Where is he in the polls?
The problem with all the gaff wringing is that in cases where the left is screaming it is not usually what was actually said or clearly intended but what they can conflate to have been said or intended. We can go back to any number of ‘gaffs’ even the Akin gaff. The left ultimately expected us to believe and strangely many did even in GOP circles that Akin, who has two daughters and has voted for the harshest punishements for rapists, intended to suggest that rape wasn’t a serious matter regardless of what he was trying to say beyond that. The left knew very well he was not trying to justify rape but was trying to defend the unborn. In all the gaff ringing it was nearly lost that the critical point that abortions related to rape pregancies represents less than 1% though it is used to justify 100% of abortion on demand which is a ridiculous and truly gaff worthy.
The Mourdock thing is even less a gaff. His context was clear. He wasn’t talking about rape being a gift from God but that every child is. Now unless our self styled “benevolent” leftists think some children should be treated as mistakes for actions of no work of their own I think that is an entirely reasonable and human idea that no child should be viewed as a mistake. If Mourdock or Akin lose because of this craziness it will be shameful just as it is shameful for the GOP to pile on as they did with Akin. It also sets up a chilling and reinforcing effect where the left can support and say what ever damn radical thing they please and we can not.
I can rattle off a laundry list of GOP that have been drummed out or beaten about over innocuous things they said whether it be Trent Lott or George Allen and dare I mention Sarah Palin. There is no value in submitting to the leftist language idea gulgag. What we need to do is smack them up side the head with “How could you be so damn stupid to even suggest they meant such a thing?” when they try to drum this crap up. Sure they will beat the drum but it should be the purpose of every person with honor to not indulge the debate and to ridicule it and stomp on it because what is stake is our liberty not theirs. They can talk about “good pedophiles” and its no big deal and if we bring it up we are just homophobes and such, they can compare our military to Nazis and apologize and be forgiven, they can suggest unborn children aren’t people, they can wish to let them die even if born alive, they can bash Christians with obscentity and rage, they then can be elected because often even we don’t make a big deal about their gaffs which aren’t gaffs at all because for them their gaffs are what they really think.
Some of us embrace the straight-jacket of leftist duplicity and seek only to be seen as reasonable, nice, and well groomed. We do so to our own demise.
Mourdock is right and it is time to stand by him. Amen
There is one victim and one potential victim in a rape - if a child is inadvertently conceived s/he is also an innocent victim. It is time to stop punishing the child for a crime it did not commit. It is time for pro lifers to proclaim this without hesitation or to feel apologetic in any way for proclaiming this truth.
It was plain stupid to say in the final weeks of an election. One would expect a Senate hopeful to be more aware of probable public and certain opposition reaction to such a statement.
Plain stupid and clearly damaging.
I work in another state most of the time. I came back to Indy this weekend to vote for Mourdock, Pence, and Carlos May (and Romney, of course). I would have done this even if I had to crawl over broken glass for the 700 miles.
EVERY life happens because GOD WANTS IT TO!!! Just because a man and woman do a sexual act, no matter HOW that is, they do NOT create the life....all LIFE is from GOD...ALL OF IT!!