1 Close to first?

2 Can't wait for Ted Cruz to smack these fuckers around some more.

3 Ack!  My hash changed again!

4

Marxism is going to have a seat at the Affirmative Action table very soon.

 

Mark my words. 

5

When Todd Akin made his unfortunate comment that the feminine body has a way to "shut that down" in the case of pregnancies by rape, no one said it was "MacCarthyite" to publicize his beliefs. If anyone had said so, they would have been laughed down.

(Actually the left and the media and the Democratic Party went all in on the guilt-by-association technique -- trying to associate Paul Ryan with Todd Akin's beliefs, due to Ryan's alleged cosponsoring of a law with Akin. And still no one said "MacCarthyite.")

Pointing that out is racisty racism.

6

SUBLIMINAL FACISM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W90jR6NU9P8

7 Page 121 of the OMB's September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that's slightly more than 8.2 percent, the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors some 3 months prior to the report, on June 15, 2012.

8 >>>Marxism is going to have a seat at the Affirmative Action table very soon. I was thinking that very thing. They're contending, essentially, that they should be treated as a "race subject to previous historical discrimination."

9

 

Marx had no problem with thousands of people being murdered.

People who didn't agree with his ideas.

 

Marx had a problem with people 'saying the truth' too.

 

10 The thing about Marxists is they are retarded.

11 Who really was Karl Marx (Moses Levy)? Why did he change his name? Who funded him?

12

Unfortunate that McCarthy has become a synonym for inaccurate accusations since he was mostly if not 100% correct in his accusations.

13 we all know that a conservative who is a minority must expect to be treated like this. It's been noted that his steady conservatism is going over well in Texas. I hope Cruz has enough support to fight back Maybe he can arrange some appearances with Dr Ben Carson

Be nice if McCain et al decided not to be be get-along for a change

14

Are you calling me a 'Red Bean'? 

That, sir, is racist.

15 Marxists hate Ted Cruz because he doesn't look like them.

16 There just isn't any good news anywhere.

17

12 -

 

Unfortunately McCarthy was also the original "fake but accurate" guy.  He claimed to have the goods on them, when he didn't.  That he was right didn't really matter.  Bluffing is not a good strategy when confronting traitors. 

18 Those that still pursue the truth will be attacked for the style in which they do so by the media who have been derelict in that duty.

19 McCarthyism. Hmmm, reminds me of that story over at WZ Leaked Memo Show Soros-Funded Leftist Group Advising Hiring Private Investigators To Go After Republicans, “Eviscerate” Conservative Government…about Soros

20 All this talk of beans is giving me gas. I hope it's gas.

21

That he was right didn't really matter. Bluffing is not a good strategy when confronting traitors.

 

Watch this Bluff!

22 Hello hell, it's me hand basket.

23 The reason they hate to be called Marxists is because it reveals what their honest true goals are. People can look into what happens when Marxists attain power and realize the utter hell it brings to the people it oppresses. Truth and facts are like kryptonite to leftists, that is why they run away from them. Deep down, they want tyranny, but they want their chance to play tyrant. They hate us and want us submissive or dead.

24

Leftism is a severe mental disorder, not a legitimate political ideology.  Once   you fully grasp and accept that reality then all the batty things that liberals do   and say become in a sense understandable.  They're very sick people.    Extremely deranged.  Not merely in the the colloquial sense.  In the DSM   sense.  The larger point, however, which ironically is lost on such large   segments of the chattering classes, is that once you get outside the sewing   circles, coffee klatches and arrested development circles of the chattering   classes the deleterious effects of having leftists in charge are very stark and   extremely damaging.  It's not merely a debating club.  Leftism as policy   ultimately will destroy America as we know her. 

25 Hey hey, ho ho, Marxist Racists got to go.....

26 Totally OT but I have to say it. I just saw a delivery guy use a garden how to unload boxes of office supplies from the back of his pickup. A garden hoe. Reaches out, hooks the hoe on the back of the box and yanks. Box comes tumbling forward. Put on dolly. Repeat. The fuc

27

Posted by: Koenig Jojo at February 25, 2013 02:45 PM (Yv6gq)

 

 

But... but.... we'll get it RIGHT this time!

28 This kind of reminds me of "The Five". I watched it here and there and one day Eric called Obama a Socialist and Beckel went ballistic and carried on until everyone apologized. The unfunny thing is that Beckel is a self described "Progressive" which everyone in the Universe knows means Communist but I'm sure if you called him a freaking Progressive to his face he would carry on about that as well. It is complete bullshit.

29

21 -

 

No no, Scoamf.  You're the traitor.  It doesn't  go  both ways, unlike you. 

30 And yes, I realize the irony of my posts juxtaposed with my nic. Fear not, I would be a benevolent dictator. You can trust me.

31 "And yet if you note that Marxists are indeed Marxists it's supposedly a sort of Hate Crime up with which we must not put."

The Commies won this battle in Joe McCarthy's day, as the Long March Through the Institutions was already well on its way to achieving Marxist cultural dominance. I think McCarthy was largely correct in his suspicions, but the Marxists won the debate and have gone on to write the history books.

32 What, I should use a meat cleaver?  Or how about a sickle?  Sheesh...

33 Jane Mayers hates Hispanics.  She's a racist.

And McCarthy was right. 

34

Indeed.  As JFK stated, Joseph McCarthy was a true American hero.

 

And guess what you lefty fucks, HE WAS EXACTLY CORRECT.  There were a shit ton of commies in government and hollywood.  THIS IS A FACT.

 

Wear the name McCarthy with a badge of pride.  Seriously.  McCarthy's main point was to root out commies in sensitive positions.  He wanted to keep their names confidential so it wouldn't get out in the press, since these people were only suspected and nothing was proven in a court of law.

 

BUT IT WAS THE DEMOCRATS THAT FORCED THE PUBLISHING OF NAMES OF PEOPLE UNDER SUSPICION.

 

Again, the truth shall set you free.  The truth shall set you free.  A spade a spade, a commie a commie, and piss all over the ITM, the "In the Tank Media."

35

 

If you think that the government should control everything...you might be a Marxist.

36 Counting beaners?  Melgen, Menendez, Ramirez.....

Wait, what were you saying again?

37

Bean Counting is the Basis of All "Diversity" Programs... Why is it that Ted Cruz is forbidden from counting red beans?

 

Because Fuck You, that's why...

38 He was there. And he can, I assume, count. He went to law school. You should not make any such assumptions. Based on other criteria, however, I believe Ted Cruz does not have significant a significant mathematical deficiency.

39 So let me see if I get this straight: menendez good hispanic Cruz bad, berry berry bad Do I gots that right?

40 Menendez ( D ), Cruz ( R ). See the difference?

41

Posted by: Prescient11 at February 25, 2013 02:48 PM (tVTLU)

 

 

Yeah.... its kinda like being called a Male Chauvinist... because they can't convince you of the easily discounted idea that Men and Women are the SAME... (not should have the same legal rights, but should be treated as physical equals).

 

 

42 Accusing Cruz of being a McCarthyite just means he's correct.

43 And yet if you note that Marxists are indeed Marxists it's supposedly a sort of Hate Crime up with which we must not put. Who made this odd rule? The Marxists.

44 Do I gots that right? Posted by: Nevergiveup Yes. Also don't forget that Zimmerman is a "White Hispanic".

45

hahahahahahahahaha.  somebody registered all the organizingforaction websites and at least one of them links directly to the NRA.

 

FUCKING AWESOME.

46 40 He was there. And he can, I assume, count. ------------ He went to law school. You should not make any assprions. Posted by: AmishDude at February 25, 2013 02:49 PM (T0NGe) That's just mean. Accurate, but mean.

47 The Marxists are also fond of the term 'Witch Hunt'. As though they deny even the existence of Marxists.

48 Marxists and Muslims practice Taqiyya, announce it and make it an essential part of their philosophy... ...and then claim it's some sort of conspiracy if you point it out. The "long march through the institutions" is not some sort of secret.

49 11 Who really was Karl Marx (Moses Levy)? Why did he change his name? Who funded him?

Posted by: Koenig Jojo at February 25, 2013 02:40 PM (Yv6gq)

The Democrats?

50 If you give your kid away to the government to 'get their mind right'...you might be a Marxist.

51 Unfortunately McCarthy was also the original "fake but accurate" guy. He claimed to have the goods on them, when he didn't. That he was right didn't really matter. Bluffing is not a good strategy when confronting traitors.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 25, 2013 02:42 PM (TOk1P)

 

Actually the fake but accurate is a whole different animal.  McCarthy never produced faked documents or testimony.  He simply advised that he had the goods.

52

Romeo:

 

leftist logic:  women are ready for frontline combat but can't carry a gun to protect themselves because guns are "icky" and women are hysterical and might accidentally shoot someone.

 

But facts are "hard."  hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

53 why can't Obama just be critiqued as a lib though? don't see much wrong with that Hell, it's racist (God knows how) to call him a socialist.

54

Assprions?

You might want to see an analrapist about that.

55 What happened? I feel like this blog has entered the Twilight Zone.

56 Hey, just because people want to undermine free societies and enslave or kill the people who resist is no reason to *talk* about them in *public* for crying out loud! Wait, what? And who published the addresses of gun owners again?

57 Of course, it is worth noting that Akin's views are not those of the Republican party while Marx's views most explicitly are the views of the Democratic party. 

58

 

If you believe in Income Redistribution...you just might be a Marxist.

 

59 Current communist goals (195 http://peeped.co/?ab5 Read it and realize the tremendous advances they have made. LIB.

60 FUCKING AWESOME. Posted by: Prescient11 at February 25, 2013 02:52 PM (tVTLU) Yeah. The .net address is the one.

61 I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.

62 It's also kind of curious that they'll bitch about how lunatic it is to speak about Marxists and Communists as if one was speaking of unicorns and chimeras, but then they feel the need to make an aside defending Marxism and Communism.

63 4 Burt TC, Awesome! I hope so I am changing my surname to end with ez and I will be a registered Marxist then....

64 Budget crisis means shortages of ammo, more By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer Posted : Monday Feb 25, 2013 7:57:22 EST The signs are everywhere. A Navy gym in Hawaii is closing earlier. Army families in upstate New York are bracing for possible cuts in on-base child care. Enlisted airmen in California are paying out of pocket for office supplies. And in North Carolina, Marines on a range are pointing rifles and shouting, “Butter, butter, jam,” to simulate the sound of live ammo after being told there isn’t enough money for real bullets. Why don't they just borrow that bullets from the Dept of Agriculture? They are buying up ammo?

65 I think this post needs a pic of Chico Marx. That way, you get Marx and Hispanic all in one.

66 Isn't it funny how the same people supporting communism also back radical Islam and its forcing people into submission. Just a coincidence, to be sure. Its all about control people, with the same group of elite behind the curtain trying to destroy the idea and rights of the individual.

67

Posted by: Groucho Marx at February 25, 2013 02:56 PM (7SwK/)

 

Hail, Hail Freedonia!

68 There are more marxists in the White House than ever before

69 No social philosophy has a body of evidence disproving it so much as Marxism. It is in fact an article of faith, denying evidence, worse than a belief in a young Earth.

70 "Actually the left and the media and the Democratic Party went all in on the guilt-by-association technique -- trying to associate Paul Ryan with Todd Akin's beliefs, due to Ryan's alleged cosponsoring of a law with Akin." Gonzo. Paul Ryan is a Catholic and ran as a pro-life Catholic for years. The Catholic Church describes deliberate abortion as evil without reference to the origin of the pregnancy. No rape exception. For another, sponsoring a bill is a formal, public act. If you consider it "uncertain" whether it happened, it just indicates you haven't done your homework. I might as well describe the lineup of the 1988 Dodgers as "alleged". No exception for rape was the Republican party platform, it is the position of Ryan's church, it was his position until he ran with Romney.

71 Btw, I know Chico wasn't Hispanic. It's just racism.

72

 

If you believe that the government should dish out Social Justice...then yeah, you're a Marxist.

 

73 Why is it that Ted Cruz is forbidden from counting red beans?


Because shut up, Kulak!

74 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

75 I think the real reason they hate the term "Marxists" is because it reveals that they are really trying to con the public into thinking that they are on to something "new". The Left continually tries to sell America the pure clean hypothesis as opposed to the reality of what happens when Marxist ideals are applied. It's easier to sell blueprints and dreams than an old house people can visit and walk through.

76 The thing about Marxists is they are retarded.


They talk like fags...... and their shit's all fucked up.

77

Well, tasker has distilled it. 

What's next, Ace?

78 Incognito is how they have to play it. Hence, org names like: Pretty Acorn-Wreathed Unicorns and Forward Thinking Rainbows That Believe in YOU And, names like CAIR. Can't have The Marxists Who Hate America Foundation, now, can we?

79 If you every thought having to wait in line to get your daily ration of bread wasn't so bad,  you might be a Marxist.

80 How many times have they renamed or reinvented themselves? Marxist, Communists, Progressives, Communitarianism. That last one is my favorite.

81

This is why pointing out Bill Ayers' extremist past became more about the people doing the pointing (which should have been the media, but wasn't).

 

The Left has never been  taken  to task for being on the wrong side of the most significant  global struggle of the 20th century, the struggle against communist tyranny.

 

The average low-information voter believes there is no extreme version of liberalism, of the Democratic Party. Most Democrats aren't aware  that there can be, and has been, an extreme version of their beliefs. That's kind of dangerous.

82 41---"why can't Obama just be critiqued as a lib though? " Posted by: JDP at February 25, 2013 02:49 PM (60GaT) He can. I wouldn't---- for the same reason that I wouldn't call him a Bulgarian. He isn't a "liberal" in any meaningful sense of the term. He certainly is not a classical liberal in the mold of Adam Smith or Hayek, but neither is he a mid-20th-century American liberal in the sense of Truman, JFK, or (yes) Nixon. He would more properly be called a neo-Marxist, a New Leftist, or just a socialist, if you want to be fuzzy. I personally wouldn't call him a Communist because he is not a classical Marxist. (His economic ideology is actually Fascist.) In public I might call him a Progressive or a leftist, depending on the context.

83 Regarding, Marxism/democrats, I'm going to repeat my rant from last night's overnight thread. When my mom died, dad got everything as surviving spouse. One of the annuities worth twenty something thousand dollars was cashed in and put into a savings account because my dad is 95 and there needs to be money readily available to pay medical bills, anything for the house, the chance he may end up in a nursing home, and eventually a funeral. Just finished his taxes and he had to pay taxes on that money. My father supported a family of 8 on one paycheck, he paid income taxes on the money when he earned it, and because he and my mom scrimped so that they could invest money, they have to hand some of it over to the government. Liberals just want to make rich people pay more? Bullshit. Also, liberals and democrats punish people for being responsible and reward freeloaders.

84 I think the real reason they hate the term "Marxists" is because it reveals that they are really trying to con the public into thinking that they are on to something "new". Yep. Das Kapital Vol I was published in 1867. 145 years ago. Clearly, the wave of the future.

85 NEOCOMS!

86
Ha.  The radio news just talked about what would happen in my state if the sequester took place and it said 120 teachers and aides would face layoff. 

I thought "too bad, so sad".

87

80 I think the real reason they hate the term "Marxists" is because it reveals that they are really trying to con the public into thinking that they are on to something "new".


 

The Left continually tries to sell America the pure clean hypothesis as opposed to the reality of what happens when Marxist ideals are applied.

 

 

It's easier to sell blueprints and dreams than an old house people can visit and walk through.

 

--------------

 

Exactly, tasker.

 

They don't want anyone to point out that what they are espousing is a bunch of Old Ideas...that have always failed.

 

Why is it, that these people 'rediscover' bad ideas?

There are lots of good ideas that merit being 'rediscovered'.

 

88 83 Well, tasker has distilled it. What's next, Ace? Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2013 03:02 PM (NA4cn) ______________ Thanks garrett--but I really wish I could turn potatoes into vodka.

89 The average low-information voter believes there is no extreme version of liberalism, That is exactly why the SCoaMF is always shown playing golf, and hanging with the "cool" people. It's not like he could be doing any harm, eh?

90 Nope, nothing here.. New York City Assemblyman Dov Hikind decided to go with a blackface costume to his own Purim party this weekend. The Brooklyn Democrat said he was trying to emulate “some of these basketball players.” 'Blackface' is offensive. Isn't it?

91 58 What happened? I feel like this blog has entered the Twilight Zone.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 25, 2013 02:54 PM (tAOpG)

I'm going to send you into the cornfield for that.

92 The Marxist Media seemed to 'come of age' after perpetrating the McCarthy Myth.
McCarthy was the one smeared.

93 Bobby Kennedy was Joe McCarthy's right hand man.

94

>>'Blackface' is offensive. Isn't it?<<

 

Only to Trey Anastasio.

95 71---" When morality becomes a relative construct, the truth cannot be far behind." Posted by: The Left at February 25, 2013 02:58 PM (vbh31) ----------- Yep. Unfortunately this is true.

96
I hope somebody did the alinsky thing and sent Jane Mayer a tweet asking why she is so racist and hates Hispanics.  Who is she of TEH privileged white background to question Ted Cruz?

97 >>'Blackface' is offensive. Isn't it?<<

Depends on who you're raising money for when you wear it.

98

'Blackface' is offensive. Isn't it?

 

Blackface = Comedy Gold

99 >>>No exception for rape was the Republican party platform,

Nope

>>>it is the position of Ryan's church,

Pelosi's church too.

>>>it was his position until he ran with Romney.

He had supported legislation with exceptions for rape in the past.

Your statement is one long fabrication and spinning of reality.

100 Nonsense! The only failed ideology here is called "Trickle-Down" Economics. Some folks thought that the prosperity of the rich would trickle down to the little people. But that never happened; it was all a lie!

101 "leftist logic: women are ready for frontline combat but can't carry a gun to protect themselves because guns are "icky" and women are hysterical and might accidentally shoot someone. " It's okay they scare the enemy off by peeing or vomiting. Or better yet, we can give female soldiers in combat whistles.

102 Blackface = Comedy Gold Posted by: Tom Hanks at February 25, 2013 03:11 PM (NA4cn) Don't forget about me.

103 Equating those who propounded Critical Legal Studies with Marxism is just plain silly. It fundamentally misunderstands Marxism. It sounds a lot like the common conservative habit of describing anyone to the left of them as Socialist, Communist or Marxist. It's not about anything real. It's just random vilification that's always good for rallying the base, who are eager to see Communist boogeymen around every corner.

104 On a side note, this "first" shit is total bullshit. Don't be an asshole, don't be FIRSTER.

105 Jesus forbade pointing out your enemies. It's all right there in the bible.

106

"Who made this odd rule? "

 

 

They did. Like they make all the rules. The ones we (i.e., our pathetic proxies) endlessly consent to.

107 This kind of reminds me of "The Five".
I watched it here and there and one day Eric called Obama a Socialist and Beckel went ballistic and carried on until everyone apologized. The unfunny thing is that Beckel is a self described "Progressive" which everyone in the Universe knows means Communist but I'm sure if you called him a freaking Progressive to his face he would carry on about that as well.

***

The first rule of Marxism is that you don't talk about Marxism.

108 "92 Ha. The radio news just talked about what would happen in my state if the sequester took place and it said 120 teachers and aides would face layoff. I thought "too bad, so sad". Posted by: Guy Mohawk" 120 teachers and aides in the entire state? That's nothing. How many teachers and aides are there in the entire state?

109 Like I always ask about "McCarthyism": what do you call a witch hunt that keeps on finding witches?

110 Democrats. Marxists. Is there really any difference? McCarthy wasn't correct enough, if you ask me.

111 "Heh. Marxists, those lovable scamps." - souls of the 200 million murdered by leftist regimes

112 Why is it that Marxists, and Marxists alone, are protected against having their politics noted?

Why aren't they just shot like zombies.  They've provably done more damage.

113 "Paul Ryan is a Catholic and ran as a pro-life Catholic for years. The Catholic Church describes deliberate abortion as evil without reference to the origin of the pregnancy. No rape exception.

For another, sponsoring a bill is a formal, public act. If you consider it "uncertain" whether it happened, it just indicates you haven't done your homework. I might as well describe the lineup of the 1988 Dodgers as "alleged".

No exception for rape was the Republican party platform, it is the position of Ryan's church, it was his position until he ran with Romney."


Guess what?  Pretty much everything you wrote could be applied to Sen. Robert P. Casey and scores of other "blue dog" Democrats.  Funny that they're not guilty by association, no?

Also, wasn't the point about Akin originally that he wanted to make a distinction about "legitimate rape" and held contrafactual obstetric beliefs such as "body shuts that down," none of which Ryan believed, but with which you smeared him?

114 107 Nonsense! The only failed ideology here is called "Trickle-Down" Economics. Some folks thought that the prosperity of the rich would trickle down to the little people. But that never happened; it was all a lie! I know!! All that failed ideology did was keep me employed and raise my income every year the bastards. Thank God 2009 happened and I got the chance to experience true oneness with my bedroom ceiling and the operation of a cell phone. All hail Keynesian stimulus! All hail the Lightbringer!! mArXiSm RuLz

115 Ivy League Faculty = useful idiots. They espouse this crap because they believe it makes them look sophisticated and modern. The truth is they wouldn't last 2 hours in an actual communist country. They want Marxism? They should get Marxism in all its glory. Send in the Cheka.

116

"Let me go on record that I regard communism as expressed by the U.S.S.R. and its friends here and elsewhere as a grisly horror, a tyranny maintained by force and terror, utterly subversive of human liberty, freedom of thought, and dignity. I regard it as Red fascism, distinguishable from black and brown fascism by differences of no importance to me nor to its victims."

-Robert A. Heinlein

117 http://tinyurl.com/ajbjfsl

118

I was down at Duke doing a Ph.D. in the 1980s, and it was obvious to anyone who had eyes that there were a huge number of faculty members in the humanities who were openly Marxist in orientation, or else fellow travelers.   Hell, Frederic Jameson ran the Literature Program!

 

At the time I was on a pilgrimage from left to right politically.   I remember vividly how I was castigated as a capitalist lackey by a fellow grad student for having the audacity to be caught reading The New Republic.

 

I mean, The New Freakin' Republic!   Imagine if I had let them see my copy of National Review!

 

That's how left-wing elite academia was back then.   Ted Cruz is 100% right.  

119 But it's never really been tried!!!

120 11: not to make a big deal out of this, but so far as I can tell Karl Marx was not born "Moses Levy" and when I try to look up any connection between him and that name, it seems to be a conceit of anti-semitic websites that Marx was "really" named Levy. Are you sure of your source for this? Marx was son of a Lutheran convert, and baptized as a Lutheran himself, and was ostentatiously open as an atheist even while still at university, so the Levy allegation looks like an anti-semitic attempt at linking Marxism to Judaism. Just speculating, please feel free to give a source for the Levy story.

121

We might make some headway into the national consciousness by using the word 'socialist' whenever we reference euphemistically named 'progressive' policies, programs, and politicians. For one thing, 'socialist' is an accurate description, moreso than 'progressive'. Let's call them out for what they are.

 

I hate communists. All of them, by whatever name they call themselves.

122 So how is it that Marxism is making a comeback? Is it just the fact that it's been too long since people could see the true misery up close, and the siren song of free shit is just too appealing to too many dummies?

123 There are no Marxists in the Democratic Party or the academy, despite people in the Democratic Party and the academy using Marxist critiques of capital, class, and the West as their bread and butter, and in spite of the fact that people in the academy seem to think Marxism is a really neat concept that aptly describes reality and prescribes pretty useful remedies to our problems, but for some reason they don't identify as Marxists.

124 "...but for some reason they don't identify as Marxists."

Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 25, 2013 03:59 PM (mg08E)

 

I would guess politicians and academics don't (publicly) identify as Marxists because gulags, death camps, secret police, famines, universal misery and the mass murder of hundreds of millions of people have damaged the brand.

125 Senator McCarthy was a friend of the Kennedy family.  Go figure.  He was not a bad fellow, but he thought the United States should investigate the people in high security positions of government.  Most of what you know about him are lies from the communists and their media allies.  Franklin Roosevelt had filled the State Department with friends of Uncle Joe. These people have retired and have been replace with more friends of Uncle Joe.  It a never ending situation. The Korean war lasted 25 months, but Allen Alden his war on Richard Nixon will continue forever.  I bet you didn't know Richard Nixon started the Korean War!  It's the kind of propaganda you get on MASH.

126 "Guess what? Pretty much everything you wrote could be applied to Sen. Robert P. Casey and scores of other "blue dog" Democrats. Funny that they're not guilty by association, no? Also, wasn't the point about Akin originally that he wanted to make a distinction about "legitimate rape" and held contrafactual obstetric beliefs such as "body shuts that down," none of which Ryan believed, but with which you smeared him?" I'm not smearing him with guilt by association. I'm reacting to the surreal denial that there was an association.

127 As a matter of fact, Ryan and Akin did propose a bill together that originally did distinguish between a "forcible rape" before the language was changed, so, to insist Ryan didn't have the view that some rape claims would be illegitimate hinges on whether he read what he sponsored, or whether he didn't share that view but didn't care enough to demand it be withdrawn before he sponsored it. It is no small point for pro-life activists, since Ronald Reagan allowed abortion in California for mentally ill persons, only to see the applications explode from 3000 per year to 80,000.