Meet Richard Mourdock, October’s Todd Akin. You might remember Mourdock, the Republican senatorial candidate from Indiana, from back in May, when he ousted incumbent Dick Lugar in the primary. You might not! You’ll definitely remember him now though. Sorry!

In a debate last night, Mourdock shared his gruesome thoughts about abortion and rape: “I just struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize: Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” So it was it also God’s intention that Mourdock look like a sloppily manufactured, oddly pointy chimera of Victor Garber and George W. Bush? Mourdock’s God has strange tastes!

Capitalism’s God, Mitt Romney, has already issued a statement dissociating himself from Mourdock’s remarks. Per the presidential candidate’s spokesperson: “Governor Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock’s comments, and they do not reflect his views.” Did the topic of abortion simply not come up when Romney decided to endorse Mourdock, then? Don’t Republican men sit around talking about abortion all the time?

Meanwhile, though the “horrible situation of Mourdock’s rape comments,” the Democratic National Committee has conceived—you see what we did there? No? Pay attention, we’re going to do it again—has conceived of a new ad campaign that has a mild shot of swaying undecided female voters toward President Obama.