Del. Bob Marshall - Still A Vile individual

I continue to wonder WTF is wrong with voters in Del. Bob Marshall's district that they continue to reelect such a vile and misogynistic  individual the the Virginia House of Delegates.  There seem to be few demographics that Marshall doesn't despise other than white, male conservative Christians.   Worse yet, Marshall makes no apologies for his vile statements and seemingly wears them as a sick badge of honor.  The man needs a serious mental health intervention, not election to public office where he routinely makes Virginia a laughing stock on the national and international stage.  Yet, Marshall remains the true face of the party base of today's Republican Party of Virginia.  The Washington Times looks at Marshall's continued war on women, gays and modernity itself.  Here are excerpts:

Delegate Robert G. Marshall has said that disabled children can be God’s vengeance against women who have had abortions. He has described incest as sometimes voluntary, and he has questioned the sexuality of a Supreme Court justice who has favored marriage equality.

But unlike W. Todd Akin, whose offhanded reference to “legitimate rape” cost the GOP a winnable Senate seat from Missouri in 2012, Mr. Marshall is unbowed over his history of controversial rhetoric as he seeks a seat in Congress representing Northern Virginia.

“I don’t care. I mean, if I say something in public, I say it in public,” Mr. Marshall said Thursday.

Democrats, who have built dossiers aggregating the delegate’s more outrageous statements from recent years, have been salivating at the prospect of his emergence from a GOP primary field this month seeking to replace retiring Rep. Frank R. Wolf.

Unlike Mr. Akin, who appeared to be speaking extemporaneously when he said women’s bodies know how to “shut down” pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape,” Mr. Marshall’s comments aren’t gaffes.

“For all I know, [Justice Anthony] Kennedy’s a homosexual,” he said. “You can’t be doing some of these things without this kind of conclusion.”  Like many of his other comments, Mr. Marshall stands by it.  “Clearly, some of the people who are making these decisions must be rationalizing their own bad behavior,” he said Thursday.

In 2010, at an event calling for an end to state funding for Planned Parenthood, Mr. Marshall suggested that women who have abortions are more likely to face “vengeance” from “nature” in children with a greater likelihood of having developmental disabilities.

The author of a 1989 Boston Globe column asked him about his opposition to all abortion — even in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother. Mr. Marshall, then the research director for the American Life League, posed a baffling question of his own in response.  “What if incest is voluntary?” Mr. Marshall said. “Sometimes it is.”

Although only scant polling has been conducted in his current race, Mr. Marshall says he thinks he has solid support in the April 26 firehouse primary — a contest in which he is working to leverage his outsider status.

I hope Marshall gets the nomination and then goes down in total defeat.  The sooner Marshall is forced into permanent political retirement, the better off Virginians and Virginia will be.