Liz Cheney's primary challenger is a literal pedo

[AntivaxHunters]

This happened in Florida.
Of course! Florida! Land of headass.
Have you ever noticed that anytime Republicans are outraged about something "cultural" (in this case drag queens, trans people. grooming, that stuff) there is always footsteps leading back to them? Republicans try to get out ahead of things but each and every time it's just a front to cover things up for them. Projection 101.

Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R), impregnated a 14-year-old when he was 18. He married her at age 15. At 18 she killed herself.

Cheney primary challenger impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/554730-cheney-primary-challenger-impregnated-14-year-old-when-he-was-18/

Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R), who’s challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for her House seat, acknowledged in an interview with Casper Star-Tribune that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18.

Bouchard first revealed the relationship in a Facebook Live video on Thursday, though he did not say exactly how old he or the girl was when the pregnancy happened. In that video, he said he wanted to come out with the story himself after learning that people had been looking into the matter.

“It’s amazing that they look at things so negatively. So bottom line is it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” Bouchard said. “You’ve heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story.”

“A lot of pressure. Pressure to abort a baby. I got to tell you, I wasn’t going to do it and neither was she. And there was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere.”

Bouchard said that he eventually married the girl, who, according to the Star-Tribune, was 15 at the time of the marriage. At the time, both were living in Florida. In his Facebook video, Bouchard explained that “the only thing I could see as the right thing to do was to get married and take care of them.”

More at link.....

[North Shore Chicago]

1. She committed suicide at age 18.

She was very troubled, rest in pace young lady.

[3Hotdogs]

19. Oh, and it was just like Romeo and Juliet.

Da fuck?

[North Shore Chicago]

20. Yep, he is a pus sac.

Come on Liz!

[Mister Ed]

23. Well, yeah, because after all, Juliet commits suicide in the play.

There's a sick subtext to almost everything these GQP'ers do and say.

[mnhtnbb]

2. I would change your title to "Liz Cheney's primary challenger is a statutory rapist under FL law".

That is a fact.

https://www.ageofconsent.net/states/florida

[AntivaxHunters]

3. Uhhhh.....how about fuck no

He's a pedo. Period.

You should change your post title which sounds like a defense of something like this being fine, ok, and normal.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Not according to the definition of pedophilia

Definition of pedophilia

: sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object specifically : a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedophilia


Prepubescence is prior to the onset of puberty. The girl got pregnant. She was not prepubescent.


No, I do not consider statutory rape ok. I prefer tagging him with an appropriate violation of our laws regarding appropriate sexual behavior.

[mnhtnbb]

12. No, I am not defending it.

I'm simply saying that statutory rape fits the violation of the girl more appropriately because of her ability to become pregnant.

[EYESORE 9001]

18. What's unbelievable is that you're accusing someone of defending abhorrent acts

Going on the attack over semantics? Really?

[Diablo del sol]

28. THIS

Is why Dems lose elections.

Repukes are running around demonizing entire groups of people. With no evidence. This person truly was guilty.

So parsing words, complaining about slut shaming as others did in reference to Boom Boom (thank you ma’am) Boebert, it is completely uncalled for. Even worse, it is flat out fucking ignorant to even be introduced. It only serves to help Repukes.

[gab13by13]

11. I am OK with using both terms,

statutory rape is still rape which makes him a pedophile. I could be wrong, but I don't think the poster meant to diminish the offense.

[mnhtnbb]

17. Some more information about how pedophiles are diagnosed.

Pedophilia is an ongoing sexual attraction to pre-pubertal children. It is a paraphilia, a condition in which a person's sexual arousal and gratification depends on objects, activities, or even situations that are considered atypical. Pedophilia is defined as recurrent and intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children—generally age 13 years or younger—over a period of at least six months. Pedophiles are more often men and can be attracted to either or both sexes.

Symptoms

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), in order for pedophilic disorder to be diagnosed, the following criteria must be met:

Recurrent, intense sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors with a prepubescent child (generally age 13 or younger) for a period of at least 6 months.
These sexual urges have been acted on or have caused significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
The person is at least 16 years old, and at least 5 years older than the child with whom the person engages in sexual behavior. This does not include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12- or 13-year-old.

Additionally, a diagnosis of pedophilic disorder should specify whether the individual is exclusively attracted to children or not, the gender that the individual is attracted to, and whether the sexual urges are limited to children in the person’s own family.









https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/pedophilia

[tavernier]

4. That wouldn't be the reason

he wouldn’t get my vote. The main reason would be that he is a Republican. And of course any endorsement of Trump would prove that he’s bat shit crazy.

[Vinca]

5. Do these people think their backgrounds won't be checked??????

Cheney won't say anything about it, but I hope the GQP hears the story. Not that it will matter. Somehow beating Cheney is "owning the libs" to them.

[AntivaxHunters]

9. They give him a pass & scream "fake news!"

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. Bah, he married her... to the rethugs, that makes him an 'honorable man' (n/t)

[LenaBaby61]

24. The GQP get away with so much ....

That they no longer give a damn who or what they are. The press of course is too busy running down Pres. Biden because you know, he caused ALL of the worlds problems and is getting beaten in the polls by tRump, why won't Dems work with the GQP.

There are a few journalists/media folks who speak truth to power, but for the most part we no longer have a functioning press that fact checks most of what the GQP does or says. ALL we mostly have is a right-winged, greedy, so-called liberal media that's really corporate who don't give one fuck if we lose what little democracy we have left. I guess they don't see what happens to journalists over in Russia if they disagree with Vladdie. Check that, they wouldn't be saying shit about how bad Vladdie is. They'd just keep their lips crazy glued to his butt like they do to tRump's big, pimply, wrinkled old butt. Just like Fox News does.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. He and his wife own and operate a septic-draining business. Enough said.

[AntivaxHunters]

10. Shit in, shit out lol

[BlueBloodedAmerican]

13. Only the very best people float to the top of the Republithug septic system...

[viva la]

14. "It's amazing people look at this negatively..."

Because there's nothing negative about an adult young man getting a vulnerable high school freshman pregnant, arguing against an abortion, pressuring her into marriage at 15, resulting in her suicide at 18?

And notice he makes himself almost a hero in this "Romeo and Juliet" story.

I wonder what happened to the child.

[AntivaxHunters]

21. She killed herself at age 18

[mopinko]

22. i think they meant the baby.

[alphafemale]

29. That should have been the next question as a reporter.

"Where is your child now?"

[NJCher]

16. Re your question

Republicans try to get out ahead of things but each and every time it's just a front to cover things up for them. Projection 101.

++yes, I have noticed it. It’s as if they have a PR firm they consult. For the first 15-20 years of my working career, I was in marketing communication. I recognize professional communication and this would be a strategy. It is an attempt to neutralize or diffuse.

I wish we could identify who this person or firm is.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

25. That's not 'literally' pedo

Very literally, 'pedo' means persistent attraction to pre-pubescent children.

She apparently was not that (unless the relationship started earlier which is possible).

It's statutory rape I believe under FL law, and it's distasteful, but it's not 'literally pedo'.

An actual Pedophile has a persistent pattern. If people start coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of abuse when they were very young, that'll be different.

[AntivaxHunters]

26. It is literally pedo

15 years old is a child.
Your definition is correct but so is mine. It depends on what dictionary you're using.
Florida has very fucked up laws. You should know this. Haven't you heard about the entire "Florida man" theme?
The age of consent in Florida is 18. Read this please & understand his defense of the use of "Romeo & Juliet" is done to shield himself and hide under the guise of being "lawful".

[Hugh_Lebowski]

27. The law addresses ages of consent

Not the medical/psychological definition of a 'pedophile'.

An 18 year old sleeping with a 14 year old is illegal, but that's not the same as him being 'literally pedo'.

I slept with Freshman girl when I was a Senior (14 and 17 at the time). She was more mature than me then, continues to be more mature than me now ... and we're still friends to this day.

And I'm not 'literally pedo' either. Had our relations happened about 2 months later I'd have been 18 and she'd still have (barely) been 14 still. Her 15th would've been days after my turning 18.

I don't regret it, don't feel bad about it, it was 100% consensual. We just dug each other and had sex. Big F'in deal.

Especially in the 1980's.



BTW the 'Florida Man' theme is because of their open records laws. Look it up. Not that I have any love for Florida, but it's a fact.

[BlackSkimmer]

30. No, you are wrong, and Hugh lebowski is correct. nt