The Tea Party/religious right extremists that nominated one of their own in Indiana, are about to taste some bitter karma. Put a zealot on the debate stage and something like this could come out of his mouth: "I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
Over recent months it has been hard to watch my wife react to stories on forced transvaginal ultrasound Gov Bob McDonnell (a national Romney campaign surrogate), legitimate rape Todd Akin (Paul Ryan's redefine rape house bill cosponsor), and now Richard Mourdock. Nausea, disgust, feeling disrespected and insulted as a woman. Feeling like she is caught in some bizarre time warp.
The democrats just picked up ANOTHER senate seat. But that isn't good enough. Remember what happened leading into the Republican National Convention? Almost a week of news cycle with the Republicans on the defensive and fighting amongst themselves. "Hurricane Todd" helped make the Republican convention completely ineffective. Mourdock's comments are more offensive than Akin's. Democrats need to make the next several national news cycles be about Mourdock and tie this albatross around Romney's neck. Talk about Romney, Ryan, Akin, and Mourdock at every opportunity. Romney quickly threw Akin under the bus he won't have such an easy break from Mourdock. Timing couldn't be worse for Romney:
(from an AP story released just hours before the rape comments)
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is extending his political coattails to Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in a new ad, but the race against Democrat Joe Donnelly remains a big-money, high-stakes stalemate two weeks before Election Day.
In a new ad airing statewide, Romney accuses Donnelly of supporting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's "agenda" in Washington and calls Mourdock "the 51st vote" needed to repeal the federal health care law.
"There's so much at stake, I hope you'll join me in supporting Richard Mourdock for U.S. Senate," Romney says in the spot, paid for by the Mourdock campaign.
Republicans disrespect and insult African Americans, Latinos, immigrants, Native Americans, and GLBT people with such vigor that Democrats lead in these groups by huge 40, 60, even 80 point margins. The last year has done much to add women to that group. A recipe for the demise of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's chances, and for the demise of the Republican party. Karma.