{"id":31103,"date":"2012-11-01T13:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/a-direct-appeal-for-politics-over-principle.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:47:55","slug":"a-direct-appeal-for-politics-over-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/a-direct-appeal-for-politics-over-principle.html","title":{"rendered":"A direct appeal for politics over principle"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, really. Here's the argument, right from the ad:<\/p>\n

"You don\u2019t have to agree with everything he says, but you can be sure, in the Senate, Akin will vote for Romney\u2019s policies."<\/i><\/p>\n

In case anyone wondered whether the RNC and the NRSC initially abandoned Akin, not because they found his "Legitimate Rape" comments beyond the Pale (as they claimed) but because they thought he was unelectable, the answer is definitely the latter — as one or the other is now apparently funding last-second ad buys to try and get Akin into the Senate, and doing so, not because he's a neat guy and a leader we can be proud of, but purely to try and get control of the Senate for the Republicans.<\/p>\n

I won't claim that the GOP is officially misogynistic, but their willingness to overlook some pretty awful things on behalf of WINNING<\/i> is, itself, telling.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Zachary Cook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently, "Legitimate Rape" is no longer offensive after a couple months. The Republican obsession with misogyny & rape is one of the most disturbing things in our political climate today.<\/p>\n

#waronwomen<\/a> #MOSen<\/a> \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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No, really. Here's the argument, right from the ad: "You don\u2019t have to agree with everything he says, but you can be sure, in the Senate, Akin will vote for Romney\u2019s policies." In case anyone wondered whether the RNC and the NRSC initially abandoned Akin, not because they found his "Legitimate Rape" comments beyond the … Continue reading “A direct appeal for politics over principle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[266,265],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-mosen","tag-waronwomen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/gop-holds-its-nose-in-order-to-try-an-win-a-senate-majority.html","url_meta":{"origin":31103,"position":0},"title":"GOP holds its nose in order to try an win a Senate majority","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Sep-12 9:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which makes one wonder how much all that rapid distancing from Akin back in his \"legitimate rape\" days was because of moral repugnance, and how much was because they thought he couldn't win. \u00a0Regardless, now that they're stuck with him, the GOP is backing him in order to win a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29923,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-akin-is-being-forcibly-assaulted-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":31103,"position":1},"title":"Bryan Fischer is a Dolt (Akin is Being Forcibly Assaulted! 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(http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton_window) And, oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about Akin's (and Paul Ryan's) co-sponsorship role in the \"forcible rape\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29905,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/well-glad-we-dont-have-to-worry-about-pregnancies-from-legitimate.html","url_meta":{"origin":31103,"position":3},"title":"Well, glad we don't have to worry about pregnancies from "legitimate"…","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Aug-12 8:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, glad we don't have to worry about pregnancies from \"legitimate\" rapeOr so claims Todd Akin, GOP Representative of Missouri, and candidate for Senate in that state. \u00a0Because, of course, in \"legitimate\" rape (as opposed to rapes that are, one assumes, \"illegitimate\" or not really rapes, because, y'know, so many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31811,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/battling-against-unit-cohesion-in-the-military.html","url_meta":{"origin":31103,"position":4},"title":"Battling against unit cohesion in the military","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Dec-12 11:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Todd Akin managed to get the House to include an amendment to the 2013 Defense budget immunizing soldiers from being disciplined based on their religious beliefs \"concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression of human sexuality.\"Which, in protection of their beliefs is fine (though I'm not aware of any cases where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29917,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/an-apology-that-misses-the-point.html","url_meta":{"origin":31103,"position":5},"title":"An apology that misses the point","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Aug-12 7:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"After a few days of \"I misspoke\" shilly-shallying, Rep. Akin has finally apologized for his \"legitimate rape victims don't get pregnant\" comment. Of course, what he says he meant was \"forcible,\" which doesn't help any:- Forcible rape victims can (and do) get pregnant, despite what Akin (who's on the House\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}