I’m lovin’ the Republican race for prez. It’s everything I could ask for, watching this pathetic, dessicated, mawkish shitshow of a race.
Still, there’s this nagging feeling that one of these knucklefucks could actually win 2016. In case you haven’t noticed, the Republican base will follow the person who espouses the most extreme right-wing positions possible to scoop up that demo.
So let’s take a break from the spectacle of Donald Trump’s bizarre ascendancy to the front of the Republican pack. Let’s look at one of the other candidates who are lost in the mix, yet may be a dark horse pick. I wanna talk about Marco Rubio.
He’s a menace to women. I wonder if he really meant to plant his flag in the morass of the abortion issue, though. It seemed to me that he was flailing for recognition from the red meat base. Nonetheless, he has doubled down on his remarks last week. Here’s the first card he played:
Fox moderator Megyn Kelly seemed to have a pretty good way to put the screws to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in Thursday night’s Republican primary debate.
“If you believe that life begins at conception, as you say you do, how do you justify ending a life just because it begins violently through no fault of the baby?” Kelly asked.
Rubio pushed back.
“Well, Megyn, first of all, I’m not sure that that’s a correct assessment of my record,” he said.
“You don’t favor a rape and incest exemption?” she shot back.
“I have never said that, and I have never advocated that,” Rubio said. “What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. “In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.”
Well. Legal scholars may have a problem with that, Marco. So would approximately 60% of women. Here’s where he split the cards, arguing with Chris Cuomo at CNN:
“I personally and honestly and deeply believe that all human life is worthy of protection, irrespective of the circumstances in which that human life was created,” said Rubio.
The two then started to shout over each other as they argued whether science has decided that life begins at conception.
“But you’re deciding when it is human life,” said Cuomo.
“No, science has decided it is human life,” rebutted Rubio.
“Not at conception!” exclaimed Cuomo.
“Absolutely it has,” said Rubio. “What else can it be? It cannot turn into an animal; it cannot turn into a donkey, the only thing that that can become is a human being. It’s a human life; it cannot be anything else!”
The two then started to shout over each other as they argued whether science has decided that life begins at conception.
“But you’re deciding when it is human life,” said Cuomo.
“No, science has decided it is human life,” rebutted Rubio.
Um…I let my fingers do the typing, and found that you are not a fan of what scientists say. I guess it’s only useful when trying to protect your sainted shibboleths. Fuck you, jagoff. Let’s continue:
This went on for a bit, with Cuomo saying, “We cannot say it is definitely human life at conception,” and Rubio insisting it’s a settled matter. Which led to this memorable moment from Rubio:
“What would it become, then? Could it become a cat?”