Oooooh! Gonna be a knife fight in GOP Alley!

[Are_grits_groceries]

From Maureen Dowd's column:
<snip>
As W.’s former aide Karen Hughes put it in Politico on Friday, “If another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue.”
<snip>
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opinion/sunday/dowd-romney-is-president.html?smid=tw-NYTimesDowd&seid=auto&_r=0

I heard that!

[Cleita]

1. A big woman like her could too.

Watch out all you misogynist, pasty faced white guys.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Bet she'd cut something besides the tongue too! nt

[Cleita]

3. Bwuwhahaha!

You are wicked!

[freshwest]

11. *makes sign of fingers cutting paper*

[Whovian]

4. What Clieta said. nt

[a geek named Bob]

5. If Karen Hughes wants to dance in an alley with some of these turds, she can borrow

One of my knives.

I'd consider it improving the public conversation.

[flying rabbit]

6. kicking for the thread title

[OneTallDrinkofWater]

7. agreed

If it wern't for a couple idiots saying stupid things about rape, gods will, and abortions.. Mitt probably would've one.

[cyberswede]

9. Riiiiight...

He was completely devoid of substance. That he got any votes at all just shows how morally bankrupt Republicans are.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. You forgot to add the "sarcasm" smilie.

Welcome to DU.

[lunatica]

17. No. But it's why they lost their elections.

[progressoid]

8. Seriously Karen,

Where have you been for the last few decades? You didn't ever notice this before in the GOP?

[babylonsister]

10. How 'bout the past few months, when this started? Why was she so silent? nt

[freshwest]

12. Her and Kay Bailey Hutchinson stood down while all this was going on. So they can STHU now.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Yep...

still, I wouldn't want her mad at me

[Are_grits_groceries]

25. I don't think anybody was listening to her.

I'll bet she felt that way since the get go. I think she probably said it to as many peope as she could. I don't like her one bit, but she isn't a stupid person. Hughes also knows her politics.

The Teashitters do not listen to anybody. The establishment GOPeas tried to deal with them on a variety of issues. We only got glimpses of it. The Teabots were and are determined to do it their way. The fiscal crap had a little bit of appeal but when they veered into social issues it was ABANDON SHIP for a lot of people listening.

I believe, and I think many GOPeas do too, that they have to learn the hard way. You will not get elected if you live on Gondwanaland. Many won't ever learn, but at least they won't be elected.

[grahamhgreen]

21. Good point.

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. She knows those anti-woman comments lost the gop election. Women won the vote for Obama.

Women, African-Americans, Latinos, and all others who are treated as lesser.

[druidity33]

19. Actually, white women voted for Romney...

by a margin of 56% to 42%. That surprised me. I thought the margin would've been tighter...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-c-wilson/the-elephant-in-the-exit_b_2094354.html

(though i hate to link to HuffPo)

[Javaman]

15. This is the equivalent of darth vadar apologizing to luke at the end of episode 6 of star wars.

He was a dick for the run of episodes 4,5 and 6, yet at the end of 6, he makes nice with luke by giving up the evil force and all is better.

karen hughes helped build this monster, now she's sorry, so we are now supposed to forget all the water carrying she did for george w. moron*?

I support all women against the gop asshole rape comments. I support karen hughes just a little less.

[DryHump]

18. I'd wager Obama had a fair share

of women Repubs voting for him - they would never admit to exit polls (or their families) they'd just voted for the O

[CrazyOrangeCat]

22. Yes . . .

. . . I think that is the case. What redneck hubby doesn't know won't hurt him.

I just agreed with someone named Dry Hump.

And that's alright.

[AlbertCat]

20. to personally cut out his tongue

Yeah, but why?

Because it makes you lose elections?


Let 'em speak their minds!

[MsPithy]

23. Karen, the problem is not what they said about rape.

The problem is they believe a woman should be forced to bear the rapist's progeny. How ya gonna fix that?

[truebluegreen]

24. I notice she said she wanted to cut out his tongue...

as if saying it was the problem. I'd want to cut off something else.

[Loki]

26. All they will do now is lie, and lie more often

about their regressive stand on women's rights. This leopard will never change its spots and they count on the voting public to forget.

[HappyMe]

27. Meh.

Where the hell has she been all along? She can say whatever she wants. It's what she actually believes that matters. Her 'cut out his tongue' statement reminds me of Chik-Fil-A saying that they won't discriminate/donate to anti-gay causes. It sounded great on the surface, but that's not what happened.

[patricia92243]

28. When she says "says" that is all that she means. The rest of the article goes on to explain that

the way things are said is what is important - not that they are wrong.

Some other GOP talking head said the same thing - policy is not what needs to be changed - just the wording. ANd that is exactly what they will do in the future - only be careful of how they say things.

[coalition_unwilling]

29. Awesome column, filled with precious zingers like this one:

As Fox’s Megyn Kelly said to Karl Rove on election night, when he argued against calling Ohio for Obama: “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?”

[dchill]

30. According to Karl, it's THE math.