Posted on 08/19/2012 4:26:06 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
Congressman Todd Aikin, the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri should withdraw from the Missouri Senate Race immediately over his stupid statement he made today re: "legitimate rape". To not do so, will assure six more years for Claire McKaskill in the U.S. Senate. What he said, in essence, when asked about abortion, was that a "legitimate rape" rarely causes pregnancy. Now, that comment is going viral over the internet.
I witnessed, first-hand, in 1990 how a "rape gaffe" by GOP candidate for Governor of Texas, Clayton Williams, who had a wide lead in the polls at the time, caused him to lose the Governor's Office to Ann Richards; in GOP-Red Texas.
Many of us Conservatives understand what he was saying and are in agreement. But, it was a stupid thing to say. For the sake of this Election and control of the U.S. Senate, Aikin should withdraw immediately or "Turn out the lights; the party's over.
You can read the article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/19/todd-akin-gop-senate-candidate-legitimate-rape-rarely-causes-pregnancy/
Wrong. People want to win this seat and know how crucial it is if we have any chance at all of winning back the US Senate.
Sarah's endorsements are sometimes good, sometimes awful (as in the case of buffoons like Christine O'Donnell). It is simply not a factor at this time. Aiken made what is probably a fatally stupid statement, and it would be better for him to go away now while we have a chance to run a better candidate.
Thanks for pointing that out. That makes the OP's argument totally disingenuous. I would absolutely agree that anyone who said that should drop out of the race. That is a comment that is clearly insulting and irrelevant to a political campaign, much like Romney's insistence on not releasing his tax returns. Akin's discussion was about a key political issue, abortion. He used some confusing words that liberals are using to disingenuously twist his meaning. But I don't think they'll get much traction out of it because it's a shallow attack on word choice with no actual negative message they can claim he said. People who believe in aborting innocent children aren't going to vote Republican anyway and I have no interest in courting their votes.
‘Aikin is spending a lot of his time saying “What I really meant was...”. ‘
Sorry to hear that, the RNC should send a ‘slickness expert’ his way then.
It just seems that we have a large number of drama queens around here lately. There are those Freepers I wouldn’t trust to tell me what the weather was.
I wonder if shaking my computer would shake some sense into people. :)
“What he said, in essence, when asked about abortion, was that a “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy.”
Clearly what he was trying to say was “forcible rape”. There are different kinds of rape... Sex between an 18 Y.O. and a 17 Y.O. may very well be rape, but it’s most often not a crime of violence. And abortion is not the appropriate answer.
I don’t know if he can talk his way out of this or not though. Depends on how good a politician he is...
I would like to see him withdraw.
Missouri is a race we had in the bag until his stupid comment.
Missourians should have listened to Sarah.
Another Tea Party special. This will be the 3rd or 4th Senate seat we’ve lost because they pick idiots.
Speak for yourself. Every election is about abortion as long as the American holocaust against millions of innocent unborn children continues. Would you have run a campaign against Hitler and insisted that the election was NOT about the gas chambers?
Dumb statement but manageable with good damage control.
Exactly. He should brush it off and embarrass the press by saying, “if Joe Biden had said that you’d be singing his praises”. Then move on to what is important, the economy and Obamacare. Talk those two points all the time.
And nobody is paying attention to his position on abortion but instead or wondering why he doesn’t think that ‘normal rape’can lead to pregnancy. People are not concentrating on the massive dollar amount of student loans out there but are instead wondering how anyone can call student loans a cancer. They don’t question why the federal government is involved in education but wonder how any rational person can advocate robbing hungry needy children of a nutritious - but subsidized - school lunch. The good in the Aikins message is drowned out by the bone-headed comments they are wrapped around.
Aikin should be disqualified and replaced by the GOP for sheer stupidity.
Absolutely no excuse.
There are many damage control avenues.
The larger point: there was zero reason for Akin to discuss abortion in great detail. Just state his pro-life views and then STFU. He can vote pro-life AFTER he is elected to the senate.
Why he would be stupid enough to even allow McCaskill into this race is beyond me.
We DESERVE better than this.
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