TEA PARTY candidate Tom Smith, taking on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, decided to go down the Todd Akin-Paul Ryan road today. It got bumpy very quickly.
SMITH: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.
SCOLFORO: That’s similar to rape?
SMITH: No, no, no, but… put yourself in a father’s situation, yes. It is similar.
A woman’s been raped, but we’re supposed to put ourselves in the father’s situation?
Then to top that off we’re supposed to believe having a child when you’re not married is equal to rape?
What’s it going to take for voters to understand the type of people Republicans are fielding and for rank and file Republicans to mount a full scale revolt? The parade of people on the right not remotely qualified for Congress is history making.
I won’t even dignify his comments with a response. We have two parties in this country – the first totally unqualified to rule with the kind of pols they are fielding and the other with no balls. Ugh!!
Bingo!
They simply don’t think very much of women. In that sense their like many religious fanatics. The women are there for one thing and of course you know what that is. We see how women are treated in extremist religious societies; you can feel free to burn them, throw acid in their faces, keep them from leaving a burning building because their heads are not covered, stone them to death for allowing themselves to be raped. Only recently has the violence within the Hasidic community come to light, as well as the Amish. Women are sinful, everybody knows that. Their always trying to blame the poor men for everything.
I like the “what’s it going to take” question. Of course, you know I’m going to add the same kind of question for Democrats — what’s it going to take to stop rewarding Dems who keep following the Repubs rightward?
We need more options. Yes, that’s my broken record, but I haven’t dropped the needle for a while, so that I’d play it again
Any woman who votes for the GOP is a willing participant in their own subjugation!
Bingo!
Whatever gave you two the notion that Joyce would ever vote for a Republican?
Who was talking about Joyce? I wasn’t.
The GOP made their bed when they got in it with the Tea Party Nuts. As we say down here in the south, when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas, honey. And the GOP seems to be covered with Tea Party fleas.
Everyone flipped out over Todd Akins comments and now Al Smith! But listen to what the guy Mitt Romney picked as his running mate said about rape!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/paul-ryan-said-something-_b_1832377.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Why on earth any woman out there would vote for these bat-shit crazy right wing nuts is beyond me.
The Democrat he’s running against is anti-choice. There isn’t really a heck of a lot of choice on that issue in that race.
President Obama is anti-choice? Christ, what is wrong with you?
Did you see any mention of Obama in this article? What’s wrong with you?
The Democrat he’s running against is anti-choice.
Diogenes finds a rare moment of gratification on these pages.
Now come on…there isn’t ANY difference between the two parties…….
Of course there is – the Republicans lead and the Democrats follow.
Rightward.
Assuming there’s any direction at all, yes, rightward.
hehehhehheh…
SMITH: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.
SCOLFORO: That’s similar to rape?
SMITH: No, no, no, but… put yourself in a father’s situation, yes. It is similar.
If I think of the rapist at all when a woman gets raped, the term “father” never, ever comes to mind.
I could give a rat’s ass about the feelings of a rapist. But, this Smith turd does. And, this is what the GOP once again selects to run for the Senate? The people who run that party now, the reactionary tea party and the people who support them even for fiscal reasons (which is a crock because that party hasn’t practiced one iota of what they preach fiscally) knowing that it’s now infested with the Akins, Smiths, Ryans, Bachmann’s and the rest of these like-minded cretins, are either like them and believe the same or have their heads in the sand.
Although Corey Robin who wrote the book “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin” argues that this is nothing new it has just gotten more pronounced/extreme. I haven’t read this book yet but I will now.
Corey Robin was a guest on Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday. If you didn’t see that program, I recommend it.
Hayes had terrific shows last weekend.