Thank you Todd Akin, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney

puremagic

Finally, the cat is out of the bag, in terms that the entire Nation can understand. Finally, we are privy to the policy of these Extremist Thinking Politicians and Groups and how far they are willing to go to control the reproductive rights of women. To quantify Rape as just another form of sex should angry every woman in America, because every woman in America knows that at any given time or place they can be raped.

Mitt Romney, the man running for the President of the United States of America responded by saying 'the rapist should be punished, not the child'. WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN!! Romney's flip flop position of No Means No it is now No Means Nothing, but he'll have to check with his people and get back to us on that.

Somebody tell this idiot, that as a candidate for President, we are the people.

Prince Of Dorkness

Fox news has literally blacked out this story.

They are not mentioning it, discussing it or allowing the very obvious connections between Akin And Paul Ryan to be drawn.

"fair and balanced" my ass.

lukin2006

No fan of Fox News, CNN or any mainstream news...

but this link took me all of 30 seconds to find on the fox news web site.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08 ... nate-race/

StillHere

Congressman is surely convinced that if his wife, daughter, sister, or yes, even his aging mother, were raped, it would be fine and dandy, cuz we all have legitimate biological defenses against this sort of thing and pregnancy, STDs, AIDS etc, or long term damage of any sort, will not be reaped from what they sow.

WTF Congressman? WTF?

cincybearcat

Please tell me how what Akin said means anything about Ryan and Romney.

And I gotta admit, I'm anti-abortion. Rape is the situation that really tests your moral beliefs on it. I mean, if you are ok with abortion when a rape occurs why aren't you for it other times? If you are against it because it's killing a life, then how could you be ok with killing an innocent life? But then, how could you make a woman carry a reminder of the horrific attack? Honestly, tough for me to wrap my head around. I know its easy for those that are ok with abortion in most or all cases, but not me.

polaris_x

cincybearcat wrote:

And I gotta admit, I'm anti-abortion. Rape is the situation that really tests your moral beliefs on it. I mean, if you are ok with abortion when a rape occurs why aren't you for it other times? If you are against it because it's killing a life, then how could you be ok with killing an innocent life? But then, how could you make a woman carry a reminder of the horrific attack? Honestly, tough for me to wrap my head around. I know its easy for those that are ok with abortion in most or all cases, but not me.

morality is but a handful of sand in the palms of life

cincybearcat

polaris_x wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

And I gotta admit, I'm anti-abortion. Rape is the situation that really tests your moral beliefs on it. I mean, if you are ok with abortion when a rape occurs why aren't you for it other times? If you are against it because it's killing a life, then how could you be ok with killing an innocent life? But then, how could you make a woman carry a reminder of the horrific attack? Honestly, tough for me to wrap my head around. I know its easy for those that are ok with abortion in most or all cases, but not me.

morality is but a handful of sand in the palms of life

Happy trees make me smile

Prince Of Dorkness

lukin2006 wrote:

No fan of Fox News, CNN or any mainstream news...

but this link took me all of 30 seconds to find on the fox news web site.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08 ... nate-race/

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/08/ ... -comments/

usamamasan1

"Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed," the draft platform states. "We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/blogs/ticket/report-gop-platform-again-call-abortion-ban-084514837.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US

Jason P

puremagic wrote:

Mitt Romney, the man running for the President of the United States of America responded by saying 'the rapist should be punished, not the child'. WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN!! Romney's flip flop position of No Means No it is now No Means Nothing, but he'll have to check with his people and get back to us on that.

Akin said the statement in bold above, not Romney.

Just like Akin discovered, it is best not to spread false information.

lukin2006

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

No fan of Fox News, CNN or any mainstream news...

but this link took me all of 30 seconds to find on the fox news web site.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08 ... nate-race/

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/08/ ... -comments/

I don't watch any of those stations...all American news is slanted toward one party or the other...as a Canadian I find American politics amusing (really all politics), but especially America...like either party is going to make a difference in the average lower to middle class life...I wouldn't hold my breath.

The point was it took me all of 30 seconds to find the news story on fox news web site...

cincybearcat

I wonder how many times it really should be mentioned on the news. Is this the most important story? I mean, what is the current status of the former lovers from Twilight? What does Elton John think about Madonna? And who is this Honey Boo Boo?

Prince Of Dorkness

cincybearcat wrote:

I wonder how many times it really should be mentioned on the news. Is this the most important story? I mean, what is the current status of the former lovers from Twilight? What does Elton John think about Madonna? And who is this Honey Boo Boo?

Well considering Kristen Stewart, Madonna and that baby hooker can't make laws about what happens in your wife's uterus should she be raped, I'm going to say the Akin story is a bit more... pertinent to the current election cycle discourse.

mikepegg44

why don't we take some of those awesome science grants the gov't gives out and figure out a way that the baby can be removed from the mother without having to kill it at any time.


nah I much prefer to fight about this. This Akin guy is a moron. No matter his beliefs on whether or not abortion is murder and when, he made a terrible decision and expressed a view backed up by "doctors" that is so ridiculous I would have thought it was an off color joke made at a roast.

But trying to tie this to Mitt Romney is a stretch, Paul Ryan as much, but they didn't say it.

I am not going to defend Akin, but Romney did come out right away and say it was inexcusable. But most people intent on not voting for him won't care about that...I am not going to vote for Romney, but it isn't because of what Akin said.

Johnny Abruzzo

cincybearcat wrote:

I wonder how many times it really should be mentioned on the news. Is this the most important story? I mean, what is the current status of the former lovers from Twilight? What does Elton John think about Madonna? And who is this Honey Boo Boo?

That's fine and all, but this is a man with real power, running for a position of MORE POWER. He has partnered with the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee on legislation ON THIS VERY ISSUE. This is a very relevant story, and Americans should be paying attention to it.

This isn't stupid shit like:
-Congressman skinnydipping in Israel.
-Biden's latest gaffe.
-Ann Romney's horse ballet in the Olympics.

This is legitimately important and IS A TRUE REFLECTION of the views of the Republican Party, and the TEA PARTY in particular.

pandora

Who's afraid of the big bad extremists?

Not me they are seen for what they are and common sense will prevail.
It almost seems like the extreme issues,
those of the extremists are meant to divide our country when in fact
the majority can be brought together through them.

Now lets get back to the real issue of the campaign not the diversions,
what are the candidates going to do about the economy?

What has our President not been able to accomplish in one term?
and will four more make a difference or should we go for a new
strategy?

Those who vote down party lines only will not be asking these questions,
for me that is a mild form extremism.

Johnny Abruzzo

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/21/opinion/granderson-gop-rape-abortion/index.html

More than 200 Republican members of Congress joined him in co-sponsoring House Resolution 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, when it contained language restricting the exception for federally funded abortions to "an act of forcible rape or, if a minor, an act of incest."

Johnny Abruzzo

pandora wrote:

Who's afraid of the big bad extremists?

We all should be very afraid of them when they win elections and put their extremist views into law.

Such as Paul Ryan's Extreme Budget.

Jeanwah

pandora wrote:

Who's afraid of the big bad extremists?

Not me they are seen for what they are and common sense will prevail.
It almost seems like the extreme issues,
those of the extremists are meant to divide our country when in fact
the majority can be brought together through them.

Now lets get back to the real issue of the campaign not the diversions,
what are the candidates going to do about the economy?

What has our President not been able to accomplish in one term?
and will four more make a difference or should we go for a new
strategy?

Those who vote down party lines only will not be asking these questions,
for me that is a mild form extremism.

How about instead of attempting to go off topic, we stay on topic and that would be about the Republicans...

Prince Of Dorkness

pandora wrote:

Now lets get back to the real issue of the campaign not the diversions,
what are the candidates going to do about the economy?

You don't think that forcing you to carry your rapist's fetus to term is a "real issue?"

I find it very sad that your vote is equal to that of... People.

cincybearcat

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

I wonder how many times it really should be mentioned on the news. Is this the most important story? I mean, what is the current status of the former lovers from Twilight? What does Elton John think about Madonna? And who is this Honey Boo Boo?

Well considering Kristen Stewart, Madonna and that baby hooker can't make laws about what happens in your wife's uterus should she be raped, I'm going to say the Akin story is a bit more... pertinent to the current election cycle discourse.

Haha, I was joking about what I've been seeing in the news lately.