Gov. Bob McDonnell threw his hat in the ring with extreme
members of his Republican Party on Sunday when he defended the anti-abortion
position that includes no exception for women who are raped, implicitly
supporting the besieged U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin.
On ABC’s “This Week” TV show, McDonnell smugly commented, “I
don’t think it’s any surprise that the Republican Party is the party that
embraces the dignity and sanctity of life.”[1]
Apparently McDonnell wasn’t thinking of the same Republican Party that uses the
death penalty like America is still living in the Wild West.[2]
McDonnell also added, “What matters in this race…as
everybody knows, is how we’re going to get the greatest country on earth back
to work and out of debt.” Again, this statement coming from a member of the
political party who has all but publicly stated that it is ready and willing to
sink the U.S. economy if its policy demands are not met.[3]
In the skewed world of the Republican Party, defending the
sanctity of life can mean nullifying the life of those deemed to be
transgressors of the GOP’s “right to life” moral code. Furthermore, “getting
America back to work” has all too often meant “putting more money back into the
hands of the super wealthy.”
When and if posterity shines a spotlight back on this period
of U.S. political history, I’d like to imagine that the Republican Party will
be renamed the “Bubble Party,” the party that was so trapped inside of its
parochial and hypocritical philosophical beliefs and so hell-bent on achieving
and maintaining political power, that it was willing to let the country crumble
beneath its feet.
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