Birds on the Brain

(Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard) Mourdoch is not the first member of the GOP to drop the ‘R’ word this campaign season. First, we had Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin who said ‘legitimate’ rape victims could get pregnant because ‘the female body has ways of shutting that whole thing down.’ Then there was Iowa Representative and angry dinner roll Steve King, who said he’d never heard of a girl getting pregnant from statuatory rape. Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith equated rape with out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and Wisconsin state representative Roger Rivard offered the sage advice that ‘Some girls, they rape so easy.’ What can you say — some political careers, they end so quickly.

And now there’s Mourdoch. Together, I like to call these guys Team Rape. Which they probably won’t appreciate, but come on — they’re kind of asking for it.