With an hour left to go for him to be able to seamlessly drop out of the race, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) went on the Sean Hannity show for the second time in as many days to confirm that he’s decided not to drop out.
While acknowledging that a “hefty lineup” of lawmakers have asked him to drop out of the race, “one of the things that’s involved here is a question of principle,” Akin said.
Of Mitt Romney’s call today for Akin to step aside in his Senate contest, Akin said, “Why couldn’t he run his race and I run mine?”
“You misspeak one time, one place, one word,” the congressman said. “Don’t you think that this is a little hyperbole going on here?”
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said on a local TV station Sunday.
“This is not about me,” Akin insisted to Hannity. “Is it possible that the Republican message could be improved if we were strong?”
He added that he had just spoken with Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). “He recognized I had to make a tough decision here,” Akin said. “We talked about it some.”
Though Ryan advised him to think about stepping aside, “he didn’t tell me what to do; that’s because he’s a very respectful and decent guy.”
“The people in Missouri chose me to get the job done,” Akin said.
“They chose you before the mistake,” Hannity interjected.
“Yeah, that’s true,” the congressman muttered.
“Each of us has to look in our heart; we have to try to do what’s right,” Akin added. “My decision is to stay in this race … to make sure that the government is a servant and not the master.”
After Akin hung up, Hannity declared, “The happiest person in this interview is going to be Claire McCaskill.”
This man is certifiable, and is on the fast track to American political infamy.
He is a lot so low that all other lots he should envy.
The fact that this man has been elected so many times says a lot about the people in his district.
He is our own Joe Biden on crack, or on even more crack I suppose I should say.
What has been lost (at least so far) in the national outrage and politics following this inflammatory statement made Sunday by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri is the reality that, on a fundamental level, there is no policy difference between Akin’s comments and the mainstream GOP platform. The draft of the GOP’s official 2012 platform calls for a federal ban on abortion with no exception for rape and incest survivors — the same policy Akin was trying to defend when he asserted that victims of “legitimate rape” have a natural bodily mechanism that prevents them from getting pregnant. The platform also demands that the government “not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion.
This is about more than the words of one man it is about a party that believes at a very fundamental level that the government has the right to force women to carry to term the progeny of her rapist. It’s right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Protecting innocent not-yet-born children is not motivated out a desire to tell women what to do or to (possibly) add more pain and trauma to them; it is motivated out of protecting innocent non-yet-born children.
Pro-choice advocates like to focus the conversation specifically on what the mother is going through. The pain, discomfort, or inconvience
Sorry, accidentally published it before I was finished- as I was saying- the pain, discomfort, or inconvenience that woman experiences should not be treated flippantly, but that does not mean the rights and life of the not-yet-born child become non-existent. The child is real; the child is alive; and the child is innocent (in fact, a not-yet-bonr child is as innocent as you can get), regardless of what his or her projenitors did. The child deserves society’s protection.
By way of analogy, of I have a brother who is a deadbeat drug addict who continually brings pain into the lives of my family, I still don’t have the right to kill him. My pain and grief do not grant me the right to take the life of another.
All of which has nothing to do with his bonehead biology.
So….an unborn baby is “legitimately” innocent, but a rape victim is “not legitimately” innocent and therefore deserves further violation by being forced to carry a pregnancy to term against her will…?
Sorry but your pro-rapist ideology has no place in a civilized Democratic society. Even if the fetus is person (it’s not a monkey or a cat) one person does not have the right to take up residence in another person’s body and use it as an incubator against her will. Also your analogy of the “deadbeat drug addict” is a false equivalent
Take your misogyny to Iran where it belongs. It has much in common with Sharia law.
“…the pain, discomfort, or inconvenience that woman experiences…”
What? What you *don not* know about this subject is breathtakingly sad.
I guess we’ll just have to disagree here. I do not share the view that a zygote blob created by an act of rape has the full standing of a citizen.
The Romney campaign may regret picking someone who shares the same views as Akin and who co-sponsored a bill with him (H.R. 3) that qualified the word “rape” with the word “forcible,” meaning “legitimate.”
“Protecting innocent not-yet-born children is not motivated out a desire to tell women what to do or to (possibly) add more pain and trauma to them; it is motivated out of protecting innocent non-yet-born children”
… despite the fact that it does add to the pain and trauma the woman has already endured.
This same week, a “doctor” in Philadelphia is on trial for murder..
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with 8 counts of first degree murder, for killing least 7 full term, born alive children in his House of Horrors “Abortion Clinic”, as well as a woman who was obtaining one of these (tax funded) “delivery-day” abotions that masquarades as “reproductive healthcare”
This is what the abortion debate should be about.
Not some out-of context sound bite spoken by an obscure republican…..
Everyone who attempts to make him the poster child of the “war on women” is part of the Lie….
The Lie that started with Original Roe vs Wade Lie, and the false (perjury) that she was ever “legitimately raped”
Only Democrats start their arguments with a Lie, and then call people who dare to speak the truth part of the problem.
Their is no excuse for the number of children murdered by Tax Funded Abortionists.
Call Infanticide what it is, and call the Democrats who defend it so vociferously what they are…
Avocates for the Murder of those they deem “inconvenient”
Or, Totalitarian Communists, and their useful idiots.
Because THATS who they and their supporters are.
Period.
The only thing dumber than Todd Akin’s recent SINGLE DUMB COMMENT, is the slew of dumb comments on Pajamas Media.
He says one dumb thing, and suddenly he’s dumber than Joe Biden?!?! Joe Biden who says dumb things ad naseum?
And now Sean Hannity is a king-maker? The man who toes the line for the Republican Party establishment is telling independent thinkers how to think and for whom to vote? Am I in frigging Bizaro World?!?
Why don’t the majority of you just sign up as Democrats? The only difference between you and a Dem is you want America to rule the world and the Dems want the U.N. to do it.
Freaking Bah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.
Douches.
Kiss off what would have been a sure pick up.
So….dropping out of the race solves…?
correct.
I just got done listening to Akin on Hannity. Akin kept talking about how he’s the guy to stand up for conservative principles in this race — as if he’s the only one who can do that. An absolutely frustrating interview to listen to. He seems to care only about himself, and he seems to have no clue about how his comments have poisoned the water. He’d better start writing his concession speech.
I listened to him on Hannity as well this afternoon and all I can say is he is that most dreadfully annoying of all creatures – an arrogant crusader. It’s not enough that the agenda he espouses could be forwarded by others – in his mind only HE can do it.
The more he squealed that it wasn’t about him, the more I knew in his own heart that it was about his ego. I suspect he only surrounds himself with people who agree with him, and by the time he realizes just how much damage he’s done it will be too late to fix.
In fact, it’s too late already but he is too self-absorbed to comprehend this yet.
This man should become a pariah for his stupidity and arrogance.
Y’all need to show me the data, that Mo voters who voted for Akins, have completely turned around and are now going to vote for Clarabell ….. Shakespeare said something about protesting too much….if control of the senate comes down to one man losing, , then the GOP is in very bad shape….I think we know that anyway, right? Or not?
Akin was the weakest Republican candidate to begin with. Prior to this incident, polls showed that the others were beating McCaskill by landslide margins, whereas Akin only beat her by a few percentage points.
With this new scandal, it would only take a shift of a couple more points to give McCaskill the win.
And now that all the GOP SuperPACs have withdrawn their support, Akin will have very little funding for his campaign.
He’s going to lose.
You are correct, Thom. Akin was ahead of Claire by 11 POINTS, as opposed to what the liar, sinz54, said.
My wife and I agree Akin shouldn’t have opened his mouth on abortion at all to the openly Communist, Charles Jaco (“As my favorite economist, Karl Marx, says…”)
We still plan to vote for him over Claire. We met Akin and Brunner (Steelman couldn’t be bothered to show up). A Paul supporter asked both Akin and Brunner one question, “How many ‘Founding Fathers’ can you name?”
Brunner flatly refused to answer. In fact, he wouldn’t give a single detail regarding “cleaning up Washington”.
Akin, however, rattled off 18 (including how each one was a Founder) before he couldn’t pull up any more names. I then cornered him for 45 minutes on Constituional issues, and the man was fantastic. He has a great understanding of history, the Constitution and religion.
He should keep his mouth shut on social issues, especially with Communists around. Aside from that, he’s a Tea Party candidate.
All Akin has to do is claim he’s gay, or join the Democrat Party and this will enhance his resume’.
2 minutes.
I’m on Akins’ side.
Surly Hussein Obama considers Akin to be a wonderful gift from Allah. Akin has got to be among the most selfish and most blind men to ever walk the planet.
Thank goodness we have you here to judge for us. I don’t know what we’d think if you weren’t spoon-feeding our thoughts to us.
You are, after all, the perfect person….to be casting judgement on other human beings.
Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Todd Akin.
you’re that low, mean character yourself.
Akin’s circular reasoning seems to suggest that if a woman who is raped gets pregnant, it wasn’t a “legitimate rape” (I do not believe that this was a matter of misspeaking) because had it truly been rape her Magic Lady Parts™ would have ensured that she would not get pregnant.
Thus, there is no need to consider rape exceptions when banning abortion, because the Magic Lady Parts Pregnancy Prevention™ ensures that in all “legitimate rape” situations, Magic Lady Parts™ is there so the law doesn’t have to be.
There are many reasons to argue against abortion to a greater or lesser degree, and intelligent people can differ on the parameters. Akin is not one of those intelligent people, and his Magic Lady Parts view of the issue cheapens the entire discussion.
Amen.
In fact, I hate to agree with feminists on anything, but their biology is closer to the truth when they say all sex is rape. When you look at how animals do it, the female isn’t usually completely willing. Part of the whole “survival of the fittest” thing is the strong male getting his way with the female. What kind of a dope gets to his age without ever hearing a couple of cats making kittens?
Everybody knows that someone can’t cut you with a knife, unless you want them too, like if they are a surgeon, otherwise your body just shuts down that knife.
This is Akin’s “logic”.
If Akin’s “science” were correct then maybe he could tell us just how it is that Muslim women have so many babies given that they have had their clitoris chopped off and are told from the time they are little girls that any women who gets any enjoyment from sex will burn in hell.
Excellent.
This man Akins is defying all the potentates of the Republican Party. It is a thing of beauty.
Was there nearly this much outrage at Senator McCain when he railed against Rep. Michele Bachmann the other day? No way.
The GOP was counting on that Senate seat. Apparently, most of the other 32 are lost causes.
Now, the GOP is helping to lose it.
McCaskill is odious, she can be beaten, even by Akin.
boehner and mccain bashing bachmann was disgusting, and she’s doing something necessary and brave
akin’s slip of the tongue, or whatever, is of no account and has been blown up all way out of proportion
accept the man’s apology, it was genuine, back him up for it, and he can win that important senate seat
republicans ganging up on akin shows lack of backbone, and diminishes romney’s chances,
The problem, BTW, is that nobody got a pastor that Akin would listen to to “witness” with him. It was clear from the language in his “apology” video that Akin is living in a religious bubble fully as impermeable as the bubble in which the Left lives—and that only an approach based upon his particular religious jargon would have a chance at persuading him to do the right thing.
“a pastor … his particular religious jargon”
(I wouldn’t suggest it except that Akin has already made a fool of himself with the exceptionally stupid “one word” blindness.)
There was a Southern comedian, Brother Dave Gardner ….
We were so close! finally getting the campaign ( 90 days left in FOUR FREAKIN’ YEARS) just focus on the budget, the role of government, loss of our Constitutional rights and liberties.
And what happens? What always happens! The Republicans run out and hunt high and low until they find somebody who’s guaranteed to bugger it up, and make sure he gets center stage. Hillbilly Goat opens up his mouth, on TV of course, and drives the whole thing over the cliff. Neither Romney nor Ryan will be able to get a word in edgewise from now till November. The liberals have got just what they want- a new motor for their phony baloney guilty-go-around. and Akin gave it to them
I too feel incredibly frustrated and worried about this (and am hoping Akin bows out), but I would put less blame on the Republican party (I don’t thiink any national political party is capable of keeping all of its members from never saying anything offensive and stupid) and on the media which is seizing on this one quote and blowing it up while giving Democrats a pass on their iditiic statements. They are the ones hunting “high and low until they can find someone” who will say something stupid that they will then use to smear the whole Republican party.
With all due respect to Mr. Hannity he should get over himself.
Until Akin is caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy, he should be able to beat McCaskill. LET the Democrats beat on him, every syllable they spend on Akin’s language is a syllable they are spending away from the economy and Obambus’ record, and I think the electorate is starting to think that stinks. Maybe Akin was very clever to set up a mousetrap like this, to catch a donkey.
The only trap that was set was the one by McCaskill in Missouri, getting Republican voters to pick Akin over Brunner and Steelman. Akin has already crumbled in the polls (the PPP poll that had him still ahead of ObamaClaire laughably oversampled Republicans, an obvious baiting of Akin to convince him to stick around). The Democrat strategy of baiting the GOP into nominating the nuttiest of the nutjobs has worked before (Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell), and they got them again, and will now hold onto a Senate seat that should’ve been bright red in November.
Do you people hear yourselves?! Are you so stupid as to let the perpetually angry and completely dishonest among us dictate to us the rules of the game? Wow, you people are completely insane. Thank you for doing the dirty work of the progressive cult.
THE MAN MADE AN ERROR IN HIS STATEMENT. No, the error wasn’t in saying what he said. The error was in believing that you bunch of suicidal repulsive republicans would stand with him and believe his response and clarification. But, hell no! We can’t have anything less than a perfect veneer on any candidate that runs with an R beside his name.
He didn’t say that we should stone rape victims. He said we should not kill innocent babies because of what some vile rapist did. Now I will grant you that he didn’t say it clearly enough for a third grader to understand but that is supposed to be our side’s strong point, you know, reading and listening with an educated ear. He also said that women sometimes lie and say that they were raped, just to obtain a abortion.
He didn’t rape anyone unlike Bill “slick willy” the cigar salesman. He didn’t steal candy from some baby that was lucky enough to survive an abortion attempt.
What a bunch of asshats, the lot of ya.
I feel sorry for you.
He did not “make an error in his statement.” Believing that a woman has some magical ability to prevent herself from becoming pregnant after being raped isn’t misspeaking. It’s moonbattery to the highest degree.
No, he said that a woman who was “legitimately” raped had special magical powers to prevent pregnancy, while a woman who wasn’t legitimately raped didn’t have those powers, therefore any woman who claimed she became pregnant via rape is a liar.
That’s what he said. That’s what he believes. That’s who he is.
no, that’s what you’re taking from it – I don’t see those words anywhere. SOmetimes my wife says the floor is so clean you can eat off it – now she is a little obsessed with cleaning, but I know she, nor I, would ever do that, and I don’t believe it anyway. I think the real issue with you, is the guy is talking like a democrat, and that gives you (and me) the creeps, but ABC (anyone but Clarabell
He was asked a serious question about rape and abortion. He wasn’t making a lighthearted quip about washing a floor.
He said, and I quote, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”
He said this quite seriously. And what his words add up to is that a woman who gets pregnant from rape wasn’t “legitimately” raped, and is therefore lying about rape.
His words don’t mean anything else, no matter how hard he tries to pretend they do.
What kind of twisted man would support another man who thinks like this?
I sure wouldn’t want my daughter in the same room as a man like that.
I really don’t want to defend what he said because it was politically stupid even if it was maybe 4.3% scientifically valid, but he DID qualify it even in the original statement, that even if a woman DID GET PREGNANT ANYWAY, then … whatever.
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”
Let’s re-word and expand that, shall we?
“Statistically, the incidence of pregnancy from rape is very rare,less than that of consensual sex. So, in an actual rape, it seems that the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down. The problem is that, if we make an exception for rape, then women who want an abortion are going to falsely claim to have been raped, thus circumventing the law, rendering it meaningless. This is a totally predictable consequence, 100% sure to happen. You watch, make that exception for rape, and the statistical incidence of pregnancy from rape will skyrocket.”
We cannot solve our problems, because we cannot have a reasonable, substantive discussion in soundbites. And also because idiots like Akin tend to speak in absolute terms, instead of using “it seems”. Some expression allowing some doubt goes a long way towards giving you a way out, and also towards keeping an open mind about things. It used to be the standard in society to allow for some self-doubt. Akin is paying the price for using absolute terms. He handed the other side a club with which to beat him silly.
Of course, being a professional politician, he will not drop out, if he still thinks there is even a chance he can win. I mean, what the heck else will he do for a living? Where else can he find a job so sweet?
The female body doesn’t have any way to magically shut down its reproductive system when a woman is raped. Statistically, given the small window of opportunity for pregnancy during her cycle and that some rapes do not culminate in ejaculation, and that some rape victims are on the pill, or are pre- or post-menopausal, only about 5% of rape victims become pregnant.
“Legitimate” rape is a term that only exists in the minds of twisted, evil men who think it’s sometimes okay to force a woman to have sex, in which case it’s not “rape rape”, not really, or she was asking for it, or the infamous “sometimes no means yes”, or whatever else it is these pigs use to justify their criminal activity.
And this is what happens when you try to create laws meant to circumvent another law. When men with rapist mentalities start to create dehumanizing laws with the intent of forcing women to carry their rapists’ babies, karma comes back atcha big time. Now Romney-Ryan are going to be dogged with Ryan’s similar rapist mentality from now ’til November.
And the guy gets the full congressional pension. He doesn’t need this job — give me a break. God only knows how he’s already used his office to feather his nest, anyway. Really — you’re going to play the poor old man, he’ll be forced to live in reduced circumstances card after what he said? Good. Hope he starves to death. Cry me a river…who freakin’ cares what happens to him now?
@Circular Firing Squad (R)
You nailed it. I can’t tell if the majority of commenters are Progressive Republicans, or lying Democrat plants. It’s basically the same thing, I suppose, but it’s frustrating. You like to think “your team” is similar to you in philosophy.
Obviously, that’s not the case, and hasn’t been for a long time. That’s why the Tea Partiers are trying to flush all the garbage out of the Republican Party in the first place. It’s going to be an uphill slog, as this situation proves.
My Akin ass.
It’s the economy stupid. Emphasis on stupid.
Bravo, Dems. Bra-vo. Clairabot and the Dems assessed that Akin would be the weakest opponent in a general election. Claire & the Dems pumped $1.5 million into the Republican primary to ensure that Akin won. Their assessment proved most accurate.
Crazy Joe Biden.
“You didn’t build that [small business]–someone else made that happen.”
Paul Ryan rejuvenating the fiscal conservative grssroots.
Forget about those campaign memes: this idiot Akin just ensured that he will be the focus of the presidential race for the next ten weeks.
Sure, Biden says worse things any given week. But Biden is a liberal, and therefore gets a pass.
It isn’t fair, but on the right we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard of not saying stupid stuff, as we all know the MSM is actively working against us. Akin failed that test, and failed it miserably.
That wasn’t Joe who said that.
Are you sure? He is standing behind O’dummy and could have easily used ventriloquism to make you believe that the dummy said it…
Besides, Joe “Chaaaaaains” Biden has said worse and more often.
I can believe that the teleprompter was jerking his chain.
I wrote the post with “Crazy Joe Biden”, Soetoro’s infamous “You didn’t build that…” quote, and “Paul Ryan’s rejuvenation…” in successive lines.
I did not intend to suggest Biden made the “You didn’t build that” comment.
I was listing several campaign memes–Obama’s contempt for small business, Paul Ryan’s ability to rally skeptical fiscal conservatives, and Biden’s general insanity–to show that Akin’s rape statements just pushed those three themes, all positives for the right, off the front page. A gleeful MSM is more than happy to play along with this shift in the narrative.
As for how I posted as “Anonymous”, I have no idea.
How can any person with any decency at all now vote for someone who basically believes that any woman who is pregnant and says she was raped is a liar and a slut? This Akin should be a Muslim. In his heart he is a Muslim. If Mark Levin says to vote for him anyway, then Mark Levin might as well join the Muslim Brotherhood as the Founding Fathers and Ronald Reagan would cast him out!
sorry feralcat, I usually agree with you but “someone who basically believes that any woman who is pregnant and says she was raped is a liar and a slut?”
is total nonsense. he didn’t say that and you would know that with a little research.
the fact is for anyone with a little common sense, is the fact that there are woman every year that claim to be raped and in fact were not. pregnant or not is irrelevant.
you are being disingenuous.
The guy just made up a theory completely off the wall, and the upshot was that there are no pregnancies from rape. Spin all you want, but not only did he say what he said, but it’s scientific crap.
And as several people have pointed out, it’s a complete distraction from any serious debate about abortion. Which is also a distraction from the debate that should be going on about the economy.
Donks +1. We don’t need somebody making own goals for the other team.
“and the upshot was that there are no pregnancies from rape. ”
That is absolutely NOT what He said.
In fact he made it clear that sometimes there are pregnancies from rape. I just heard his whole statement, for the first time, on Fox. So you are ahem…mis-spoken it would seem.
Leave the mis-information and hyperbole to the progressive left please.
Correction: no pregnancies from legitimate rape. Or was that rape-rape?
Perhaps you have not heard his whole comment Snork.
This is it:
“REPRESENTATIVE TODD AKIN: People always want to try and make that as one of those things, well, how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. You know, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
Notice where Akin says…”But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something.” Obviously you are mistaken by saying that Akin does not acknowledge there are pregnancy caused by rape… or as Whooppi would state it .. Rape Rape (love how you got that into the conversation).
Let me be clear, I am not defending the mans position. I do not know enough of any studies on such. I also want to be clear I s’port a woman’s right to have a abortion in rape cases. But only if there is a police report documenting that it really is a rape…. not a rape rape of convenience months later.
Having said that, this really is much ado over very little. Typical republican hyperventilation when the leftist media does a Borking.
My thoughts on this anyways
A Simple(minded some would say) Bricklayer
Thank you.
sorry but he needs to step aside. i have a goal of retaking the senate. this man should have kept his mouth shut. he didn’t and is now compounding the error by holding on to what he has already lost for what reason????? he has become a liability. time to move on and let someone win a needed spot. that is it pure and simple.
That’s what he said, regardless of the words he chose to say it with. He said women who were “legitimately” raped would not become pregnant because of some mystical woo-woo vajayjay powers her “legitimacy” bestowed upon her. The upshot of that twisted mentality is that women who become pregnant via rape must therefore be lying about being raped.
But of course YOU support that mentality. No surprises there.
And thank you. We will convince the defenders of Imam Akin of the error of their ways yet.
Okay so both you and Nora go vote for Dear Leader. Geez you two are sounding more like progs with each passing comment. Get over yourselves or get a room.
Both of you are acting as if he was speaking to you directly and now you are showing grave indignation-per progs.
Hyperbole much?
One misspeak, or quite frankly even if he holds these views to heart, is small potatoes…. hardly JIHAD against women.
LOL@YOU.
If I am to defend truth justice and the American way … and womanhood … from an assault by Muslim throwbacks to the 7th century, like Imam Akin, would you have me do it stingily?
Truthfully will suffice.
On a personal note, you sound more like some Imam issuing a Fatwa than anything else. Particularly anything that resembles reason.
Rest assured, I will give your critique the proper consideration.
Imam al Feral bin Abdullard Stupido hath spoken.
This a$$hole could cost us not only the Senate, but the Presidency! He’s handed the Dems, and the liberal media, a hammer to bang every Republican on the head. This is worse than pathetic.
And they deserve it! It is part of their party platform, so they should come out and defend it. It’s really that simple.
Akin’s ignorant comments about rape are not part of the Republican party platform.
The GOP party platform calls for a Constitutional Amendment banning ALL abortion. There is NO exception for rape victims, even the ones who aren’t lying sluts who just want an abortion cause they’re fun.
Read it yourself and get back to me …
Pass CW by. He is not at all right in the head.
You haven’t read your own party platform. The Republican platform committee approved the draft on Tuesday that calls for a constitutional ban on abortion without exception for rape victims.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79945.html
It’s true. I didn’t write it.
I smell donkeys in this thread.
Really?
Smells more like a herd of stump broke RINO’s used to being mounted by donks to me.
Snif ..snif, yep THAT smell is unmistakable.
LOL! Nobody has addressed the President’s statement that “rape is rape” yet.
If no qualifiers are necessary, why does the lexicon include statutory rape, date rape, gang rape, sexual battery, sexual assault, forcible rape, rape rape…
You forgot marital rape, genocidal rape, good rape…
By “legitimate” he obviously meant “actual”.
The only thing I question is whether Akin was a legitimate republican, or a secret democrat out on a suicide mission.
I a quite sure that Hussein Obama considers Akin to be a gift from Allah and is probably still bowing to Meca as we ‘speak’.
Now that you say that, I can’t believe I joked about it. Akin may definitely be a plant: a Bilder-mason, Eye Luminati, or whoever the hell is running things.
And what the EFF is that supposed to mean? Lying behind your insinuation is some kind of notion that women claim they have been raped to get an abortion. In other words they are liars and we need to make sure we distinguish the “illegitimate” liars from the “legitimate” good girls. Please clarify for us what you mean if I haven’t.
With his Mohammedan “science” and attitude toward woman, Akin is a de facto Muslim throwback to the 7th century. How could any non follower of Mohammad possibly vote for him now?
If it were not for sent by Allah Akin we could be concentrating on
Forward!
Lysenko lives.
As Mark Twain once said approximately, ” Suppose I was an idiot. Suppose I was a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ”
Akin certainly has the mental acuity to be a member in good standing of this august body. What a dodo!
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. – Mark Twain
Akin should step away, he was a weak candidate to begin with and he is a laughing stock now. But let’s consider the plank just inserted into the Party platform: support for a constitutional amendment banning all abortions with no exemption for rape or incest. Sure they allow some wiggle room saying the decision should be left to the states, but come on, this is not a winning strategy.
Akin should stay in the race but as the Muslim Brotherhood candidate. This would be a good compromise.
And as the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Hussein Obama would be hard pressed to not endorse him. And John McCain and Marco Rubio would attack anyone saying an critical words about the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate.
Christian Taliban would be more appropriate.
I want to see Akin down front in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins, giving a scholarly presentation on the emotion-triggered reproductive switch-off function in the female biologic system.
He would be carried from the hall on a palanquin as PhD candidates threw rose petals on the path.
It would undoubtedly win him a Nobel Prize.
Tens of thousands would be out of work as the contraceptive industry collapsed.
Planned Parenthood would sing his praises like a chorus of heavenly angels.
Akin has basically said there is no reason to have a rape exemption because whenever a woman is “legitimately”(forcibly) raped her body, in effect, puts out a force field around all her eggs so that the rapist’s sperm can’t get to them. The man is a throwback to the 7th century and should go run for senator in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
And this is what Akin actually said.
“REPRESENTATIVE TODD AKIN: People always want to try and make that as one of those things, well, how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. You know, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
Hmnn, maybe I need my reading glasses… do not see anything about a “forcefield” in that.
Maybe there is some science behind Akin’s statement or maybe not.
All I know is this is just another progressive/Borking and typical repub cowardice to call it such.
Right or wrong on the science… Akin’s words are but a minor gaff, if that, in a sane world.
A Simple Bricklayer.
Seriously? Seriously? MAYBE there is science to support his Alzheimer’s-riddled, misogynistic, rapist mentality claims…? Are you freakin’ serious?
No, there isn’t. There is no “science” behind his assertion that a “legitimately” raped woman’s body has special, magical defenses that a “not legitimately” raped woman doesn’t have.
Oh, and for the record, you great ignoramus, witches don’t float, either…
In order for there to be actual “science” behind his claims, that implies people set out to purposely rape a group of women to calculate the reproducible results. Never mind all the actual factors that would make this “experiment” near-impossible, it’s so beyond reality & decency that I politely suggest you stop claiming this “knowledge” as to prevent people from understanding your actual depth of ignorance.
If you drop a perfectly good Republican Congressman based on gotcha quote mining and feminist histrionics you are no better than the Democrats and should quietly retire while the rest of us either vote or stock up on guns, butter, and foreign currency for the coming economic collapse. The hunger of the legacy media for new stories in the face of extreme voter apathy will bury this lede, and even if it doesn’t, you should know far better than to make any plans for the future based on OHH MY LIFE IS OVER THAT MAN ON MY SIDE EXPRESSED INCOMPLETE THOUGHTS ABOUT A SACRED SUBJECT IN PUBLIC!!!
I’d say you were acting like children, but they have sense enough to do things like say, run an African bush army. People who call for his resignation are acting like teenage girls, except most are still lacking the youthful beauty that makes people protective of their tender psyches.
Either listen to children or let your testicles descend. And quit whining about ISLAM. Islam’s war is upon public beauty and private logic, not women. Their leaders are driven by the demands of older women to a much larger extent than us (who do you think forces their daughters to undergo circumcision, anyways? Whose eyes monitor the streets far more comprehensively than any camera security system? Who whispers in the ears of the sheikhs? Who can demand sweet, sweet, attention and social prestige by sending their surplus sons to die as suicide bombers? Who really fits best into an honor and shame culture, and who is more likely to demand liberty, equality, and fraternity?)
All who join this Two Minutes Hate are themselves taking on the tactics of the desert hags, and have forgotten civilization already.
“one word…”
Like “Macaca?”
Oh, and his entire statement was a page borrowed from Clayton Williams’ playbook of 22 years ago. In that case Claytie’s 12 point lead over Ann Richards evaporated almost overnight.
Akin is toast and he is too much of an egotistical blowhard to admit it!
Republicans never fail to attack devour their wounded.
I hope someone is recording the list of the congressional seats that are lost because of dummies like Akins. Last time Angle helped Dirty Harry Reid win his seat and then there were the others….
(I posted this comment in another article and figure it also fits here)
The problem is not Akin, it’s the Republican Party and conservatives as a whole. Everyone makes mistakes and have their own weird comments (I’m looking at you Mitt “I don’t care about the poor” Romney). Speaking of Romney, if we really held our candidates to high standards, than he really wouldn’t be running right now.
If we weren’t so ready to throw Akin under the bus, this turdstorm wouldn’t really go as far as it did. We could’ve defend him without acknowledging his comments, we could’ve ignore this issue as to not give it attention, we could’ve shift the attention to the incompetent incumbent McCaskill, but noooo. Of course, there’s also liberal trolls fanning the flames of this issue, but the fault really lies on the conservative side.
I read what Akin said that prompted all of this brouhaha.
The theoretical implication of his position is thus:
My wife and I are a happily married couple. We have a good life, travel a lot, and save reasonable amounts of money for early retirement (presumably to live in Costa Rica or something like that). We have no kids, and no desire to have them. We live the life we want and have no desire to change it.
My wife could be raped and could end up pregnant as a result of that rape. Akin would insist that she experience the pregnancy (and experience all of the physiological and morphological changes involved, not to mention the psychological changes) as well as the permanent changes in our life dreams and life styles – all as a result of a single violent act none of us wanted.
I find this position to be so outrageous, so obscenely offensive, I find it difficult to believe anyone right in the head would even consider this a legitimate position!!! It disgusts me to think anyone considers it reasonable!!!
I want this guy (Akin) railroaded out of politics with EXTREME PREJUDICE. I don’t care what the cost is to the GOP. I want this guy purged forever from politics by any means necessary!!!
I have both a wife and a daughter.
God forbid it ever happen to either them, but if it did you could take your reaction, multiply it by about 10,000, and you might come close to approximating my state of mind under similar circumstances. The idea that some sanctimonious *ick like Akin would try to force either of them to go through a pregnancy and deliver a full term baby under those circumstances is infuriating.
I don’t say every person should take that position, and for those willing to go through it I say God bless them – but don’t even think of trying to impose it on those I love.
If the Republicans continue to insist on sticking their noses in women’s vaginas, they will end up sucking ass! How stupid is this guy. And he is on the Government Science Commission. Did he skip biology class?