You know what is exactly like being confirmed by your church or getting your first kiss or hitting your first home run or getting your first job or graduating from high school and going to college? Can you guess?
[South Carolina Republican Party Chair Chad] Connelly’s spinning another like yarn, one that’s sure to be slurped up by his fellow GOPers.
In a recently released email blast, Connelly makes the bizarre claim that thanks to Sandra Fluke, the Democratic Party now believes that “abortions and taxpayer-funded birth control are rites of passage for every teenage girl – sort of like the prom or a first car.”
That’s right. We believe that you are not really a woman until you have accidentally gotten pregnant and had an abortion.
This crap is not too surprising coming from the forcible rape party but you know who actually believes it?
No one.
These last few days I feel like I’ve woken up in the pages of the Onion.
It’s a sure sign that last weeks convention struck a chord.
I think I may have discovered the source of the current Rethug strategy.
I’d forgotten all about those.
The point is no longer to speak the truth, it’s to provoke a DFH, hysterical bitch and angry black man response. They expect it will make the stupid liars look good by comparison.
When we riot in the streets and they’re forced to shoot us down, all will be ‘right’ with the world.
I’d like to think that no one believes it, but there are an awful lot of comments on various sites where it is repeated as gospel that Sandra Fluke wants taxpayer funded birth control so she can afford to whore around (see comments on any news site with the latest Joe Walsh asininity).
This, I’m afraid will just be a new and interesting sprinkle on top of the BS sundae about Fluke.
A couple of years ago, Maddow had a republican campaign strategist on (can’t think of his name right now, the one who left the McCain campaign because he didn’t want to run a dirty campaign against Obama), and she asked him if the republican intelligentsia really believed the stuff they were saying, or if they were just using it to stir up the rubes. He said many of them actually believed it.
I don’t know how you can actually say that republicans don’t believe insane things.
Agree with wvng here. Tribalism allows the true believers to heighten their delusions, along with their exposure to Rush, Hannity et al. Then there’s those who aren’t as powerfully tribal, but react to Cokie’s Rule- “It’s out there.” If someone they like or trust spread this bullshit to them, they’ll believe it.
While only a minority of Americans believe this garbage, the worry that develops for me is what will happen when we have more election cycles like 2010. It’s not looking like that will take place this year, but the Republicans have drawn friendly gerrymandered districts in many states, and the economy will remain sluggish in my view for many years to come. I don’t know how we could expect otherwise when the decent-paying jobs we’ve lost in recent years are largely being replaced by low-paid service jobs.
To me, for many years to come it seems likely we will continue to have an agitated electorate looking for someone to blame for their declining misfortunes. Republicans are good at identifying other people and groups to scapegoat for this purpose.
And you know what? It has to be a taxpayer-funded abortion. If it’s privately paid for, she’s not a real woman yet.
Do they even have a clue how ridiculous stuff like this sounds?
Never has there been a more redundant post title.
If I had any musical talent or video making equipment, I would so mock this to the tune of “You Make me Feel Like a Natural Woman.”