"Rape is a Leftist Myth"

[dexfarkin]

I don't really have any follow-up on the whole Akin thing, beyond the puzzled horror at the things that have come wriggling out of the hole that the issue has torn open. The title of this post was one of my favourite comments, but I think the all-time winner goes to the one who responded to Dana Loesch's tweet defending Akin, with 'WHORE! God-fearing WOMEN neither read or write!'

The thing that strikes me about this election season is that I think we're really seeing the spasms of a nation in flux for the first time. There is a real sense that this is the cultural last stand for the Tea Party ideal of the dominant White America. A Romney presidency would not be the Apocalypse, but it's biggest legacy could very well be a 7-2 Conservative Supreme Court for the next several decades. The long term effects of that will do more to reshape the fate of the US than Romney's rather petty dreams of never ever paying taxes again.

Think about it. Thanks to Citizen's United, the very nature of how campaigns are fought has completely changed, and this election will represent over $2.5 billions of dollars in spending. What happens when things like enviromental protections or assault weapon bans reach the high court? Whether you personally believe in the conservative vision or not, the expansion of the pro-corporate Roberts court will do more to define the next several decades than any elected official or whack-job budget.

Comments

[jim-smith.livejournal.com]

I am particularly exhausted by the feeble attempt to somehow blame all of this on anybody except Akin. If he had even an eight-grade-level understanding of female anatomy, none of this would have happened. That's all on him.

If you want to argue that Democrats somehow fiendishly tricked Missouri Republicans into electing this idiot to five terms in the House and a nomination for the Senate, fine. I think that attributes far too much skill to the left, and raises the question of why the Dems ever lose any election, but you have fun with that. It doesn't change the fact that Akin's an idiot who happens to have enjoyed support from the GOP.

I don't care if Democrats built Akin in a cave from a box of scraps as a Trojan horse for Republicans. A Trojan horse only works if you're dumb enough to bring it inside the city walls.

[robby.livejournal.com]

The Democrats spend a million and half dollars to get a bonehead through the GOP primary, and then moan about him acting like a bonehead. I say the Democrats should take ownership here, and apologize to Mitt Romney, and the nation.

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

You seem to be unwilling to face the truth. Republicans nominated Akin. Over 200,000 of them, in fact. Are they all secret Democrats? Did they all show up just to spite the Democrats for comparing him to Bachmann and calling him too conservative for Missouri? If they did, are Republicans simply too stupid to be allowed to hold primaries?

Anyways, I'm not interested in someone who doesn't bring anything else to the table beyond bad talking points from ring wing radio. Either engage in the actual questions or fuck off elsewhere. But don't come to my journal uninvited just to waste my time.