#48: Conscience
The California Republican Assembly, a grassroots right-wing group dedicated to electing conservatives, was once described by Ronald Reagan as "the conscience of the Republican Party."\n\nAnd so you might be interested to learn that the organization's president recently expressed her view that rape was unikely to cause pregnancy because, as she put it, "the body is traumatized," which reflects a biological theory held by approximately 0% of biologists.\xa0\n\nWhy did she say it? Was she\xa0trying\xa0to drive women out of the Republican Party?\xa0\n\nOr perhaps Mr. Reagan hadn't been studying his Freud\u2014and, rather than the GOP's conscience, this sentiment is actually the GOP's id?\xa0\n\nWhatever the case, it was outrageous\u2014and you're about to hear how the courageous campaigners from the Courage Campaign, working with their friends at MoveOn.org, just crossed party lines to help the California Republican Assembly remove her from office.\n\nStrap on your scuba gear, because we're diving in to the Republican fever swamps... as the Flaming Sword fo Justice starts now.\xa0