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Missouri GOP Senate Candidate should withdraw from Race Now (Vanity)
August 19, 2012 | pistolpackinpapa

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/


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KEYWORDS: akin; gaffe; missouri; mo2012; senatecandidate; vanity
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator

To: JediJones
Then please ask Mitt Romney to step down because of all the time he's spending explaining why he's not releasing his taxes.

No kidding, that man is a freakin moron. He should have stepped down after that bizarre Michigan tees speech he gave twice.
42 posted on 08/19/2012 4:55:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: VanDeKoik
This group of dramatic-chipmunks sees a shallow opportunity to try to knock off this guy and maybe get him replaced by the candidate they thought should have been the primary winner.

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.

43 posted on 08/19/2012 4:55:49 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: fieldmarshaldj
To remind folks, Akin did NOT say what Claytie Williams did in Texas. Williams said (albeit jokingly in comparing rape to inclement TX weather), “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”

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.

44 posted on 08/19/2012 4:55:58 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: Delhi Rebels

‘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.


45 posted on 08/19/2012 4:56:05 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: VanDeKoik

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. :)


46 posted on 08/19/2012 4:56:31 PM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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“Rape” is always the first issue the pro-abortion media raise when talking about abortion. Rape and incest. Pro-life candidates should reply. I'll discuss this AFTER we discuss whether the government should subsidize the 98 percent of abortions in the USA that are done as birth control or for convenience.
Many have forgotten that the woman in Roe v Wade claimed she had been raped. She now admits her pregnancy was the result of consensual sex and that her lawyers advised her to claim rape because it would enhance chances of a sympathetic hearing in the courts. Our courts work slowly. Many more have forgotten that the baby girl slated for death was born and immediately put up for adoption. She is now a mother herself. Her birth mother sought her out to ask forgiveness a few years back, to no avail. The baby in the Roe v Wade has not forgiven the now repentant woman who tried to have her murdered. A human interest story of the first magnitude—a natural for OPRAH—this story has been ignored by MSM.
48 posted on 08/19/2012 4:57:12 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: pistolpackinpapa

“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...


49 posted on 08/19/2012 4:57:12 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: Mechanicos
Probably was meaning an “actual” rape as opposed to alleged rape. Even an East Texas redneck could figure that out, but then again I don't have an axe to grind against Aikin.
50 posted on 08/19/2012 4:57:31 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

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.


51 posted on 08/19/2012 4:57:36 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: mwl8787

Another Tea Party special. This will be the 3rd or 4th Senate seat we’ve lost because they pick idiots.


52 posted on 08/19/2012 4:59:13 PM PDT by paul544
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To: zerosix
This race is NOT about abortion, except in the eyes of the media and McCaskill.....

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?

53 posted on 08/19/2012 4:59:18 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

54 posted on 08/19/2012 4:59:18 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Calusa
He’s dead, Jim. I guess we just lost Arkansas!!! scratch one for the senate.

What are you talking about? LOL.... I'm not Jim and we're talking about Missouri, not Arkansas.
55 posted on 08/19/2012 4:59:52 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

Dumb statement but manageable with good damage control.


56 posted on 08/19/2012 4:59:52 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


57 posted on 08/19/2012 5:01:01 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: JediJones

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.


58 posted on 08/19/2012 5:04:38 PM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

Aikin should be disqualified and replaced by the GOP for sheer stupidity.
Absolutely no excuse.


59 posted on 08/19/2012 5:07:11 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: PhiloBedo

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.


60 posted on 08/19/2012 5:07:11 PM PDT by mwl8787
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