Wow. Just wow.
When Todd Akin went off on his ignorant rant about “lady parts,” it prompted a number of folks to turn over the rock under which he and his fellow “conservatives” live–and it turns out his crazy isn’t limited to women’s reproduction.
Salon raised the reasonable question, “why is this guy on the House science subcommittee?” and quoted the genius on climate change: “In Missouri when we go from winter to spring, that’s a good climate change. I don’t want to stop that climate change you know. Who in the world wants to put politicians in charge of the weather anyways?”
Unsurprisingly, Akin also rejects the “theory” of evolution.
The article also noted Akin’s firm grasp of history, made clear in his belief that the Pilgrims came to the New World to escape socialism. (He must get his history lessons from David Barton.)
This would all be funny if Akin were the only elected official with this sort of delusional worldview. But what’s really scary is how many “fellow travelers” he has. Several of them are in Indiana. A friend of mine shared a You Tube in which Linda Lawson berated Eric Turner for expressing his opposition to the “rape or incest” exception by explaining that women would pretend to be raped in order to obtain an abortion.
I don’t get it.
How do these willfully ignorant culture warriors get elected? What is it about women and science and basic logic that repels them?
And most important, what will it take to engineer a return to sanity?
Sheila, what I find really horrifying (and to be clear, I’m really horrified right now) is that this–and other fact-allergic fools in the TeaOP–keep getting elected. What is it with the voters who got him into office?
THAT is the million-dollar question.
Where are Republican women through all of this; not Bachman or Palin, intelligent Republican women? There must be a few left…somewhere in this country. Or; are they all at home barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen frying chicken? I can only watch for short periods of time and have to switch channels to reruns of reruns of reruns; I have memorized the dialog of almsot every episode of I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show. The dialog on all Romney/Ryan shows is the same but I certainly do not want to memorize any of it – will remember it all come November and election day.
I can’t believe that women are not voicing absolute outrage over this assault by Republicans! Where are the women?? Have we lost our voice in all this insanity? Is there not ONE who will stand up and ask “Are you people freaking NUTS!!!!?????