ANOTHER IDIOT!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

GOP Senate Candidate: 'God Intended' Pregnancies From Rape

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said pregnancies resulting from rape are part of God's plan, tearfully explaining that he only supports abortions when a mother's life is in danger.

"I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," Mourdock said during Tuesday's Senate debate, choking up. Mourdock's opponent, Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly, opposes abortion except in cases of rape and incest.

After the debate, Mourdock further explained his comment.

"Are you trying to suggest somehow that God preordained rape, no I don't think that," said Mourdock, according to The Associated Press. "Anyone who would suggest that is just sick and twisted. No, that's not even close to what I said."

Democrats wasted no time linking GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Mourdock. Earlier this week, Romney personally appeared in a TV ad for the Indiana state treasurer, offering his endorsement.

"Richard Mourdock's rape comments are outrageous and demeaning to women. Unfortunately, they've become part and parcel of the modern Republican Party's platform toward women's health, as Congressional Republicans like Paul Ryan have worked to outlaw all abortions and even narrow the definition of rape," Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement released to press.

"As Mourdock's most prominent booster and the star of Mourdock's current campaign ads, Mitt Romney should immediately denounce these comments and request that the ad featuring him speaking directly to camera on Mourdock's behalf be taken off the air," she added

"Mitt's man Mourdock apes Akin, reflecting a GOP that is way out of mainstream," Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted.

Romney's campaign distanced itself from Mourdock's comment.

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

Abortion has become a more prominent issue in the presidential campaign in recent weeks, as Mitt Romney told the Des Moines Register that he would not pursue any specific abortion legislation as president and began airing a new TV ad in which a woman touts Romney's support for abortions in cases of rape and incest-a difference of opinion between Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan.

The Obama campaign hit Romney on abortion soon after, releasing a TV ad of its own that features footage from a 2007 GOP presidential primary debate in which Romney said he would be "delighted" to sign a bill banning all abortions in the U.S.

Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said during an interview in August that women's bodies have ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape." Akin apologized for the comment, but refused to leave the race despite pressure from his own party.

ABC News' Elizabeth Hartfield and David Muir contributed to this report.

[Pensioner]

What a tosser, I wonder what he would think if he was raped up the arse.

[Svartalf]

Suffering is part of god's plan, and he'd be relived he can't get pregnant that way.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Kristie, do you get to vote in this guy's race?

[Thinking Aloud]

What a tosser, I wonder what he would think if he was raped up the arse.

He wouldn't get pregnant.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What a tosser, I wonder what he would think if he was raped up the arse.

He wouldn't get pregnant.

Because God at THAT stupid.

[mistermack]

The scary thing is that there is a huge bloc of the american public who think along these lines.
And many other countried too.
Just like Ayatollahs and Taliban.
Think being the wrong word really.
They feel completely absolved from thinking. Everything good is god's will. Nothing nasty ever is.

I mean, god either intervenes, or he doesn't.
Yet they seem to feel perfectly justified in saying that he has intervened, when it suits THEIR opoinions,
and hasn't, when it's nasty stuff.

So an earthquake is just due to natural forces, but it's a miracle, when someone gets pulled out alive.

The standard of thinking would shame many eight-year-olds.

[Santa_Claus]

And folks in the US worry about Sharia law!

(In Indiana probably seen as being too liberal)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And folks in the US worry about Sharia law!

(In Indiana probably seen as being too liberal)

The KKK is still strong in Indiana. (It as a date-rape cover-up scandal in Indiana that brought the Invisible Empire down in the '20s, but they haven't gone away.)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Ian]

Mentions of Richard Mourdock's rape comments by network (as of 2PM): CNN (22), MSNBC (15), FOX (ZERO).

And the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee), worried about their chances of retaking the senate, is rushing to his aid.

And there are ads of Romney endorsing this guy, to "help turn back the Reid-Pelosi liberal agenda". No comment from the Romney campaign yet today.

Some class acts you are, Republicans.


EDIT: In other news... http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-di ... ne:default

[Kristie]

Kristie, do you get to vote in this guy's race?

Sadly, no. I'd love nothing more than to vote for his opponent.

[charlou]

The scary thing is that there is a huge bloc of the american public who think along these lines.
And many other countried too.
Just like Ayatollahs and Taliban.
Think being the wrong word really.
They feel completely absolved from thinking. Everything good is god's will. Nothing nasty ever is.

I mean, god either intervenes, or he doesn't.
Yet they seem to feel perfectly justified in saying that he has intervened, when it suits THEIR opoinions,
and hasn't, when it's nasty stuff.

So an earthquake is just due to natural forces, but it's a miracle, when someone gets pulled out alive.

The standard of thinking would shame many eight-year-olds.

Actually, (some of) the ayatollahs, and the taliban as a group of self-elected morality police, don't believe pregnancy is part of god's plan at all. They believe a woman who finds herself in that situation brought it upon herself and ought to be stoned to death.

Either way, the thinking is perverse. The evolutionary imperative of biology being manipulated by cultural evolution. Fascinating stuff. I prefer science.

[Wumbologist]

Well hey, at least if it's an "honest rape" you can get Ron Paul to give you a shot of estrogen, as long as you get to the ER ASAP. Though really, if it were "legitimate", wouldn't your body take care of that anyway?

[Cormac]

What a tosser, I wonder what he would think if he was raped up the arse.

He wouldn't get pregnant.

He might if the Hole-ey spirit did it.


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