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Because guys who knock up your daughter are kind of like rapists? \u00a0Or because rapists have fatherly feelings, too? \u00a0Or ...Um ... what the hell?Here to explain, is Tom Smith, GOP candidate for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2F092611_tomsmith_768-225x300.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/getting-out-the-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":32225,"position":2},"title":"Getting out the vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Nov-12 1:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There were a lot of worries over the last few years that Obama's less-than-progressive track record was going to cause \"enthusiasm\" problems for support of the Democratic ticket this year. \u00a0Obama can thank the GOP for drumming up Romney \"anti-enthusiasm\" to counter that problem. 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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":32194,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/youd-think-the-party-leaders-would-declare-a-moratorium-on-the-subject.html","url_meta":{"origin":32225,"position":4},"title":"You'd think the Party Leaders would declare a\u00a0moratorium\u00a0on the subject","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jan-13 1:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"You'd think the Party Leaders would declare a\u00a0moratorium\u00a0on the subjectBut apparently talking about rape, how sometimes rape isn't all bad, how sometimes rape isn't really rape, or how sometimes what other GOPers have said about rape isn't really what they meant (even though it clearly is), is too tempting for\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":32225,"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. 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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\/32225","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=32225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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