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Galraedia

(5,027 posts)
Wed May 4, 2022, 05:30 PM May 2022

Robert Regan, GOP Candidate Who Told Women to 'Enjoy' Rape, Loses Race

A Republican candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives who made headlines in March for suggesting that women who are raped should "lie back and enjoy it" has lost his race in a surprise defeat.

Robert "RJ" Regan has lost his bid to represent Michigan's 74th district, according to unofficial results reported by The Detroit Free Press on Tuesday night and with all precincts reporting.

Democrat Carol Glanville had defeated Regan in the special election by more than 1,500 votes based on results as of 10.30 p.m. ET, winning 51 percent of the vote to Regan's 40 percent, while 7.9 percent support went to write-in candidates.

"West Michigan values of integrity, decency, and care for the common good won tonight," Glanville tweeted in response to her apparent victory.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/robert-regan-gop-candidate-told-women-enjoy-rape-loses-race-michigan-1703331

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Robert Regan, GOP Candidate Who Told Women to 'Enjoy' Rape, Loses Race (Original Post) Galraedia May 2022 OP
Enjoy your loss dude. Boomerproud May 2022 #1
Yeah, lay back and enjoy it! n/t forgotmylogin May 2022 #14
The damn grotesque fool! n/t RKP5637 May 2022 #2
Let be to all of them!!! LakeArenal May 2022 #3
This is the POS Prof. Toru Tanaka May 2022 #4
Oh... electric_blue68 May 2022 #22
Good. pwb May 2022 #5
IIRC that's the advice he gave his own daughter. lpbk2713 May 2022 #6
Methinks they've gone a wee bit too far. Claire Oh Nette May 2022 #7
Give em enough rope Traildogbob May 2022 #8
"in a surprise defeat" Grokenstein May 2022 #9
Surprise because no Dem has ever won that disctrict Johnny2X2X May 2022 #19
Bwahahaha! smirkymonkey May 2022 #10
well hooray for that vlyons May 2022 #11
Thank goodness for small wonders iemanja May 2022 #12
He got 40 fucking per cent. 40. Think about that. Glad he lost but what does that say about MI? Evolve Dammit May 2022 #13
Trump won the district by 16 points in 2020. TwilightZone May 2022 #15
It says we can beat them using the abortion issue...geez some are never happy a win is a win. Demsrule86 May 2022 #18
you missed my point at how vile they are. I don't bemoan wins. Evolve Dammit May 2022 #24
He told his daughters that specifically. Psycho... SKKY May 2022 #16
This makes me so so happy. Demsrule86 May 2022 #17
Not just any women, he told his daughters this budkin May 2022 #20
Glanville 51% Regan 40% gratuitous May 2022 #21
He actually told his DAUGHTERS to lie back and enjoy it obamanut2012 May 2022 #23

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,991 posts)
4. This is the POS
Wed May 4, 2022, 05:56 PM
May 2022

whose OWN DAUGHTER put out a Twitter post asking people to not vote for her father.

Regan has made numerous offensive and just plain stupid statements. He is a stupid, obnoxious asshole which these days makes one a perfect GQP candidate.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
7. Methinks they've gone a wee bit too far.
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:25 PM
May 2022

May this be the a sign we're past the tipping point with these lie back and enjoy it, keep your knees closed, you can always give it away assholes.

The Mother's Day Strike sounds Ideal!

Traildogbob

(8,833 posts)
8. Give em enough rope
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:45 PM
May 2022

And their hand made gallows will take care of em all. Like fishing and getting a monster to run with the bait. Let em run and fill confident, and then jerk the hook deep into their mouth. They finally caught the car they been chasing for 50 years and sank their teeth into the tire. Now they can flop over and over slamming their heads into the pavement with each rotation as the car rolls on down the road.
Fuck em all, and if they get pregnant, make em carry that radical left liberal fetus to term.

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
9. "in a surprise defeat"
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:50 PM
May 2022

I know being a trashbag usually pays off for Republickscum, but if it really was a surprise it shows how far this nation has fallen.

Johnny2X2X

(19,193 posts)
19. Surprise because no Dem has ever won that disctrict
Thu May 5, 2022, 02:41 PM
May 2022

But Republicans pretty much are vile trolls at their core right now. The more sick and disgusting a candidate is, the better they like him, because sick and disgusting owns the libs.

The backed a literal pedophile in Alabama in 2018 for US Senate.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
11. well hooray for that
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:55 PM
May 2022

one less insensitive asshole, who can crawl back under the rotting log from which he first emerged

iemanja

(53,076 posts)
12. Thank goodness for small wonders
Wed May 4, 2022, 08:06 PM
May 2022

It's good to see there is a line. Well, I hope so anyway. I hope that was the reason he was defeated.

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