The Republican Party is having a meltdown

[ProSense]

Republicans decided to attack women as a political strategy and it backfired. Now blowhard Rush Limbaugh launches an ill-informed vile attack on the woman that Republicans denied an opportunity to testify at their all-men hearing on contraception. Seriously, how stupid can some people be? They could have left the issue die down, but no. Evidently, women must be stopped and put in their place. A handful of Republican members of Congress scrambled to issue their lame condemnations of Limbaugh only days after they voted in support of the offensive Blunt-Rubio amendment.

To make matters worse, the GOP Presidential candidates are cowards and hypocrites who have aligned themselves with these right-wing assaults. Mitt Romney is so confused he's still flip flopping on support for Blunt-Rubio. Also, Romney is apparently so terrified of criticizing Limbaugh that he issued a statement to the effect that "it's not the language I would have used." (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002376195) He's likely searching a thesaurus for a kinder gentler word for "slut." Only Romney can mess up a simple condemnation.

Who on earth told these fools that a war on women was a good election-year strategy?


http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/the-gop-candidates-war-on-womens-health-care/



http://www.democraticunderground.com/101712361




Republicans stepped in it big time. They have mobilized a huge anti-blowhard bully movement.

Rush Limbaugh 'Slut' Comments Drive Georgetown To Defend Student Sandra Fluke
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002375703

[burrowowl]

1. K&R!!!!!

[Mimosa]

2. Great OP and info! n/t

[ProSense]

16. Thanks. n/t

[RKP5637]

3. K&R !!! The picture, table and letter say it all, great for dem campaign ad!!! n/t

[ProSense]

17. Yup! n/t

[deacon]

4. K/R

[pokerfan]

5. k&r (n/t)

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. LOL! This is a riot.

[ProSense]

18. It was created

by the Obama campaign

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/dems-design-mock-permission-slip-for-contraception-coverage

[BlueCaliDem]

7. An enthusiastic K&R, ProSense! Another excellent post! eom

[ProSense]

19. Thanks. n/t

[Carla in Sequim]

8. I'm happy for the meltdown...

because before I started taking the pill in 1971 at the age of 18, my life was hell. I will not go into detail of my wretching pain but I missed a lot of school and activities.

THE PILL SAVED MY LIFE!

My mom called me yesterday. She cried as she recalled how it gave me a normal life. My husband is angrier than I've seen in a while. Trust me when I say that this is affecting everyone that counts. I want this fight to continue until we get every conservative out of office.

That medicine was there for me when I needed it and by God I will, until my last breath. do whatever I can to keep it available for those that need it now and in the future!

[BlueCaliDem]

9. An enthusiastic K&R! eom

[Grateful for Hope]

10. A big K&R

[DCKit]

11. Oh, c'mon, they thought it was a safe issue. You can't impregnate an eight year old boy. nt

[DCBob]

12. 'searching a thesaurus for a kinder gentler word for "slut."'

LOL!

Excellent article. That graphic should be made into an ad.

[TBF]

13. Excellent post -

I love that chart.

[ProSense]

20. And it's

interactive. Check it out at the Think Progress link.

Thanks all.

[fasttense]

14. And Ron Paul is right up there with the rest of the crazies.

Since when is stopping people from having sex a libertarian ideal?

Ayn Rand is rolling over in her grave Paulie.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. You're Right. It Isn't Consistent

It's strictly pandering. But, i noticed back in around 1996, maybe it was 2000, that a bunch of guys at the Libertarian Convention were pontificating about abortion.

So, i think the ideals have been shifting for a while. Whatever is politically expedient, i guess.
GAC

[sellitman]

15. BREAKING: Mitt Romney found better language to use than Rush.

" I would of called them Ladies Of The Night", not sluts.

[ProSense]

22. Clueless, and

so was the other part of his comment: "I’m focusing on the issues I think are significant in the country today."

I mean, Romney just stated that women's rights and health care decisions are not "significant" issues.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. K&R

Since they want hormones (i.e., estrogen derivatives and/or progestin or progesterone derivatives) to be outlawed (because that's all birth control is), then these substances within the woman's body would be also be de facto outlawed, thus rendering a woman physically destroyed.

[nanabugg]

23. Okay, flame away but I think the GOP went after women because they believe that Obama is

a much more attractive candidate to women than they are. By squashing "Obamacare" and going after contraception, I believe they were hoping that women would become angry at Obama for letting it happen (as though he was to blame). The shit actually backfired when they tried to reframe the issue as a religious infringement, then back to a contraception issue, then back to a religious infringement issue. The entire thing exposed some unintentional info like insurance companies would rather pay for contraception than the alternative health events for women, and the fact that 95% of Catholic and other religious women use and have been using contraception for eons. Never mind that Obama administration caught bin Laden, helped get Quadaffi (none of which I agreed with because of the devastation caused), passed healthcare legislation (tho flawed), signed equal pay for equal work legislation, and a host of other successes. That bad-assed President can also sing!!!

[Major Hogwash]

24. The GOP's 4G network for morans -- Gawd, guns, gays, . . and girls???

What the hell are they smoking??
Santorum-laced cigarettes?
Ewwwwww!!!!!!!!

No wonder their cell phones don't work, they're trying to turn it on by insulting it!
Dumbass morans, anyway.

[RainDog]

25. I hope they lose in every state

women who vote for Republicans are idiots.

[ProSense]

28. Please

"women who vote for Republicans are idiots."

...think of the woman who married Limbaugh. I agree.

[Heathen57]

35. When I think of some woman

laying under that slob while he pops one Viagra after another trying to get it up, I'm thinking that would be the best birth control available without a prescription (and cheaper than the GOP alternative - Aspirin.

[JoePhilly]

27. K&R

[varelse]

29. K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

30. A meltdown indeed...isn't it grand?

Logged in just to be rec 100!
"I'm melting! What a world!" - GOP 2012

[steve2470]

31. k&r nt

[calimary]

32. Let's help! Start at the local radio level:

Check out this Utterly Righteous Thread! It's my campaign of the day. I've already shared this with at least five other Facebook pages besides my own. GREAT advice from a former radio insider.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. K&R

[underpants]

34. Welll done - they have been in meltdown since the disasterous 2006 eletions

Massive losses in the house. The only thing keeping the afloat is the coverage of the main stream media.

[HockeyMom]

36. I got emails from all my SENIOR female realtives and friends

asking me to sign a petition asking advertisers to drop Rush. I did. So why are old women so outraged? They don't need BC. These women I know were all mothers and some grandmothers. Most of us have daughters and granddaughters. We don't want THEM to have to fight the fight we ourselves did so many years ago.

It is an assault on ALL women, that is why. Are we going to start having to fight the Women's Liberation Movement again? You're going backward in time, baby. You ONLY purpose in life is to be a broodmare. I DON'T THINK SO.