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Now is the time for courage (Akin, abortion)
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| August 22, 2012
| Janet Porter
Posted on 08/23/2012 9:36:15 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando
Watch out, the GOP will send their crack commando unit out after you...
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:50:18 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Sorry, gone rogue.)
To: Yashcheritsiy
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:50:48 AM PDT
by
Perseverando
(Gun control? It's the OBOTS who are filling up prisons for violent crimes, not the Tea Party.)
To: Perseverando
The words “legitimate rape” are not the problem( as has been pointed out, that can easily be clarified as “forcible”), it’s the rest of the quote that is the problem:
If its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
That is a direct quote. It’s a dumb statement; in the same league as “the world is flat”; “the Sun revolves around the Earth”; “I believe in the Easter Bunny” dumb.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:50:50 AM PDT
by
Brookhaven
(Freedom--tastes like chicken)
To: chris37
You know, I was one of the first on these forums to excoriate Akin.
If the Republican party did that though, they could get my vote in November, instead of Virgil Goode.
Romney is costing the Republicans more than Akin is.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:51:16 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: chris37
So, ah, you think Romney is the opnly guy who could defeat Obama?
Doesn’t seem to be doing such a hot job of it so far.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:51:49 AM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
To: Perseverando
Now lets take a trip to Realville. Akin will lose. Rasmussen (the most accurate poll) has him down 10 pts. Screw courage, I want the GOP to take the Senate.
To: EGPWS
I read his statement over and over and without the screaming from the press and (moderate) republicans I just can't see why there is such ado because of it.
Ditto...
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:52:43 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
To: Yashcheritsiy
Will conservatives and Republicans ever get serious about running the MSM blockade and start bringing this message to the people - airing the Democrats' dirty laundry - even if it means the MSM attacks them as "mean-spirited" etc.? Nope.
They don't have the guts.
I mean, is there any identifiable group we should care less about, than women who support abortion?
They're more disordered than the homos.
To: pwatson
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:54:44 AM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
To: Sopater
No HE lost the election by making a stupid, ignorant comment. Of course the press and the Rats were going to take full advantage of it. He should have pulled the plug before the deadline the selfish turd. A coupe more winners like this and the election will be handed to the left.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:55:15 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
To: Perseverando
Want to know why the Republican Party is in such trouble? I believe it comes down to one word: courage.
So you are not courageous if you don't stand up for some wacko who happens to be pro life. Give me a break! Pro life beliefs and intelligence are not mutually exclusive.
The country and my children's future are far more important than defending this goof ball. There are plenty of pro lifers who could step in and defeat McCaskill and put this issue to bed.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:56:18 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
To: Yashcheritsiy
So, ah, you think Romney is the opnly guy who could defeat Obama?
Doesnt seem to be doing such a hot job of it so far.
And now he'll have a convenient scapegoat in Akin if he loses in Nov.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:56:47 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
To: Perseverando
He used the word legitimate before the word rape to mean real, forcible, a tragic event that really took place. Anyone who doesnt think false claims of rape can be made should check with Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v. Wade.No Akin was trying to minimize the implication of his pure Pro-Life position that women should be forced to carry children conceived from rape. He was saying women who are raped do not conceive because their body has a magical property to prevent conception. Therefore, women who claimed they were raped and want to abort a child are lying.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:57:10 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Brookhaven
You mean the Easter Bunny is NOT real?? wow... day, ruined...
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:58:16 AM PDT
by
wyowolf
To: EGPWS
He had no business mentioning the “theory” that the bodies of women being forcibly raped put up natural barriers against getting pregnant. That was an eternally stupid thing to bring up. Later, he said he checked with professional sources and now admits that what he said is medically, scientifically untrue.
He then apologized for saying it.
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.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:58:18 AM PDT
by
txrangerette
("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
To: Kozak
A coupe more winners like this and the election will be handed to the left.
From where I'm standing, that's inevitable when nearly everyone running is on the left.
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posted on
08/23/2012 9:59:24 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
To: EGPWS
Most women can see something wrong with his remarks.
Or as Paul Ryan says, “rape is rape”.
Akin is too ignorant to be a senator.
To: Sopater
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posted on
08/23/2012 10:00:08 AM PDT
by
txrangerette
("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
To: Perseverando
He toast. His seat is gone. Still looking to see if we may have lost the White House in Missouri as well.
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posted on
08/23/2012 10:00:24 AM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
To: C19fan
Rather than explain what Akin said why not start posting the actual comment.
It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, thats really rare, Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. If its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But lets assume that maybe that didnt work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.
Politically imprudent, absolutely. But lets not overstate it.
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posted on
08/23/2012 10:01:16 AM PDT
by
skeeter
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