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Faygo Kid

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2. Jump the shark? The GOP did that years ago. What now?

Fri Feb 17, 2012, 05:41 PM

Feb 2012

I can't even come up with an analogy for what they are doing now. What are they thinking? (I know, they're not.) I'm "severely" appalled by their now-open war on women. If you surf the right-wing websites (as I have been known to do), you will realize that, yes, they DO want to ban contraceptives. Geez, even the whole Komen thing seems like a long time ago, given the onslaught they are unleashing in recent weeks in this election year.

All this at once can't be coincidence. I guess we have gotten a window into just how much the GOP values women's health issues, platitudes notwithstanding.

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