Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Who's the outlier among Jim DeMint's poodles?

Newsmax:

During a debate Tuesday in Indiana, [Indiana Republican Senate Candidate Richard] Mourdock said when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, "that's something God intended."

"I struggled with it myself a long time but I came to realize that life is a gift from God, that I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen,"
Mourdock said during a debate with Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind.

Mourdock
, Indiana's state treasurer and a Tea Party favorite, made the comments after saying that he believes abortion should not be allowed, except in cases where the mother's life is at risk.

Mourdock later clarified his statement. "God creates life, and that was my point. God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that he does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick," he said.

This is, of course, a confusing state of affairs. Both Secretary Mourdock and Congressman Todd Akin as among this year's intake of Absentee South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's Mini-Mes. DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund has dropped over $400,000 into Akin's Missouri Senate campaign, and over $1.4m into Mourdock's.

Yet Akin, in his "legitimate rape" comments, said:

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Now here's Mourdock saying rapists are carrying out God's will. 

That suggests there's a lot of wrongly-imprisoned rapists in the country's prisons.

But remember also the comments of one of DeMint's 2010 Mini-mes, Sharron Angle. Of a situation where a teen was raped by her father and made pregnant, she said of the possibility of abortion:

I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.

 

 

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