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Republican Senate Candidate Trivializes Rape and Incest

Posted by Guest Blogger at 12:00 PM on July 6, 2007.


Jeff Fecke: As far as South Dakota Republican Joel Dykstra is concerned, rape and incest are just "buzzwords."
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This post, written by Jeff Fecke, originally appeared on Shakesville

The first republican has thrown his hat in the ring against ailing Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. Who is it? State Rep. Joel Dykstra, R-Lincoln County:

South Dakota state Rep. Joel Dykstra (R) has officially entered the race for the Republican nomination to face Sen. Tim Johnson (D) in 2008.

Dykstra filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday and declared himself a "candidate for U.S. Senate."

"I am very appreciative of the encouragement that I have received in my exploration of a run for the U.S. Senate," Dykstra said. "My family and I are humbled by the expressions of support we have received from many people from across the state."

If the guy sounds familiar to you, he should. He was a leader on the anti-choice side in the South Dakota abortion ban fight, and got off this brilliant bon mot during the campaign to repeal:

"I think 'rape and incest' is a buzzword," said Rep. Joel Dykstra about not including those conditions in the abortion bill. "It's a bit of a throwaway line and not everybody who says that really understands what that means. How are you going to define that?"

Indeed. So confusing, this "rape" and this "incest." Who can understand complex concepts like those?

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Jeff Fecke is a regular blogger for Shakesville.


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How do you define rape and incest?
Posted by: Ellie1 on Jul 6, 2007 1:37 PM   
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No one this stupid should be allowed in office. Oh wait, we already did that.

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What an idiot...
Posted by: Suz on Jul 6, 2007 1:56 PM   
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...if he needs THAT much clarity, perhaps some sort of personal demonstration is in order. I bet that will help clear those fuzzy gray areas for him.

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» RE: What an idiot... Posted by: koolwoman
i wonder...
Posted by: brasilaron on Jul 6, 2007 1:59 PM   
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....in today's political climate, where most big-mouthed Rs and some Ds, who spout off at the mouth about being against one thing or another and are then later busted for doing precisely that...this comment by Retardlefuck Dykstra made me wonder right off the top of my head, "how my girls/boys has this creep raped or molested?"
I won't be surprised in the least when we find out that he is a serial predator pedophile rapist....

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» RE: i wonder... Posted by: VZEQICVA
» RE: i wonder... Posted by: osd
Not much else to do in South Dakota
Posted by: ateo on Jul 6, 2007 7:48 PM   
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Incest is in their state motto, "Semper Incestuous."

Have you ever lived somewhere with a 9 month winter and 3 feet of snow for 8 of those months?

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NO"HARDCORE" AT MARRIOTT
Posted by: JACKWINS on Jul 7, 2007 9:28 AM   
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This is not fair to Marriott hotels. They offer what I and other frequent travelers used to call "spank TV" not at all hard core and you can block it from your or your children's room with a call to the front desk. Now I am not saying that Mitt is is not a twitt, but Marriott is in a service business and folks need to accept responsibility on what they allow in their rooms. All Marriott needs to do is provide the control tools, which they do!

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Typical...
Posted by: jimmyaj on Jul 7, 2007 12:05 PM   
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Compassionate Conservative observation. Blame the victim.

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I know two children whose father is their grandfather and...
Posted by: harpy on Jul 7, 2007 5:40 PM   
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they were both molested by their grandfather/father as babies. Both were physically damaged and scarred and if someone hadn't figured out what was going on and turned him over to authorities, he would probably be doing the same horrid things to them even now. We're talking about a girl and a boy here, and he raped their mother repeatedly. He hanged himself in jail before he went to trial. They were sent to foster care and adopted, and don't know the truth yet. Maybe the guy that thinks rape and incest are buzzwords would like to explain to them what happened.

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The Deep South Dakota?
Posted by: anambrose on Jul 7, 2007 5:50 PM   
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Maybe he's the product of both and so he turned out All Right?Or to the Right of All Right?We need a cross section of America to accurately represent all of us. In his case we need to move a little further on up the Bell Curve.

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Exactly How Does This...
Posted by: bob t on Jul 7, 2007 11:16 PM   
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...Republican chimp define rape and incest. What this guy wants is to get elected and like all Rethugs he will use the abortion issue to do that. That is a Republican. They all use the abortion and gay issues to rally their base.

What this guy really wants is to do the Catholic Church thing and abolish abortion no matter the reason, even the death of the woman.

The two big religions supporting the Rethug party are the Catholic Religion, my religion but not me, and the evangelical fundies. Both are fundamentalist religions like some moslems are fundamentalists.

Then they argue but we don't kill. Then I say what about our almost 3600 dead troops and the 655,000 Iraqis who have died in the Bush Republican party oil wars of death for PROFIT. That always shuts them up.

Right wingers are totally phony and no one will vote for them if the truth is ever looked at by the american people no Republican would ever get elected again. There are just not enough rich people to get them into office. The only thing they can do is merge church and state and get the american people to fall for their phony religious arguments thus voting against their own best interests of adequate wages for taking care of their families.

That is the true bottom line. Religin is nothing more than a tool that the Republican party has exploited beginning with old sleepy Reagan. Sorry Ropn Reagan jr. I like you but your dad was a dolt as is your brother Michael.

Jesus forbad the merging of church and state but Republicans and their enablers are nothing but moral relativists. Sorry Pope Benedict but you are as guilty as the rest of your Republican friends. All the Republican party conflation of religion, corporations, greed for money and political power and death for PROFIT is squarely on your head for helping and siding with these haters and killers for PROFIT.

Both you Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II who have chosen to ignore Jesus command against the merging of church and state and our own US Constitution which also forbids the same merging and which you both have chosen to ignore have brought great peril to America and much death to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan. And that is clearly why Jesus admonished us to render to caesar...and render to God...

All you moral relativists who USE religion for money and political power will never be able to make restitution for what you have done. You have done the exact same thing that Popes Pius XI and XII did when they endorsed Hitler and the Nazi party. And you Benedict were a member of the Nazi Youth, pointing out jews to the Nazis and sending them to thier death.

Never in a million years can you popes make restitution for what you did then or what you are doing now. I don't know how you sleep at night Benedict. No confession can ever take away the stain of what you did then or what you are doing now through your endorsement and staunch support of the Republican party. No religion should ever endorse any political party. You have sold out to the evil that is the Republican party, the party of death for PROFIT.

Personally, I am ashamed of you Benedict. You need to learn a lot of HUMILITY to counteract you egregious guilt of the sin of PRIDE. And the worst of these is the first... But you can start on the long path toward God. If you don't know how ask and it will be revealed to you and if your ideology is blocking the revelation just ask me.

In an hour of discussion I can set you straight and so can millions of other humble people. Just don't ask those in your circle/bubble for they like you may not and probably cannot see the truth and the way. You have been living a false existence for most of your life and so have your circle of friends including George Bush and the Republican party of death for profit. You sir are blinded by your ideology.

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