Mitt Romney said the issue was over word choice (does that mean he would use a fancy word like "promiscuous" instead of "slut"?). Here are some other words: "hussy", "scarlet lady", "trollop". Whoever is responsible for this really dumb response should get fired!
Over 40 advertisers have pulled out (get it?) from Rush's show. It was just 7 two days ago. Rush's remarks not only fosters a social conservative war against pre-marital sex, but also marital sex whose purpose is not to conceive a child. He also showed grave insensitivity towards women. In my social sphere, I don't interact too much with social conservatives (are there any at my law school?). But among the social conservatives I do know, exactly 100% of them agree that its ok to have pre-marital sex or to have sex in marriage when the purpose is not for child creation.
Rush's reasoning is so stupid. So what if people use birth control and its paid by health insurance. This helps with lowering the number of abortions and morning after pills, both issues social conservatives care deeply about. We communalize many other things like fire protection and roads. It hasn't led to the end of the world, like people causing fires all over the place. If people are so into preserving the sanctity of the world, why not outlaw gambling. Gambling is very destructive to many people's lives and has a regressive relationship with the income spectrum. Better yet, lets outlaw insurance too. If only we didn't have employer-preference-based health insurance.
"Maud and I don't believe in insurance. It's Satan's way of getting us to gamble" - Ned Flanders (from "The Simpsons")
The problem for the Republicans is not Rush Limbaugh's comments, its the relationship between Rush and the Republican Party. Rush owns the Republican Party. People who criticize Rush have to come back on his show and apologize (see Rep. Phil Gingrey R-GA). As a dude, I don't particularly care for Rush's nonsense and I reckoned it was just par for the course. However, among my female friends, there is mass uproar. Rush is a douche and he really fudged this one up.
The Republican response is pathetic at best, non-existent at worst. First off, they only apologized because the Democrats apologized. None of the major players in the Republicans said anything that had much teeth to it other than Ron Paul who called it "absurd". Mitt Romney said the issue was over word choice (does that mean he would use a fancy word like "promiscuous" instead of "slut"?)...yes, this is worth repeating. Worse yet, a lot of Republicans are blaming liberal Democrats over the reaction...ya...right... (People who actually buy that narrative are a lot on the dumb side of things, not just a little)
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