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trailmonkee

(2,681 posts)
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 03:54 PM Oct 2012

Gingrich Defends Mourdock’s Rape Remarks: ‘Get Over It,’ Obama Is The Real Radical On Abortion

Source: TPM

On the Sunday talk show circuit, Newt Gingrich defended Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana for his remarks about abortion and rape, referring to the controversy as “nonsense” and calling on President Obama’s campaign to “get over it.”

“If you listen to what Mourdock actually said, he said what virtually every Catholic and every fundamentalist in the country believes, life begins at conception,” Gingrich said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Now, this seems to be fixated by the Democrats, but the radical on abortion is Obama, who as a state senator voted three times in favor of allowing doctors to kill babies in the eighth and ninth month who were born, having survived late-term abortion.”

He was among several Romney surrogates to downplay the importance of Mourdock’s remarks to the presidential race on Sunday.

At a debate last Tuesday, Mourdock said, “I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” The day after, he stood by his opposition to abortion in the case of rape and incest, but clarified that he was merely trying to convey his belief that life is a gift from God.

“If there was any interpretation other than what I intended, I really regret that,” he said.

Mitt Romney said he disagrees with Mourdock’s comments. The Obama campaign has worked to tar Romney with the remarks, demanding that he drop his support for the Senate candidate. Gingrich called on the president’s re-election team to let it go.

“[Mourdock] also immediately issued a clarification saying he was referring to the act of conception, and he condemned rape,” the former House speaker said. “Romney has condemned — I mean, one part of this is nonsense. Every candidate I know, every decent American I know condemns rape. OK, so why can’t people like [Obama deputy campaign manager] Stephanie Cutter get over it? We all condemn rape. Now let’s talk about whether we also condemn killing babies in the eighth and ninth month.”

Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/newt-gingrich-richard-mourdock-abortion-rape.php?ref=fpa



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Gingrich Defends Mourdock’s Rape Remarks: ‘Get Over It,’ Obama Is The Real Radical On Abortion (Original Post) trailmonkee Oct 2012 OP
Hate to be the daughter of a RAPEublican deadbrokediva Oct 2012 #1
My stupid gop dad asked me what I did to entice my rapist Dont call me Shirley Oct 2012 #7
So very sorry, on every level possible n/t Bossy Monkey Oct 2012 #23
"R" U sure it was RaPe? QUALITYCONTRoll Oct 2012 #29
Good Lord!! MightyAfrodite Oct 2012 #40
Christian Conservative Republican'ts are douchebags. Captain Boomerang Oct 2012 #2
Newt is pro-living dead. trusty elf Oct 2012 #3
Love them Zommbieboobies...!! QUALITYCONTRoll Oct 2012 #28
Now let's talk about deadbrokediva Oct 2012 #4
Explains that vacant look in his wife's face ... Wernothelpless Oct 2012 #5
Amazes me deadbrokediva Oct 2012 #6
She's a vampire ... black-hearted ... Wernothelpless Oct 2012 #37
I was wondering the same thing. smirkymonkey Oct 2012 #38
Jeebus Christ...the whole lot of them (Republicans) are despicable and dishonest. AzDar Oct 2012 #8
This man is a scourge to decency. liberalmuse Oct 2012 #9
Great rant.. thanks, you described these washed up has beens crunch60 Oct 2012 #18
Love it!! Andy Stanton Oct 2012 #21
K&R! smirkymonkey Oct 2012 #39
Newt makes this atheist want to believe in hell so that I can imagine that beac Oct 2012 #10
They certainly are drawing the lines starkly about this. caseymoz Oct 2012 #11
And the GOPers wonder why women have such a problem with them. n/t AngryOldDem Oct 2012 #12
Not Relevant elbloggoZY27 Oct 2012 #13
Newt your not running for president get over it (n/t) PatrynXX Oct 2012 #14
The stakes could not be clearer. Please fight back. Faygo Kid Oct 2012 #15
Radical right is for rapist's rights truthisfreedom Oct 2012 #16
Huff Post blocked me from saying it there...but Newt, Guilded Lilly Oct 2012 #17
Newt is running for Mitt Romney's Supreme Court Coyotl Oct 2012 #19
Gingrich changes positions on abortion as often as he changes religions. fightthegoodfightnow Oct 2012 #20
who? frylock Oct 2012 #22
yeah, and gingrich is a man who was having an affair while his LibGranny Oct 2012 #24
Hey Newt! To people with brains, you're irrelevant. Get over it. bulloney Oct 2012 #25
Newt hates women as we know Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2012 #26
And so we should........... QUALITYCONTRoll Oct 2012 #27
Go fuck yourself Gingrich... and-justice-for-all Oct 2012 #30
Correction Mr. Gingrich: Ultra Fundamentalist and Ultra Catholic. mwooldri Oct 2012 #31
Looks like they are trying to increase the white population, oldbanjo Oct 2012 #32
we all know Newt has extreme respect for women Skittles Oct 2012 #33
anything to get attention SemperEadem Oct 2012 #34
I wonder how often that line, "Get over it." has worked for Newtie lunatica Oct 2012 #35
Get over it, bitch! Is what he told his wife dying of cancer when he gave her the divorce papers. olegramps Oct 2012 #36
Why have we not made this commercial... jmowreader Oct 2012 #41

deadbrokediva

(48 posts)
1. Hate to be the daughter of a RAPEublican
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 03:55 PM
Oct 2012

Daughter (weeping): "Daddy, I got raped tonight"
RAPEublican: "Get over it."

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
7. My stupid gop dad asked me what I did to entice my rapist
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:09 PM
Oct 2012

That's their insane mentality. Not "Oh my sweet daughter, I'm going to find him and kick his as and then have his ass thrown in prison"

deadbrokediva

(48 posts)
4. Now let's talk about
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:00 PM
Oct 2012

whether we condemn taking food stamps away from hungry children, not to mention education and the right to grow up in a world where they aren't sent off to fight fake wars and when 210 degrees is considered a nice summer day.

How about that, Newt? Your name fits you well, ya fucking lizard.

deadbrokediva

(48 posts)
6. Amazes me
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:04 PM
Oct 2012

how any woman with any sense of self-worth can voluntarily sleep with any of these lizards. Must be the money. Such doormats!

Wernothelpless

(410 posts)
37. She's a vampire ... black-hearted ...
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 11:01 AM
Oct 2012

Here is a woman who have Newt blowjobs in his car for SEVEN years before he finally ousted the old wife and married her ... then she made a run for POTUS with him .... she's a parasite, a prostitute, and a blood-sucking leech ... other than that I'm sure she's a lovely person ...

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
9. This man is a scourge to decency.
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:12 PM
Oct 2012

And aside from Reagan, the reason people think it is okay to spit on the poor and that it's okay to be assholes devoid of compassion or humanity. He is morally bankrupt and basically a piece of shit excuse for a human being. I hope I live long enough to see the last of these old, decrepit, scumsucking patriarchal fuckers buried, and the top of their graves salted. Better yet, seal Gingrich and Limbaugh in a lead box and shoot them into space.

 

crunch60

(1,412 posts)
18. Great rant.. thanks, you described these washed up has beens
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 05:00 PM
Oct 2012

much better than I could have ...except I would have added drug addicted limp dick.

beac

(9,992 posts)
10. Newt makes this atheist want to believe in hell so that I can imagine that
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:15 PM
Oct 2012

lying, scamming, adulterous sack of pus roasting in it for all eternity.

caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
11. They certainly are drawing the lines starkly about this.
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:18 PM
Oct 2012

At the beginning of this election campaign, if a Democrat had said the GOP's stand on abortion was this barbaric and callous, and held so much contempt for women, would the public have believed them? No. Finally there's no doubt. GOP has been hiding this, up until when the Tea Partiers came in, now they're letting out.

And it's nauseating, but I hope the rest of the voters think so.
 

elbloggoZY27

(283 posts)
13. Not Relevant
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:31 PM
Oct 2012

The Republican Party is completely out of touch with the 21st century especially with women's issues.

They are against women's reproduction rights.



Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)
15. The stakes could not be clearer. Please fight back.
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:37 PM
Oct 2012

Women will be relegated to second class status yet again. As a child of a Mom who was beaten until she threw him out and worked as a laundress, I say,

NO WAY!

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
17. Huff Post blocked me from saying it there...but Newt,
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:47 PM
Oct 2012

in language that you will surely understand...you and every ignorant, braindead man and woman who agrees with your *Get over it* can PISS OFF. Your kind of souless commentary is what is dragging America into a social gutter.

fightthegoodfightnow

(7,042 posts)
20. Gingrich changes positions on abortion as often as he changes religions.
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 05:05 PM
Oct 2012

Reminds me of his support for DOMA while having an affair.

He lacks credibility.

LibGranny

(711 posts)
24. yeah, and gingrich is a man who was having an affair while his
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 06:09 PM
Oct 2012

wife was suffering from cancer! Real rethug "family values"! None of them have a leg to stand on when it comes to the issues surrounding women!

QUALITYCONTRoll

(48 posts)
27. And so we should...........
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 06:39 PM
Oct 2012

We will take a running start and then "get over" that giant pile of of **shit...........

**AKA republicans...

and-justice-for-all

(14,765 posts)
30. Go fuck yourself Gingrich...
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 07:17 PM
Oct 2012

He said the RAPE IS GODS PLAN!! Stating that RAPE is OK while aborting a pregnancy by rape is NOT!! STFU Gingrich!

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
31. Correction Mr. Gingrich: Ultra Fundamentalist and Ultra Catholic.
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 08:22 PM
Oct 2012

The New Republicans are no longer Conservative. They are ultra Conservative. The New Right is what they are. The positions they espouse are Un-American.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
35. I wonder how often that line, "Get over it." has worked for Newtie
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 06:46 AM
Oct 2012

Probably never. But why would that stop him?

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
36. Get over it, bitch! Is what he told his wife dying of cancer when he gave her the divorce papers.
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 10:18 AM
Oct 2012

This the is the same guy the Catholic bishops welcomed into the church even though he had dumped two wifes and was on his third. He would only have been given a heartier greeting if he was a convicted pedophile.

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
41. Why have we not made this commercial...
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 12:10 AM
Oct 2012

Women with babes in arms filing into the state penitentiary so the children's rapist daddies can have their court-ordered visitations.

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