Seriously WTF is going on with ReTHUGS and birth control

[malaise]

Are DUers watching Rachel and that lunatic in Virginia?

[yourout]

1. They are commiting political suicide and they are to stupid to see it.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Shhhh!!

They have lurkers here.

[rurallib]

13. I am praying you are right

and I ain't prayed for decades.

[customerserviceguy]

23. It's primary season

It's the time to engage in silly shit. Once a Repuke comes away with the prize from Tampa, they'll figure out how to forget this stuff, and see if they can get the mushy middle to do the same.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. The economy is over as an issue that is half way viable

So...old staple...CULTURE WARS!!!!!!

[sarcasmo]

9. Exactly, wedge issues are all they have to run on.

[malaise]

10. But this is madness n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Well what primaries are comming?

The bible belt...under that logic it makes sense.

[malaise]

31. True

[Major Hogwash]

39. Next up is Michigan, and Arizona.

I can't see what my crystal balls say about Arizona because they are clouded over now, but Michigan has to be the big prize that day because of the 60+ delegates.

And that's in less than 2 weeks, on February 28th.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. And parts of Michigan are in the belt

Arizona, it's Arizona. Things are getting strange there.

But after those we are talking that buckle.

[Major Hogwash]

42. Ah-ha!!! You don't have me on ingore!

Michigan is not in the Bible belt.

But, whatevah!

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. The south is, but what evah.

Have a good day.

[spanone]

3. naw, i'm watching the westminster dog show, they are smarter and kinder than reTHUGS

[elleng]

5. You and me both, spanone!

You're not related to these by any chance???

[glinda]

25. hehe...go Peke!

[elleng]

4. Something like this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101614263

Watching doggies now; will catch Rachel later.

[northoftheborder]

12. Love the beautiful dogs, sick of politics.

Why have the Republicans gone crazy about birth control????? Not as though it is something new. And the public is NOT on their side. Incomprehensible. Crazzzzy.

[liberal N proud]

6. Republicans use issues of passion

Because they don't have anything of real substance to offer up to the conversation.

[titaniumsalute]

7. The right is really screwing the pooch on this one

Gay marriage...OK I can see that as a wedge issue. (The scary gay people want to marry each other...eww says the religious nuts.)
Abortion...Ok I can that as a wedge issue. (Murdering babies...blah blah.)

But birth control? I can't see it at all. I mean millions and millions of women of every race, socio-economic scenario, various ages, etc. use birth control. There's no "wedge" here. This is not going to help them on the right at all.

[demtenjeep]

14. for people who want "less government" they sure want more intrusive government

when it comes to women

[Skittles]

17. and gay folk

[vankuria]

38. May-be gays really are God's chosen people

Afterall they don't require all those evil birth control methods...just a thought!

[kestrel91316]

24. That's because women are not fully human to them. Well,

in utero they are - but they lose that status at the moment of birth.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Not less government, just smaller. Small enough to put a little policeman in your uterus.

You know, smaller.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. They are understandably upset....

...since President Obama hired a massive army of Planned Parenthood nurses to abduct women off the the street and force them to take birth control pills.

(Or at least that is what one would think given the way they are acting.)

More likely, it barely takes anything for republicans to spew their sexist, racist, hateful crap anymore.

It is like some kind of mass moral panic and delusion.

[Skittles]

15. it's called MISOGYNY

and it is alive and well in ther repuke party, along with racism, homophobia, bigotry, and whatever the term is for extreme disregard/hatred of the poor and middle class

[malaise]

32. Ding ding we have a winner

They hate women

[Kalidurga]

16. This is actually frighting to watch.

Even my daughter who is just turning old enough to vote has noticed the crazy. She tries very hard to ignore anything political, but it's so bad that even in her bubble she can sense it. As for me, I have not been this gobsmacked over the other side in my lifetime. I can't figure them out. They are screaming or were that the economy is bad and of course since the economy is bad they screamed they had to remove the safety net for people that are victims of the economy. Then they started demonizing teachers, first responders, and unions(again). Even then I was flabbergasted. But this latest attack on birth control that seems absolutely suicidal. I don't know whether to be happy they are doing it or afraid that they have lost it and pose a threat to society.

[spanone]

18. i think the fucking insane right sees birth control as abortion in the first degree..pre meditated.

it's hard to believe that republican or catholic women go along with this bullshit to any degree.

[lunasun]

21. it's hard to believe that republican or catholic women go along with this bullshit to any degree....

but they do very much so

[jeff47]

22. No, they don't go along with it.

98% of Catholic women use birth control.

[TheKentuckian]

26. Men either. Who wants child support and/or mouths to feed, or abstinence of that magnitude?

Do these guys never want a shit in peace again? How many jobs do they want to work to maintain their Eight Is Nowhere Near Enough family structures.

Of course "some" guys desire this but I have only ever known a few but between their day job, delivering pizzas or working at the corner store, a paper route or two, and their kids I never really caught too much lip about it.

I'm a guy and I cannot begin to relate to this mindset. Getting what these crazies want seems like an awful deal to me.
Seems like the Grand Prize is slaving away to keep the deal going and having to have a whole brood operating by remote and/or by instruction. Sounds like Hell for all involved, to me. The man may well be getting "his way" but as far as I can tell that way sucks ass.

[malaise]

30. Remember women kicked Santorum out of the Senate

[wiggs]

20. It's the same thing as they've done since Nixon's southern strategy. Consolidate

the base by creating false demons and fake threats to ways of life. Raises money, gets out the vote.

Almost all groups have taken a turn being the odd man out. This time, it's a combination of atheists, secularists, pagan fornicators, abortionists, planned parenthood, a little Acorn remnant (always good), anti-constitutionalists, the wild free sex French, and a little bit anyone who uses medical care plans through an employer. Doesn't matter if these people really exist...they create a non-existent effigy consisting of straw man argument then try to rally everyone to burn him.

[K8-EEE]

27. What I think, they are trying to offset how bad they have alienated the Latino vote

Think about it. I even had a RW nut on another forum rejoice that "When Father tells them who to vote for they will just do it." I totally think they miscalculate this, the latino vote is a LITTLE more hip and informed than they think, no, a LOT more.

But they cannot win with the current numbers re: the Latinos and so, out comes the Bishops!

[Warren DeMontague]

28. They're only coming out and admitting what the anti-choice movement has been about from the get-go.

They want to outlaw contraception. ALL of it. They want "abortionists" to get the death penalty, and what's especially cute is, they think every woman with a round pill dispenser in her bathroom is an "abortionist".

So, good. At least they're finally being honest. This is why they've got such a hard-on, if you will, for Griswold v. Connecticut. They really think they can get us back to some nirvana-like existence when people weren't allowed to fuck for fun.

They're nuts. Nuts, nuts, nuts.

[GoCubsGo]

33. President Obama supports it.

Therefore, they are automatically against it. He should come out for motherhood, apple pie and the flag next. I'd love to see how that goes.

[me b zola]

34. The media isn't talking about income inequality

Progressive economics was being covered by the media. Cue the lunatics subcomming to the vapors over vaginas...or gays or guns or brown or black people.

[Mimosa]

35. ^ Amen!!! This is media 'misdirection' ^

The media are playing their roles as magician's assistants to misdirect public attention from the vital issue of economic decline.

[me b zola]

37. For the first time in a long time important issues were being discussed

...from a progressive frame. I imagine many a maid had been washing short stains by hand until TPTB could get their trained zealots to come down with a case of outrage.

[6000eliot]

36. I honestly can't understand how the media thinks this is an actual issue?

Their own poling tells them that most of the people want contraception covered. Charlie Rose was on TV this morning asking David Axelrod if they thought this was a misstep on the part of the administration. Seriously, WTF?

[GeorgeGist]

40. They got nothing ...

and they know it.

[Major Hogwash]

44. They're out of mayonaise.

They can't even make a decent samwich.

[pokerfan]

45. What do ReTHUGS use for birth control?

Their personalities?