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Tea party’s Richard Mourdock now trails in Indiana Senate race, poll shows
Tea party's Richard Mourdock trails in Indiana Senate race, poll shows The GOP’s Richard Mourdock appears to have done grave damage to his Senate candidacy in Indiana by his comment that “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.” Almost…
Gingrich on Mourdock’s rape comments: Stephanie Cutter should ‘get over it’
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who is now a surrogate for Mitt Romney, on Sunday told President Barack Obama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter to “get over it” and stop talking about Republican Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s assertion that pregnancy from rape “is something that God intended to…
Bill Maher on Mourdock and ‘rape is God’s will’: ‘You cannot separate religion from just sheer idiocy’
During Friday night’s panel discussion on Real Time with Bill Maher, guests Eliot Spitzer, Chrystia Freeland and Michael Steele weighed in the Republican Party’s little “rape is God’s will” problem. Earlier this week, Indiana senate candidate Richard Mourdock stunned many Americans when he professed that “…life begins at conception. The…
The theology behind Mourdock’s ‘gift from God’ pregnancy after rape remark
Richard Mourdock: the theology behind his rape comments (via The Christian Science Monitor) When Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock this week spoke provocatively of rape-induced pregnancy as “something that God intended to happen,” liberals and atheists weren’t the only ones outraged. The furor extends into Evangelical camps, too. Believers…
Stewart mocks Mourdock for having to deny he worships a rape-loving deity
On his show Thursday night, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show tore into Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. The GOP candidate recently said that pregnancies that result from rape were “something God intended to happen.” Stewart remarked that it was a bad sign when a candidate was forced to…
GOP candidate Richard Mourdock: I gained votes after rape remarks
The Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said on Thursday that he had gained voters as a result of his claim that pregnancies from rape are “something that God intended to happen”. The GOP candidate from Indiana was criticised by Republicans and Democrats after he made the comments during a debate…
Fox News covers Mourdock for 2 minutes in 24 hours after rape comments
In the day after Republican Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said that pregnancy from rape “is something that God intended to happen,” the Fox News Channel only covered the scandal for about 2 minutes, even though Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney refused to rescind his endorsement of Mourdock. “I believe…
Republican Mandel refuses to comment on Mourdock’s ‘gift from God’ rape remark
Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel refused to comment Wednesday night on controversial statements by Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who said that abortion should not even be legal in cases of rape. When confronted by blogger Marc Kovac of the Ohio Capital Blog and asked if he…
Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin: The New Face of the Republican Party
One thing continues to bug me when it comes to the various Republicans insisting that God wills all sorts of sexual horrors on women, and it’s this: The god of the Christian right is a completely dribbling idiot. The one thing—the one thing!—he cares about more than anything is making…
Maddow: Richard Mourdock was his own October surprise
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained that Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock was not isolated in his view that victims of rape should be forced to give birth if they become pregnant. The Republican candidate created an uproar on Tuesday night after he said that a…
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