to complete an act planned by God to give that woman a “gift of life.” Hence the man is not guilty of a crime, he is merely acting out a plan by God to bring a life into this world. So if the woman gets pregnant from the rape, the man should walk free.
That would also imply that if the woman struggles and prevents the act from happening thereby preventing the rape she has sinned against the will of God to give her a “life.”
Men will go to any degree to justify their desire to control women, but to advocate rape is a will of God is a step way too far, and in my opinion simply sickening. He is not only advocating raps but basically giving a man an excuse to rape a woman. The next step we’ll be told, rape is not a crime, but an act of God, and men will be praised for acting out “God’s plan”. How insane is that? Don’t believe there aren’t men that would love for that to be the case. And Richard Mourdock is one of them.
Mourdock is the kind of man that we women and men need to vote out of office. Men who speak such sickening words with radical advocations and implications, who have little thought or care about what women want or need, have no place in the Senate, or anywhere else that allows them to try and control women. Unlike Mourdock, I don’t “struggle” with this. I am very clear and cannot stress this enough.
On a different but similar vein…
To the many women who write in about those men in their families that are voting penis size or color, and to those women on the Right, take note: Remember women on the right, you can tell you husbands, your fathers, brothers, mothers…you can tell everyone you know in your circle that you will vote Republican. But once you are in your secure place while you are voting, know one will know that you voted for Obama! So go for it! You know you have my backing. C’mon girls, let’s stick together on this!
peace, love and women power – LET’S USE IT!!
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*6:30 PM – updated. I meant to say Senate “candidate”.
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October 24th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
I am very disappointed in our country and the assault on women. I know it’s nothing new, but still. Have we not learned anything?
Per the belief of some Republicans, it’s God’s will that a woman is raped — is it God’s will that women and children starve, too?
Pennsylvania wants to pass a bill that would reduce food stamp benefits for women and children. They will allow an exemption in the case of rape, but only if the women can prove she was raped. (Statistics say 54% of women never report their rape.) (I know I didn’t.)
Last month, New Mexico proposed a bill that would have required women seeking childcare assistance to prove they were “forcibly raped,” although Republican governor Susana Martinez has since requested to remove that language.
Why can’t men accept responsibility for their actions and stop blaming the women?
I read on this blog that aliens love human flesh. I sure hope if the aliens are hungry they start at the top of the Republican hierarchy when they choose their next victim(s).
/SB
October 24th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Hey Michelle. I thought perhaps your readers might benefit from this tip my mom passed along to me today. I found it informative.
Always take a small fridge magnet on your holiday, they come in handy at the end of it.
HOTEL KEY CARDS
Ever wonder what is on your magnetic keycard?
Answer:
a. Customer’s name
B. Customer’s partial home address
c. Hotel room number
d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer’s credit card number and expiration date!
When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner. An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.
Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new guest’s information is electronically ‘over-written’ on the card and the previous guest’s information is erased in the overwriting process.
But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk
with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!
The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them. NEVER leave them
behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into the front desk when you
check out of a room. They will not charge you for the card (it’s illegal) and you’ll be sure you are not leaving
a lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning device
card reader.
For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the card key in your pocket,
do not toss it in an airport trash basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially through the
electronic information strip!
If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times. Then try it in the door, it will not
work. It erases everything on the card.
Safe travels, all.
GO GIANTS!
/SB
October 24th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
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October 24th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Hi Michelle: It has been a while, how have you been? I thought I would comment about today’s post. Mourdock, like the rest of the republican party is full of shit. Like the rest of his ilk, he could care less about aborted fetuses or about women who have been raped.
Republicans will use any issue they believe to be popular and will gain them more votes than that issue is likely to cost them. For them it is a crap shoot and they are gambling that nullifying planned parenthood and women’s reproductive rights will gain them more votes than it will cost them. Flip-floppers.
They rarely care about anybody but themselves. It is all about the money. But, Mourdock would like everyone to believe that everything that happens is God’s will, if that were to be true, Mourdock might be a victim of rape himself.
The God I believe in (no particular denomination) gave freewill to me and everyone else. If I were to decide to rob a bank or put a bullet in someone’s head, that would be a choice I decided to make and a function of me using my own will and not God’s will. We all have the choice to do right or wrong. “God lets us do whatever we want.” The notion that if a rape results in a pregnancy, and that pregnancy had to be God’s will is 100% horseshit.
Politics is a sickening subject when one considers all the corruption involved. Democrats aren’t that much better, as many are corrupt as well. Just not to the same degree as those Republican assholes.
Obama is a prince, one can just tell that he sincerely wants to help this country and it’s citizens. All that I say is only my own opinion, but damn it if using the elimination of women’s reproductive rights as a tool to gain votes isn’t about as low as low can get.
Me, I really can’t see why any woman would vote republican, I don’t think anybody would vote their rights away knowingly. And sorry to say, but the GOP is coming down especially hard on women and they will lose the most with a republican controlled nation.
This “cannot” be allowed to happen. The Republicans will screw up everything for everybody other than the few elite who will profit, and some billion dollar corporations. CEO’s included.
Discontinuing Planned Parenthood is such a stupid move, which Romney says he get rid of right away, besides trampling on women’s rights and showing woman so much blatant disrespect, as Zen Lill might say “throwing ladies under the bus”, the unavailability of many contraceptive devices will surely increase the demand for abortions and put women in horribly dangerous situations and uncomfortable dilemmas.
Population and demand for resources will skyrocket all over the US unless everyone stops having fun altogether. The Mormons already want to have 10 wives and 50 kids, but if every couple in America had a few dozen children it would get pretty crowded in this country very fast. Even ole Mitt managed to sire a few, now were talking about Mitt so expectation should be a little low in this category.
Romney might be able to balance the budget. But only 1% will be able to send their children to school, feed their families, keep a roof overhead, or afford health care of some sort. Those who are real lucky will be able to work for the elite, all other jobs will become outsourced. Worse case scenario we can all pilgrimage back across the ocean seeking economic refugee status somewhere.
Al
October 24th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
I cried when I read your post Al. It was beautifully thought out.
Please don’t stay away so long again.
Lois
October 24th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
SB, you wrote “Why can’t men accept responsibility for their actions and stop blaming the women?”
look no further that the faces of you female associates or environment. WOMEN give men the right to take responsibility for their bodies because the refuse to do it for themselves.
I would love to allow a woman to make those decisions, but you refuse to accept that responsibility. If you doubt me, look at the make up of the all the government houses on all levels of government.
Women elect men. Women choose men over women to make the decisions they don’t feel they are capable of doing for themselves.
Then you complain about what we decide. If you were a man would you listen to the bitching or even care, I know I don’t.
Ira
October 24th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
I would like to ask Mr. Mourdock where does the Devil play into this rape? Mr. Mourdock sounds like he is praising the rapist for giving the gift of a unwanted pregnancy to a woman or young child!
Rape is the work of the Devil…it is not intended for any woman! Like our President says “Rape is Rape!” I do not wish this on anyone but I am going to use Paul Ryan for an example.
Mr. Ryan has a young daughter, she is somehow raped and beaten by a man at the age of 13-15 years of age. Is Mr. Ryan going to ask for a rape kit for his daughter, or is he going to turn it down and explain to his daughter who probably is no longer in her right mind to turn lemons into lemonade if she is pregnant?
Mr. Ryan and his wife will have to take care of the child and his daughter. This question should be posed to Mr. Ryan. I wonder what the answer would be from Mr. Ryan. Hopefully he will have plenty of water at hand to think long and hard!
October 24th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
I wish you the best of luck Mr. Mourdock with your painfully misdirected attempt at collecting the staunchly blind, evangelical masses toward your cause of obligatory compliance to the idea that all pregnancies are a gift from God, regardless of cause, free will, or health. As we all know well, the mother has zero choice or influence in the matter. We just lay there right?
What an ideal senator and future president you will make. You’d better listen to the voices of the women at your doorstep. This is not the 19th century anymore.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
And Romney still endorces this guy! Women had fought long and hard for the rights we have now. Don’t let these repubs take everything away. Vote all Democratic ticket. Obama/Biden2012!
October 24th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
The left has loaded this blog with Godless heathens. You will all burn in hell for denigrating this good man.
Clark
October 24th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
The party of deregulation, has worked for four years to regulate women’s bodies. We (women) are happy the way thinks are for our bodies.
Just pass a jobs bill and raise taxes on the rich. My husband and I pay more than Mitt Romney, and we don’t have millions in the Cayman’s or Bermuda.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Rapists rejoice! You finally have a champion of your rights!!!
October 24th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Wow, what God does he believe in?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
The irony of these republicans. They want to make abortion illegal and limit access to birth control while in the same breath vowing to cut food stamp, healthcare , education, welfare , etc for the poor.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Someone shove a stick up this guys butt and roast him over a fire as god intends for all the judgmental on fhe planet…hey its his bible not mine.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Social Butterfly, I hope you are as strong as you sound. You make this blog a special place for women. I never feel I have the last word on a subject until I hear your words.
I have 6 children and 11 grandchildren. I came out after my husband died almost a year ago. You gave me the courage to just say, “I’m a Lesbian.”
You made my life livable again. I am a small cog in a small town. But I hold my head proudly now.
Thank you so much
Helen
October 24th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
Sorry, girls but I have to agree with Ira. If you didn’t want us to make those decisions for you why do you elect us to do so?
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Mourdock is the third Republican Senate candidate, all of them men, who has made waves with his views on rape and abortion.
In August, Rep. Todd Akin said during an interview in August that “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” and block pregnancy in cases of what he called “legitimate rape.” Akin apologized for the comment, but refused to leave the race despite pressure from his own party.
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Why should he leave the race? He will surly get elected and an overwhelming support of females.
I echo Ira. Stop the bitching
October 24th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
I hear you loud and clear Michelle, I will be voting Obama with a smile when I get into that booth. My dear racist husband would go in there with me if he could, bless his heart.
BUT HE CAN’T, ;-)
October 24th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Senator Mourdock is a leader for a reason: God put him there! I am saddened that I swore to defend this nation with my life, and now, all I see is ignorance and indifference about God-given life.
Does Satan create life? No. His aim is to destroy it. God does create human life. He never makes mistakes.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Michelle count me in. This proud Alabamian will be voting the black ticket for the first time in her life.
When I get in that booth, Obama and his ticket all the way.
Mindy
October 24th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
A better way to phrase this mind set might begin with explaining how one’s conscious cannot justify ending an innocent child’s life despite a violent conception.
All Republicans do not agree, of course, and some Democrats might due to their religious affliations. Personally, I had a friend who adopted a bi-racial baby conceived by rape.
I saw this child grow into a loving, productive young woman who served her country, married well, reconnected with her birth mother and started her own family.
While my heart breaks for any woman faced with this painful, terrible choice, I think of that young lady and do some hard soul searching before I make a quick judgement.
What is the true test of courage and compassion in this situation? Some will choose to support the innocent child’s life no matter what. Others will support the crime victim’s need to move on. Neither are bad people.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
I am completely mystified by the republican position on pregnancies from rape. Are they that completely callous and uncompassionate to force a woman to carry a baby conceived in violence, go through the pain of birth and the rigors of raising a child that every time she would look at it she would be reminded of the terror of the rape.
I do believe the devil has taken over their brain, which is the only way you could make sense out of such an evil act. I do not know how any woman in her right mind can vote for any of these bigoted selfish and uncompassionate people.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Welcome back Al. You were missed.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
FoodforThought: “For those of you that believe a person is a human being only after it is born, would you support changes in health insurance so that it no longer covered genetic testing, treating a fetus in utero, sonograms that are only to check on fetal development, etc.?” – - – Absolutely not.
Those tests benefit the mental and emotional well-being of the parents and eventually the quality of life of an authentic person if one is born.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Michelle, fantastic analogy of the way some men think. “Republicans are very close to admitting that they themselves do not believe that rape is a crime.”
Maybe it’s because they consider women as property and one can’t rape his property.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:02 pm
FoodForThought: “Would you also support a law that would remove a doctor’s liability for any injury to a baby that occurs before or during delivery (meaning before it is actually born)?” – - – Absolutely not.
The person that ends up surviving and the parents have to endure the consequences of the doctor’s mistakes, and doctor’s that make such mistakes need accountability for their mistakes.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Murdouck and many Republican Politicians believe that a pregnancy from rape is Gods’ will.It is only a matter of time before criminal lawyers defending rapists use that off the wall lie of rape being Gods’ will as proof that rape not being a crime.
Republicans are very close to admitting that they themselves do not believe that rape is a crime. If the Republicans win a nightmare will unfold with all the prisons opening their doors and letting rapist go. After all, Murdouck said that the rape was Gods’ will.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Ditto, Howard. I have 3 daughters and a wife who couldn’t survive if men didn’t make this country safer for them. Women really know that we know what is best for them.
God made men first for a reason. If Murdouck was all that bad how come so many women supported him the first time? It is not like he has changed his policies since his last election.
I suspect that some male democrats are trying to stir up some fuss among our women folk. My suggestion is for republican men to put their feet down on the subject and tell their women folk how to vote and let that be.
I AM the man of my household. We obey the edicts of God Almighty under my roof.
Craig.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Great advice Social Butterfly, and yeah, GO GIANTS! The game was crazy. I wish I had tickets to tomorrow’s but having them for the first game and we won was an unbelievable thrill.
I often wonder what you look like SB. When I am into my thoughts while roaming the streets of SF, I look around and imagine one of the women could be you so close, but out of reach.
Lena
October 24th, 2012 at 11:17 pm
I have returned from India to vote. I will surly vote as you suggest Michelle. The people who support Murdouck, Akin and Paul Ryan are sick, nasty, depraved, amoral creatures who have no redeeming qualities in them as human beings. Where is their compassion for the rape victim.
If the rape results in a pregnancy then they conclude it is part of God’s plan. What kind of a God do these nasty #### worship?
Sati
October 24th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Food for thought: What is the real question? I think everyone agrees that a baby is a human being when it is born.
Most also agree that a baby is a human being at some time during development. If we count back from the time of birth and ask the question, is the baby still a human being, when do we stop saying yes?
The questions in my last post were to those who only answer this question yes after the baby is delivered. If that were true, it makes sense that we shouldn’t spend health care or malpractice dollars on something that isn’t a human being yet.
I wonder if their position would be different if their developing child needed a medical procedure to survive?
Who are these Godless women who want to kill their babies because they don’t like the father. Let God be that judge.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
“even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that he does.”
The moron does not explain how God intended this woman to get pregnant without a rape happening. That’s what you get when you don’t have cognative or critical thinking skills.
That’s also what you get in office when women don’t have cognative or critical thinking skills.
Well Michelle has made it easy for you. When you get in that booth vote Obama and the rest of the democrat ticket.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Michelle I agree who are men to say they have “struggled” with rape. Mourdock, like so many men of his generation, think rape is just another form of intercourse.
They see it as romantic or lustful, instead of the violent brutal act that it actually is. Women have committed suicide after rape, or are in therapy for years.
They can’t have healthy relationships with men after rape. It’s lifechanging for women, and not in a good way.
And to insist that afterward the woman victim should bear the rapist’s child is just ridiculously callous and inhuman.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Michelle, I too was raped and forced to have the baby of that bastard. That was almost 30 years ago. My family ostracized the child from birth.
They told him that his father was serving life as a serial rapist. He was hounded until he attempted a rape and then killed himself. We found him hanging in the stables.
What a waste of two lives. NO, three, the poor woman he attempted to rape must suffer that trauma for the rest of her life.
Men like to tell stories of great things that happen because the rape victim was forced to have the child of a rapist. But the truth is most of the time it ends in disaster for both the mother and the child.
As in my case Nothing was gained by forcing me to have that child. I never loved it and neither did anyone else I knew.
We are very wealthy people, my rapist was a white man so I suffered no racist backlash. That child( I still cannot accept it as a child of mine) was abhorred from birth because of its origins.
Only now has my life begun to be possible. So, unless this guy wakes up tomorrow as a female and deals with this situation, he would be better to keep his mouth shut. Coming into the world under this circumstance would be horrible for a child.
And just as horrible for the mother.
Caroline
October 24th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Mourdock still does not understand how traumatic rape can be to a woman. To him it is just another act of intercourse. The morning after pill is crucial to a woman who has suffered such cruelty and some GOPers would deny her even that.
Mourdock is also one who does not see compromising on anything. Our Congress really needs more people like that – kind of like my dog needs fleas.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Romney stands by Mourdock and Akin and Walsh. Romney is for womens rights in Muslim countries but not here in the USA. The GOP should have dumped the TEA when they had the opportunity.
The GOP/Koch/Rove has and will continue to lead Christians to follow the Deceiver as they serve the god of $$. The GOP is on the defense but more important is they will have to answer to God for their actions.
I was a Republican for 35 years (now an Indpendent) and will not vote GOP this year or any year until they purge the party of this evil.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Just so the Left is clear on this. God has given men the right carry out His edicts. If that means legislating His religion. That means legislating His views on life.
I don’t know what mistakenly gave you the impression that we might forget that once we took office.
You might want to read what the Republican party has written again.WE explicitly say “theology and religious beliefs have every place in secular law.” Consequently, WE apply secular standards to matters of law.
The 2010 election sweep by Republicans was a mandate for that position. We intend to carry it all the way to both Houses of Congress, the White House and ultimately to the Supreme Court.
When we do Roe vs. Wade will fall and the Heavens will rejoice.
Women don’t allow the Satan worshipers like Michelle, and Social Butterfly to sell your souls to their master Satan. Standby your men and support the Republican ticket down the line.
Your place in Heaven will be secured if you do. God will always reserve a place for you by His side.
God Bless you and Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.
John
October 24th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
I agree with your poll advice Michelle. The problem is the reactionary far right conservatives and Tea Partiers will never allow us the opportunity to vote for either a liberal/progressive Republican or a moderate Republican.
I say why bother. When I get into that booth, I’m voting the straight Dem ticket and when I come out I will tell the boys I voted the straight Repub ticket.
Everybody is happy.
Lisa
October 24th, 2012 at 11:55 pm
American Taliban. How tragic these people feel competent to clean toilets, never mind run the country and make the laws that the rest of us are supposed to follow. Not even enough intelligence to be embarassed about their ignorance.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Very sound dissertation Al.
October 24th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Ditto Kenneth. Well written Al
October 25th, 2012 at 12:00 am
Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and two Republican senators – one of whom previously called for Todd Akin to step down – threw support behind the congressman Wednesday.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:05 am
This is only my opinion of course, but I think these continuously negative comments are why the GOP has lost any major chance of winning this election.
Obama and democrats have not been spared from ridicule by the media, but the GOP has had a steady drumbeat of idiotic and offensive statements throughout the entire campaign.
The party has isolated itself from moderate voters. They have continued to distract everyone from the major issues our country is facing because they simply can’t stop meddling in controversial SOCIAL issues that offend/infuriate the people in the middle.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:05 am
What’s wrong with a woman killing a baby she doesn’t want. It’s her choice. http://thereligionofpeace.com
October 25th, 2012 at 12:06 am
the fact remains that willard romney is tied 2 these Freaks & Bigots…..willard can say what he wants but he can’t hide from Pigs & Morons like Mourdock/Akin…..hopefully American Women & some Men WILL FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT & Vote Against the Stands-4-Nothing, Empty Suit romney…..willard really is WORTHLESS & WEAK!!!
October 25th, 2012 at 12:09 am
This blog is full of dishonest libs trying to stretch this and paint with a broad brush. This isn’t the GOP, murdock made a stupid statement, so has many others.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:11 am
If you wanna know what Satan looks like well there he is. I say let him get gang raped and end up with anal worts and herpes and let the doc say “I can’t help you its God’s work”.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:12 am
Ursla, You are dishonest, this has nothing to do with Romney. Don’t try to tie the two. If you do, then Rev. Write is fair game.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:12 am
Speaking of freaks…how about Obama and Larry Sinclair….apparently as recently as late 1999 Obama enjoyed his coke and getting head from dudes….
October 25th, 2012 at 12:13 am
Craig – that’s just it, many GOP’ers have now made remarks like this… makes me think this IS the modern GOP.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:13 am
It’s great the way these knuckle draggers have taken over the republican party.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:14 am
I don’t know why ann woman would vote Republican at this point
October 25th, 2012 at 12:14 am
GRAPE- NUTS…without the G.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/not-just-mourdock-meet-7-other-republicans-trying-block-abortion-rape-victims
October 25th, 2012 at 12:15 am
Larry, They haven’t taken over the party, there democrats that say just as dumb things.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:17 am
Craig, I think you mean Rev. WRIGHT?
Brotherman, you better vote for Obama because he is trying to get you an education!
October 25th, 2012 at 12:19 am
Douglas, Because she knows that Billy Clinton did more than just make a stupid statement. He was accused of rape and exposure and found guilty on exposure.
Because women lost jobs with Obummer at the helm, their kids can’t find jobs, the debt is equal to the GNP and rising at a rate 5 times greater, Obummer gave 90 billion taxpayer dollars to his campaign buddies to start up green companies and they failed almost without exception showing he knows NOTHING about energy or management.
Because tens of thousands of teachers have been laid off under his reign (and he is promising to turn the economy around with education). It’s hard to make up such profound reasons to not vote for Obummer.
Send the darkie back to kenya.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:20 am
Seriously… How do you Righties find this stuff… do you type in “Hate Obama” in Google Search?
October 25th, 2012 at 12:20 am
Wow….between this IDIOT and trump….I’m LMAO…. trumps big reveal:
http://thegrio.com/2012/10/23/trumps-announcement-rumored-to-be-revelation-of-obama-divorce-papers/
October 25th, 2012 at 12:21 am
Michelle is only married to Obama for his money and the fame. Nothing wrong with being a gold digger.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:23 am
But You Have To Admit IT… Never in our lifetimes has a candidate nor his Party been held responsible for their lies and actions as we are witnessing now…
I refuse to buy the BS that Black thingy is just a coincidence! To me it’s white folk gone wild!
These guys could come urinate on their kitchen floors and rape their daughters and STILL be deemed eligible to hold the highest office in the free world!
Michelle is so very astute in her observations that it is the tiny penis vote or just voting color.
Anything or anybody but the black man.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:24 am
Timothy… how old are you? Aren’t you suppose to be in school!
October 25th, 2012 at 12:25 am
Herb #57, … no, they type Hate Women and get Republicans as a result…
October 25th, 2012 at 12:35 am
This race is getting real nasty.
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Donald Trump appeared on Fox News this week to promote a big bombshell about President Barack Obama he intends to reveal tomorrow.
“It’s very big. Bigger than anybody would know,” Trump said.
Now rumor has it that his big “surprise” is divorce papers allegedly drawn up by the first lady and the president during a rough patch in their relationship in the year 2000.
“High above the Alps my Gnome has heard that Donald Trump will announce that he has unearthed divorce papers between the Prez and his wife,” tweeted CNBC Squawkbox contributor Douglas Kass.
This rumor is nothing new. Author Ed Klein wrote in his recent book, The Amateur, that Michelle Obama “actually had divorce papers drawn up” in 2000.
Meanwhile, outspoken liberal attorney Gloria Allred has plans to make a revelation of her own up her sleeve. She will be in court tomorrow trying to unseal testimony of Mitt Romney’s from a prior court case, the nature of which is currently unknown.
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…betcha Gloria Allred trumps Trump if she can get those papers UNSEALED!!!…
October 25th, 2012 at 12:37 am
GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE!
It seems the smoking gun has finally arrived in ongoing affair in Benghazi. According to reports, the White House and the State Department knew within hours that the attack was due to terrorists, namely Ansar al-Sharia, who took responsibility for the attack. It would be convenient for President Obama that this came out AFTER the debates (he finally released his plan for a second term, too), but that doesn’t mean the media and the Romney campaign shouldn’t hold him accountable. The media, with some members direct arms of the Obama campaign, has, for the most part, not done its due diligence in covering this fiasco from day one. The time is now.
Other big news today is the announcement from Donald Trump. As always, the Donald knows how to play to a crowd, drumming up a lot of speculation on what he planned to reveal. This time, it was a bet. He bet $5 million of his own dollars, to be given to a charity of the president’s choice, if POTUS released his college transcripts and passport records. Another hilarious moment from this campaign season. Don’t expect to see POTUS release those things and, a better question, who cares?
As always, our pieces are below, including this week’s essay from Newt Gingrich.
Talk to you all tomorrow,
– Adam Tragone, Managing Editor
October 25th, 2012 at 9:19 am
Ira, Not all women vote men in. I may be in the minority but my numbers are growing.
Helen, you’re welcome. Thank you for the compliment but I think Michelle is the one that deserves the kudos.
A couple of days ago, Ann Coulter tweeted: “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.” Did anyone else read this most excellent retort by Special Olympics athlete John Franklin Stephens? I recommend it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-p-shriver/an-open-letter-to-ann-coulter_b_2012454.html
How about those Giants last night?! Congrats to Sandoval, and the team. Let’s do it again tonight boys!
/SB