always bolstered the republican party but been a little bit separate from it has sort of stepped in. they don t have any governor whatsoever when it comes to radical antiabortion politics. there s nobody in the conservative movement saying no, don t push on the rape and incest exceptions. that s going to weird out republican voters and women. there s nobody who can speak in with, authority in a way to shut them down. but where we re going is a confrontation between the romney campaign and the conservative movement base of the party which will fight if they try to take a stand on this. they will, and frankly, since romney has proved to back down at almost any confrontation throughout this campaign, going back to the primaries, whether it be about immigration, doesn t matter what the issue is, he backs down. he s not going to fight these people. and furthermore, who would be his allies? who are the people in that party who are going to stand up for women s rights? this is a party where
pregnancy. exceptions to the government s decisions based on you supposedly being raped, those are bs exceptions. because any woman who says she wants an abortion because her pregnancy is a result of a rape, by definition, she s lying about the rape thing. that s the reasoning here, right? that s why you need to come up with the cockamamy fake science theory if you want to talk about that as a policy. quietly over the last few years as the republican party has slipped its moorings post bush and cheney, as the party apparatus has fallen apart and the conservative movement has stepped in and taken over in the party s place, as that has happened over the last few years, rape and incest exemptions have fallen out of favor. for have already been people in republican politics who thought rape victims had it too easy and we should stop coddling the rape victims, the lying rape victims who secretly wanted it. those folks were always around
those folks were always around in anti-abortion politics and republican politics, but now, in this republican party, they have taken over. pa it was sarah palin s position in 2008 as the republican party nominee that there should be no exceptions for rape and incest victims when the party would criminal liza bortion. in 2010, it was the position of a whole bunch of republican senate candidates. sharron angle as the republican u.s. senate candidate in nevada. she said the government forcing a rape victim to bear the rapist s child should be thought of as a way to make lemonade out of lemons. abolishing rape incest was also championed by christine o donnell in delaware, she lost. by joe milner alaska, he lost, and by rand paul in kentucky, he won. it was also championed by ken buck in colorado. he lost a senate seat in 2010 in colorado. a seat that republicans never otherwise should have had any business losing. i am pro life and i ll answer
ticket? now that todd akin has become the latest republican politician to articulate the pseudo scientific thinking behind this laund thinking strand of republican politics, now that there s a full scale freakout about his viability and his insanely out there politics on the issue and how the republican party can afford to keep a guy like that on the ballot in that important race, once again, you have to ask why the freakout about todd akin when the republican party has picked somebody with the exact same track record, with the exact same policy record, his co sponsor on all of the bills to be the party s vice presidential nominee. if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has wayed to try to shut that whole thing down. this is a moment of instability in republican politics. todd akin, mr. legitimate rape there, he s apologizing now for those remarks, but he s not changing any of his policy positions that derive from that belief that he holds. and of course, for now at least,
unnecessary ultrasound against their will and potentially against doctor s orders. paul ryan s bill for doing that at the federal level had no exemptions for rape or incest. the furor in virginia over the forced ultrasounds bill is widely viewed as having derailed virginia governor bob mcdonnell s chances at being thpg year s vice presidential nominee. honestly, i think that s because he got famous for it. he wasn t famous for much else, now he s governor ultrasound. of course he can t be the vice presidential pick. in skipping governor ultrasound, in skipping bob mcdonnell, mitt romney honestly just picked somebody else who had the exact same policy record as governor ult ultrasound. why didn t the same policy record also derail paul ryan s chances at getting picked for the number two spot on the ticket? now that missouri u.s. senate candidate todd akin has become the latest republican politician to articulate the pseudo scientific thinking behind this long-standing strand of republic