In March, California GOP Assembly President Celeste Greig made inflammatory comments regarding rape pregnancy. When asked about her opinion of Todd Akin’s infamous “legitimate rape” comment, Grieg said,
“Granted, the percentage of pregnancies due to rape is small because it’s an act of violence, because the body is traumatized. I don’t know what percentage of pregnancies are due to the violence of rape. Because of the trauma the body goes through, I don’t know what percentage of pregnancy results from the act.”a statement of that kind leads one to uspect there are a lot of things she doesn't understand. like women don't like other women who treat them like republican men do.Last weekend, those comments came back to haunt Grieg as the California Republican Assembly narrowly voted to oust her as their leader. The San Jose Mercury News reports,
you don't just make these insane statements out of the blue, there had to be indicators in their closed door laughfest.
i think she got the boot because she as caught outside the group, had she not been caught it would just be another right wing insensitive remark that only they get the joke to.
Grieg is just the latest Republican to suffer the consequences of making inflammatory rape comments. This past November saw Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock lose their Senate races in Missouri and Indiana, both of which are red states. It’s disappointing, however, that the vote to oust Grieg was so close. The so-called “conscience of the Republican Party” only voted her out by six votes. If Republicans truly had a conscience, Grieg should have been voted out by a landslide.
it does tell the underlying story when a vote is this close, it shows those who didn't care were as many that feared retribution at the polls, a vote for any reason other than those pertinent to to the subject are convenience votes and harbor some ulterior motive.
