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Mitt Romney TV ad plugs Richard Mourdock in Indiana Senate race
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/22/mitt-romney-tv-ad-plugs-richard-mourdock-in-indiana-senate-race/

Mitt Romney distances himself from GOP's Mourdock over rape comment
http://www.freep.com/article/20121024/NEWS15/121024019/Mitt-Romney-Richard-Mourdock-rape-abortion-TV-ad

Another crazy Republican rape theory, and Mitt 'disagrees.' Again.

by Kaili Joy Gray

Here we go again:

Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Indiana, said in a debate on Tuesday that "even when life begins with that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen." <...>

"The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother," Mourdock said. "I struggled with it 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 it is something God intended to happen."

Yes. That's right. It's time to add a new kind of rape to the list: Gift-from-God rape. Seems like only a week ago we were adding "emergency rape" to the list.

Ah, the Republican Party. And, of course, the party's boldest would-be leader, Mitt Romney, who is willing to call China names and will therefore use the strongest language possible to condemn such insulting, inexcusable and wrong language. Or not:

"Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views," said spokeswoman Andrea Saul.

Wow. He disagrees. That's bold! And ... strangely familiar:

"Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin’s statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape," Andrea Saul, a Romney spokesperson, told The Huffington Post.

That Mitt. He sure does find these things disagreeable, doesn't he? Although, if the public outcry of disgust at this latest in a long line of Republicans to say something despicable and yet perfectly representative of the Republican Party's beliefs about rape, Romney just might manage to muster even more disagreement.

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