Republicons and their hatred of women...or is it just Uppity Women?

Since spring, the Republicons have had their foot in their mouth over women and women's rights--employment, health, reproductive, birth control, and what is actually a "legitimate" rape, now, even how some girls "rape easy":
We have Congressman Todd Akin who is now trying to be a senator, saying that women who get raped can't get pregnant cuz their body shuts down the lady parts...or some drivel like that; and when he tried to walk back from that statement, he brought up the idea that the lady parts fizzle only works if its a "legitimate" rape....sure....and the republicons think this guy is smart enough to be a Senator??? Really??? 
Of course, there is also  Rep. Roscoe Bartlett(R-MD) who stated that there are very few women who ever get pregnant from rape and he thinks that one of the main causes for abortion is the baby is the wrong gender or the woman just doesn't want to be bothered. 
And the illustrious boy VP candidate, who has co-sponsored "personhood" bills with Aiken, endorsed(and now undendorsed) the state senator that feels some girls are just easy rapes, has compared a woman getting pregnant through rape to "just another form of conception".
There's been Rep. Tom Smith, another one running for a senate seat, this time in Pennsylvania who compared rape to an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but these are the ones that are crazy enough to make it to national tv and many of these have been kind of swept under the rug as just some of the more extreme views....pay no attention, dear women voters...we're not really that far out. We'll not take away your rights...well. only the ones we don't agree with.
But...then...look at what many of the state legislatures have been busy with: personhood bills(these not only attack abortion rights, but also birth control and in-vitro fertilization); when there is a referendum on ballots about personhood, its voted down by a large margin, but when taken up in the state assemblies? It is usually passes at least one house...and usually by men, republicon men. Doing just what the republicon platform states.
And now, the piece de resistance? Wannabe senator Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch, when asked about abortion said that he would not support any law that allowed for an abortion due to the woman being raped...violated...attacked...one of the worst things that can ever happen to you without you dying, although there are enough women who commit suicide after a rape.
Now, does a suicide have much to do with a pregnancy, one of "god's will" as Mr. Murdoch puts it? Only if you want to know what the woman may be going through as a human being.
The 2012 Republican platform did address these issues by inserting them into the platform:
"We assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed."
Of course that "sanctity of life" ends when the baby is born....

And, again, Where are Mitt's tax returns?????

Presenting Willard "Mitt" Romney--the Human Windsock

First, where did "Mitt" come from? Is it a family nickname? Why Mitt? Its not a shortened version of his real name, not a nickname for some physical reason(i.e., I'm a redhead, I've been called "Red", not much cuz I hated it, but I have), can't see him playing baseball(baseball "mitt"--yes, I'm really stretching with that one)...strange..anyway enough random musings.....
Willard is not what you'd call...umm....stalwart. In fact, he changes his opinions/views more often than most people change their underwear(and I'm not talking about magic underwear either!). Need examples? I thought you'd never ask:

Immigration

• 2006:  Willard supported a plan that would help undocumented workers legal status and, in some cases, a path to citizenship. 
• 2007:  Nope, no citizenship, secure the border, employment verification(this was before the 2008 run)
• 2012:  Make it so miserable that they "self deport"....

Bush's Tax Cuts

• 2003:  he refused to take a position
• 2007:  He supported them(again, this was before the 2008 run)

Reagan fan?

• 1994:  when running against Ted Kennedy for Senate, he stated that he was an independent during the Reagan years, and he's, "not trying to return to Reagan-Bush" politics.
• 2005:  "Ronald Reagan is one of my heroes"

Gun Control

• 1994 -- He was for gun control and supported banning assault weapons and the Brady Bill.
• 2007? He joined NRA and wanted their endorsement.

Does he own guns?

• 1/10/07: "I have a gun of my own and I go hunting"
• 1/14/07: When asked if he owned a gun, he said no, but his son Josh did and they would use his.
• In 36 hours, Willard changed his mind about the "mandate" decision from...4 days and FLIP FLOP(aka-lying).

Climate Change

• 2003: Williard believed that the scientists had it right, that we needed to do something so as to keep the earth "safe"(my word, not his)
• 2007: Guess what? He said in 2007 that the "scientists hadn't completely resolved".

DADT

• 1994: Agreed with the policy as being the first step to gays and lesbians to openly defend their country
• 2007: Thought it was a "silly catch phrase", but the policy is fine the way it is and nothing has to be changed.

Gay Marriage

• 2002: Did not support DOMA or a constitutional amendment 
• 2008: Supported a gay marriage ban referendum in Massachusetts(even tho he also was the governor when MA legalized gay marriage).

Embryonic Stem cell research

• 2002:  Supported stem cell research while running for governor
• 2006:  Vowed to press for legislation to criminalize stem cell research.

Pro Choice? Anti Abortion? Depends on the year.

• 1994:  Romney stated he was more pro choice than Ted Kennedy, due to a relative dying from an illegal abortion.
• 1999:  When he went to Utah, this changed to "I refuse to accept either label" 
• 2002:  SPLASH! Running for Governor, he's back to supporting a woman's right to choose again.
• 2007:  SPLISH!  Now running for pres(1st time) and he's against abortion AGAIN.

Last but not even close to least-Obamney Care...AKA the state(MA) vs Federal Affordable Care Act(all in less the 2 days)

• Its a tax, (when the decision came down and on the campaign trail)
• It's not a tax, (when his communications director, Eric Fehrnstrom said it was a penalty on TV)
• It is a tax, (when WSJ editorialized on Willard throwing the RNC under the bus), but it was a penalty when he did it, and...
• Although he sides with the minority, he agrees with the majority of the court? Huh????

So, that's some of "cheek turning"...or whiplash of views/opinions that Willard has stated. Me? I'm just very dizzy just trying to type all of this! 
Happy weekend and remember, the reason we have weekends/days off is because of unions, not because of people like Willard "Mitt" Romney.

No, Ann Romney doesn't know what it's like to work

Ok, so I was actually rolling my eyes when the 'cons latched onto Hillary Rosen's comment...out of context as usual for the 'cons, about Ann Romney never working a day in her life. Yes, I know that Ms. Rosen was speaking about what Mitt said, that he gets Ann to interpret what women are saying for him because he, umm...doesn't speak wimmentalk, but I'll let that slide for right now.
No, the right has had a field day and played the very old SAHM vs. working mom(cuz we don't deserve capitals in our stereotype) and how SAHM's are undervalued by the "liberals"...and, by the way, the republicons since they've always fought against putting a $ amount to what a housewife does, but cons are great at mouth service, just not actual praise/assistance.
So, from a real working mom(as is Hillary Rosen), the truth is that Ann Romney was born into privilege, married into privilege and the worst problem she's had, in regard to SAHM, is which home are they staying at this month? Don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think I know anyone that owns 5 residences.
And that was the reason for Hillary Rosen's comment. Not trying to slam Ann Romney as a SAHM, but because she has absolutely no idea how the other 98% of us survive. Ann Romney has never had to decide between buying gas or dinner, paying the electric bill now, because we can live without a phone if that gets turned off. Telling her kids that its more special for mom to make them their birthday cake instead of getting a store bought one when the truth is mom can't afford the store bought cake. Those are the economics of a home that doesn't make $20 M annually...or even $20K sometimes.
And this comment of Mitt's(about Ann telling him what women want) was to hide the other very real fact of the republicon's war on contraception and women's rights. Let's rehash for a minute:
Regarding Mitt and not only his flip-floppiness, but his outright lies. Although Mitt came to the defense of his wife's "choice" and SAHM's all over the country, that isn't what he said in January. Now, its true, he was talking about icky nasty poor mothers, but considering more and more of us "middle class" moms became welfare recipients during the Bush recession, how does that play for truth? So, what Mitt actually means is that if you are filthy rich, you can make that choice, but otherwise, "Get to work, you lazy trollop!"? Hmmm....the "dignity of work" for poor mothers does not include taking care of their children. He also said, in his senate race against Ted Kennedy that we no longer have the luxury to have the choice of SAHM in many occasions because its a "new world". And then the Mitt Romney staff gaf on the press conference call about the Lily Ledbetter law and if the Mittster agreed with it....dead silence....and then the caribou barbie answer, "Will have to get back to ya on that." Really???
First, the republicons refuse to allow women to speak about contraception in the congress, then one of the republicon rabid dog, Rush, attacks a private citizen in a 9 hour attack, calling her a "whore", "slut", "prostitute", among other things...and what do the 'cons do? Well, Mitt said he wouldn't have chosen those words, but the right did not tell the rabid mutt to calm down, or that they thought it was wrong, nope....not a peep.
Then we have all of these bills, both in the states and in the federal congress. There have been over 100 bills just trying to limit abortion since the teabaggers "took over" the 'cons...and nary a one on jobs. There was the Blunt amendment to allow all businesses and health care providers to "opt out" of covering birth control, We have the states voting on laws to ensure to humiliate women if they want an abortion, to allow doctors to lie to their patients about procedures if the woman might want an abortion, or the emotional rape of having a metal rod stuck up her vagina for the "transvaginal probe sonogram" that is mandatory now is some states. And we have an overabundance of bills that want to limit birth control--not just to single women, but married ones also...and here I thought republican men liked sex...they've had more than their share of sex scandals...the right has been all over limiting the rights of women to reproductive rights, health care, job safety, pay equity, job equity. Hillary Rosen's comment was about economic inequality and the right's consistent war on women.