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" By now, the attempts by Republican senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock to read the mind of the Whoever on the topic of rape have gone around the world twice before common sense and common decency have gotten their boots on. &amp;quot;I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God... And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.&amp;quot; God works in mysterious ways and, apparently, one of them is Japanese bondage porn. There are two reactions that I do not want to hear. The first is that, no matter what we think of what Mourdock said, we should just congratulate him for being &amp;quot;honest&amp;quot; \u2014 or, second, and worse, &amp;quot;principled.&amp;quot; I do not want to hear either of those unless they are accompanied by a statement that Mourdock&amp;#039;s idiocy is close to the mainstream of Republican thinking on the subject of abortion, which it is. (It is precisely the position maintained in the Republican platform, which did away with the exception for rape and incest with much fanfare down in Tampa.) Which leads us to the second thing I don&amp;#039;t want to hear. Willard Romney&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;distancing&amp;quot; himself from his previous endorsement of Mourdock. In a statement released Tuesday night, Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul said Mourdock&amp;#039;s remarks were not in line with Romney&amp;#039;s views. &amp;quot;Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock&amp;#039;s comments, and they do not reflect his views,&amp;quot; Saul said.  Mourdock didn&amp;#039;t come to these views over the weekend. He held them when he announced. He held them when he beat Richard Lugar in the Republican primary. He held them when he was up in the polls over Joe Donnelly. And he held them before, during, and after Romney endorsed him. And the way I know this is that, a) Romney has yet to unendorse him and that, b) the Republican senate campaign hierarchy is still behind Mourdock and what he believes. Mourdock did receive support Wednesday morning from a key Republican leader \u2014 Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. &amp;quot;In fact, rather than condemning him for his position, as some in his party have when it&amp;#039;s come to Republicans, I commend Congressman Donnelly for his support of life,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Cornyn said. Tell me again that I don&amp;#039;t have to worry about Romney&amp;#039;s having two or three Supreme Court appointments to make, or about a Senate full of Richard Mourdocks passing judgment on them. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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