Showing posts with label Sharron Angle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sharron Angle. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

According to Daniel Tencer of The Raw Story, at least 78 Republican candidates would force a woman to bear rapist's babies.  Apparently we have our old fiend friend Phyllis Schlafly (who started this group) to thank for this.  As I read this, I tried to play out some possible scenarios in my head.  #1 a mother of five, husband out of work, little money to pay for groceries and the roof over their heads, is raped and left pregnant.  How would forcing her to have this baby help any one?  Balancing out those five children of hers watching her belly grow, forcing her husband to have to raise the child as his because they are legally married or find a less legal solution, and let us all hope there will be no psychological consequences added to their current mind-numbing woes.

#2  daughter, with a sister who is also adulterously being used by their father, finds herself pregnant as a result.  Mother is no longer able to look on with denial since the daughter has clearly not dated.  The marriage does not survive, mother and two daughters now without the father as a breadwinner struggle for survival.  Adding to their misery, father goes to jail when the doctors find out who the father of the child is and he is sent to jail.

I'm sure I could go on with these scenarios, many of which I've been pretty close to in my years of practicing family therapy.  For a group professing to want less government, how can there be an intelligent human being who doesn't see through their hypocrisy?  It translates to "Get out of my life, government, unless it is something I want...regardless of whether my fellow man agrees, because I am biased and pigheaded with the wish to inflict my values on all."

Tana Ganeva published, in AlterNet, five GOP candidates who would force women to bear children as the result of rape.  They are: 1. Rand Paul (Kentucky); Christine O'Donnell (Delaware), Sharron Angle (Nevada), Ken Buck (Colorado), Joe Miller (Alaska).  One can only seriously question the judgment (or even sanity) of  those politicians who consider this a worthwhile platform to run on in an era when people need to eat, pay rent, taxes, and survive in the job-hungry economy.  That should tell their supporters something critical but it is not likely to do much because, unfortunately, their supporters are as fanatical as they with equally poor sense of what the country needs to survive.  Lots of money is pouring into the coffers of these candidates and, again, one has to wonder where ti is coming from.  These people are driving our country to H*** in the proverbial hand basket, for sure.

I can see Uncle Sam on the floor yelling now, "Help!. Help!, I've fallen and I can't get up!"

Friday, September 17, 2010

REPUBLICAN LEADERS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT DELAWARE ELECTIONS

If people think one Republican is just like another Republican, they would be very much mistaken. In Delaware Christine O'Donnell is not seen as preferred candidate nor felt that she has a better chance of winning the election than her opponent.  If you are having difficulties understanding the platform on which the
Teapartiers stand, you are not alone.  The contradictions are mind boggling.  While fighting to make the government less intrusive and smaller in our lives, Christine O'Donnell wants the government to force females as young as 13, who are raped by strangers or incestuously, to bear the children as a result of those rapes. 

Christine O'Donnell seems, by all I have searched on her, to violate the Constitution with her goals.  Wikipedia on O'Donnell says: "O'Donnell also served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a Conservative Christian political action group which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy."  I do not believe our Constitution has yet been amended to allow Christianity to rule the country.

Karl Rove finally was forced by the party to endorse O'Donnell but it doesn't erase his previous statements that she was an embarrassment to the party and was not likely to win.  It seems to me that  as long as the Teapartiers seemed 'against' the Democrats, it was missed that they were associated as being with' Republicans.  Voters in Arizona should also be advised that Sharron Angle is a disciple of Phyllis Schlafly.  When did we lose our sanity and our country?