"Just Think No" by Maureen Dowd at the NY Times

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Just Think No

by Maureen Dowd at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/opinion/dowd-just-think-no.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share

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“What is very disturbing to me is that people like Mr. Akin who have postulated this secret mechanism for avoiding pregnancy have developed their own make-believe world of science based on entirely self-serving beliefs of convenience or just ignorance,” he said. “I don’t think we want these people to be responsible for the lives of others.”

But, for all the Republican cant about how they want to keep government out of the lives of others, the ultraconservatives are panting to meddle in the lives of others. Contrary to President Obama’s refreshing assertion Monday that a bunch of male politicians shouldn’t be making health care decisions for women, this troglodyte tribe of men and Bachmann-esque women craves that responsibility.

“Next we’ll be trying to take away the vote from women,” lamented Alex Castellanos, a Republican strategist who advised Romney in the 2008 race. “How can we be the party of cool and make the generational leap forward when we have these recidivist ideas at the very core of our base?”

Akin defended the incendiary comment he made on a Missouri TV show — “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” — by saying he wasn’t talking about rapists being legitimate, but rather “false claims” of rape, “like those made in Roe versus Wade.” He said he meant to say “forcible rape.” Oh, that’s ever so much better.

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1. Troglodyte tribe of men and Bachmann-esque women -- LMAO

Contrary to President Obama’s refreshing assertion Monday that a bunch of male politicians shouldn’t be making health care decisions for women, this troglodyte tribe of men and Bachmann-esque women craves that responsibility.

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2. There are plenty of folks in the RW who RIGHT NOW

advocate for a return to the good old days of one household-one vote, and women and blacks could NEVER vote even if they headed a household.

The Dominionists are very near to controlling the Republican Party. I would caution Mr. Castellanos about what Martin Niemoller said about the Nazis:

First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6

When they come for the Castellanoses of the Republican party, they will indeed be no one left to speak out in their defense.