Yesterday, when Ron Christie sat on the Ed Show with Keli Goff and patronizingly told her that women’s issues were “small ball”, I realized that these Republicans are not just acting like they don’t get that they’re discussing whether or not to let a woman live if she needs a life saving abortion after being raped. They’re not just aiding and abetting criminal violence against women as they refuse to sign the Violence Against Women Act while pushing to give the rapists exactly what they want – control.
No, they aren’t just aiding and abetting. They are the crazy ex, the stalker, the abuser, the “power over” mentality of the drunken frat boy and the greedy CEO, the rapist, the dog abuser…
They talk about legislating not allowing a woman to save her own life and not allowing her loved ones to save her life as if they are legislating what color pencil Americans can use.
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It has been explained over and over and over again that contraception is often used for women’s health and sometimes-serious health issues. It’s been explained that ectopic pregnancies are a common occurrence that can and do kill women. It’s been explained that in 31 states, we allow a rapist to have visitation and custody of the child they raped to conceive. But still these men cry about a fetus and tell women that for them to be upset over “small ball” issues is silly.
When they talk about coming between a woman and her doctor, they are talking about not letting a woman save her own life.
Imagine, if you will, if our elected officials were mostly women. And if over the last two years, one party elected women so crazy they reminded men of the crazy ex that threatened to kill herself if you left.
Imagine if those women then legislated that if you made a woman feel like that, your freedom to have medical assistance in the case of a life threatening accident or illness would be taken away. That’s the closest I can come to an analogy since women can’t overpower men and impregnate them when they want to control them. Women can’t impose a medical condition upon men for revenge like men can and do to a woman with rape. But if you aren’t a hater, you get the idea. I suppose it’s a micro example of a woman who gets pregnant to “trap” a man, if women like that were running Congress and decided that the men might not be able to live if they chose to leave because — BABIES.
This is about control. The crazy people are in charge of the asylum now. Women know these men, just like men know the crazy ex girlfriend type once they’ve had one. They’re on TV and in Congress and running for the highest office in the land as they talk about whether or not they are going to make a law saying that women are not free to save their own lives.
The bitterness that seeps through these men’s words is lost on those who haven’t been on the receiving end of a controlling, insecure man. But it is loud and clear to those who have. These are men so insecure that they are dreaming of making laws that would kill women for not being compliant even with a rapist’s desire to control them.
I can’t believe there isn’t an uprising against these men, but they’ve done a great job packaging their control in the wrapper of family values and love for babies. Nothing gets women like the desire to protect babies, and that’s what they’re banking on. Everyone loves a baby, but apparently these men don’t love a woman or else glibly discussing her government-imposed death wouldn’t be “small ball”.
Death panels? Yes, that’s what this is, only it’s not a panel of people who are deciding – it’s the whim of the sickest in our society – the rapist, the stalker, and the batterer. Yes, impregnating a woman is a common thing for an abuser to do to a woman who is trying to leave. So when Republicans talk about giving that rapist/abuser exactly what he wants—access to her and control over her for the next 18 years, they are incentivizing rape.
And if that pregnancy turns out to be life threatening, which is not uncommon, Republicans are giving the abuser/rapist the authority to kill the woman legally.
That’s “small ball” to Republicans. Ron Christie sat there patting Keli Goff’s arm when she tried to make a point, discussing legalizing killing women, and called it small ball.
In reality, these men don’t give care about live babies or children, or else they wouldn’t be cutting back food stamps and government assistance to poverty stricken parents trying to feed their children. They wouldn’t be trying to defund the one sure way we have of reducing abortions – birth control. They wouldn’t be suggesting that crime is a function of single motherhood while they seek to make it impossible for a woman who is raped to have an abortion.
These men are trying to put women at their mercy, with no freedom, while they incentivize violence against women and defund programs meant to help victims of violence.
Why isn’t anyone calling these guys on what they are really saying? They aren’t talking about being pro-life; they are talking about legislating the deaths of women and incentivizing rape and violence against women.
These men are the problem, not the solution. They are spewing hate talk on TV and no one calls them on it. They are saying it’s “small ball” to suggest killing women and everyone glides right over that and discusses the issue as if it’s just another policy instead of the suggestion that half of the population should be left to die at the “religious” whim of these sick control freaks.
I put religious in quotes because to call the desire to kill women religious is giving it way too much cover. These men aren’t religious, and the Nuns on the Bus proved that with their boycott of these men’s Randian budget. These men aren’t lovers of babies – they are haters of women. They don’t hate abortion or else they would not be destroying the one method that reduces abortions or giving would-be rapists an incentive to commit a heinous crime of violence against innocent women. And just for the record, far too often these “pro-lifers” are against abortion for everyone else, but when their mistress gets pregnant, they become bullies for abortion. It’s all about control.
These men (and their female enablers) always talk about “innocent life” as if the women’s lives they are asserting control over are not innocent. They imply that women are evil sinners, trash to be discarded in order to save the “innocent”. I note that not one of them is discussing that it takes two to get pregnant, or implying that men are automatically not as worthy of freedom and life as a fetus.
The Republican Party is being overtaken by the crazy exes, bitter and bursting with desire for revenge against a world that threatens to take away their control and power.
The Romney campaign has been dismissing women’s lives as shiny objects for a while now. That’s what Mitt Romney thinks of women’s lives, but we already knew that Romney’s “only concern is for the fetus.”
Here’s a compilation of the crazy exes spewing their glorification of controlling women by David Packman:




Maranon
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
The Lorena Bobbitt solution come to mind…
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Diane
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Rick Sanorum allowed his pregnant wife to receive antibiotics that he knew might induce early labor.
He allowed it.
Would he have allowed his wife to die?
He should have according to his words during the campaign. Yet he did not.
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stenc
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Get a load of Ron Christie. I’ve been wondering for a while now…What is up with this guy?
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Eykis
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Ron Christie is a true Uncle Tom. Why he is considered an expert on anything is beyond me. Seems like an Affirmative Action hiring by Dick Cheney. That is his claim to infamy.
Great article – Women’s Issues are HUGE BALL and November 6th will prove it by ousting these Idiots and Fools who think they own all of us.
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Reynardine
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Well, dammit, I’ve said it.
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WTF1113
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Check out dude’s head – I bet his mom wished she’d gotten an abortion while trying to birth that huge dome. Would have saved all of us a bunch of grief.
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kevin
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Ron Christie, Romnesia personifide!!!! this guy looks like he was left in the corner, with no toys.
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Banned Atheist
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Ugh. Babies.
These Republican men act like getting knocked up is a frickin’ miracle, but pregnancy and childbirth are basic, messy biological functions. Kind of like if one eats, then eventually one must shit.
The only ‘miracle’ is that so many of us make it to term without any major deformities.
(OTOH, I sure wouldn’t have complained if I’d been born with a tail. Prehensile, preferably.)
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SinghX
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Go Sarah!
This is also about a lot of old men who aren’t going to live much longer and want revenge;
they are the ones who have been “teachers” to guys like Ryan and Christie; they’ve taught them to go out there and act like smug over-lords who are about to receive an ill-gotten inheritance. They want nothing more than to know, as the death rattles over head, “this is a man’s world”…Women are to be treated as character actors, like “Pygmalion”, controlled, trained like pets…
It is the old men like the Koch’s, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, Adleson, etc, who are determine to pass on their mantle of male dominance instead of accepting the changes that have take place in the world since they were in “hatched”; this is their insular miserable lives, not reality.
…This is nothing short of a minority of old, vengeful, dying men who can’t get it up any more, training younger men to take their place.
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1voice1vote
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Walk with me Republicans: Rape is a felony. Armed robbery, battery, and murder are felonies.
Without exception, everyone that I know that is anti-choice (“pro-life”) is also pro death penalty. (granted; I do not know everyone)
Why is it that a violent sex offender is the ONLY felon that you propose to award with a child for his felonious action(s)?
Why not pass on the DNA of all felons? Why only rapists?
Seems you’re setting precedent that rapist DNA is favored among felonious DNA. Is that the message Republicans have for America? A baby for every violent felon? Or just rapists?
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Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Not if you are a christian fundie. Those things are allowed like lying for jebus
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1voice1vote
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
utmost respect, shiva
Mitt Romney: should a 15-yr-old be government-forced to carry her rapist’s sperm to term?
Who pays the rape survivor’s medical bills for this pregnancy?
What part of this is smaller government?
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BeeEss
Oct. 26th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Right on! Sick control freaks is exactly right. I’m hoping though that it is the final death rattle. I cannot believe this is happening in this country in the 21st century.
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Anne
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:01 am
I have always despised Ron Christie from the bottom of my heart. In every instance I can think of, he has been a mindless apologist for every regressive, inhumane policy that has come from his party. Not only is a woman’s control of her reproductive rights linked to her economic and political empowerment, but the birth control that makes this possible is also linked to health issues other than contraception as this article points out. It’s a sad commentary that in the 12th year of the 21st century we are fighting folks who are still stuck in the early 20th century even before the 1950′s. It’s even worse that the GOP’s standard bearer is a willing participant in the war on women.
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Vi Spence
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:04 am
Men my age or older(64) were made aware of women due to the sexual revolution of the 60′s. Birth control was a new liberating concept to our society. The old days of Ozzie & Harriet; where if the Boss had his way with the secretary pool; the compromised girl(s) had to quit or be fired.Mix in rising divorce rates,job uncertainty, and drug and alcohol abuse, then the only unchanging remedy for them is “Old Tyme Religion.With birth control, a woman was able to earn higher education degrees and support herself comfortably. In the 60′s she didn’t want to be a stay at home mom, now she has to work too.Men think you have to take a BC pill every time you have sex, because they think it’s like viagra.
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Mary
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 10:32 am
These pro-life slime are really about men controlling, punishing and shaming women. The pure hatred spewing out of the gop’s agenda has been stewing for the past 40 years.
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Reynardine
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 11:52 am
And here I thought “Johnny Belinda” was a mid-Twentieth-Century movie about a Nineteenth Century injustice.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
I thought it was about pirates
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Reynardine
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Nope. That was Johnny Tremaine
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MichaelC
Oct. 27th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
They saw people talk about what they know. Ron Christie. Small ball. You do the math.
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