Senate canidate's rape comments stir outcry

[JustAlex]

Now alex, be fair. Not one member of the GOP has defended this. You've always contended they would defend anything lest it appear there's a rift in the party.

Yeah, I guess you're right...

In the past I have seen them defend very outlandish comments, this time they actually backed away from this joke of congressman.

Still, why are the GOP so hostile towards women?

We all remember their "war on women" campaign where they tried to pass a lot of legislation to strictly regulate abortion and contraceptives.

I don't even understand it.

The U.S actually has more females than males, why on earth would they be so hostile toward them?

[Wickabee]

It has little to do with women and much to do with Christians.
Now, before I get called a Christian basher, let me explain.
It's a pretty safe bet that if your a conservative Christian (meaning conservative pertaining to Christianty) you're going to vote Republican. They pander to Christians because Christians are, as a group, loud and many. Many of them believe the country should be held to their belief system in what I can only assume is a ploy to remove all temptation to make is easier for them to lool down on people.

This, however, was the rantings of an idiot gone off script. Lord knows there is enough of those to go around for both parties.

[Star_Cards]

A poor choice of words, obviously, but this shouldn't be the type of thing that costs somebody an election. It's not like he was making a policy statement, differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate rapes. If he had just not said "legitimate," the same meaning would have been conveyed without the firestorm.

I agree. I don't think his statement was to insinuate that there are other lesser types of rape. I think he just meant to say that if a case is in fact a rape... blah blah blah. It is odd that a politician would believe that a women's body has a way of shutting down her reproductive when being raped. I do find it funny and typical that obama and romney are making sure that it's understood they have no opinion even close to his. It's also funny that the republicans are calling for him to back out of the race so that they can have time to try to preserve the seat.

It's always interesting how a politician can be backed, etc and then one word, "legitimate" can derail it all in a flash.

[Star_Cards]

Well, apparently you're more of an expert than he is:

source: http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...pregnancy?lite

I actually have way more of a problem with that idea than "legitimate" rape, because I see the point he is trying to make by qualifying it as such. However, any smart Missouri liberal would turn around and use this as as a reason why sex education should be taught in school, because he could've used a class or two.




Even I have enough faith in humans to believe that only the stupidest of the stupid will believe what he said.

I completely agree with you. The statement was a complete lie to try to bolster his ideology about banning abortions by saying that a raped woman is somehow less likely to become pregnant than a women that has consensual sex. The fact that he lies about something like this to try to sway people to his way of thinking is way more of an issue than him saying legitimate rape. Of course that's not as flashy but still the main issue of what he said.

[Wickabee]

I completely agree with you. The statement was a complete lie to try to bolster his ideology about banning abortions by saying that a raped woman is somehow less likely to become pregnant than a women that has consensual sex. The fact that he lies about something like this to try to sway people to his way of thinking is way more of an issue than him saying legitimate rape. Of course that's not as flashy but still the main issue of what he said.

I don't think he lied. I think he genuinely believed it to be true until someone told him he's an idiot after the interview. I really do think he is in need of a few sex ed. classes. Do they have sex ed. in Missouri or are they one of "those" states?

[shrewsbury]

actually there was a thesis written around 1972 by a doctor that stated this and it was thought to be true for years. even in the 80's they were teaching this in nursing school.

[Star_Cards]

I don't think he lied. I think he genuinely believed it to be true until someone told him he's an idiot after the interview. I really do think he is in need of a few sex ed. classes. Do they have sex ed. in Missouri or are they one of "those" states?

well he did say that he spoke with medical doctors (not sure if that's the exact phrase he used) who told him this. Either they were uninformed DRs or he lied about it. I guess we'll never know.

[Star_Cards]

actually there was a thesis written around 1972 by a doctor that stated this and it was thought to be true for years. even in the 80's they were teaching this in nursing school.

so basically he's speaking under the theory from someone 30 years ago. I guess that I can see where then he wasn't lying... just horribly ill-informed.

[mrveggieman]

so basically he's speaking under the theory from someone 30 years ago. I guess that I can see where then he wasn't lying... just horribly ill-informed.

And this was coming from someone who works for a political party that encourages abstinence only sex ed.

[shrewsbury]

veggie, I know you love to see in black and white, but you miss so many shaded in between. you love to throw the baby out with the bathwater!

if conservatives knew what they were talking about they would ask him to step down because he is not up with the times and as a leader he should be.

this is no different than the anti christians on here who only know what they were taught as kids about christianity.