As all (in)famous pundits have their own Idiot of Day/Week/Month/Year awards, I thought it was high time that I, Theodore Roe, joined in the fun. Hopefully this will be the first in a long line of lunatic-lampooning articles. Let the lambasting begin!
This week’s winner:
Peter DeGraaf!
Republican Kansas State Representative for District 81 and associate pastor at Faith Community Church, Petey could have forever passed himself off as your run-of-the-mill socially conservative mid-western Republican. This is not bad in and of itself, as I believe people are entitled to their own opinions, unless expression or implementation of those opinions either A) restricts my liberty or B) makes the Republican Party look like a holding pen for fundamentalist Christian lunatics.
Pete is guilty of both crimes, though he is particularly guilty of the latter.
Recently the Kansas state legislature passed a bill that would not allow insurance companies to include abortions in their general health plans. There was one cavat, however. Abortions carried out as a direct result of pregnancy caused by rape could be covered.
Evidently this was a bridge too far for Pete.
When confronted by Representative Barbara Bollier (a medical doctor and fellow Republican) for a reason why he subscribed to the ludicrous notion that a woman impregnated by a rapist should be denied access to an insurance-funded abortion, he reportedly responded:
“We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?”
If you think that retort of out of left field, just wait. It gets worse.
Flummoxed by the bizarre non-sequitur of DeGraaf, Bollier tentatively inquired if “women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with pregnancy?”
DeGraaf’s reply? “I have a spare tire on my car.”
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Wow. A car breakdown tip used as a metaphor for pregnancy prevention during a rape. Classy, Pete.
The colossal stupidity required to even think, in one’s own head, such a mind-numbingly bad answer deserves some serious consideration. To actually utter that answer out loud in a crowded room full of your co-workers and social contemporaries, to say nothing of independent observers replete with recording equipment, beggars the imagination.
I am also assuming that he really meant to say he has a spare tire ‘in’ his car, though maybe Pete thinks that if he always has the spare tire ‘on’ his car it somehow acts as a mystical talisman that protects him from all road-borne mishaps. When we’re dealing with minds like that of Rep. DeGraaf I fear we cannot take anything for granted.
If you would like to express your exasperation with the thought processes of Peter DeGraaf, Kansas State’s NOW chapter has organized a campaign to send Petey a bevy of spare tires in protest of his insane ravings involving rape and road safety preparedness. You can join in the fun by following the information found here.
2 Comments
Hi Mr. Theodore. I find your article most interesting. I would think that if the President doesn’t sign his authentic signiture it wouldn’t be considered legal. LOL
Also, I find your articles most amusing They remind me of something I read this week in the “Onio! ” (a Chicago purposely off center paper) I laughed at it’s comical front page and statement proclaiming that Bin Laden in spirit, was spotted emerging from the sea, in an enormous proportion! With it’s front page a picture of him, as a huge spirit ghost rising from the sea. It was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen! I look forward to read more from you in the future. Good Luck! SQE
My comment part 2 is revolving around your halarious statement that “Obama sold us out!” Your not kidding on that one! We trusted him..! Now, he’s busy taking our women and children’s Wic program from thier families! Talk about your planned parenthood bad moves! Just what are they thinking out there in our government? Where is De graafs Brain roots at when he thinks that a women should be looked at as a tire! As if he were stating that women as being only good for “Rim Jobs!” No, not LOL! Women are not objects! And rape is a subject that should be treated with respect in a women’s personel time of need! Thank you for pointing out the “closed mindedness” Doddo’s that are in charge of the botched up leader of our lives! It’s the idiots that are in charge of running this country and world we have to live in! They think that the all American women should be named Schooky and treated as such! SQE