Liberal Sluts!

March 8, 2012 by Ruth 18 Comments

I guess I really am that stupid.

I don’t condone calling either of these women a slut.  I don’t know the first thing about either of their sexuality. I have no idea if Sarah Palin has been faithful to her husband for 24 years and I have no clue if Sandra Fluke has ever had sex.  That’s none of my business or concern.  It is certainly not the point.

Rush Limbaugh has managed with his vitriol to do exactly what he intended to do.  He has vilified one woman by calling her a name implying what she stands for.  If anyone who plastered the above picture ever bothered to listen to Fluke’s testimony they would know that she wasn’t speaking on her own behalf but the behalf of others who are affected by this nonsense.  But that would require actually doing some fact checking and not just listening to conservative pundits and following blindly what someone else told them.

I opened my facebook page to find the above picture posted by a friend.  I couldn’t help myself and before I knew it I was posting.

I still consider myself fairly conservative.  Even as a conservative I felt that insurance plans should cover birth control pills.  The decision when or if to have a baby should be up to a woman and her partner – not her employer.  I’m not saying that pregnancy is a disease, but these plans cover other elective prescriptions.  Not only that, many diseases are controllable by diet and exercise without the need for medications.  So if someone who is overweight has diabetes, like maybe Rush Limbaugh, should he be denied medication?  He could control his problem another way.

The fact is no one has asked taxpayers to fund this contraception.  What these liberal sluts are asking for is that their insurance plan pay for the contraception.  More times than not the individual must contribute some portion of the insurance premiums for this coverage. In most states taxpayer funded contraception already exists for those with no or low incomes.  It amazes me how ignorant people can be.

And then the creme de la creme was this jewel:

He will receive no criticism from me for drawing Social Security Disability Insurance.  The irony is palpable.  These women, at least many of them, are or will be taxpaying citizens of this country.  They also want reasonable and fair treatment.  Why shouldn’t contraception be covered?  Because some single women might have sex?  Because women want to be in control of their own bodies?  Because pregnancies that women are unprepared for might be prevented? Why is that such a horrible thought?  Aren’t there enough unwanted children in this world?

Births and the ongoing healthcare of children are expensive.  Much more expensive than contraception.  Rush Limbaugh has diverted attention from the real issue at hand by screaming “the taxpayers are getting duped”.  This has nothing to do with taxpayer funded anything.  And yet when that fact is pointed out these conservative parrot heads keep going right down that same path.

Do conservative menfolk really believe we women folk really don’t have enough sense to figure what is best for our own bodies?