It's time to stick them with this label and not to let up. They never gave up calling us the DemocRAT party. They need their platform name to remind everybody, every day, including GOP women, what value they place on women's bodies, their safety, their integrity, and their lives. These rape-enablers are not getting rid of Todd Akin. Nope, they're doubling down with the thermonuclear idiocy that is Rep. Steve King.
They always double down on the crazy because it moves the Overton Window. Now we're no longer talking about abortion on demand, which was once the law of the land, but we're having to fight for it in cases of rape, for the love of Christ.
These Rape-ublicans, in fact, celebrate and defend all manner of rape, every day, by their policy and their ideology. This latest "if she gets pregnant, she must have wanted it" horror is just the latest example.
They voted against Al Franken's anti-rape amendment that refuses federal contracts to mercs that deny employee victims of rape their legal recourse.
They fund and defend sexual degradation and sexual torture of detainees.
They vote against Domestic Violence laws that protect native women, immigrants and queerfolk.
They vote against hate crime laws, because nonconformity to sexual and gender norms needs to be punished (with "corrective" sexual violence, if at all possible).
They vote against abortion access for raped female soldiers, knowing a carried pregnancy will endanger a soldier's military career.
And it's not just people Rape-ublican leaders enjoy violating, torturing and watching suffer.
Forget traumatizing a dog at 60 mph for 1200 miles until it loses control of its bowels.
These guys barbecue dogs alive. They hang and stone them to death.
They defend the "sport" of animal fighting. They explode frogs with firecrackers. They champion laws actually mandating the torture of livestock. Not to mention that they love to just shoot living things in the most unsportsmanlike way possible, regardless of whether doing so has any ecological benefit whatsoever.
And, of course, they rape the planet in a thousand ways. They celebrate poisoning the air, and polluting entire freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. They delight in turning the soil toxic, they couldn't care less if their favorite donors destroy bee colonies. And naturally, if limits on carbon emissions will cut into their oil stocks or their campaign donations, they'll just create an entire industry of global warming denial, and to hell with half the living species on the planet.
Rape-ublican Platform is a fitting word for these pathological policies they're putting forth. It's time to call it like it is.