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keithbvadu2

(39,916 posts)
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 07:20 PM Sep 18

How important is biological parenthood to Republicans?

How important is biological parenthood to Republicans?
Susan Smith drowned her two little boys in the lake. Her Republican stepfather, Beverly Russell, had adopted her. He was having sex with her. Right wingers tried to rationalize it as not being such a bad thing because she was only his adopted daughter.
Adopted, as in legal parent, not stepparent.

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How important is biological parenthood to Republicans? (Original Post) keithbvadu2 Sep 18 OP
The Susan Smith case was one of the more egregious appearances by Rep. Newt Gingrich... keep_left Sep 18 #1
How many Republican legislators have quiverful families? That is your answer. Freethinker65 Sep 18 #2

keep_left

(2,332 posts)
1. The Susan Smith case was one of the more egregious appearances by Rep. Newt Gingrich...
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 07:30 PM
Sep 18

...(R-GA) who, believe it or not, actually tried to demagogue the 1994 tragedy.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2011/01/11/a-trip-down-memory-lane-with-newt-gingrich/

Gingrich, at the time, made infanticide a campaign issue and publicly equated Smith’s murders with the values of the Democratic Party. Gingrich told the AP, “The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.”

Freethinker65

(11,077 posts)
2. How many Republican legislators have quiverful families? That is your answer.
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 07:37 PM
Sep 18

Biden had kids and they still attacked him, and attacked his biological children.

It is BS. They try/tried to belittle Ms Harris because of her name and fail(ed). They try/tried to belittle Ms Harris because she identified as Indian and fail(ed). They try/tried to belittle Ms Harris saying she turned black for political reasons and fail(ed). They try/tried to belittle Ms Harris because she was given responsibility to negotiate with countries to decrease the onslaught of asylum seekers at the border and fail(ed). They try/tried to belittle Ms Harris for passing the California Bar exam on her second attempt and they fail(ed). They try/tried to attack Ms Harris for being anti-Israel, and they fail(ed). They try/tried to attack Ms Harris on her becoming pragmatic about fracking and they fail(ed). They tried to belittle Ms Harris for dating a powerful political figure early in her career and they fail(ed). They are now attempting to belittle Ms Harris about being the mother to step-children and they fail(ed) again.

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