What's the right word... stunned? Dumbfounded? Dumb definitely fits - so dumbfounded then that so many republicans are still trying to, if not actually defend Limbaugh, then striving desperately to rationalize or deflect criticism of him. Now it's big Obama boy uber liberal Bill Maher's use of 'misogynistic' language towards women that they're peddling to show that it ain't just conservatives who have a problem with the ladies - ah, listen guys, comparing Limbaugh to Maher is moronic, no one's gonna buy that, and anyway it quite misses the point - the real problem with Limbaugh was not the objectionable language per se - hell, I can walk by the catholic girls school down the street from me at lunch hour and hear language that would make an epithet like 'slut' seem positively timid - so it's not the abusive language per se - it's the confirming of the impression to moderate, independent women that conservatives see females as a problem that can easily be solved by turning back the clock fifty years. Most women I know were just as outraged by the fact Rush didn't seem to know how birth control pills work than they were by the imputation that anyone who uses them must be doing so because they're intent on destroying America through very unladylike wantonness.
It's stunning how many conservatives just don't seem to get this - and worse, don't seem to get how very bad it is that one of their presidential candidates has openly expressed opinons that suggest that for him there's nothing wrong with the country that can't be fixed by taking away from women the right to judge for themselves how, where, when, with whom and how often they are having sex. After all, who can quibble with the fact that the only thing standing between a righteous man and God's salvation is a sexed up woman? This is obvious.
