Mia Love claims GOP war on women will create 'more free choice' for women
6:25 pm - 09/09/2012
Small town Mayor Mia Love (R-UT), a GOP congressional candidate who received a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, is considered a rising star by many within her party. Yet she offered a defense of the Republican Party’s plans to roll back reproductive freedom on Fox News Sunday today that takes a significant amount of liberty with the English language. In a discussion about the GOP’s plan to make abortion illegal, defund Planned Parenthood and enable employers to restrict their employees’ access to birth control, Love suggested these policies will lead to “more free choice and more liberties” for women. Watch it:
Love also claimed that GOP policies will let her “keep a little bit of my own money so I can pay for my own contraceptives if I want to,” but that’s only true if Love is very wealthy. Even under the most generous reading of the Romney/Ryan tax plan, middle class families would experience a tax increase of up to $2000.
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Love also claimed that GOP policies will let her “keep a little bit of my own money so I can pay for my own contraceptives if I want to,” but that’s only true if Love is very wealthy. Even under the most generous reading of the Romney/Ryan tax plan, middle class families would experience a tax increase of up to $2000.
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Edited at 2012-09-10 12:16 am (UTC)
---And sidewalks, freeways, lamp posts, and other public utilities too, right? I'd like to hear just how far her conceptualization and economic breakdown of Free Choice™ extends.
Edited at 2012-09-10 12:20 am (UTC)
I want to give her the benefit of the doubt that she knows what she's doing but I can't help but feel she's being used by these institutions (LDS church/GOP) to say "See? We aren't anti-women/minorities!".
Edited at 2012-09-10 12:56 am (UTC)
Basically like the political version of a Mary Sue.
And . . . I don't know whether she's bought the far-right line to the point of shitloads of internalized self-hatred and is doing a mortification-of-the-flesh style path to trying to be good enough, exceptional, worth something to them, or whether she's just a heartless, selfish opportunist trying to seize personal power through the party that pays an extra premium for minority voices to shill for their agenda.
The effect is harmful regardless.
(I think that must be how it happened: one or two got these wild hairs, another couple thought "I just want to see the way they see things for a day"... and then they lost their way back. No breadcrumb trail to follow.)
In fact, thinking about my 'most of it' statement... my mind is going through which of their positions I agree with, and am coming up with nothing at the moment.
I don't even think she herself knows what the fuck she is talking about at this point.
My way of thinking goes like this: if the GOP succeeds in stripping women of our reproductive choices, like repealing Roe versus Wade, denying or restricting our access to contraceptives, and even object to other personal decisions like sterilization, how the fuck does that result in "more free choice and more liberties" for women?
...so yeah it's all bullshit, basically
I am fucking high on cold meds. Woooooooo.
Also, wheeee cold meds! LOL
But I suspect the other half of their brain isn't catching the fact they're trying to restrict those very options. So while they cry Get government outta MY choices, they also gleefully make sure women are under the yoke of GOP directed restrictions.
Its like watching a person argue with themselves in the mirror, its funny when my lizards did it, its not funny when humans do it though.
Edited at 2012-09-10 02:22 am (UTC)
. . . HOW?
I mean, unless she's got a Handmaid's Tale "freedom of is replaced by freedom from" thing going on . . . which didn't make sense in the first place . . .
The only way this can make any sense logically is by privileging some choices and some liberties over others, imposing on us a higher valuation of some liberties and a lower valuation of others. What she's saying is just a heavily camouflaged version of "contraception isn't that important; the ability to be a mother is the REAL freedom."
She is, as Chris Kluwe so beautifully put it, a BEAUTIFULLY UNIQUE SPARKLEPONY and a walking SLIDE WHISTLE TO E FLAT. (Translations.)
I seriously tried
I just... How?
Opposite day? The Onion?
Buh. My braen.
Brain is now offline. Will reboot tomorrow and continue to attempt to decipher more Republican "logic".
[edit because: mother of goat was my comment leaning toward inappropriate. this is why i usually don't comment this late.]
Edited at 2012-09-10 03:37 am (UTC)
My brain, it huuuurts. Trying to follow the crap coming out of this lady's mouth is impossible. *curls in fetal position* Nooooooooo...
Ouch my head
I think that the GOP needs to shield her from any serious debate though if they want to get her into office. I really haven't seen anything to suggest that she's capable of doing more beyond parroting talking points. I see potential, but it's probably going to take some direct mentorship to get Love where she needs to be as a spokesperson for conservative causes.