Karl Rove’s Super PAC Accepts $1 Million From Notorious Rape Defender

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Source: Think Progress

Karl Rove’s American Crossroads super PAC reported Thursday that it raised over $9.4 million in August — $1 million of which came from Clayton Williams Energy Inc. in Midland, Texas. That company’s chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer is, unsurprisingly, Clayton Williams, Jr. Williams was the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee who lost his 1990 race to then-State Treasurer Ann Richards (D) after making infamous comments defending rape.

At a cattle roundup on his Texas ranch, the oil and gas tycoon told ranch hands, campaign workers, and reporters that bad weather was like rape. “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.” His double-digit lead in the polls evaporated and he lost the election.

The contribution is indeed ironic, as Karl Rove has been among the most vocal critics of Senate nominee Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) after his August comments that victims of “legitimate rape” are unlikely to become pregnant.


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/21/887631/karl-roves-super-pac-accepts-1-million-from-notorious-rape-defender/

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There they go again... I am starting to find this familiar topic with the right extremely creepy and downright scary

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. I have begun to suspect that the GOP's "relabelling" of rape is

a subversively aggressive attempt to legalize rape. Consider the term "legitimate rape" especially.

[Major Nikon]

3. I don't think they want to legalize it

They just want to dismiss some forms of rape because it furthers their goal of making women subservient, and rape is a convenient way to do this as is trying to control reproductive rights.

[Suji to Seoul]

4. ding. ding. ding. We have a winner. Sage George Carlin put it best:

They believe the primary role for a woman is function as a brood mare for the State.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. and don't forget Williams, by his own admission, loved to visit Mexican brothels in his youth

looks like the GOP found the perfect spokesman for their war on women

[savannah43]

2. Rove is nothing if not a user of political expediency.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. and these guys have the nerve to act like a donation from Maher is bad

Here's an Ann Richards ad on Williams from the 1990 campaign: