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(Looks Like a real winning Strategy they have here...not for them though
After losing all major statewide races to Democrats for the first time in 24 years, Republicans in Virginia are pushing to replace a moderate GOP congressman with a candidate so conservative that he doesnt even believe that spousal rape should be a crime.
On Wednesday, Mother Jones pointed out that state Sen. Richard H. Dick Black, who is running to take over retiring Rep. Frank Wolfs seat, had fought against making spousal rape a crime because the woman was sleeping in the same bed, shes in a nightie.
Democrat Shawn Mitchell had uncovered the 2002 video of Black talking about spousal rape for an attack ad during the 2011 campaign for Virginia state Senate.
I do not know how you could validly get a conviction of a husband-wife rape, when theyre living together, sleeping in the same bed, shes in a nightie and so forth, Black says. Theres not injuries, theres no separation or anything.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/15/virginia-gop-candidate-spousal-rape-isnt-a-crime-if-she-is-wearing-a-nightie/
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)and evil? I think he needs to be investigated and if he did rape his wife, needs to go to prison for a longtime...at least longer than his lifespan.
I bet his entire worldview would change if he went to prison for spousal rape...which is still very much illegal just like all rape is. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, somebody investigate this POS scumbag! The fact that he has been elected before, makes me sick to my stomach.
cali
(114,904 posts)I gasp in horror too- not at a repuke slimeball saying something outrageous, sexist and stupid, but at DU's becoming less engaged with issues of importance and less informed.
I've been here a long time and there is NO doubt in my mind that DU has lost a lot of intellectual heft.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)I mean not even attempts at civility anymore. The Extremist groups effectively rule DU.
They seem to have the net effect of dumbing down the board.
eShirl
(18,506 posts)hmmm?
cali
(114,904 posts)threads in GD about this idiot.
And I've posted substantive threads in GD, today- on the NSA and the TPP.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)which pretty much was ignored.
Neurotica
(609 posts)Dick Black is precisely the reason that people need to be engaged with politics on a local level.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I mean, come on, this guy has obiosuly thought this through so I'm sure his is a nuanced and knowledgeable opinion!
eShirl
(18,506 posts)Aristus
(66,509 posts)They always seem to have the same phenotype.
The silver hair and the steel-rimmed glasses are a dead giveaway. All those assholes seem to look like that.
(Yes, I know glasses aren't part of a phenotype; but the ultra-right-wing hammerheads always seem to gravitate to that particular look.)
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)Copy and paste of my post from another thread about this:
From the Mother Jones article found in the OP article.
I note he's also buds with cucinelli; see Mother Jones article. he and cuccinnelli appear to share the "values" of hard-line misogynists.
In addition to being a raging, hate-filled, homophobe, of course.
In 2003, Black tried to pass legislation preventing same-sex couples to apply for low-interest home loans from the Virginia Housing and Development Authority. The current policy, he explained, "subsidize(s) sodomy and adultery." Black even, in 2005, urged his constituents to picket a local high school that had staged a student's one-act play about a gay high school football player. Portraying same-sex relationships in "a cute or favorable light," he contended, put children at risk of contracting HIV. "If I'm the last person on the face of this Earth to vote against legalizing sodomy," Black once said, "I'll do it." {also from the Mother Jones article}
That is some serious crazy. How could he get elected?
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)a lot of things contribute to "people" like this getting elected.
Low voter turnout, the candidate doesn't state their "values" blatantly or hides them, voters who vote based on name recognition or party rather than investigating the candidate, some people agree with the candidate's "values," and so forth. david duke is a former grand wizard of the kkk, and was elected as a republican Louisiana State Representative; he dialed back the rhetoric, put on a suit, and promoted himself as a "kinder, gentler" white supremacist.