And Filling the Vacuum of Leadership in the Women-Really-Ask-For-It Caucus is …
… the Family Research Council.
While much of the Republican universe spent Monday condemning Missouri Senate hopeful Todd Akin for his comments about “legitimate rape” and abortion, one of the nation’s most prominent conservative organizations rallied to his defense. Two top officials from the Family Research Council said the Missouri congressman is the target of a Democratic smear campaign and chided those Republicans who have condemned Akin.
I’m checking with Jim Bob Throckmorton, Esq., Attorney at Law and Certified Notary Public, to see if we can sue them for false advertising for using the word “Research” in their name.
The Family Research Foundation says that this is a clear case of “gotcha politics.”
However, they do not believe that rape is a clear case of “gotcha gotcha gotcha.”
“Todd Akin is getting a really bad break here,” she added. “I don’t know anything about the science or the legal implications of his statement. I do know politics, and I know gotcha politics when I see it.”
Mackey: Uterus Implosion
Hold on to your ta-tas, Ladies, because that was a woman named Connie Mackey speaking. Connie Mackey is lacking a uterus and, obviously, a damn brain.
All in favor of kicking her out of the sisterhood say “Hell Yeah.”
All in favor of demanding to see her grade in high school biology say, “Did she actually graduate high school?”
Thanks to David for the heads up.
Reminds me of when I mentioned fracking causing earthquakes where they have never been any before, and my MIL, the Fox Republican responded, “Well, I’m not a scientist, so I guess I don’t see any connection.” Golly, the GOP doesn’t believe in science. She may as well have said that God creates the earthquakes, and global warming and poor little man doesn’t do anything but sing praise songs and send money to ‘conservative’ causes who will tell them what to think.
1As disgusting as Republicans can be in their battle against women, it is most vile when a woman joins in with them. They deserve a special place – and it’s not in heaven.
2Hell yeah! You sure she made it out of 8th grade? Of course she doesn’t have a brain – the vacuum got her. 🙂
3Hell, Yeah! 🙂
4It takes a special kind of crazy to believe democrats made those words come out of Todd Akin’s mouth.
One thing about that kind of crazy, though- at least they stand by their man.
Now the story is about the spineless political hacks running from Akin faster than rent house cockroaches. Akin’s political ambitions are on the line, and everyone on the repugnican side is thinking “there but for the grace of God” as they scramble to protect themselves.
I can easily imagine Rick Perry, Greg Abbott, or John Cornyn saying words just as stupid as what Akin said. Not a one of them is any less ignorant, or thoughtless.
5@Timbo
“Now the story is about the spineless political hacks running from Akin faster than rent house cockroaches.”
Okay that one still has me guffawing and hiccuping and I think I might have to excuse myself as (once again) my neighbor’s dog is staring at me as I giggle like a crazy woman.
6All of the following were reported by L.Z. Granderson, a CNN contributor, making the point that Akin stands with many republicans in his thinking:
1. Pete DeGraff, republican state representative in Kansas said that women should plan ahead for the rape, the way he keeps a spare tire.
2. Eric Turner republican state representative in Indiana expressed his concern that women might fake getting raped to get a free abortion.
3. Rick Santorum argued that women who become pregnant as a consequence of rape should be forced to keep the baby and “make the best of a bad situation”
4. Santorum, Bachman, Gingrich, Perry all said they would outlaw all abortions regardless of the circumstances.
7Hell Yeah!
Whatever in the world to those people “research” anyway?
When John Cornyn tells you to STHU……. and you are a fellow Republican…… it’s a serious money drain…….. not politics.
8Indeed. When I heard Cornyn – EVIDENCE that it is all about the money~that eerr ‘man’ makes me ill~
9As my Mom said, “We’re all entitled to our own opinions.”
“But Mom, it’s a FACT that Obama is not a muslim.”
And she said: “we’re all entitled to our own opinion about the facts.”
Which explains a lot about why logic does not apply when talking with Repubs these days.
10Hell Yeah.
Did she actually graduate high school?
My children cannot help but overhear alot of this crap being reported on the news (just that Akin said it, not alot of actual rebuttal with facts), so we have used the opportunity to have an honest conversation about sex, contraception, and what consitutes rape (basically, the word NO). Not that this is the first time we talked to them, but it allowed us to ask them their opinions and thoughts on the subject as opposed to just lecturing them with the facts.
So, thanks, Republican Party and “Religious Right” for providing us the opportunity to educate our children with facts and science!!
11May I suggest someone put an OB/GYN on the freekin’ television and explain to these anti-science tea freaks the actual FACTS of reproduction?
Don’t any of these people have doctors they can call before they go out in public and spill all the stupid? Heck, they can just toddle on over to the doctor’s office in the Capital Building, for cryin’ out loud.
Hell Yea, I agree. Any women who stands up for these cretins should get tossed out of the hooter toter club until their OB/GYN provides a note saying they finally passed the human reproductive systems test from 7th grade.
12HELL YEAH!
13“Gotcha politics,” another name for accountability when applied to Komen, Limbaugh, Akin, or any other radical righter caught with their metaphorical (or real) pants down.
14FRC is the political wing of Focus on the Family (James Dobson). It was founded in large part by donations from the father of Blackwater founder Erik Prince. Surprised?
15(Please forgive my academic geekiness, but I think this might explain some things)
As I read the comments about women ignoring facts, I’m reminded of a book I read some years ago called “Women’s Ways of Knowing.” It was a research project in developmental theory by Mary Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, Jill Tarule. The stages, or ‘ways of knowing’ are:
1. Silence: total dependence on whims of external authority
2. Received Knowledge: receive and reproduce knowledge
3. Subjective Knowledge: truth and knowledge are conceived of as personal, private, and intuited
4. Procedural Knowledge: rely on objective procedures for obtaining and communicating knowledge
5. Constructed Knowledge: view all knowledge as contextual; value subjective and objective strategies
I was confused about the very thing commented on in these posts, but this study at least conveyed some understanding of such things as why women stay with abusers, etc. A summary of the first two stages:
What is Meant by Silence?
Words viewed as weapons–worried about being punished for using words
Ways of knowing available limited to the present, the actual, the concrete, the specific and to actual behaviors–life see in polarities
Blind obedience to authorities of utmost importance for keeping out of trouble
Speaking of self was almost impossible
Women often talked about voice and silence in describing their lives
The development of a sense of voice, mind, and self were connected
Received Knowledge
Feel confused and incapable when required to do original work
Paradox is inconceivable–intolerant of ambiguity
The longer you work, the higher the grade
Worry that developing their own powers would be at the expense of others
Look to others for self-knowledge–unable to see themselves as growing.
Think of words as central to the knowing process–learn by listening
Concrete and dualistic thinking
Little confidence in their own voice–trust that their friends share exactly the same thoughts and experiences–apt to think of authorities, not friends, as sources of truth
because of their statues
Equate receiving, retaining, and returning the words of authorities with learning
I’m sure there’s no quick cure, but it sure points out that good education of our children is critical.
16@Jan……just one quick question.
Do you NOT think that women know the meaning of the word “Rape”???
“Concrete and dualistic thinking” aside, whatever the hell that is..
The “quick cure” is that people stop treating women, like they are (1) uneducated…and (2) stupid….. and (3) that they should be unresponsive to men like Akins.
17Women are both human beings and citizens. Someone needs to inform Akin.
And for heaven’s sake, Dr. Ron Paul needs to let him know that as an OB/GYN, he’s never observed the magical sperm fighting substance. Perhaps a gift copy of Reproduction for Dummies might be in order as well.
18Not just yeah, but Hell Yeah! While known women like her. To them it is most important to side with the men on any subject.
19I love the “plan ahead for your rape” – isn’t that what mrs. Bobbit did? Perhaps a fine example.
20I feel sad and frightened at the unveiling of a kind of deepseated ignorance and love of ignorance that I have only known through books and manuscripts that recorded the history of the “dark ages”. This is an intellectual darkness that threatens to engulf this country.
21@Ellen Childress – AMEN!
22@Miemaw: I’m sure they know what rape is, but my point is that there are women – and also men – whose developmental progress stopped at a point where they can believe things that others of us find incomprehensible. This is not just a plague on the poor; it happens at all socio-economic levels. It’s at least one reason that we are unable to convince so many people out there that they are voting against their own interests. It’s very difficult to knock them out of what is their ‘comfort zone.’ You’re right about the quick cure, but I hold out little hope that it will happen.
23BTW, dualistic thinking it is the “us vs. them” syndrome. It brings to some the internal comfort to know that they are part of an inner circle. They then feel reassured that their thoughts are the correct ones and feel vindicated that they are right and others are wrong.
An example of concrete thinking is like when a doctor used the phrase “we’re walking on eggshells,” and the patient immediately looked down around his feet and appeared puzzled by the empty floor around him. It’s the hear and now.
To Ellen Childress, this is the very thing that terrifies me. There seems to be on the far right a feeling that it’s okay to be truly proud of stupid and ignorant. There is no way to speak to these people. They actually enjoy being uninformed and have no intention of changing. I’m scared.
24I forgot to say, “OH HELL YEAH!!!”
25Late to the party, but had to chime in with HELL, YEAH.
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