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.”
I say give him 48 hrs. The larger issue is that if he made this horrific mistake, there are others yet to come.
Not ready for prime time.
We can all bitch and complain that the rules are different between Ds and Rs - a continual double standard.
Well that’s too bad. We can either be principled and lose; or we can pull the plug and win w Steelman. A female candidate is the perfect antidote.
We DESERVE better than this. The control of the Senate is more important than Akin’s career path.
McCaskill has a fortune to spend, and we’ve just let her back in the game. Akin cannot self-fund, either.
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.