Akin has done inestimable harm to the pro-Life cause and to everyone who has devoted their life to that cause. He’s undone decades of progress towards the pro-life cause.
I can tell you the footsoldiers on the pro-Life front line (the people who actually put themselves out there for the cause) are not happy with Akin and want him GONE. They certainly do not want him as a pro-Life spokesperson.
No one has done more for the pro-Life cause and to everyone who has devoted their life to that cause than James Dobson -- and HE DISAGREES WITH YOU VEHEMENTLY.
Did you even bother to read the article???
I'd say that's a little strong.
This is at best a precarious situation, but saying he has set back decades of progress in the pro-life movement is simply not true. Akin should have removed himself as the GOP candidate, what he said was profoundly stupid, the firestorm that hit him from all stripes in the GOP movement (including lots of fine conservatives) was entirely his own doing.
At this point, I wish there was a simple answer, he's stubbornly refused to drop out, the GOP (rightfully so) has distanced themselves from his stupidity, yet here we are with no seeming way out of this impasse.
Akin got bad advice, took it, so what do we do now?
I disagree 100%. His comment would have fallen by the wayside like a pebble in a deep well were it not for the GOP drumming. Apparently the GOP want his Dem opponent to win. What real conservatives and hopefully Republicans need to understand is quite simple:
1. The opinion/noise/attacks/lies/propaganda by the Dems/MSM has to be TOTALLY IGNORED!
2. The Rs need to ATTACK BACK with a strong conservative message! No whining! No apologies! No shiveling! No trying to make nice! No trying to get them to loike us!!!! Act like warriors, not damned eunuchs!
I can tell you the footsoldiers on the pro-Life front line (the people who actually put themselves out there for the cause) are not happy with Akin and want him GONE. They certainly do not want him as a pro-Life spokesperson.
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Really? I thought Christians dominated the pro-Life front — and I thought that Christians believed in showing mercy and repentance to one who has stumbled and asked for forgiveness.
If making one stupid statement in an interview is an unforgiveable sin (even after apologizing for it profusely), despite YEARS of CONSISTENT pro-life voting in the House, please count me out of your particular self-righteous battalion of pro-life “footsoldiers.”
Something about rioting A-rabs burning our legation and such refocuses the mind
Obama said we were past those dark times ~ but he obviously lied!