Here We Go!- Missouri GOP Leader Wants You to Know That RAPES Resulting in Pregnancy Are a ‘BLESSING

[Segami]

Anytime someone says something as toe-curlingly moronic as Rep. Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin did, it's best for everyone in the vicinity to just acknowledge the moron's stupidity and move on. What you should never try to do is explain away said person's statement or try and translate the stupidity into something rational. Doing so is called "turd polishing," and it just makes an even bigger mess.


Yesterday it was Mike Huckabee, who reminded us that rape has created a lot of great people. Today it's Missouri GOP Committeewoman Sharon Barnes, who told a New York Times reporter the following:

Ms. Barnes echoed Mr. Akin's statement that very few rapes resulted in pregnancy, adding that "at that point, if God has chosen to bless this person with a life, you don't kill it."

"That's more what I believe he was trying to state," she said. "He just phrased it badly.".....

And you phrased it wonderfully, Sharon. That's a shiny turd....



http://gawker.com/5936533/missouri-gop-leader-wants-you-to-know-that-rapes-resulting-in-pregnancy-are-a-blessing

[TBF]

1. My brain hurts. nt

[liberal N proud]

2. So now rape is a blessing if it produces a pregnancy?

Meant that as a stupid question.

Not to be answered of course

[Major Nikon]

25. It's a gift from god

Cuz everyone knows if god wants you pregnant, he will send someone to do the job for ya.

[jpak]

3. Let us hope that she is never "blessed" in that manner

moran

[DonRedwood]

4. Here is a K

and here is an R

[sibelian]

5. Rapeful blessings.

I have now heard all the idiocy my brain can stand.

[gollygee]

6. Their logic is so screwed up they have to say absurd things

If abortion is illegal except in cases of rape, women will lie about being raped. Desperate women do desperate things.

They don't want women having abortion, they don't want innocent men to have false rape charges placed against them, so they have to make a choice as to which is more important - women being forced to have babies from rape, or abortion being legal.

They've made their choice so they have to try to make it sound less horrifying.

[gordianot]

7. Just like singing 99 Botttles of Beer on the wall catchy tune that gets old fast.

Stupid has a name and it is Republican.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I think she was on my TV (local) this morning.

[LynneSin]

9. I'm guessing she's never been raped

I haven't found one woman who has been raped who ever said 'But oh it would have been such a blessing if I had gotten pregnant during that rape'.

[Initech]

10. GOP echo chamber right on schedule.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Later you can send out birth announcements--worded

something like "My rapist and I are proud to share the news of the birth of our son! I was blessed with him while trying to fight off the brutal attack, but wasn't strong enough to resist--won't you share in our joy?" These people are just godawful human beings.

[yellowcanine]

12. If one rape is a blessing, what is a gang rape? Showers of blessings?

There shall be showers of blessing:
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Savior above.

Refrain:
Showers of blessing,
Showers of blessing we need:
Mercy-drops round us are falling,
But for the showers we plead.

There shall be showers of blessing,
If we but trust and obey;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
If we let God have His way.

[lumpy]

13. So God is responsible and sent the rapist to do his "blessing" ?

godawful

[Ikonoklast]

14. Do these people actually even listen to the bullshit spewing from their pieholes???

People like this live their entire lives thinking, "It will never happen to me or anyone in my family, so I can say stupid shit like this."

[JBoy]

16. +1

[Sheepshank]

15. keep banging those women over and over

for a multitude of blessings

[Zalatix]

17. But if the rape victim is poor then starve the baby after s/he is born.

[hifiguy]

24. It verges on the miraculous how that "precious unborn child"

becomes a monstrous, voracious, parasitic leech sucking the lifeblood out of the hard-werkin' 'murkin taxpayer the second after it is born to a poor woman. Better to let an actual person die from starvation or lack of medical care than terminate a pregnancy.

Clearly I am not demented enough to understand even the pretense of the logic behind this lunatic conclusion.

[kestrel91316]

18. If rape that ends in pregnancy is such an effing blessing, I suggest she

send her own daughter, niece, sister, granddaughter, or whatever out in skimpy clothes on a dark urban street to get raped.

I mean, it's A BLESSING. They should be going out of their way to ensure the women in their lives can experience such pure joy.

[spanone]

19. america the land of willful ignorance and political hatred

[librechik]

20. because Man's Holy Job is to procreate, legitimately or not

and it is woman's lot to be the vessel. That is all

[gollygee]

21. Now if someone gets pregnant due to rape and finds the pregnancy to be a blessing

and keeps the baby, then God bless them. Really.

The issue is that not all women are going to feel that way. Some women will feel ill at the idea of being pregnant and will go into a deep depression. Some women might take that out on the baby, particularly if the baby looks much like the rapist.

I mean really, she needs to think this through. This is why pro-choice makes so much sense. Everyone will respond differently, and therefore everyone should figure out the best choice for herself.

[hifiguy]

22. Ye gods. Someone DUmail me a ball-peen hammer.

I need to whack myself on the skull a few times to get that stupidity out of my head.

Jeebus Haploid Christ, I think I lost 10 IQ points just reading that vomitous ignorance.

[reflection]

23. Keep talking, GOPers.

'Rape is God blessing a person with a life.' Great googly moogly.

[glinda]

26. GOP is promoting rape as a normal part of life apparently.

For this the Dems should scream to the heavens about this to the public. The carelessness, lack of conscience and ignorance of these politicians and the idiots that elected them is glaring. This Country is embarrassing.

I am stunned.

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

27. Hey, Sharron Angle (NV Sen nutjob candidate) said you should just make lemonade.

Ya know, when you get lemons?

http://gawker.com/5582669/wingnut-candidate-advises-pregnant-rape-incest-victims-to-turn-lemons-into-lemonade

When Angle was running against Reid in the last election cycle, she got national attention for being a really right-wing nutjob way out on the fringe (which she most definitely was)...

Turns out she is just like all the other nuts in the GOP basket.

[KansDem]

38. She also said it was "God's plan."

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[nc4bo]

28. I despise these people with all my soul. nt

[BadgerKid]

29. Wait, so sex outside marriage is now okay?

Maybe some TeaBaggerGrOPer can explain?! I can't keep up with their logic.

[arely staircase]

41. only if it in non-consensual

apparently.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

30. A blessing? They hell you say...

I've run out of outrage against these morons.

So if I beat the living shit out of a woman, it's an act of violence. But if I fuck as an after thought, it's a blessing.

And these dumbshits are concerned about Sharia law? Really? Like it would be worse?

[DontTreadOnMe]

31. If you get struck by lightning... and attacked by a polar bear...

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and lose a finger with the chain saw... all in the same day... just feel blessed, because God has chosen that for YOU.

[Segami]

37. LOL!! A Polar bear?

[mnhtnbb]

32. New prayer to be heard in MO churches this Sunday

Lord, please bless our sisters with being raped, so that they can
be further blessed by becoming pregnant.

[Frustratedlady]

33. Please, would someone wake me up from this crazy dream?

It seems like I can't even turn my back for a second and some other screwy Pug pops up with an unbelievable statement. I keep thinking it's a nightmare and will be over soon.

Who is running this circus? Even Michael Steele is laughing. He seems pretty mild compared to this latest crop.

I'm clearing my calendar for the Repug convention. I thought Palin was bad!

[tandot]

34. Coming soon to a store near you .... Hallmark "Thank You for Raping me" greeting cards

Because, you don't want to be rude and not thank the rapist for the little blessing he bestowed on you.

These people are absolutely nuts. And just in case some alerter doesn't get it:

[truebrit71]

35. Is there something in the water there that makes republicans especially tone-deaf?

By getting knocked up via rape is a fucking BLESSING??? Are you completely and totally OUT OF YOUR TINY FUCKING MIND???

That is a "god" I want NO part of....

If pregnancy by rape is part of "god's plan" then I would suggest he's quite an evil bastard...

[Frustratedlady]

36. Something just dawned on me. I'll bet they would approve abortion on one condition...

...if the rapist and/or the raped was a Democrat. If the woman ended up pregnant, they would give their blessings to go ahead and abort. They sure wouldn't want one of those damned liberals messing up the landscape.

[vaberella]

39. God...I hate these people. I thought it was Sharon Angle at first.

This Sharon is as fucked up as the first one.

[RainDog]

40. Religious cultists should not make laws for Americans

they are too fucking sick in the head to do so.

[NickB79]

42. 32,000 pregnancies a year from rape

Yeah, that sounds really, really rare