Well, just dandy. Not 48 hours after the Supreme Court rectifies a mistake it made 49 years ago and asserts, correctly, that no right to abortion can be found in the Constitution, this bonehead - bonehead elected to Congress, no less (what kind of constituents comprise her district?) - has to provide fodder to the enraged mob:
U.S. Rep. Mary Miller immediately drew fierce backlash on social media and elsewhere at a Saturday night rally with former President Donald Trump when she credited him for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade calling it a “victory for white life.”
“I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday,” Miller said, then raised her arms in an animated clap amid cheers from the crowd, which numbered in the thousands on a sweltering day in West Central Illinois.
Her campaign's attempt at a walk-back strikes me as pretty damn lame:
But Miller’s campaign said Saturday night that the congresswoman misread prepared remarks at a rally that Trump held for her in the village of Mendon.
"You can clearly see she is reading off a piece of paper, she meant to say ‘right to life,'" Miller spokesman Isaiah Wartman said.
Miller, R-Illinois, later tweeted: “I will always defend the RIGHT TO LIFE!”
Now, I'm always willing to cut anybody some slack when it's justified, slack being at a premium in this grace-starved world. But you listen to the video and see if there's any chance she was merely garbling the phrase "right to life."
It doesn't help that back in January, she said Hitler was right about one thing, namely, that a political movement that gets the youth on board will be a success. You don't ascribe correctness of viewpoint to Adolf Hitler, about anything, any time.
So now the venom-hearted hordes have just what they need to portray those who champion the rights of people who aren't born yet as racists.
Thanks for nothin', bonehead.
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