The Republican Party
Rape Advisory Chart (Vol. II)
ASHAMED FATHER RAPE
"l lived something similar to that with my own family...
put yourself in a father's situation, yes. It is similar."
—Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith (PA), Aug. 27, 2012,
comparing his daughter becoming pregnant out of wedlock
to being theoretically raped and impregnated
LEMONADE RAPE
"l think that two wrongs don't make a right..
they had made what was really
a lemon situation into lemonade."
—Republican Senate candidate Sharon Angle (NV), July 8, 2010,
answering a question about what a 15 year-old girl should do
if she's raped & impregnated by her father
DOCTORS NOTE RAPE
"l would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician
with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her
about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by
normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.
I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on."
—Republican State Senator Chuck Winder (ID), March 19, 2012
WONDERFUL RAPE
"The hand of the Almighty is at work. His ways are higher
than our ways. He has the ability to take difficult, tragic,
horrific circumstances and then
turn them into wonderful examples."
—Republican State Senator Brent Crane (ID), April 5, 2011
BUYER'S REMORSE RAPE
"A jury could very well conclude that this is a case
of buyer's remorse... It appears to me
that you invited him over to have sex with him."
—Republican Senate Candidate Ken Buck (CO), March 2006,
on why, as a DA, he had declined to prosecute a rapist
even after the rapist admitted his crime.
CAMPAIGN STUNT RAPE
"This is completely a campaign stunt, and it should be
viewed as that... They don't even know
what law they're talking about."
—Republican Congressman Steve King (IA), Nov. 29, 2010,
about female Native Americans who protested his vote
against strengthening investigations of tribal land rape cases
BONUS:
THE PRETEEN SLUT
WAS ASKING FOR IT RAPE I
"There was an article about an II-year-old girl
who was gang raped in Texas by 18 young men
because she was dressed like a 21 -year-old prostitute.
And her parents let her attend school like that.
And I think it's incumbent upon us to create some areas
where students can be safe in school and show up
in proper attire so what happened in Texas
doesn't happen to our students."
—Republican State Rep. Kathleen Passidomo (FL), March 15, 2011
Sources (in order):
http://w.vw.pol iticspa. corn/ updated-sm ith-ma kes-abortion-gaffe-with-aud io/40404/
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/08/106657/angle-lemonade/
http://w.vw.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2012/mar/19/
closing-debate-winder-compares-abortion -us-war-casualties/
http://w.vw.spokesman.com/stories/2011/apr/06/idaho-house-passes-abortion-bill/
http://coloradoindependent.com/63491/
bucks-refusal-to-prosecute-2005-rape-case-reverberates-i n -u-s-sena te-race
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11102/1279401steve-king-rape-bill/
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