Great!I am sick to death of defensive voting...give me somebody to vote FOR.
I am sick to death of defensive voting...give me somebody to vote FOR.
The difficulty is the freaking purity standards imposed.
Should we look back to Mourdock again for guidance on that? Are we happy after five years of Donnelly because, "OMG I just couldn't vote for that guy."
No. It wasn't purity standards. He got 44% of the vote to Donnelly's 50%. The conservatives voted for him. Those somewhere in the middle did not. You are going to be hard pressed to find moderates who are going to vote for someone that says something like he did. Having a R next to their name will get candidates a long way in this state, but not that far.The difficulty is the freaking purity standards imposed.
Should we look back to Mourdock again for guidance on that? Are we happy after five years of Donnelly because, "OMG I just couldn't vote for that guy."
... Something like saying God intended for a woman to be raped will stick with them though.
Pick a candidate who can refrain from saying something that stupid, and he will probably beat Donnelly easily. Pick one that can't, and you will have six more years of him. And if you want someone to blame, blame the guy that said stupid ...
How do you separate God intended life from the rape, if the life would not exist if not for the rape? That is what people see. You can try defending that, but you are not going to convince the people you needed to convince.This proves my point. WE threw Mourdock under the bus, by not supporting him. Even someone who voted for him saying how stupid he is agrees with and supports the other side's sensationalizing.
That's not what Mourdock said. This is exactly what he said:
“I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that’s something God intended to happen.”
It is NOT a stretch to read this as he intended it, God intended the life to happen. Yet few on our side stood up for what was meant.
How do you separate God intended life from the rape, if the life would not exist if not for the rape?...
Lugar needed to go long before he went. But I knew Murdock was done the moment he said that during the debate, the rape word should never have left his mouth, no good sound bites will come of that...the candidates need to start calling out the leftist press corps on these gotcha questions. I look forward hopefully to seeing NY Joe crushed in the next election.