Well, well, well, it would seem that everybody's favorite birth control 'activist', Ms. Sandra " Loose Lips" Fluke, must now be on the Barry "Almighty" payroll since she is now sending out official campaign emails. In a recent email that went out late Wednesday night, our rather infamous Georgetown Law Student attempted to link the idiotic comments recently made by Rep. Todd Akin to the campaign platforms of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Akin, as I'm sure you're all aware by now, unless you've been living under a rock, is the Republican Missouri Senate candidate, who recently said that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin has since apologized and been asked to step down by every legitimate branch of the party. And yet, all manner of unscrupulous Democrat has continued to do their best to score some manner of politic points at his expense.
Ms. Fluke notes this quote in her silly email as she attempts to somehow imply that Romney’s platform is in “lockstep with Akin on the major women’s health issues of our time.” That's really quite a stretch since Akins comments really had nothing to do with "women's health issues of our time." Little Ms. Fluke goes on to lament the addition of the “Human Life Amendment” to the republican party platform. And she did her best to confer Akin's comments on the entire Republican Party. ”This controversy is not an accident, or a mistake, or an isolated incident. It’s a reflection of a Republican Party whose policies are dangerous for women,” Fluke babbled. Well maybe dangerous for women who, like Ms. Fluke, apparently enjoy spending an inordinate amount of time on their backs. And for her to make such an idiotic statement in the first place, makes it pretty obvious that she is either naïve or very willing to allow herself to be manipulated.
And she then, as to be expected, invoked that mean old Rush Limbaugh as her related to her thoroughly choreographed little controversy that resulted from her supposedly advocating for free birth control in front of what was nothing more than a kangaroo congressional panel. “Without knowing me or my story, Rush Limbaugh called me a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his radio show.” Fluke notes that Barry “stood with us” after the incident but Romney did “not condemn” the remark. Well look, you know what they say about the shoe that fits. After all, what is there to say about someone for whom the most important thing in their life seems to be…sex. Fluke closes the email by glowingly quoting Barry "Almighty": “What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.” BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
See the complete Email Below:
Ben –
In a recent statement that was both factually inaccurate and horribly offensive, Republican Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark — but the fact is they‘re in lockstep with Akin on the major women’s health issues of our time. Just this morning, the Republican Party voted to include the “Human Life Amendment” in their platform, calling for a constitutional ban on abortions nationwide, even for rape victims. Several Romney supporters and advisers stood silently by while this vote took place, and the Los Angeles Times reports that the platform “was written at the direction of Romney’s campaign.”
President Obama spoke out in response to Akin’s comments: “What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.”
This controversy is not an accident, or a mistake, or an isolated incident. It’s a reflection of a Republican Party whose policies are dangerous for women.
I entered this national debate on women’s rights in February, when, as a Georgetown Law student, I testified before members of Congress on the issue of contraception.
Without knowing me or my story, Rush Limbaugh called me a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his radio show.
Many Americans stepped forward to tell me they agreed with me, and supported my right to speak out without being verbally attacked. President Obama stood with us.
Mitt Romney, on the other hand? He didn’t even condemn the remark, instead saying only: “It’s not the language I would have used.”
Since that moment, I’m even more resolved to continue the fight to make sure every single woman — and every man who cares about the women in his life — knows exactly what’s at stake in this election. The Republicans are frighteningly clear on these issues.
The party platform itself includes a “salute” to states that have pushed “informed consent” laws, such as those that force women seeking an abortion to first undergo an invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound.
Just last year, Paul Ryan joined Todd Akin and more than 200 other Republicans in co-sponsoring legislation that would have narrowed the definition of rape, limiting which victims of rape were “legitimate” enough to receive financial assistance for access to abortion care.
Mitt Romney famously says he would “get rid of” Planned Parenthood if he had the chance. And both Romney and Ryan pledge to go back to a system where insurance companies can discriminate against women and charge us more than men for the same health insurance.
Akin‘s comments shouldn’t be surprising. But this isn’t about him — just like it was never about me.
President Obama has told us what he’s fighting for: “I want women to control their own health choices, just like I want my daughters to have the same opportunities as your sons.”
Republicans, led by Romney and Ryan, have made it clear that they want to make our decisions for us.
President Obama trusts us to make our own.
It’s as simple as that. Join me and stand with him today:
Thanks,
Sandra Fluke
Thanks for the post, I really needed a laugh. Love the demotivation picture of Fluke too. I've got three daughters of my own and I would be horrified if any of them ever thought for a second that they had the right to graduate from one of the top schools in the country (Cornell) and then the gall to think they could go to one of the top law schools in the country (Georgetown). Hopefully my daughters all understand their place and never think of advocating for women's right. My wife would clutch her pearls endlessly if she thought our daughters might go on birth control. How do they expect to get pregnant at 17 if they're on birth control?
ReplyDeleteFluke really is a total slut and she probably pops 2 birth control pills a day to make sure she's good to have sex with hundreds of guys and probably lots of women too (look at the haircut, we all know that only dykes have that haircut).
With a little luck, my girls will all be pregnant by 16 and married to someone with a promising career in the US military. Maybe by then we'll have a GOP president to start a few wars and I can be proud that my sons in law killed a bunch of them freedom hating muslims.