From John’s comments on the attached link. Hard to improve, so I’ll let his comments stand on their own:
Mourdock said nothing wrong. The only reason this is even a blip on the radar is that the left drums up faux outrage over everything, EVERYTHING, and gullible hyper-sensitive conservatives so terrified of being labeled politically incorrect fall into the trap every time.
It is time to stop living in fear of being called pro-rape, racist, sexist, evil, callous, greedy, or whatever other label of the day the left wants to throw out. They have censored us long enough. Left wing politicians and pundits say outright vile things, support communism and fascism, and breed their own racism on a daily basis and don’t get called on it but for a few Twitchy posts.
Enough is enough. Conservatives one and all, from the politicians themselves to the top rated talk radio host to us lowly men and women of the rank and file have to stop condemning our fellows for speaking truth simply because it is a truth the left has deemed to be offensive to their sensibilities.
The response to Mourdock shouldn’t be an editorial in a powerful conservative magazine painting him as somehow in the wrong, hidden behind an anonymous by-line no less. No, the response shouldn’t be directed at Mourdock but at the progressive faux outrage, and it should be a damn well unanimous “SO WHAT?”. Get over it progressives, you weren’t voting for the guy anyway no matter what he did.”
Could he have phrased it more eloquently? Sure. The same can be said of virtually everything... ever. Could it have been phrased more politically? Definitely, but so what? I thought we were at the point we were sick of the usual politics? Or is that just what we tell ourselves to sound contrarian to the Republican establishment? Well, for me I damn well mean it, I am sick of politics as usual. Mourdock wasn’t wrong or offensive to anyone with half a brain who didn’t WANT him to be offensive, and I’m not going to lambast him for being impolitical in his phrasing.
Enough is enough is enough. How can we expect to win back the hearts and minds of the American people from the progressive cancer if we eat our own over what wasn’t even a notably poor choice of words? And more importantly, do we DESERVE to win if this is how we act? Do you think George Washington argued semantics with the British? Did Churchill parse his own mens words while fighting the Nazis?
AND STOP WITH THE “BY THE EDITORS” BY-LINES. It is utter cowardice to hide these sort of articles behind them. State your name, who wrote this.
Again, copied from this link:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331575/reading-god-s-will-indiana-editors#
>wasn’t even a notably poor choice of words
Politically speaking, and that is ALL that matters right now if they expect to win, akin and mourdock spoke blindly, not just poorly.
When dealing with the mushy middle and rape victims you can not speak like these two have done.