Catholic League says something so stupid, RNC tells them to STFU

suncrush · 2012-04-12, 7:34 PM

Yep. This happened.

Jaaboo · 2012-04-12, 7:37 PM

Wow. Awesome response, though.

suncrush · 2012-04-12, 7:39 PM

Yeah,full credit to the RNC spokesman on this one. That was stand up.

Phoenix-D · 2012-04-12, 7:42 PM

The RNC...came out in the defense of a gay parent?

Did I slip into an alternate reality last night and not notice?

DiNovi · 2012-04-12, 7:42 PM

Catholic League is often told by the Vatican to STFU... theyre effin' crazy.

suncrush · 2012-04-12, 7:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DiNovi

Catholic League is often told by the Vatican to STFU... theyre effin' crazy.

Hence why the thread tag is not religion.

Rastlin · 2012-04-12, 8:58 PM

Should we wait a day and see how fast the RNC fires this guy?

Blurry · 2012-04-12, 9:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Rastlin

Should we wait a day and see how fast the RNC fires this guy?

Nah, they'd only do that if he publicly disagreed in any way with Rush Limbaugh.

Laoke · 2012-04-12, 9:18 PM

Take victories where you can find them. When someone in the RNC is actually saying something like this it's a win - yeah, it's pretty much purely symbolic, but...

Sully · 2012-04-12, 9:18 PM

Man, raising kids IS work. I dunno what the D. rep was thinking with that one.

Wasn't the Santorum clan active with fostering, on top of it all? Or am I thinking of some other politician?

Arjay · 2012-04-12, 9:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Sully

Man, raising kids IS work. I dunno what the D. rep was thinking with that one.

That Anne Romney has never worked even before she was a parent, and once they were parents had nannies and housekeepers and cooks to do most of what the Catholic League would like us to believe she was busy doing?

Archangel3d · 2012-04-12, 9:51 PM

Man, the Catholic League is to the rest of Catholics what the Tea Party is to America. Glad that even the RNC told them to shut the hell up.

Kamileon · 2012-04-13, 3:08 AM

Never fear, Sean Spicer has since been walking back his original statements, he didn't really mean that he supports gay adoptions, just adoptions in general. To a married heterosexual couple.

Lews_Therin · 2012-04-13, 6:28 AM

Also seriously, aside from avoiding the actual birthing process how is it less work to raise an adopted child? Like the statement makes no sense. "She never worked huh? Well she raised kids, and I suppose you did too, but yours were adopted so...."

suncrush · 2012-04-13, 7:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Lews_Therin

Also seriously, aside from avoiding the actual birthing process how is it less work to raise an adopted child? Like the statement makes no sense. "She never worked huh? Well she raised kids, and I suppose you did too, but yours were adopted so...."

Your avatar and that quote go so well together.

Arcman · 2012-04-13, 8:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Arjay

That Anne Romney has never worked even before she was a parent, and once they were parents had nannies and housekeepers and cooks to do most of what the Catholic League would like us to believe she was busy doing?

Even if all that is true, I don't think we can dismiss the damage this strategist did with her comment, almost immediately making Anne Romney more sympathetic to women voters who previously might not have been too enticed to the Romney camp. She very well may have giftwrapped them with a bow and left them at Romney's doorstep.

Ash Plissken · 2012-04-13, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Sully

Man, raising kids IS work. I dunno what the D. rep was thinking with that one.

I really want to know what the heck the context of that quote was. I mean, ill-considered as it was, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing one would just come up with from out of the blue. What was it a response to? Like, did someone actually ask her a question to which that could plausibly be an answer?

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Originally Posted by Sully

Wasn't the Santorum clan active with fostering, on top of it all? Or am I thinking of some other politician?

You might be thinking of Bachmann.

Arcman · 2012-04-13, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ash Plissken

I really want to know what the heck the context of that quote was. I mean, ill-considered as it was, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing one would just come up with from out of the blue. What was it a response to? Like, did someone actually ask her a question to which that could plausibly be an answer?

You might be thinking of Bachmann.

You can see the whole clip here. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...-controversies

Kamileon · 2012-04-13, 4:03 PM

I really don't see her comments being that problematic. Romney has on more than one occasion trotted out his wife as his expert and advisor on women's issues and women's concerns and women's economic issues. She supposedly goes out and talks to women to report back to him (so that he doesn't have to?)

It wasn't an attack on his wife out of nowhere. And she has some really valid points about Ann Romney not having any fucking clue what an average American wife/mom has to deal with, or how the average American wife/mom doesn't even have the ability to choose to stay home.

Arcman · 2012-04-13, 4:29 PM

If she had worded it that way it might not have been as much an issue, but as soon as she trotted out the phrase, "never worked a day in her life" she did a huge favor to the Romney campaign. It was an immediate opportunity for them to completely turn around the narrative in their favor and insinuate the Dems are attacking moms and crap.

Kamileon · 2012-04-13, 7:18 PM

It is a little confrontationally worded but when one of hte big women's issues stumbling blocks that Romney has tripped over in the last couple days is not having an answer on his position of the Lily Ledbetter act, someone who has never worked is not going to be the best reference point for employment concerns.

2012-04-12, 7:34 PM	#1
suncrush Bob der Braumeister Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tallahassee, FL	Catholic League says something so stupid, RNC tells them to STFU Yep. This happened. __________________ King of No Pants Read my beer blog.

2012-04-12, 7:37 PM	#2
Jaaboo Self-Requested Ban Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Portland, OR AKA: badassboy, Jest	Wow. Awesome response, though. __________________ Formerly known as Jest, badassboy.

2012-04-12, 7:39 PM	#3
suncrush Bob der Braumeister Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tallahassee, FL	Yeah,full credit to the RNC spokesman on this one. That was stand up. __________________ King of No Pants Read my beer blog.

2012-04-12, 8:58 PM	#7
Rastlin I should change this. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: State College, PA	Should we wait a day and see how fast the RNC fires this guy? __________________ I changed this. 12/5/2012. The world's going to end in a couple weeks, figured it was time. World didn't end. Carry on.

2012-04-12, 9:18 PM	#9
Laoke Evil Little Ducker Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Wellington	Take victories where you can find them. When someone in the RNC is actually saying something like this it's a win - yeah, it's pretty much purely symbolic, but... __________________ "The dynamite crate has been glued shut, set on fire, humped, dropped about 6 feet and has been covered with dirt. I wait with awe to see what you're going to do to it next" - Me, Call of Cthulhu* Mafia game 2010*

2012-04-12, 7:42 PM	#5
DiNovi Plebian Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York	Catholic League is often told by the Vatican to STFU... theyre effin' crazy.

2012-04-12, 9:51 PM	#12
Archangel3d Watch Your Mouth Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Montreal, Quebec	Man, the Catholic League is to the rest of Catholics what the Tea Party is to America. Glad that even the RNC told them to shut the hell up.

2012-04-13, 3:08 AM	#13
Kamileon out of my gourd Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tacoma, WA	Never fear, Sean Spicer has since been walking back his original statements, he didn't really mean that he supports gay adoptions, just adoptions in general. To a married heterosexual couple. __________________ Photo Blog - Flickr - Twitter - Totem Forest, a Shaman Blog

2012-04-13, 6:28 AM	#14
Lews_Therin Piglike noise Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: A Galaxy Far Far Away	Also seriously, aside from avoiding the actual birthing process how is it less work to raise an adopted child? Like the statement makes no sense. "She never worked huh? Well she raised kids, and I suppose you did too, but yours were adopted so...." __________________

2012-04-13, 4:03 PM	#19
Kamileon out of my gourd Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tacoma, WA	I really don't see her comments being that problematic. Romney has on more than one occasion trotted out his wife as his expert and advisor on women's issues and women's concerns and women's economic issues. She supposedly goes out and talks to women to report back to him (so that he doesn't have to?) It wasn't an attack on his wife out of nowhere. And she has some really valid points about Ann Romney not having any fucking clue what an average American wife/mom has to deal with, or how the average American wife/mom doesn't even have the ability to choose to stay home. __________________ Photo Blog - Flickr - Twitter - Totem Forest, a Shaman Blog

2012-04-13, 4:29 PM	#20
Arcman ain't bovvered Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Michigan	If she had worded it that way it might not have been as much an issue, but as soon as she trotted out the phrase, "never worked a day in her life" she did a huge favor to the Romney campaign. It was an immediate opportunity for them to completely turn around the narrative in their favor and insinuate the Dems are attacking moms and crap. __________________

2012-04-13, 7:18 PM	#21
Kamileon out of my gourd Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tacoma, WA	It is a little confrontationally worded but when one of hte big women's issues stumbling blocks that Romney has tripped over in the last couple days is not having an answer on his position of the Lily Ledbetter act, someone who has never worked is not going to be the best reference point for employment concerns. __________________ Photo Blog - Flickr - Twitter - Totem Forest, a Shaman Blog