Senator Boxer: Akin is the symptom, but Ryan and Romney are the disease

[Kadie]

Boxer: Akin is the symptom, but Ryan and Romney are the disease

By Josh Richman
Posted: 08/21/2012 04:30:57 PM PDT
Updated: 08/21/2012 05:38:27 PM PDT

SAN JOSE -- Rep. Todd Akin's controversial comments about rape and abortion aren't just for Missourians to mull in their Senate race -- they're typical of a mindset that pervades and perverts the entire GOP, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Tuesday.

"It's deeper than one Republican congressman -- it goes all the way to the top of the Republican ticket," she said. "The truth is there's a war against women, and it's not going to end until we all say at the polls, 'That's not the country we want.'"

Boxer, D-Calif., used her previously scheduled speech to Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte at San Jose City Hall to try to ensure that the furor over Akin's comments tarnish presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. "The mainstream of the Republican Party is now extreme on women's health," she said.

"There is a war against women, and Romney and Ryan -- if they are elected -- would become its top generals," Boxer said, urging the audience to remember the days when desperate women and girls died in botched, back-alley abortions. "We cannot go back."

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[cr8tvlde]

1. Go Barbara !!! Absolutely it's a referendum on Republican Troglodytes.

One of California's treasures.

[Mass]

2. Thanks. Finally. It is a war on women, and not only when it comes to abortion

Cutting after school services and preschools also affect the ability of women to work (of course, it should affect both men and women, but in reality, it affects mostly women). Limiting access to birth control and promoting abstinence programs also limit women, because stats show that these young women cannot both raise their children and go to the end of their potential.

What irritates me is that it is not by chance that all this happens at a time where the economy is in shamble. Jobs are limited and the GOP is trying to help men to get them. So, it is really a war on women.

[Lucy Goosey]

3. Thank you, Barbara

Every Democrat in the country needs to tie Akin to the Presidential ticket every time they are near a microphone.

[FSogol]

4. K & R. n/t

[davidpdx]

5. Romney and Ryan have a disease alright

It's called being a Republican. DOA

[highplainsdem]

6. K&R