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No peace, no peace I find

by DougJ|  May 10, 20132:35 pm| 18 Comments

This post is in: The War On Women, Decline and Fall

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The nut from Komen who tried to defund Planned Parenthood may be the next Georgia Senator:

Republican representative Tom Price told the Marietta Daily Journal on Friday that he won’t run for Senate in 2014.

This means that Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, will “more likely than not” enter the Senate primary, according to a source familiar with her thinking. Should she enter — and it’s more of a “when” than a “should” — she’ll be the immediate front-runner.

See, libruls were stupid to criticize Komen because it just made Handel stronger.

My honest opinion is that I wish a motherfucker would try to keep fighting the “culture wars”. We will bury them.

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  1. 1.

    NCSteve

    May 10, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    Frontrunner my ass. As if anyone has a chance against the fountain of crazy known as Paul Broun.

  2. 2.

    liberal

    May 10, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    It would help if we could run hard-hitting ads, like something featuring middle class parents sobbing and freaking out because their daughter has been forced by the state to bear her rapist’s child.

    I doubt the MSM would let us run such ads, though.

  3. 3.

    pseudonymous in nc

    May 10, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    What NCSteve said. Broun has all the crazy to win the primary.

  4. 4.

    Teresa

    May 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Who says today’s GOP is not going green? They recycle the same old crap over and over.

  5. 5.

    Cassidy

    May 10, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    We will bury them.

    DOn’t threaten me with a good time. Do we put-em down first or just go underground as is?

  6. 6.

    Yatsuno

    May 10, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    @Cassidy: As long as it’s not a mistranslation from the original Russian. Last time that happened folks got a little missle-happy. Poor misunderstood Kruschev.

  7. 7.

    Frankensteinbeck

    May 10, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    The culture wars are all they have. The culture wars are what they are. A culture war is what is going on right now. It hasn’t been as obvious to us because we’ve been slowly winning. Their economic platform has been a remora riding the culture war. The culture of assholes was happy with asshole economic policy. Everything that is going on in conservatism and the Republican Party right now is a slowly dying culture reaching the point of desperation and panic.

  8. 8.

    Kay

    May 10, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    She’s also a vote supressor, so it’s a two-fer.

  9. 9.

    Fred Fnord

    May 10, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    We will bury them? Funny, they seem to be winning on that front (abortion rights/women’s rights) right now at least.

    There are tens of millions of women who do not have access to safe abortions, literally have no way to get one period. The majority of the rest have large hurdles in their way. And the hurdles are just getting worse. There is literally no place in the United States where the right to an abortion is becoming MORE protected.

    In other news, ‘feminist’ is now almost as universally despised a label as ‘union’, and a plurality of straight white American men think that it is white men who are the most discriminated against in the US, moreso than women or people of color or homosexuals. (I haven’t seen a study that asks about any other marginalized groups, but I can’t imagine there would be a difference.)

    And the Supreme Court is about to strike down basically all affirmative action of any kind, plus the voting rights laws that have kept mass disenfranchisement from being able to swing elections that are further apart than a couple of percent. I predict that it will not be long before we are revisiting the issue of poll taxes.

    This all means we’re winning the culture wars, right?

  10. 10.

    Sharon Andrews

    May 10, 2013 at 3:31 pm

    Karen Handel was, yes, previously Georgia’s AG. She ran for governor or some other state office and was defeated. She then took a job with the Susan B. Komen Foundation, and she was the prime mover behind the Foundation’s push to defund Planned Parenthood. When that situation blew up, she was forced to resign. She defines the term “right-wing, batshit crazy!” Georgians aren’t any more logical or thoughtful than the South Carolinians who voted for Mark Sanford, so I’d way there’s a better than outside chance she could win the seat. HEAVEN FORBID!

  11. 11.

    Marc

    May 10, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    @Fred Fnord: I see your point, but most of those losses came in places where pro-choice politicians tried to duck the abortion issue in the hopes that it would go away. Instead it just emboldened the abortion foes to roll back rights even more.

    We’re seeing the same thing play out with gun safety. We retreated for two decades and the gun lobby took more and more and more until we finally saw something so horrific that we knew we had to stand up to them. And now they’re in a panic.

    Meanwhile, voter suppression efforts actually increased black turnout, the GOP is freaking out over immigration reform, and gay marriage is unstoppable.

    When we stand and fight, we win.

  12. 12.

    Morbo

    May 10, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    @Yatsuno: Khrushchev forgot to add “with votes” is all.

  13. 13.

    Yatsuno

    May 10, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    @Fred Fnord: Point of order: the state of Washington just passed a law guaranteeing reproductive freedom for women including abortion. So there are pockets of hope.

  14. 14.

    The Moar You Know

    May 10, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    It would help if we could run hard-hitting ads, like something featuring middle class parents sobbing and freaking out because their daughter has been forced by the state to bear her rapist’s child.

    I doubt the MSM would let us run such ads, though.

    @liberal: Shit, Dems would never allow such ads to be produced. High road or no road with this party.

  15. 15.

    joes527

    May 10, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    My honest opinion is that I wish a motherfucker would try to keep fighting the “culture wars”. We will bury them.

    Not in Georgia “we” won’t.

  16. 16.

    cmorenc

    May 10, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    The culture wars are all they have. The culture wars are what they are.

    Problem is, to the deep red areas across the rural and smaller-town south, it is convincingly easy to perceive that a substantial culture war is being conducted *against* their comfortably familiar social culture, or at least what they perceive their local social culture to be. What comes in from various media and the internet about the bigger world, especially the blue parts, seems alien, perverted, and therefore threatening. Cranky conservative conjectures about the nature of politics, society, and general culture lack enough locally credible people to effectively counter the kind of self-reinforcing groupthink and lines of thought imported from right-biases sources such as Fox News and talk radio.

  17. 17.

    TG Chicago

    May 10, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    My honest opinion is that I wish a motherfucker would…

    And yet you left out the “I wish a motherfucker would!” tag.

  18. 18.

    Cris (without an H)

    May 10, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    We can’t win. If we strike her down, she shall become more powerful than we can possibly imagine.

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