Mourdock sticks his foot in it
By not kowtowing to the Abortion on Demand morons.
Actually, all he did was answer a question that was asked of allthe candidates. Since I can’t find a transcript, here’s my crude transcription, which may not be perfect but I think captures the spirit of the discussion.
“What is your position on a woman’s right to abortion and not only that but to contraception and other reproductive services as whether Government should provide those services”, and “Another asks if you believe that life begins at conception and in that person’s view what would you do to help the babies that could be aborted during your term in the senate”
Hell, Donnely gave damned near the same answer as Mourdock, but Mourdock is catching a lot of flack becuase he answered the question honestly.
“I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that’s something God intended to happen.”
Well, perfectly reasonable.
You can’t take what he said out of context and make any sense of it, so by all means go watch it here.
When a Christian is asked that question, Mourdock gave the only answer a Christian can give. Anyone who gives any other answer cannot call themself a Christian with any accuracy.
So it wasn’t as if he came out and volunteered information about anything, he responded, and responded properly to, a question. He didn’t make any references specifically about what he was going to DO, he put his opinion out there for all to hear. Note the word “i think”. I liked him before, but I’m cemented to him now. I’m also smart enough to know a junior senator from Indiana is not going to overthrow Roe vs Wade, bad law though it is, anymore than he’ll be able to shut down SS or Medicare.
In our house we talk the talk but we most assuredly walk the walk too. I’m extremely pleased that there’s a candidate out there who does also.
Re “I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that’s something God intended to happen.â€
And all the usual suspects, the
RINOsSKUNCs at FNC, NRO, and Weekly Standard didn’t go all Akin on him?Seeing as how it looks like Akin is about to oust McClunky despite faux votes in StL and KC, I guess they figured they better not say anything lest it help Mourdock.
Plenty of people are bitching about it. Mostly on the right.
I usually put TWC on with the sound off because every few minutes they give the local weather here. Last night, I got a bit of a surprise. There was some fattish dame from MSNBC sanctimoniously holding forth on the “scandal” of Mourdock’s statement. Of course, to PMSNBC, he’s a monster because he believes people shouldn’t slice and dice the babies of rapists in their mothers’ wombs; and that every life, no matter how badly begun, is precious to God. She came onto a WEATHER station?? Well, it wasn’t a total surprise,I guess, as I knew they have been in the tank for the won since the beginning. Guess this is the first time I ever caught them in the act. God bless Mourdock.
The one thing Donnelly has going for him: An NRA A rating.
The one thing Donnelly has that will end up defeating him: He voted for Obamacare.
Did Mourdock fuck up? Yep. Oh well. At least he didn’t vote for Obamacare.
I do hate it when things are taken out of context. Of course, it would probably help if these guys would just say “I am opposed to abortion.” and leave it at that. I am also opposed to abortion. As far as I’m concerned the right to choose ended when the stick turned blue. My former boss asked me, “What if your daughter got pregnant out of wedlock?” and I replied, “I’d help her raise the child”. And I did.
I must have missed something. I thought the only abortion that was an issue this term was the one the Democrats have made of governing.
It might be helpful is candidates actually stuck to issues that might possibly come up during their term instead of ones that were decided 30 years ago and weren’t any of their business then either.
I’ve met the man, had conversation with him, walked parades with him. He speaks like you write – well thought-out, coherent paragraphs, not sound bites. If you take the verbiage before and after the so-called damning sentence, you ask what’s the deal? But the deal is what the press gets people thinking, not what was really said.
Two weeks out, your goal in a debate isn’t to score points, it’s to rope-a-dope and not step on your tongue. Hence Romney’s performance in the final debate when he wouldn’t take Obama’s bait, and was quite reserved.
He and his handlers knew his right to life chops would be attacked, and didn’t have a good canned response to the most common anti-baby question the left loves to use to paint us more against women than pro child. “There are situations in life where there are no easy answers, and I would hate to be in a position like the one you described (incest, rape) where I’m faced with such a heavy decision, and could not fathom the misery involved. To answer it in a 2 minute response cannot give it justice.” Donnelly pushes himself as a pro-life D, and so how’s he able to battle that? No sound bite for the papers.
We’re getting killed in the phone bank from this. It has hit a nerve.
I’ve seen the Cubs blow it to the Padres in the 80’s. My high school basketball team was a free throw away from the finals, and lost. I saw Favre throw an interception to a defender in front of his face in an NFC Championship game. But that’s insignificant sports. Seeing it here where lives are at stake, this is hell.
Then the press conference where he violates both Rules of Holes. (1 – stop digging, 2 – if you insist on carrying on, at least have a map and don’t wing it).