New ad slams Mourdock for "extreme" positions

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock ignited a firestorm in the campaign when he suggest that a pregnancy resulting from rape was "a gift from God."

A week after his response to a debate question about abortion sparked controversy, Indiana's Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock is under fire in a new ad from Democratic candidate Joe Donnelly.

"Mourdock argued that pregnancies resulting from rape are intended by God," the ad's narrator says, referring to Mourdock's statement where he said such pregnancies are "something that God intended to happen." Mourdock later explained his remarks saying he wasn't talking about rape, specifically, but that all conceptions are the work of God.

The Republican-leaning state was considered a likely win for the Republicans, but Mourdock's defeat of long-time moderate incumbent Richard Lugar in the GOP primary gave Democrats hope that they could pick up the seat. Donnelly and the Democratic Party have been labeling Mourdock as too extreme for Indiana using Mourdock's remarks to drive home their case.

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The ad highlights more than just his abortion comment, pinning Mourdock for a remark where he called Social Security and Medicare unconstitutional.

"Newspapers call Mourdock's out of the mainstream attacks a troubling pattern," the narrator says. "My way or the highway, the wrong way for Indiana."

For his part, Mourdock is framing the race as a referendum on national Democrats. "Make no mistake, Donnelly will continue to support the liberal Democrat agenda; a vote for Donnelly is a vote for [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid and more runaway, government spending," Mourdock spokesperson Christopher Connor said in a statement. "It's not surprising that Congressman Joe Donnelly wants to continue his campaign of sleazy politics -- like attacking Mourdock over his religious beliefs -- because Donnelly doesn't want to talk about his record of supporting the liberal Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda of bigger government spending, failed economic plans and higher taxes."

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Republicans are a sick twisted group hellbent on forcing women to give birth regardless of how the pregnancy occurred. How many husbands and boyfriends would want their lady to give birth after she was gang raped? How many men would be okay raising that child knowing how it was concieved?

[moretruthnow]

Mourdock is one rotten lunatic. He has no more consideration for women and babies than the zealots he thinks we need more of in Congress. Republicans have been extreme and anti-American when the country was in a recession where so many people where hurt. People lost their jobs, their homes and the GOP would not lift a finger to vote to help average Americans. Republicans like Mourdock are taliban republicans who want to force their ruthless will on the country.

[calvertmc]

To me, what is much more appalling than Mourdock's comments are his political opponents' suggestions that children born out of rape are outside God's care and will. What they imply is that God may design and care for children born normally, but that he does not do so with children unfortunate enough to be born of rape. Such children are, according to the Democratic Party and others, cosmic accidents. If I were born out of rape (and make no mistake, rape is a terrible thing), I would find the Democratic Party's view pretty depressing and heartless.

[parrot2-2009]

Calvertmc, that's why you should support the democratic party in eradicating Rape and also helping to prevent damaged, abused and unwanted fetuses to be brought into this world, to be further abandoned, abused and eventually killed by the republican party. Dumb Dumb Repugs !!

[1ATL1]

Sorry friend but you can't put a spin on rape. The left has no problem if a woman wants to carry the child full term. None at all. The only ones that questions the morality of abortion is the right. If the left accepts every race, every life style, and everyone's free expression of religion or lack of religion, I'd say any child is safe in their company. The left won't condemn you to hell, they will love you for who you are. Loving your neighbor as yourself demands that you don't judge. God can handle that without your help.

[parrot2-2009]

Mourdock later explained his remarks saying he wasn't talking about rape, specifically, but that all conceptions are the work of God.

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If Mourdock was not talking about RAPE, why did he even mention it ?? Dumb Dumb Repugs !!