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This author skyped this to a friend on Wednesday afternoon (Israel time), after having watched the election results through the night and morning:
Romney's loss still hurts very much and I wonder if, when the history books are written, whether those two guys -- Mouder [well, at least I got the Mou of Mourdock right] and that other guy [Akin] whose name I don't remember at all, may/should be blamed for costing Romney Big-Time through their evocation of G'd's name re: rape and resultant pregnancy or abortion. We know that all is under Hashem's control, but the evocation of Hashem's name, i.e., "G'd willed it (the pregnancy)" vocalization seemed very insensitive and a thus a total turn-off and turn-around to those who might've, could've otherwise voted for Romney were it not for the idiocy of these two abortive Senatorial candidates. I prefer to remember the Romney campaign in October for the great showings that he and Ryan had in each of the debates. They held their own with a smooth-talking, nasty, cynical, baiting b.s.'er and his erstwhile partner Joe the Baffoon.
It now seems that one of the bigger Republican pundits shares this view. Attorney and author well-known for her TV appearances as a political analyst, Ann Coulter, writes:
Romney was the perfect candidate, and he was the president this country needed right now. It’s less disheartening that a president who wrecked American health care, quadrupled gas prices, added $6 trillion to the national debt and gave us an 8 percent unemployment rate can squeak out re-election than that America will never have Romney as our president.
Indeed, Romney is one of the best presidential candidates the Republicans have ever fielded. Blaming the candidate may be fun, but it’s delusional and won’t help us avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
No one can be blamed for the hurricane that took the news off the election, abruptly halting Romney’s momentum, but [Senatorial candidates] Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock can be blamed on two very specific people: Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.
The last two weeks of the campaign were consumed with discussions of women’s “reproductive rights,” not because of anything Romney did, but because these two idiots decided to come out against abortion in the case of rape and incest.
After all the hard work intelligent pro-lifers have done in changing the public’s mind about a subject the public would rather not think about at all, these purist grandstanders came along and announced insane positions with no practical purpose whatsoever, other than showing off.
While pro-lifers in the trenches have been pushing the abortion positions where 90 percent of the country agrees with us – such as bans on partial-birth abortion, and parental and spousal notification laws – Akin and Mourdock decided to leap straight to the other end of the spectrum and argue for abortion positions that less than 1 percent of the nation agrees with.
In order to be pro-life bada–es, they gave up two easy-win Republican Senate seats.
No law is ever going to require a woman to bear the child of her rapist. Yes, it’s every bit as much a life as an unborn child that is not the product of rape. But sentient human beings are capable of drawing gradations along a line.
Just because I need iron to live doesn’t mean I have to accept 100,000 milligrams, which will kill me. If we give the guy who passed bad checks a prison furlough, that doesn’t mean we have to give one to Willie Horton. I like a tablespoon of sugar in my coffee, but not a pound.
The overwhelming majority of people – including me – are going to say the law shouldn’t force someone who has been raped to carry the child. On the other hand, abortion should be illegal in most other cases.
Is that so hard for Republicans to say?
Purist conservatives are like idiot hipsters who can’t like a band that’s popular. They believe that a group with any kind of a following can’t be a good band, just as show-off social conservatives consider it a mark of integrity that their candidates – Akin, Mourdock, Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell – take wildly unpopular positions and lose elections.
It was the same thing with purist libertarian Barry Goldwater, who – as you will read in my book, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama” – nearly destroyed the Republican Party with his pointless pursuit of libertarian perfection in his vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
I like a band that sells NO albums because it proves they have too much integrity to sell out.
We have a country to save. And just as the laws of elections generally mean the incumbent president wins, they also mean the party out of the White House typically stages a big comeback in midterm elections. BIG. Don’t blow it with purist showoffs next time, Republicans.
Mourdock and Akin spoke stupidly, insensitively , knee-jerk and without forthought in an election where control of the White House and Senate rode on substantial numbers of the center of America, numbers who could have otherwise gone for Romney/Ryan if not for the bleeps and blunders of this duo. In short, with the game on the line, these guys made thoughtless blunders worthy of Boston's Billy Buckner who let that squibber roll between his legs in the 1986 World Series, or the Phillies' Brad Lidge in letting Yankees' Johnny Damon steal 2nd and 3rd base on the same play in the 2009 World Series. Mourdock and Akin -- the two boobs who cost Mitt Romney the presidency.
