Romney campaign: We still support Mourdock

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

Mitt Romney has disavowed the comments made Tuesday by Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who called pregnancies resulting from rape “something that God intended.” But the Republican presidential candidate still supports Mourdock.

The Romney campaign has not asked Mourdock’s campaign to pull a television advertisement featuring Romney’s endorsement, a Romney campaign official said Wednesday morning.

“Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock, and Mr. Mourdock’s comments do not reflect Gov. Romney’s views,” Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. “We disagree on the policy regarding exceptions for rape and incest but still support him.”

President Obama’s campaign is working to tie Mourdock to Romney, while a number of Republican senators have distanced themselves from the Senate candidate.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/24/romney-campaign-we-still-support-mourdock/

[Kber]

1. Well goody!

[pointsoflight]

2. Get Romney or someone from his campaign on video with that...then boom....

It's fair game. National ads. Right now, Romney has a little bit of an out since he endorsed the guy before the statements. Much harder to defend continued support after the statements.

[wordpix]

17. done, Dems have already done it! Good work!

[MjolnirTime]

3. hahaha!

[central scrutinizer]

4. Ryan feels exactly the same way as Mourdock

He may have chosen his words better but the outcome for a woman pregnant as the result of a rape is the same. Romney is joined at the hip with Akin/Ryan/Mourdock

[beac]

5. Hope "We still support him" will be plastered over the video of Murdock's comment

in a OFA ad by the end of the day.

What the hell would someone have to say to lose Romney's support??

[TwilightGardener]

6. Then he supports a person who says that God wants women to be raped in

order to produce children. Have it your way, Mittens.

[LisaL]

7. Good. Romney is stuck with him now.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Any woman who votes for either is seriously

mentally challenged.

[.99center]

9. Color me surprised, Mitt's feelings about this issue must be genuine.

This is the first time he hasn't shook the Etch N Sketch since his primary ended. Mitt stands firmly for rape!

[doublethink]

10. ...

[MrYikes]

11. I can just picture Senator Lugar giving a one-finger salute to the Indiana repub party.

[marble falls]

12. To bad he won't say that crap on tape. Because it would show that even if the "disavowell"....

was honest and he won't deny or disavow the disembowelment, their positions are 99.44% the same. No reason to vote for one if you won't vote for the other.

[olddad56]

13. That makes Mitt the last gopper standing up for this scumbag. But, for some reason, it makes sense.

[blkmusclmachine]

14. Does Romney support a Death Penalty for "Unruly Children" like the Arkansas GOP???

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/08/974321/republican-candidate-in-arkansas-says-parents-should-seek-death-penalty-for-rebellious-children/?mobile=nc

[Rising Tide]

15. Rape, repubs and visitation.

What people don't realize is a rapist if convicted will serve about 5 years in jail.

If the victim is forced by the government to bear the child, the rapist can apply for visitation after he gets out of prison.

If the rapist is convicted of a lesser crime, sexual battery for example, he'll serve about two years in prison.

Then he can apply for visitation.

If the rapist isn't prosecuted... there's nothing but bad news for the victim and the child.

The perpetrator or convicted felon can apply for visitation at their local Family Court AND the court will side with the perpetrator AGAINST the mother.

At the expense of the taxpayer the judge may appoint an advocate or even an attorney to aid the perpetrator or felon in securing visitation through the court.

Imagine the victim being FORCED by the Court to turn the child over to their rapist every other weekend, half the summer and every other Christmas.

What do the republicans have to say about this?

[darkangel218]

16. They will probably say the same. "its the Gods will"

Grrr

Welcome to DU, btw

[Canuckistanian]

18. There's your next ad, Obama

Chain Willard to this troglodyte and watch them BOTH sink into the mud at the bottom of the swamp.

[TomCADem]

19. Romney Really Needs Indiana Republican Support, So Of Course He Supports Mourdock...

...even though his comments are just as outrageous as Akins.

[daleo]

20. What a strange election this has been

The fact that rape keeps being brought up - it just seems to indicate a very peculiar episode in the political culture's evolution, or perhaps devolution. I suppose it's a concrete example of how religious fundamentalism turns back the clock, even in an advanced society, if given half a chance.