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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Cr-a-a-a-azy Lie-bruls And Hysterical Women!

"If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars." -- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

Who knew Democrats and mainstream media outlets were so all powerful that they could make all these Republican Presidential contenders and high profile Republican lawmakers and Republican public figures and Republican dominated state legislatures engage in jeremiads against the Girl Scouts of America as a lesbian socialist indoctrination outfit and crusade against funding for women's healthcare services provided by Planned Parenthood helping millions and millions of Americans and mandate women who choose to undergo legal and necessary healthcare procedures like abortion having to suffer involuntary vaginal probes and getting forced to stare at ultrasound scans of fetal homunculi and contemplate their supposed sins for days and days before the procedure can take place at all and their physicians forced by law to tell them terrifying untruths such as that abortion increases their risk of getting cancer and circumscribe their right to this procedure by phony restrictions of "partial-birth abortion" and exceptions even for women raped or subjected to incest all waived away whatever the medical dangers all the while gun toting lunatics throng and bomb healthcare clinics and terrorize and murder abortion doctors whenever they aren't watching Fox News? Pity the poor Republicans, forced by those mean Democrats to do so much evil stupid damage to so many millions against their will!

The Republican War on Women is real and every woman knows it for sure, as does every man who truly loves and respects the women with whom he shares this world. Democrats didn't make Republicans do what they have done and say what they have said. Mainstream media have not invented the vile words that echo in our ears and the ugly laws plain to see before our eyes. I think poor Reince Priebus is revealing more than he means to do in comparing the reality of Republican anti-woman hatred to a war on caterpillars, of all things. The caterpillar looks like a shriveled little worm, does it not, boys? And indeed the patriarchal pricks of the GOP are shrinking in a good dunk of cold clear righteous spring water. And after years and years of feminist-bashing and accommodation and backsliding, I am seeing a beautiful butterfly spreading her wings.

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