"And if another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the suggestion of 'legitimate rape.'"
Karen Hughes, former political advisor to President George W. Bush
The sad thing is I don't see the sexism from old Republican men ending anytime soon. It really says something when former Bush advisors Hughes and Matthew Does think the Republican Party is too extreme. Who would ever think the Bush political team would become the GOP moderates.
CNN.com has Joe Donnelly leading Richard Mourdock 50 percent to 44 percent. 32 percent of the vote has been counted. I hope the trend stays that way. Mourdock called rape a gift from God.
“I struggled with myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something God intended to happen.”
I asked if Sen. Marco Rubio still hearts Richard Mourdock. Turns out Rubio is distancing himself from Mourdock.
"It's unfortunate," Rubio told reporters. "That's an issue that's very painful, very personal. I can't think of anything more horrifying than a rape that ends in a pregnancy. It's just a horrifying thing. It's a reminder of how careful folks need to be when they talk about that issue and how sensitive we need to be to victims."
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock decide to stupidly follow the same path as Todd Akin. Mourdock said this incredibly offense remark about rape during a debate.
“I struggled with myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something God intended to happen.”
God intended for rape? What is wrong with these people.
Someone who thinks that Mourdock is more fit to govern that President Obama is Marco Rubio. Sen. Rubio made a campaign ad with Mourdock. Rubio told Mourdock in the ad, "I'm proud to be with you."
In the ad, Rubio and Mourdock say that the federal government should fiscally govern like Mitch Daniels. As Office of Management and Budget, Daniels took the Clinton surplus and created the Bush deficit. Mourdock and Rubio have a strange idea of fiscally sound governing.
Update: Sen. John McCain tells Anderson Cooper he may toss Mourdock under the bus.
ANDERSON COOPER: Do you still count yourself in [Mourdock's] corner?
JOHN MCCAIN: It depends on what he does. I think it depends on what he does. If he apologizes and says he misspoke and he was wrong and he asks the people to forgive him, then obviously I’d be the first. You know, as I said, I’m not sure how big a – mistakes that I have made, but in the years I’ve been around – I’ve made a few, Anderson, and I’ve asked for people’s understanding and forgiveness when I own up to it. It’s when you own – when you don’t own up to it that people will not believe in you.
Richard Mourdock, Dick Lugar's primary opponent, released the attack video "Dick and Barry: The Unforgettable Bromance." The video suggest that Obama and Lugar are having a gay romance. A photoshopped Obama is giving Lugar suggestive looks. There is even a rainbow in the background. I think the video is more a reflection of Mourdock's homophobia then of Obama or Lugar. This is the worst attack ad since Rick Scott's "Obama's Mosque."
