Okay, That Does It. I’m Burning My Bra.
Todd Akin’s female supporters, including his daughter, are standing up for him by using the slogan, “We think for ourselves.”
Now that right there is some turbo irony.
Of note is the fact that the women supporters in his political brochure only use their first names because they are so, you know, proud of supporting a man who thinks there are legitimate rapes. You can check it out here.
Girlfriends, sit down and shuddup. You’re making a damfool of yourselves.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Well, they may think for themselves but I suggest they see their OB/GYNs for a refresher course on their own reproductive systems before they start thinking out loud and in public.
1Check out what Todd Akin’s WIFE was in the news TODAY for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/lulli-akin-compares-treatment-of-husband-by-gop-bosses-to-rape/2012/09/17/fd4e2630-010f-11e2-bbf0-e33b4ee2f0e8_blog.html
2Did you notice that one of the women in his ad was a democratic spotter?
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/akin-pulls-women-site-down-after-woman-supporter-turns-out-to-be-democratic-tracker.php?ref=fpblg
3Sounds like a friend of mine who, presented with evidence from snopes.com that a message she had forwarded to me was mostly false, told me that we have to look at alternatives and come to our own conclusions.
Heaven help us….
4I saw that early this morning, the woman giving the endorsement in video was in shadow form, the article with it said they were in the Witness protection program. how fitting.
5Women who think for themselves have full names and use them. Women who think for themselves say what they themselves think, rather than try to convince people what the man in their life thinks.
Especially when that involves adding women to “are equal” as an afterthought and in parentheses.
As for his wife comparing her husband’s treatment by the GOP leadership to rape–that’s just a cliche used by far too many men and women alike for something unpleasant. Should be countered, of course, by reminding her that her husband wasn’t held down and penetrated by another guy…and if he has an STD, he didn’t get it because the GOP leadership kicked him off the bandwagon. (Considering the way that bandwagon is careening down the road now, he should be grateful.)
6Getting cynical in my later years. Wonder if these are real people or stock photos.
7Getting cynical in my later years. Wonder if these are real people or stock photos.
8Well that didn’t take long!
So, I go the Aikin page following the link to the pamphlet and guess what – Access was denied because “I am not authorized.”
I have a screen capture! But you can try it for your ownselves:
9http://www.akin.org/campaign/missouri-women-stand-todd-akin
Just think…. we’ll be getting a Two-fer if the fine citizens of Missouri re-elect Claire McCaskill…. we get her back in the Senate, and that IdiotAkin loses his seat in the House, too. Whoo-Hoooooo!
10Good grief. I’d move to Orstralia if it weren’t so dang far.
11Why do the even feel the need to specify that women can think for themselves? Is there some doubt? I mean, even our uteruses are brilliant.
12LynnN — and MAGIC. Damnit, it’s too bad I had to have a hysterectomy so many years ago before I knew the magic capabilities of that organ. I’m really starting to regret that, although it apparently wasn’t magic enough to thwart cancer. Well, ya’ live, ya’ learn.
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