Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes the candidate for moron of the year. Sen. David Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, who voted against a bill requiring pregnant women to be tested for HIV because, he said, it would wrongly protect women and their unborn children from the consequences of “sexual promiscuity.”

Yes, you heard it right. And wait, there’s more. The best is yet to come:

From the Rocky Mountain News

SEN. DAVE SCHULTHEIS, R-Colorado Springs, on Wednesday voted against Senate Bill 179, which requires health care providers treating pregnant women to test those women for HIV unless they opt out[4]. This provision is intended to ensure that steps can be taken to prevent mother to child transmission of the disease if the mother is infected.

* What he said during the debate: “This stems from sexual promiscuity for the most part and I just can’t go there. We do things continually to remove the consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly. I’m not convinced that part of the role of government should be to protect individuals from the negative consequences of their actions.”

* What he said afterward: “What I’m hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that. The family will see the negative consequences of that promiscuity and it may make a number of people over the coming years … begin to realize that there are negative consequences and maybe they should adjust their behavior. We can’t keep people from being raped. We can’t keep people from shooting each other. We can’t keep people from jumping off bridges. People drink and drive, and they crash and kill people. Poor behavior has its consequences.”

Yes, you don’t need glasses. You are reading this correctly. Schultheis really said he is “hoping” people “have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby …” He is hoping that a woman who is HIV positive will pass on the infection to her baby, and that will “teach her a lession” about her promiscuous behavior. And gee, maybe the baby will die a horrible death from AIDS, and won’t that bring a smile to Schultheis’s ugly face (and he is ugly).

And let me guess. The man who hopes and even wants an innocent baby to contract AIDS calls himself pro-life. And I bet he’s even opposed to embryonic stem cell research–you know, fighting for the lives of pre-embryos chilling out in petri dishes. While at the same time wishing an HIV infection on a baby, just to help control “negative” behaviors.

The man is a Republican, and while I am hopeful that there are Republicans with brains and some degree of compassion left in this country, I am waiting to hear the outrage. The silence is deafening. Where are the intelligent Republicans who want to keep their party from completely imploding? Why aren’t they voicing outrage over this moron’s comments? Why are they afraid to speak up and condemn this idiocy?

The dork is free to say whatever he wants, but his fellow party members in Colorado and elsewhere should be waiting in line to say that this is not party policy–that they do not fervently pray that those evil slutty women pass lethal viruses onto their babies. The condemnation should have been quick and loud.

But there’s been nary a peep from the party.

And where is the outrage from the medical and nursing community?

I think that Senator Schultheis needs to be locked up for a few days and undergo a psychologic evaluation. And I’m sure that he considers himself to be a good Christian. I’m sure that’s exactly what Jesus would say, and if Jesus was here on Earth now, I’m sure that he’d be inviting Dave Dickhead out for a beer and slapping him on the back. Way to go, Dickhead. Let those sluts pay for their actions.

And then Jesus would tell David Schultheis that God has a special place in Heaven for good Christian men like himself. It’s called hell. And I imagine that good old Dave is going to be sentenced to having AIDS for all eternity. The same sentence that he’s wishing on an innocent baby.

I’d better stop writing now before I go into V-fib….