Today Among The Republican Rape Philosophizers/Apologizers
By Shorter Verbatim James Taranto: “If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn’t determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver’s sex. But when two drunken college students “collide,” the male one is almost always presumed to be at fault. His diminished capacity owing to alcohol is not a mitigating factor, but her diminished capacity is an aggravating factor for him.”
Not that I think highly of contemporary American conservatives, but it’s still kind of amazing. This guy who thinks that rape is comparable to an auto collision isn’t some obscure blogger; he’s paid big bucks by the Wall Street Journal. And this far from his first example of rape apologia. I assume the GOP is recruiting him heavily to run for office…