Why Republicans are Crawling Into Women’s Vaginas

[kpete]

Why Republicans are Crawling Into Women’s Vaginas
by mistermix ... World Peace

More good news: jobless claims are down again.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-jobless-claims-fall-15000-to-358000-2012-02-09?link=MW_latest_news
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Graph explains why the Republican Party is ginning up the culture war—it’s easier than acknowledging that the economy is getting better.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10361363-jobless-claims-continue-to-improve
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/09/why-republicans-are-crawling-into-womens-vaginas/

[sharp_stick]

1. Absolutely right

whenever they can't think of anything else to do the "war on religion" and "war on women" start up again from the yapping blowhards of faux noise. This line is dutifully picked up by the assholes on their payroll in Congress.

It's nice to see actually, it shows just how badly their party of morons is flopping around.

[liberalmike27]

11. Got to have the "Con"

for Con-servative republi-cons to be elected.

You've got to applaud their proactiveness. Anything but focusing on economics, globalization's failure, lower wages, job losses, and the general failure of Chicago Boys thinking. Well, it did what they wanted, but a lot of people are realizing they got the short end of the stick.

[left coaster]

21. Yes, except that the war on religion is red herring.. the war on women is desperately real. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. The culture wars were always meant as a distraction and flag to rally voters around.

I think very few of the Repub politicians who engage in that war are sincere about supporting life, unborn or otherwise, supporting the troops, protecting the constitution... They are about $$$$$ and power, and that's all.

[justiceischeap]

3. This is why I think Roe v. Wade will never be overturned

It's too useful a campaign tool for the Repubs to trot out and get their base energized to vote. Same thing with gay marriage... they know talking against it, or acting as though it's going to change the lives of every single human being on the face of the planet (and any extraterrestrial beings that may live elsewhere) will energize their base.

[caseymoz]

27. You don't take into account that

People raised on 40 years of antichoice propaganda are now in positions of leadership in the GOP. For them, getting Roe struck down would not be a political calculation, but an article of faith.

That's the problem with propaganda. It breaks the connection to reality, and sooner or latter the generation raised on bullshit grows up and starts leading without any reference to the truth. They, in turn, run their cause into the ground.

[justiceischeap]

28. Provided the GOP party has any control over them

or the USSC, they may foam at the mouth to get overturned, but they'd have to go through a lot to get it overturned and I just don't see that happening. It's too useful. Could be wrong though, often am.

[caseymoz]

32. The reason why the GOP is in such trouble is

Young republicans since before Reagan (the move to turn the country conservative coalesced in the mid-70s) and post-fairness doctrine generation who grew up on Limbaughesque tirades are now becoming the GOP party. The old guards are dying off and the lunatics are taking charge of the asylum.

It's long been the same with the antichoice movement. In both cases, the new leadership doesn't lacks the tie to reality that the ones that created the initial propaganda had. They don't have a foot in the real world.

They're not going to succeed, but not because there's any leadership sabotaging it to keep the issue fresh. No, they'll fail because they're stupid and can't grasp the reality of it. I'm afraid they may temporarily succeed in getting Roe overturned at least de facto, but immediate results would be so tragic that it would have to be re-enacted after a short time.

They may otherwise gum up the works, get some court to declare a fetus a person, but even Mississippi turned that one down. Missis-fucking-sippi! They may get clinics shut down, and that's already tragic enough.

[nolabels]

4. Another telling graph might be the stock market

The bad thing about that nowadays it is almost like it's going backwards when it's compared to public perception of how well the government is doing satisfying the peoples needs. But many a billionaire couldn't complain too much about it

[sufrommich]

5. It's like clockwork, and yet ignorant people in this

country will still fall for it.

[AlbertCat]

7. yet ignorant people in this country will still fall for it.

It's easier than thinking.

Hell, it's easier than just looking around and seeing what's going on apparently. All.... and I mean ALL my unemployed friends, freelance or otherwise, are working these days.

[Neoma]

23. When I first read that.

I thought you said "cockwork."

[HughBeaumont]

6. Their message of Obama as a "redistributionist" is a pile of garbage, as it's always been.

The only "SOSHULISM" that's been happening in the past 31 years has been that of money flowing UPward rather than down. Billionaires are making out better than ever . . . ask the staunchly anti-Obama Kochs; haven't their net worths gone up something like 12.5 billion APIECE since 2009 (while their employment rolls DECREASED by 3,000 workers)??

Only the biggest slobbering appeaser jackass would trot out the "Obammunist" claptrap as a scare tactic at this point. The president's policies obviously HAVEN'T failed, and that's not taking into account that there are a few things they could be doing better on that would increase entrepreneurship and the economy twenty-fold; like a public option, for instance.

[tallahasseedem]

8. Nice try 'pugs...

It's not going to work this time around...especially with a new generation (not me) that are used to having this stuff around and will not readily give it up.

Plus, no one but my husband and a few select doctors go near mine!

[bayareaboy]

9. I hate the phrase "ginning up" ...

It makes me want to go get some big olives and vermouth.

All said so far on this subject is true, but let me put in this in the fix, the ass-bites who were had lots of issues with healthcare changes. Those folks will be heard from time to time, for their antics, How better to divide people based on their religion and that durned healthcare.

On the other hand I realize why Obama did what he did now, the election is way off.

[think4yourself]

10. I agree.

This whole Catholic insurance thing happened right as the polls showed an increase in Obama's approval. Purposeful or not, he can take it in his stride. This was the best time in the last 3 years for the Administration to defend this.

[MarkCharles]

12. After Iraq, and Afghanistan, where else?....

can Republicans declare a victory?

Only in the vagina's of women, the only charted territory over which they can assert superiority.
Some
Interesting how the fight for freedom really comes down to freedom for white men to assert their sexual organs and strength over a less strong and less valued human being.

[NYC Liberal]

14. It's the old cycle:

[geardaddy]

15. I'm stealing this.

[secondvariety]

20. That's it...

I've always called the GOPer's platform "GAG"-guns, abortion and gays.

[Trajan]

25. SO true and so easy to understand ...

Major rec ...

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. That seems....so......familiar.

[cbrer]

36. me 2

[kctim]

16. After reading the title

I kiddingly asked my Republican coworker "why she was crawling up women's vaginas?" She immediately responded with a huge smile, "to get my wallet back."

I love end of week attitudes. LOL!

[Aerows]

17. The ONLY platform Republicans have to run with is social morality

If more people understood that, and more people are, by the way because they have had to get so extreme, they'd never vote for them. They aren't about smaller government. They are about MORE government in your bedroom, dictating how you pray, and insisting you follow an evangelical way of life. A way of life that makes you give less in taxes, but makes you give more to insurance companies that are out the hell of control, demand you pay taxes if you are poor, but few if you are rich, churches who demand tithes, and dictate who you can and cannot love.

I cannot think of a more totalitarian, fascist way of life than life under an ultra-conservative.

[Skittles]

22. what I cannot understand

is how racism, bigotry, homophobia and misogyny can be considered "morals" or "family values"

[Remember Me]

29. Yeah and what I can't understand is how the Obama administration

or indeed ANYone, anywhere seriously propose policies that go against what are supposed to be Constitutionally protected rights.

According to Supreme Court decisions in the 1950s, contraception is Constitutionally protected. We should be DEMANDING that it be funded six ways from Sunday.

Abortion is Constitutionally protected since 1972. We should be demanding that there be abortion clinics in every medium size city, in every state. We should be demanding public funding another six ways from Sunday.

We should ESPECIALLY demand that NO ONE ever verbally threaten those Constitutionally protected rights.

We have, in other words, played it all wrong. We have been timid -- and given up ground -- when we should've been bold and assertive and VERY demanding.

[JohnWxy]

18. recommended. and thank you Rachel, you're the best.

[Bruce Wayne]

19. Back when I was a Republican, it was in my rational self interest to...

...convince middle class voters to vote against their own rational self-interest.

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. k&r

[Redstate Bluegirl]

30. Is that the real title?

Ewwww!

[cbrer]

31. Captain Obvious

Reporting!

How can rich white males of a certain ilk maintain (the facade of) power without denigrating, manipulating, controlling, and claiming moral superiority over women? Or blacks, or browns, or homosexuals?

People seem to be waking up! 'Bout freakin time!

Over and out!

[fasttense]

33. The economy sucks for us little people on the bottom. We still can't get jobs.

But you are right about the RepubliCONS ginning up a social war against women. Think about it. The RepubliCONS and their Catholic allies did not get their pants in a wad over going to war or the death penalty. Both of those practises are also against Catholic church doctrine and Catholic citizen's money is going to paying for them. But not a peep from the Catholic when the bushes started wars based upon lies. And isn't lying against Catholic Church doctrine too? I seem to remember something about 10 commandments.

True the RepubliCONS have nothing to get voters excited about because they were the ultimate cause of this 2nd RepubliCON Great Depression. Throwing out fake social issues is their only hope.

But the economy is still sucky and the numbers being thrown around by the Obama administration are just as fake as the economic numbers thrown around by the bushes. In 2000 the labor force participation rate was 67.3%, today at its lowest rate it is 63.7%. That's a 3.6% difference which represents about 5.4 million people. Where did they go?

[lunatica]

34. Women's vaginas are the new wedge issue this election year

What goes into and out of them is of utmost importance to our National Security.

[cbrer]

35. DOUBLE entendre'

Very clever!

Not that my mind's in the gutter... (tee hee, wedge)

So sorry Must resist

[lunatica]

39. LOL!

I was thinking along the lines of a crowbar being used to create the wedge. You know, real subtle stuff like that.

[Cerridwen]

37. Yeah, this is a new tactic...back in 1900 or so.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/abortionuslegal/a/abortion.htm

[div class = "excerpt"]In the United States, abortion laws began to appear in the 1820s, forbidding abortion after the fourth month of pregnancy.

Through the efforts primarily of physicians, the American Medical Association, and legislators, most abortions in the US had been outlawed by 1900.

Illegal abortions were still frequent, though they became less frequent during the reign of the Comstock Law which essentially banned birth control information and devices.

More at the link.

I so wish people would learn about women's history to understand that this is not new but only, newly obvious.

[McCamy Taylor]

38. They are doing it because they hate Rick Santorum. The American voters are going to be

scared shitless by the prospect of no birth control. Rick is going down in flames.