Crazy Things Conservatives Are Saying This Week
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 16th, 2014
Good morning!
Well…it’s Wednesday now, but the write is still relevant.
It’s Only Tuesday
And The Crazy Things Conservatives Have Said This Week Are Piling Up
Is it just us, or does this week seem to already have a particularly large number of right-wing conservatives saying crazy things? Here are six of the most unfortunate:
1. Todd Akin Says He And Joe McCarthy Were Both Victims Of The Liberal Media.Remember Todd Akin? The failed Missouri Senate candidate has recently re-emerged in the public sphere to defend his claim in 2012 that women who were victims of “legitimate rape” could not get pregnant. In a phone interview with St. Louis Dispatch, the former congressman compared himself sympathetically to Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI), who spearheaded the infamous Communist witch hunt in the 1950s.
2. Rupert Murdoch Says Climate Change Should Be Approached With Great Skepticism.The chairman and CEO of News Corporation — one of the world’s largest media conglomerates, which includes Fox News and The Wall Street Journal — reflected candidly on climate change in a wide-ranging interview Sunday, saying he thought it should be approached with great skepticism. “At the moment the north pole is melting but the south pole is getting bigger,” he said. “Things are happening. How much of it are we doing, with emissions and so on? As far as Australia goes? Nothing in the overall picture.” Murdoch went on to argue that “we shouldn’t be building windmills and all that rubbish.”
3. Congresswoman Urges GOP To Bring Policy Discussion ‘Down To A Woman’s Level’.Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is a second-term Congresswoman and chair of the Republican Women’s Policy Committee. In a panel on women and the Republican Party, she suggested that the best way for the party to appeal to women is to talk down to them. “Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level,” Ellmers said. “Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they’ve got some pie chart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that.” But, she went on to say, “We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life — that’s the way to go.”
4. Congressional Candidate: Most Energy Problems ‘Are Caused By Environmentalists’.George Cicotte, a Republican candidate for Washington’s fourth congressional district, said at a candidate forum Saturday that if environmentalists hadn’t “stopped nuclear in its tracks” in the 1970s, there would be a lot less greenhouse gas pollution today. “Really, when we talk about energy problems, most of the energy problems are caused by environmentalists,” he said. “Wind energy? I’ll be honest — give me a break.”
5. GOP Congressman: Kids At Border “Gang Members” From Culture Of “Rape”. A Florida Republican congressman called undocumented immigrant children at the border not children at all but gang affiliated persons from a culture of thievery, murder, and violence.
“A lot of these children … quote-unquote … ya know, the first caller mentioned it, ya know, they’re gang members. They’re gang affiliated,” Florida Republican Rep. Rich Nugent said on WOCA radio Monday.
6. TX GOP Lawmaker: Teens He Saw At U.S. Border Looked Like ‘Threat’. The Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security went on “Fox News Sunday” this morning and told host Brit Hume that many of the teenagers he saw at the United States-Mexican border facilities looked like a “threat.” Representative Michael McCaul (TX) said that “it’s very heart-wrenching as a father to see that — mothers with their babies.” He then added, “I also saw some 17-year-olds that I thought looked more like a threat.” McCaul did acknowledge that these teenagers were “caught in the middle, between [administration] policy and what the drug traffickers are doing in Central America.”
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July 16th, 2014 at 1:44 pm
Republicans are just fucking crazy.
July 16th, 2014 at 6:27 pm
All Americans should be ashamed at our country. The world is watching how we are treating those poor kids. It’s embarassing. Where’s the humanity?
July 16th, 2014 at 8:51 pm
Marga#2, white America has never been held accountable for the cruelties they have inflicted upon the OTWS they encountered during their colonization of this country.
Hence, they don’t feel the need to empathize with others. It is always about white angst. If something or someone makes the uncomfortable, they will do anything they can get away with at the time to alleviate that their angst. It does not matter whether the angst is real or imagined.
The harm they will bring to those they dislike will be real and in most cases terrible, and without remorse.
July 16th, 2014 at 8:54 pm
3.Congresswoman Urges GOP To Bring Policy Discussion ‘Down To A Woman’s Level’.Rep.
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And this is why the GOP will never succeed in it’s outreach to women – even their women believe they are beneath the men in intellect – proving yet again that any Republican woman – is actually intellectually inferior to their men and a disgrace to the rest of us women everywhere!
July 16th, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Connie#3 is there any sector of the voting public the GOP can’t offend other than old white guys wearing Klan robes and carrying a vial of Viagra?
July 16th, 2014 at 9:11 pm
Renee Elmers does, in fact, need to be addressed at a lower level, but it’s not because of her gender.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:13 pm
If Renee is confounded by pie charts – creating said charts was once one of my duties as a sales assistant – then how can she be trusted to put forward intelligent policies and legislation?
This idiot needs to be sent home where she can revel in her dumbassness without hurting the citizens of her state/country.
The only person more infuriating than male politicos who have nothing but contempt for women is female “leaders” like Ellmers who appears to be a self-loathing woman.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:14 pm
Whaaaaa…?
Hear that women, the GOP just needs to bring their message “down to your level.”
Do these assgaskets even hear themselves?
July 16th, 2014 at 9:16 pm
She was obviously thinking on how to involve Nancy Pelosi in the House discussions, bringing everything down to her understanding level.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:17 pm
Delray#7, Are you referring to her using ‘you know’ three times in one sentence? Or is it something to do with a bag of nails?
July 16th, 2014 at 9:19 pm
Lonnie#9, I think you spelled Sarah Palin wrong.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:19 pm
Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.
Like beer. And NASCAR.
Oh, and pie.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Lonnie#9, More of your weak, Joizy sauce, Beej?
Go back and try it again. But study some classic comedy first. I suggest the entire run of “Fawlty Towers,” along with Monty Python and Kids In The Hall.
But please, NOT the Half Hour News Hour.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:22 pm
Lonnie#9, This isn’t funny or interesting because Nancy Pelosi is actually a very smart woman.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:23 pm
Lonnie#9, As usual, that’s not even close to clever… so I’d stop trying, if I were you.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:24 pm
Lonnie#9, If the GOP sent representatives at least 3/4s as smart as Nancy Pelosi, we’d actually have a major improvement in the business of governing the United States. Until then we can only hope to vote your GOPers out at every turn.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Lonnie#9, So you did not understand. Sorry, can’t get it low enough for you.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Connie#9, Not even slightly funny. More like desperate. Cue the flop sweat.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:27 pm
Oh honey, you just need some mansplaining and that will set your pretty little head right about how awesome the GOP are.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:28 pm
There ‘ya go folks – a peek into the mind of a republican woman.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:37 pm
6. TX GOP Lawmaker: Teens He Saw At U.S. Border Looked Like ‘Threat’
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If scared children on a bus look like a threat then what the hell do groups of armed angry, screaming and yelling adults look like?
July 16th, 2014 at 9:38 pm
We could always just bomb Central America. That would solve the problem.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:40 pm
yea those brown skinned teens sure look like a threat. (Maybe hear to steal our nukes?) The Kenyan in the WH must be to blame.
They never saw an issue that did not turn into an over-the-top conspiracy or outlandish plot to scare the Base.
By the way, these “pro-lifers”, who are scared of brown-skinned persons AFTER they exit the womb, calling them “Illegals” and “diseased” or “a threat”, are phony.
July 16th, 2014 at 9:41 pm
They should be thrown out entirely because of what they look like, not because of anything we actually know about them?
July 16th, 2014 at 9:42 pm
You ain’t seen nothing yet. In the coming years as climate change, and corporate pollution (fracking) destroy water supplies and farm lands there will be a great migration north by great masses of people in need of water, and food.
There will be no stopping the flood of humanity seeking sustenance required for living
July 16th, 2014 at 9:43 pm
All the republicans can do is fetch and complain about the illegal border crossings without offering any intelligent solutions…
July 16th, 2014 at 9:44 pm
So he doesn’t have a clue what to do since he can’t admit what he really wants is to expel every brown skinned person from Texas, but wants more of that sweet federal money for his state anyway and I guess they’ll figure something out.
And he insists this is a “crisis”? A few thousand woman, babies, and teenagers seeking refuge is a national crisis? I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.
July 16th, 2014 at 10:31 pm
…and it’s only Tuesday, fek …
You all know I don’t condone violence…butttttt….May I go bitch slap Renee and explain graphs and pie charts while she buffs her nails and thinks about something else dumb-witted to say about other women and how we comprehend ‘higher matters,’ – wtf?
… this is exactly why the woman for woman thing doesn’t get far, bc of arseholes who makes statements like this, but I will continue to rally for OTGOP (other than GOP bc apparently a lot of em’ – they gots boxes a rox for brains)
… AND she’s a female sexist, again, fek!
I’m sure once under fire she’ll back-pedal and say ‘I didn’t mean it that way’ … & really, well, how many ways is there to interpret that noise?
Luv, Zen Lill
July 16th, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Just to be clear, I mean I’m rallying FOR OT-GOP-women go get the woman-woman thing down, I’ll hold out hope for the GOP women also bc it wouldn’t be very HOPEful to do otherwise and I do prefer kindness over saying mean shit that only perpetuates nonsense (though I’m sure they’d do fine in that regard with me or without me)…
- ZL
July 17th, 2014 at 2:04 am
Ditto Zen Lill
July 17th, 2014 at 9:11 am
Yeah, those conservatives are crazy, crazy to be conservative and to support the GOP. The GOP, they did come up with a diabolical scheme that is brilliant in it’s simplicity. Appeal to the Christian majority of the US and they will follow the GOP anywhere, right to the slaughter. Now I’m not knocking Jesus or anybody of faith. But for the conservative republicans to use Christianity to further their agenda is a slap in the face to the Christians of this nation and about as low as low can get. This idea is very similar to what the Vatican of old did.
Look at their tactics, very similar to witch trials and inquisitions. If anyone of them believed in the faith that they are using to control and heard some of the masses, they wouldn’t be doing the shit they are doing to the American People.
The reason we have a Constitution is to keep church and state separate from each other, and to ensure that Americans KEEP their civil rights. That is why they are doing away with the constitution and the ideas it stands for. Now the GOP could give two shits about anyone’s beliefs or rights, but they would like them all to follow and support them. All they care about is their own personal bottom line. Kind of like the Pied Piper.
Look at what the Islamist Jihad leaders are doing, they’ve got their faithful tying bombs to themselves, with a promise of paradise. Here the promise of prosperity and wealth by removing support to the poor and the minorities is fueling the demise of everyone’s civil rights.
The country took a nose dive after 9/11. Tricking the citizenship into giving their rights away with a promise of safety, known as the “PATRIOT ACT”. Fear being the big motivator, this emotion has served the GOP well.
July 17th, 2014 at 9:39 am
Not to mention how women’s rights have been trampled by conservative republicans. Women, the poor, and OTW’s are getting hit the worst, but the GOP is attacking the entire nation.