I guess I am a bit confused. I thought the problem with the Boy Scouts was that they discriminated against gay kids. But now I am told that the Girl Scouts promote the “homosexual lifestyle.” This is causing me to experience some cognitive dissonance. However, I suppose no War on Women would be complete without a War on Little Girls:
[Rep. Bob] Morris [ R-Fort Wayne], a state representative, added that he believes the Girl Scouts have been “subverted in the name of liberal progressive politics and the destruction of traditional American family values.”
He wasn’t kidding.
When Fort Wayne’s Journal Gazette talked to Ashley Sharp, assistant director of marketing for the Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana, she didn’t seem especially fazed by the Republican’s criticisms. “It really hasn’t affected us,” Sharp said. “Our membership is still strong and our cookie sales are up from last year.”
Well, as long as this isn’t cutting into the bottom line, what’s to worry about? I mean, it’s not like the leaders of the Republican Party are talking such nonsense, right?
In his 2005 book, “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good,” [Rick Santorum] lectured women who choose to work outside the home, writing that “the purported need to provide things for their children simply provides a convenient rationalization for pursuing a gratifying career outside the home.”
What’s the over/under on how many pints of blood the GOP will hemorrhage if they nominate the Frothy One?
And, yet, I still think Romney might be even less appealing to the electorate. At least Santorum believes in something.
… and our cookie sales are up from last year.
See, this is the key right here. The Girl Scouts are about the very last organization you want to fuck with in an election year, and it isn’t even about gender issues. They have the cookies.
This appears to be a real delima for a good chunk of the GOP base. Do they support a guy who can’t decide if he is running for President or Pope; OR a guy who can’t say the same thing twice without prompting and is a Mormon by the way; OR A Washington insider who has burned his bridges, and has some difficulty remembering which bed to return to at night? What is a good God fearing Bible-belter to do? I’m sure though that Fox News will get it all sorted out once the convention is over. I can’t get away from the idea that someone else will surface very late in the day. (Oh no, not another Bush?)
I didn’t see Mittens tall trees nonsense, meaning the actual video footage, till last night on the TDS/TCR combo. After all this time Mittens still looks, and talks, like a complete wreck? What I mean by that is he doesn’t give off confidence wahatsoever. Put it another way, all this time and the programming on the Romneybot9000 still hasn’t been fixed? What kind of idiots are running his campaign? He looks even less comfortable on the stump now then he did 4 years ago.
I suspect they’re trying to shove a model still in beta testing off as a finished product.
still looking for the tall trees video, but read the transcript. that is some wierd rambling
This is what losing at 11 dimensional chess looks like. Watch closely lol.
Actually, methinks the current GOP crop would lose at tic-tac-toe. Even their legislative strategy of obstruction can be either read as brilliant, or as the inevitable outpourings from a two-year-old.
you mess with my Thin Mints, get ready for a beatdown.
I’m scratching my tired old head over Rick Sanitarium these days. The more sh*t he says the more I think that I’m hearing drivel from Glenn Beck. I am really convinced that the Rick Sanitarium fans applauding every sound of his spiel actually have no idea what the f**k he’s talking about. On the stump Rick just looks really angry and he yells Obama!!! while he points and pounds his fist, so I guess that’s enough red meat to keep the dogs happy…
I think you’re absolutely right. There’s no brain connection going on when the Rick groupies go wild. All they perceive is the anger and “Obama” in conjunction. “Know Nothing” has dropped to a whole new level and meaning over these couple years.
I totally agree. The funny thing is that with a less complicit media he’d already be toast. Somewhere Howard Dean is shaking his head in a depressed state of wonderment.
other than serving the common good.
Rick believes in the subjugation of women, Mitt believes in the subjugation of the 99%, Newt believes in the exaltation of Newt.
It’s so nice to see Ms. Sharp respond “We really don’t care about that.”
The circus is losing popularity, thank God.
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From the article “War on little girls”:
The FRC has long attacked the Girl Scouts over discredited allegations that the Girl Scouts work with Planned Parenthood to promote “casual sex” and train girls about living with HIV. […]
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Funny, I was taught that the Girl Scout cookie business was a way to teach young girls the virtues of salesmanship, accountability and of course that standard American ethic of entreprenurmanship.
Of course as a backup there was the trusty Girl Scout knife used to whittle branches gathered to build a fire for dinner and marshmellows so one could survive in the wilds of America.
Indeed Girl Scouts pose a larger threat to the GOP’s Taliban tendencies and that’s where they seem to be driving this buggy.
Also, we need to protect the availability of s’mores at all costs!
Indiana – bravely leading the charge forward into the 19th century!
He needs to stop taking his cues from Palin and Bachmann and get his daily information dose somewhere besides chain emails written by a laughing troll in N Korea.
Why are you confused? Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are different organizations.