A shared feature of virtually all totalitarian states and cultures is the tactical use of accusation as evidence of guilt as a further means of invalidating political opponents. To be charged by the state or its supporters is to be guilty, since why would one be charged if one were truly innocent?
Instrumental in making this tactic successful is the acquiescence of a state-run or state-friendly news media, which parrots the approved narrative while denying the validity of opponents, without dispassionate consideration of either facts or argumentation.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev and other Soviet dissidents have painstakingly documented such tactics as practiced under Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. In those days, it was difficult to imagine an America so far gone down the path of socialist orthodoxy, news media uniformity and cultural complicity that the merest accusation would effectively serve as proof of guilt, justifying social condemnation. I find increasingly that this is no longer the case.
Witness the common behavior of all Democrat Party spokespersons, whether named Axelrod, Wasserman-Schultz, LaBolt, or Plouffe. Seemingly within minutes of a Republican or conservative offering any comment deemed "controversial" by the Left, the comment is offered as proof of guilt of (choose: racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, intolerance, etc.) and then extended to smear all Republicans/conservatives with the same tar-soaked brush.
Regardless of what one thinks of Missouri's Todd Akin and his ill-considered thoughts on rape and conception, the accusation-as-guilt tactic has been employed against him, and at least to this moment, it has been done successfully.
I agree, and while I could be wrong, it’s entirely possible that someone is attempting to lay the groundwork for a follow-up (also false) allegation... the MSM does this with some frequency.
As for Akin, he’s not the first politician to make a stupid gaff, it’s actually very common, but rarely gets reported; and I know in my heart that some party elites wanted to tank his candidacy and were simply waiting for the right excuse. The story was simply blown out of proportion too far and too fast... it smells of a coordinated effort.