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By DAN CALABRESE - A new approach to a political battle that can't be won.
There is a lot the Republican Party has to rethink in light of what happened on Tuesday, and I certainly don't want to suggest that social issues alone - or even primarily - are the cause of the GOP's current travails. But you have to start somewhere, and when you can't defeat an incumbent president with the economic record Obama's dragging around, there's no issue that should be exempt from rethinking.
So consider:
In a winnable red state Senate race, Missouri's Todd Akin makes an astoundingly stupid statement about rape and pregnancy. He is toast. In just-as-red Indiana, Senate candidate Richard Mourdock makes a slightly more defensible but still incredibly stupid statement about rape and pregnancy. It ultimately costs him the race, and all the conservative triumphalism over the primary takedown of Richard Lugar turns to gnashing of teeth as the seat flips to the Democrats.
Why did these fiascos occur? They occurred because the standard Republican position on abortion, while admirably principled, becomes almost impossible to defend when a skilled and determined questioner starts drilling down into the details. Ask a pro-life Republican what kind of prison sentence they would recommend for a woman who gets an abortion? Good luck getting a clear and confident answer. Rape and incest? I'm with you when you say that God still loves that baby, but get into the details of how you enforce the law that forces the woman to carry the child to term when she doesn't want to? It's a disastrous debate moment just waiting to happen.
More here: http://www.caintv.com/TimefortheGOPtorethinkabortion-744
msongs
(67,193 posts)socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)That Akin and Mourdock lost just because they said something stupid.
It could be partly to the fact that their oponent would have won anyway.
Second, it may have been that the statement was about a subject that was
very close to the hearts of a lot of people (both men and women)
or it could be that when a candidate says something that is so totally stupid that it brings into question the sanity and/or gullability of the candidate and their ability to reason and come to logical conclusions becomes suspect tha you have to consider the other candidate..
reformist2
(9,841 posts)niyad
(112,424 posts)when it comes to women, PERIOD?
as that article in the guardian stated "women fought the gop's 2012 war on women, and WOMEN WON"
LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)The guy who wrote that is an evangelical Christian who writes novels about fighting demons. And even THAT GUY thinks banning abortion is impractical and a political loser for the GOP.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)concerning ladyparts and Gawd's desires.
Decent men - who have normal, healthy relationships with the females in their lives - were as outraged as women by these two cretins' comments.
Last night, on Coast to Coast, that lame Wells and his guest were totally dismissing the issue as unimportant.
Okay, assholes. You hate women, you don't have any girls or women you care about, and you obviously are not ever going to personally be raped and knocked up by your stepdads.
But don't by fucking god tell me, a women and a mother of a daughter, and a sister, and a friend to many women - that the issue of women's reproductive freedom is "unimportant."
In other words, Wells and all the fools like you: FUCK YOU! You are cowards and misogynists who only care about $$$$$$