Lost in the national outrage and politics following an inflammatory statement made Sunday by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri is the reality that, on a fundamental level, there is no policy difference between Akin's comments and the mainstream GOP platform. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Memeorandum
The Republican platform committee approved the draft on Tuesday that calls for a constitutional ban on abortion without exception for rape victims, Politico reports.
Nick Federici commented on FaceBook:
The morally-repugnant, misinformed, and idiotic comments of Missouri U.S. Senate Republican candidate Todd Akin seem to me to be merely the latest and most-extreme manifestation of Tea Party anti-scientific / faith-based pathology. It transcends politics and ideology to a basic lack of willingness or ability to understand anything that deviates from a frighteningly-narrow belief system. Ignorantly believing that a woman’s body can somehow automatically reject the DNA of a rapist is in many ways part of the same (anti-)intellectual continuum as not believing in the demonstrated science of evolution or climate change. It reflects an unwillingness or inability to place facts ahead of blind beliefs, and is even akin (pun fully intended) to the utterly-unproven economic claims of trickle-down economics. Saying it doesn’t make it so, no matter how hard you believe “six impossible things before breakfast”. I thought that Missouri was the “show me” state, not the “make nonsense up to justify my opinions” state!
Somewhat fascinating that this wild eyed radical attack on privacy rights is plainly a prime Repugnantcon position, emblazoned in their national platform, but they take the knife to Akin when he violates their code of silence and speaks their beliefs in public. How many of the other reich wing candidates just keep their apple pie holes shut, but believe the same wild eyed stuff and would act on it immediately if they had the power? Any woman who votes republican is a fool, any man who votes republican is enabling misogyny and abrogation of constitutional rights.