They’re all Todd Akin now: How the Planned Parenthood sting backfired on Republicans - Joan Walsh
The Cleveland debate made it clear: the 2016 GOP candidates are turning themselves into the anti-choice extremistJOAN WALSH
Those infamous Planned Parenthood “sting” videos, deceptively edited and perhaps illegally obtained, were the years-long project of some of the most extreme, even violent figures of the anti-abortion world. They were designed to “ACORN” Planned Parenthood – that is, take a long-demonized element of progressive Democratic politics out of the game for good.
But the hoax perpetrated by the Campaign for Medical Progress, to dishonestly claim Planned Parenthood “sells” fetal tissue after abortions, may have backfired on the right, judging from the anti-choice pyrotechnics that erupted on stage in Cleveland Thursday night. CMP intended to hurt Planned Parenthood and Democrats in the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign. But they seem to have hurt the GOP, by tricking the 2016 candidates into believing there’s more revulsion at both abortion, and at the respected women’s healthcare provider long attacked by conservatives, than there actually is.
The anti-abortion one-upmanship at the debate showed how the candidates are misreading the political opportunities and turning themselves into Todd Akin, the Republican who challenged Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill in 2012. Akin, you’ll recall, was disputing the need for a rape exception to an abortion ban when he told an interviewer that in cases of “legitimate rape,” a woman’s body magically has a way to “shut that whole thing down.” His idiocy helped not only McCaskill but President Obama that year. (Three quarters of Americans believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, by the way.)
Nobody said anything quite that crude and stupid about women’s bodies Thursday night, but some of the answers were equally crazy. Debate “winner” Marco Rubio disavowed his own past support for abortion bans that included a rape and incest exception, and came out for personhood legislation. Gov. Scott Walker, who personally asked Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature to write a 20-week abortion ban without any exceptions, refused to squirm when Megyn Kelly asked “Would you really let a mother die rather than have an abortion?”
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GOD! Our side just wilts like heated lettuce leaves.
I wanted to kick Mathews in the ass last night. He kept going on about how how thinks that there is "NO ONE" who is not disturbed by the PP videos. He kept injecting that "NO ONE" into all of the many stupid conversations about the sting videos.
WRONG ASSHOLE! There are plenty of people who are only disturbed at the fact that this is a hit job on one of the most effective women's health organizations in the world.
He kept alluding to "body parts" and how disgusting the thought of "selling" fetal parts is and the whole panel just went along, bobbing and tisk-tisking about how disturbed they all were and how disturbed every American is about this.
What disturbs them is women lady parts... pure and simple. They are disgusted by menses any any icky stuff that may come out of a va-jayjay.
I just wanted to kick them all in the ass. There was only one woman on the panel and she was a right wing shill.
Thanks MSNBC... you are dead to me.
Sisters need to power-uo the force of the V!
