If conservative Republicans really are waging some sort of "war on women," I think it's safe to say that women are kicking the GOP's ass.

Certainly, issues directly involving women don't seem to be doing the right wing much good.

Just last night, another conservative extremist tore his drawers with women voters -- and a whole lot of men, too -- when he said that his god sometimes uses rape to intentionally bestow upon women "that gift" of life.

Per the Detroit Free Press:

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday when a woman is impregnated during a rape, “it’s something God intended.” 
Mourdock, who’s been locked in a tight race with Democratic challenger Rep. Joe Donnelly, was asked during the final minutes of a debate whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.
“I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that 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 happened,” Mourdock said. 

Clearly, Mourdock realized that he'd shat his pants, because after the debate his campaign felt the need to clarify his comments. Problem is, the clarification is just as troublesome as the original comment: “God creates life, and that was my point. God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that he does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick.”

What is there to twist? Even if he argues that his all-knowing, all-powerful OB/GYN in the sky doesn't "want" rape, he makes quite clear that his super-loving, uber-compassionate overseer is not above using such a violent and degrading human trauma to pass along "that gift from god." (What I'm not sure about is whether this means his god is bypassing the biological failsafes he gave women to prevent pregnancy during rape. Only Todd Akin can answer that one.)

Mourdock's god doesn't want rape. But pregnancy from rape? That's just an example of god's charity, a delivery system for god's divine generosity -- so no, no right to choose for you. And remember, vote Mourdock 2012.

That's it really. That is the belief upon which Mourdock, himself biologically incapable of getting pregnant and highly unlikely to be raped in the first place, rests his argument for a national policy of denying women abortions.

And it's a position shared by a host of his defenders within the Republican Party.

There's no need to take Mourdock's words out of context. His logic's a pretzel in its own right. How much more twisting does that need?