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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

2012 John McCain Breaks with Mitt Romney, Says He Won't Support Mourdock Until He Apologizes for His Comments on Rape

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:49 PM

Man, the 2008 model is so much better than the 2012 model:

Mitt Romney, of course, has backed away from Richard Mourdock's claims that if a rape results in pregnancy, "it's something God intended." But he's still endorsing Mourdock. John McCain has the decency to know that that's morally wrong.

In other Mourdock news, ThinkProgress points out that a certain segment of the population probably hasn't heard his name today:

As of 1:30 pm, Fox News had not mentioned Richard Mourdock or the word “rape” in connection to Mourdock even once. In comparison, other cable networks are covering Mourdock and the fallout from his comments exhaustively. MSNBC mentioned “rape” in 15 segments about Mourdock, while CNN mentioned it 22 times.

You know a story is dangerous to Republicans when Fox News goes all omertà over it.

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Um, I think you want to fix your first sentence.

Posted by midwaypete on October 24, 2012 at 9:11 PM

American politics is getting to be so bizarre. We hold referenda on human rights, and in more than half the country, human rights loses. A candidate for President associates with people who say rape is god's will, and he's practically tied with the anti-rape candidate. The small-government party think government should regulate who can have sex with whom and declares that your own body is government property-and then calls their opposition authoritarian because it wants cheaper healthcare.

What kind of country is this?

Posted by Tacoma Traveler on October 24, 2012 at 9:12 PM

You know what I find amusing, it's when some blogger is still pumping a meme from like a week ago. Like I keep getting these clever graphics on Facebook about the "47% percent". These really -- ha, that gets 'em kind of thing. But man even horses and bayonets is about as tangy as a 3 hr. old latte.

It's like the people who are somewhere one level or two up from the ground really buy into these things as if it were real, instead of a kind of dance that changes daily...rather, minute by minute.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on October 24, 2012 at 9:52 PM

McCain walks the party line like a good soldier and probably would have made a mediocre president, but I have a certain amount of respect for him. And it's not just what he's been through in Vietnam and his determination to forge a career afterward, but also the fact that he has a shred of human decency in him. Hearing him talk in the political shows, like he did in that clip, sounds so quaintly idyllic compared to the soulless, corporatist conservatives that bray like party warriors out to help the team rather than serve the people.

Posted by floater on October 24, 2012 at 10:27 PM

Supreme Moron of the Universe: This is a person in a position of power holding half of the people he is supposed to represent in open contempt because of his book of fairy tales. This is not a meme. Memes have kitties or binders. That you do not know the difference between the two is why you are a fucking moron.

Posted by mubhappy on October 25, 2012 at 2:34 AM

Take a read of the one and only article about it on FoxNews.com:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/…
It's almost entirely about how his comments were misconstrued. Sorry, ya douche, but you said exactly what you meant and we know exactly what that was. Your God presents women with 'gifts' by holding them down and forcibly fucking them, and then giving them no choice but to carry their attacker's spawn inside them for 10 months. Check.

Puts that whole 'virgin birth' thing in a new light, doesn't it?

Posted by NateMan on October 25, 2012 at 5:42 AM

@ 1 is right - I think you got something switched around in your first sentence.

Posted by Matt from Denver on October 25, 2012 at 7:41 AM

@1 and @7: As of this morning, looks like that line was unintentionally accurate, since McCain has now pulled back on his statement. (Claiming that he hadn't heard Mourdock's non-apology apology at the time, and that because of that non-apology apology there's no further need for an apology.)

Oh, and slammed Colin Powell for endorsing Obama.

The 2012 model McCain is looking like even more of a political whore than the 2008...and that takes some doing.

Posted by DonServo on October 25, 2012 at 9:14 AM

@8, okay then, I retract my suggested correction.

Posted by midwaypete on October 25, 2012 at 10:11 AM