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Now is the time for courage (Akin, abortion)
WND ^ | August 22, 2012 | Janet Porter

Posted on 08/23/2012 9:36:15 AM PDT by Perseverando

Exclusive: Janet Porter joins pro-life leaders as they stand with Rep. Todd Akin

Want to know why the Republican Party is in such trouble? I believe it comes down to one word: courage.

When Democrats misspeak, we make them vice president. When Republicans misspeak, Republicans are the first in line to throw them under the bus.

When Rep. Todd Akin stood for protecting all innocent human life in a recent interview, he used a word with more than one meaning. He used the word “legitimate” before the word “rape” to mean “real,” “forcible,” a tragic event that “really took place.” Anyone who doesn’t think false claims of rape can be made should check with Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of Roe v. Wade. The infamous abortion case, based on her false rape claim, has resulted in the deaths of 55 million innocent human lives.

But because “legitimate” could also modify the word rape, some in the Republican Party are practically writing Willie Horton ads about it, pretending that the congressman is “pro-rape” and wants to let rapists out on furlough. This “interpretation” of the congressman’s words doesn’t resemble reality, and everyone knows it.

If Republicans love their country, they will quit using fiction to shoot their own and focus on the real enemies of life: Democrats Claire McCaskill and Barack Obama, who stand for legally sucking the brains out of half-born babies in a procedure called partial-birth abortion.

In America, we shouldn’t kill people for the crimes of their father. And in politics, we shouldn’t kill statesmen for a badly worded sound bite.

Thankfully, there are men and women of courage who stand with Rep. Akin, beginning with the founder of National and International Right to Life, Dr. Jack Willke, who said:

“Congressman Todd Akin remains a strong and courageous

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: abortion; akin; mccaskill; normamccorvey; prolife; roevwade; toddakin
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To: MrEdd; chris37
Romney is costing the Republicans more than Akin is.

Exactly. Akin can cost us a Senate race (not even a seat, just a pickup), Romney is going to cost us the Presidency, and any coattail effects to boot.

Let's face it - if the GOP was fielding a decent conservative candidate, we'd be crushing Obama right now. I'm not even asking for some kind of hard-right Constitution Party-style candidate, just a reasonable mainstream movement conservative who understands the need to balance and stand on all three legs of fusion conservatism. Such a candidate wouldn't have the base troubles Romney has, and wouldn't have to try to run on the now-fervent-but-inevitably-will-play-itself-out "Anybody but Obama" energy. People naturally are much more interested in being in it for the long haul when they have someone that they can genuinely vote FOR, rather than just supporting to vote AGAINST the other guy. That's all Romney has. He is fracturing the GOP and the conservative movement in general, because people know he's a phony. A lot of people support him only tepidly because he's not Obama, but this doesn't translate into massive grassroots action of the sort traditionally needed to really make the ground game effective. Sure, Romney is a great organiser, but he's going to need more than just a cadre of loyal supporters to win the ground game nationwide. He needs the base. And a lot of them, while perhaps voting for him, aren't really inclined to put a lot of effort into his campaign.

End result - Obama is probably going to get re-elected, and the fault lies with Romney and his supporters.

41 posted on 08/23/2012 10:01:31 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: Cheerio
When Democrats misspeak, we make them vice president. When Republicans misspeak, Republicans are the first in line to throw them under the bus.

IT HAS TO STOP.
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Just because the 'Rats have no standards doesn't mean we have to accept stupidity.

42 posted on 08/23/2012 10:02:54 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: cripplecreek

bump

So he said something stupid and immediately backtracked

which politician hasn’t?

Are we really going to allow the MSM and leftists in both parties choose our candidates this way?


43 posted on 08/23/2012 10:03:15 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: txrangerette

“Inaccurate” or “wrong”? Sure.

“highly offensive”? Not so sure I see it.


44 posted on 08/23/2012 10:04:22 AM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: wyowolf
Sorry, no Easter Bunny.

But there is a real Robin Hood, who want to take from the rich and give to the poor government.


45 posted on 08/23/2012 10:04:57 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Freedom--tastes like chicken)
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To: Signalman
Good idea. Lets go to Realville.

We wonder why Boehner never stands to fight the great battles that must be won to save our republic.

Answer: Because too many pitiful surrender monkeys typified by comments at this forum run for cover from the little battles, like defending and supporting the conservative Akin.

46 posted on 08/23/2012 10:05:31 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Exterminate rats.)
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To: Perseverando

NOT THIS TIME! Akin will be hammered in November. Lack of courage did not cause Akin’s poll numbers to plummet. It was his own words, which can’t be fixed or explained. Porter is wrong. Bob


47 posted on 08/23/2012 10:07:15 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("You're a worn-out face in all the hang-out places where the lost souls congregate." Al Stewart)
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To: okie01
Just because the 'Rats have no standards doesn't mean we have to accept stupidity.

Go ahead, continue to think you can get your message out when the MAIN stream media (I abhor that term) is PROPAGANDIZING for the RAT party. You will never even overtake that.
48 posted on 08/23/2012 10:08:32 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Yashcheritsiy
Actually, the only thing we had going for us as conservatives was that if Romnay lost to Obama in November we would have been able to blame the GOPe, the RINOs and Romney.

If Akin loses the Senate seat and or if Romney loses Missouri and the general election, it will be the fault of Akin. We will no longer be able to blame the RINOs by saying "see we told you so". Thanks to Akin, blaming the GOP Establishment went out the window.

But now the table has turned. Akin is hurting the conservative movement.

49 posted on 08/23/2012 10:10:18 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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To: txrangerette
When he was asked about abortion in cases of rape, all he needed to say was, I believe a baby is a living human being and it doesn’t make sense in my beliefs to abort the baby who is alive and who is innocent.

To absurdly start an argument over the “theory” that a woman who is forcibly raped is unlikely to get pregnant, and in the process of bringing that up, actually use the words “legitimate rape”, is so beyond the pale it’s beyond the belief he “went there”.

Even HE admits that now.

He just doesn’t want to suffer the consequences of leaving the race.

That's it in a nutshell. (Or should I say Akin-shell?)

50 posted on 08/23/2012 10:10:28 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: Jacquerie
Sadly many have not yet learned that no one ever won a battle, much less a war, by retreating.

The democrats are fighters, we are not.

51 posted on 08/23/2012 10:10:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: cripplecreek
A time to vote for stuck on stupid comments. One has to call him to get a court order to get him off the ticket, that would be selfless and caring for the unborn and their mothers. I agree these kind of candidates who run on their personally ego is what is wrong with politics. I am a profile in courage, please spare me.
52 posted on 08/23/2012 10:11:39 AM PDT by wmap
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To: nhwingut
The guy is a fool who has the potential to take down the entire party.

What really hurt was the timing. Akin ran his mouth while idling his brain just a few days before the ballot registration deadline, thus stretching out the news cycle on the story with "will he or won't he" speculation. Right after that came the drafting of the abortion plank, leading to a whole new opportunity for the Democrats to make Todd Akin the face of the entire party. And now it's the run-up to the convention, with another news cycle of speculation about the impact of this mess.

It's like the party is under a curse or something.

53 posted on 08/23/2012 10:13:11 AM PDT by Inconvenient Truthteller
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To: Latecomer
Most women can see something wrong with his remarks.

It's not just that this goofy notion of magic anti-rapist-seed defensive shields is factually incorrect. It's that it carries an extremely offensive implication -- if a woman gets pregnant as a result of rape, she wasn't really raped at all and was asking for it.

54 posted on 08/23/2012 10:13:22 AM PDT by Inconvenient Truthteller
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To: Brookhaven

Thanks to Akin, the dems are now motivated in Missouri and Akin is down by double digits. That means more could be voting for Obama than against Obama. If so, we lose Missouri.

You think Obama loses the election if we lose Missouri?


55 posted on 08/23/2012 10:15:04 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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To: Perseverando

Akin is radioactive. The commie press will repeat his insane remark 24 hours a day every day until he’s gone, using it to try and tar every other Republican in 2012 and to avoid having to report on the economy and Obama’s record in general. This is what the commie media have been waiting for: a way to define Republicans as extremist nut jobs, and Akin is their perfect storm. I don’t care who he is or what he stands for, Akin has simply got to go.

Akin and his type are delusional and need to realize this freak show is going to take us over the cliff with him.

That Akin stays in the race is just one more proof that officials in both parties are in it just for themselves. Nothing is more important to them than being elected or re-elected. Their ONLY true “principal” is getting elected.


56 posted on 08/23/2012 10:15:20 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Perseverando
This 'stand with the guy' stuff seems all nice and noble, but it's based on the premise that the only thing wrong was his use of the word 'legitimate.' He also said that a woman's body can somehow magically reject the seed of a rapist; this is in no way true, and his saying so clearly was not just a misstatement or poor choice of words. It's sad that this WND article (I usually like WND) simply ignores that.

The man must go, based not on the whole legitimate/forcible thing, but his inaccurate belief about conception via rape.

And it's not like the choice is between him and pro-choice candidates. We could replace him with a pro-life candidate he beat in the primary; they all polled ahead of McCaskill, whereas Akin is polling double digits behind.

But what it boils down to is this:
If you want a pro-life person in that Senate seat, you're not going to get one by sticking with an idiot who now has no chance of winning. That'll just get the pro-choice Dem elected. Our best chance of getting a pro-life person is elected is to replace Akin with one of the pro-life people he beat in the primary, all of whom polled favorably against McCaskill.

The worst thing to do to get a pro-life candidate elected is to keep Akin as that candidate. The man needs to step down, and step down literally yesterday. This whole matter is bigger and more important than him.
57 posted on 08/23/2012 10:15:20 AM PDT by verum ago (A good physical therapist is half friend, half sadist.)
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To: cripplecreek

“A time for choosing.”

I choose to win.


58 posted on 08/23/2012 10:15:51 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Jacquerie
too many pitiful surrender monkeys typified by comments at this forum run for cover from the little battles, like defending and supporting the conservative Akin.

He made an ignorant and ill-considered remark that destroyed his ability to get votes outside his base, thereby shooting his campaign not in the foot but through the head - and no amount of defense or support will change that.

59 posted on 08/23/2012 10:15:54 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: MrEdd

60 posted on 08/23/2012 10:16:06 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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