republiCONs made the mistake of running on the platform of their biggest mistake.

The failed “Health Care Bill of 1982″ passed by the idiots that made FOR PROFIT health care legal.

The mesages of hatred and intolerance that came out of the GOP, and especially some of its supporters, throughout campaign offended everyone from women, to ethnic minorities, to gays and even the military. The efforts to deny women the right to choose was just a part of a well orchestrated agenda that included trivializing rape, and denigrating women who use contraceptives. Quite frankly, what surprises me is not the fact that so many women rejected the GOP message, but that so many ignored it and voted for Mitt Romney, Akin, West, Smith, Mourdock and the rest of the gang.

Laws “against” women — be they about abortion or birth control — are based upon the lawmakers religion. There is nothing wrong with religious doctrine dictating one’s behavior. But, there is something “very” wrong when a specific religion’s creed is forced upon another. In truth, this is a First Amendment issue under the Establishment Clause.

If this continues, where reproductive rights are concerned, we women will be living in the 19th Century not the 21st.

It took 42 years for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution to be ratified. It was officially added to the constitution, August 18, 1920. At that point, there were 48 States. It takes 3/4 of the states to ratify an amendment before it can be added to the Constitution.

The 19th Amendment;
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”.
It grants women the right to vote

Mississippi didn’t ratify it until March 22, 1984. That’s 106 years from when it was officially proposed to Congress.
Surprised?

“Abridge” is old English for “limit” that’s why it’s in the Constitution so often

The GOP had a choice. They could have softened their resistance to abortion/contraception by saying it’s settled law, and at best tried to shift the entire question to the states, or they could have given in to the religious right and dug in. They chose the later and tried to appeal to a narrow part of the base and ignore the women’s vote. The calculation was that the religious right would mobilize , and the women were a diffuse lot with no core, so there for could not mobilize the same way. Now they are trapped because they made so much of the issue painting as a moral issue between good and evil, that they left no escape hatch. The religious right was fooled again by thinking everyone agreed with them, and should have leared their lesson from Bush II. He ran on opposition to abortion and had both houses of congress solidly republican, yet made no move to repeal Roe. Why? As one county level republican mayor told me”if we did that the women would drive us from office”. He didn’t know that no one listened to his wisdom. The other issue for the republicans for years to come is that the right owns the nomination process and will use opposition to abortion as a litmus test for any future canidate, and will drive the moderates out. It is always a two edge sword getting in bed with the religious right. One edge is support that is solid, and the other is alienation of everyone else. This situation reminds me of what Oliver Hardy used to say to Stan Laurel ” well this a another fine mess you’ve gotten me into”
The women have to become missionaries and get to the red state women and convert them, at least the young ones. Also they have to keep organizing for the mid trems. The right is not dead yet, just wounded.

My daughter works in a poor, rural, almost entirely African-American high school in Mississippi. A significant number of her students are pregnant or have children. They have miniscule Medicaid coverage and no nearby access to medical care or counseling or birth control. It is not just women in the developing world who lack access to reliable family planning. The same forces are at work right here in our backyard.

Back in 1999 I read a book written by Naomi Wolf called ‘Fire with Fire’. She spoke then about how women need to use their numbers to either vote for p0liticians that support policies that they support or run for office themselves. Women out-number men by 52% to 48%. It felt so great this election to vote against a party and candidate that don’t believe in the power of women. Also to see the number of women in the senate increase!!!! Great book!!!…..very empowering!

It is beyond obvious that Romney and his Republican Mullahs want women barefoot and pregnant cleaning the house, cooking and raising children, not having an opinion and never disagreeing with the lord and master of the house. Had they won their war on women, next to go would be to take away the vote of women, reverse suffragettes hard won battle early in the 20th century. Think not? Hard to imagine? It was hard for me to imagine that rape and incest would not be an exception to their “no abortion” stance, but it was. We can see where their thinking was leading by just looking at Saudi Arabia, the Taliban in Afghanistan, etc. When the demagogs have the power all real freedom disappears, and there really and truly is no difference in making our laws conform to their strict dogmatic fundamentalist rules and the rules of Sharia law of the Taliban.

Ironic isn’t it? The same legislators that enacted “vaginal ultrasound” requirements to dissuade women from having abortions are the ones who pass legislation prohibiting Sharia law in their states, when, in fact, their notion of legislating morality fits perfectly with the laws of a pure Islamic republic, i.e., women are chattels like cows and sheep to be sold by their fathers and owned by their husbands, having no rights and having to hide every part of their skin and bodies lest some man be tempted to sin by looking at them.

How the Republicans got even one vote of a woman is beyond me, but I am glad enough women were awake, alert and willing to defend freedom.

Jay Curtis (author of THE CODE)

Stupid people shouldn’t breed…Why is no one suggesting tube tying as a viable means of birth control? Why is no one suggesting giving away vasectomies, or perhaps rewarding a man who gets one as well as getting the procedure performed compliments of the government? Birth control pills, condoms, none of the birth control methods available are as reliable as getting sterilized. India used to give transistor radios as an incentive for men to get sterilized…perhaps there is some reward, like a cell phone with a GPS built in so Big Brother can keep an eye on the crazies, and the radiation from using the phone will do them in, in a few years.

I think Romney lost because he made a lot of idiotic statements on a lot of subjects, and – I hope – because he lied even more flagrantly than is the usual Republican practice about just about everything.

Not to disparage anything else the writer said, I certainly hope the GOP lost because a lot of people – including a lot of those single women – thought GOP policies on just about everything were bad for the country, not just because of their obvious contempt for women and those women’s reaction to it. Note that even at best, there was only a 38-point gap, which means a lot of women voted for these morons.

I still say the country is in big, big trouble: only the most flagrantly evil positions by the GOP resulted in significant gaps in approval, and then usually only among those likely to be personally affected.

What about the bone-headed 48% of voters who pulled the lever for the insanely irrational and spiteful cult the GOP has become in spite of their positions on practically every issue, including those likely to directly affect those voters in question?

Now is the time to change the date of our election. Please tell congress, to move the date from November first Tuesday, to Columbus Day . This was a holiday and the weather was good. Unlike November the weather are cold and rainy. Please start a movement, so that everybody are able to vote

Curious… why is it if I put a comment on this site that is anti Obama, or in disagreement with others who visit this site that misteriously it never sees the light of day? My guess is my comments are being sensored, and if they don’t agree with this group they are “lost”. Guess the Orwell 1984 has come to pass and it involves Obama and his cronies….

More tolerance and love in action from the open-minded liberals.

If the government uses our tax money for abortions and it is against my religious beliefs to contribute to the killing of unborn humans, it it not my right to raise my voice against it?

If I am a Catholic nurse who has been told suddenly that I must now assist in abortions now that OBamaCare is being deployed, is this not imposing upon my religious freedom?

Why not pay for your own abortions? Start an abortion fund on PBS. I Am sure you will find ample contributors… Why are you liberals always so creative when it comes to using other people’s money and thinking you know best what to do with it and we do not?

Nobody is telling you that you don’t have the right to your own body – Many are asking not to be made complicit in your personal decision to murder your child.

Does it make you feel less guilty when we all have to contribute to that murder by virtue of the taxes foisted upon everyone? Is that why you feel that tax money should be used to pay for it?

You can water down the morality of it all you want. You can call killing your child the “right to choose” or a “reproductive right” if you wish, or if it makes the doing of the deed more justifiable or palatable to you. In the final analysis, that is between you and God. Or yourself.

Just do it with your own money.

Another problem with Big Government. Soon it encompasses every issue.

I am so fed up with republicans. When will all end?

If Mitt romney became president , we would need pills to digest the next four years. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The Party of White Christian Men will need to come up with new ways to suppress women’s votes to have any hope of winning elections in the near future. Simply making it harder for minorities to vote won’t be sufficient by itself.