He is not wrong.
Rape rarely results in pregnancy.
That is not the point. Akin should STFU regarding any specificity on this issue; there are no new pro-life or pro-abortion votes to be mined. People who vote on this issue know whom to support.
This gaffe, from what I am told, is the third in a week since the primary. The McCaskill people and MSM will hold off the nuclear weapons until the ballot deadline passes.
Akin cannot self-fund this race; and no one is going to write him checks now.
48 hrs to turn this around, but my guess is that he’s gone by Thursday. This guy is undisciplined and is unready for the Big Leagues.
This poor judgement and self-inflicted wound is beyond comprehension.
“He is not wrong.
Rape rarely results in pregnancy.”
Academically he is correct. But politically he made a fatal mistake in making the academic argument at all during the campaign particularly when his opponent and the DNC shows up on the hustings with a woman pregnant from a forcible rape. It only takes one to establish the visual for the voters and spark their emotions.In campaign politics, sometimes you want to skip some battles in favor of winning the war.
I know that. He was right, but it was political suicide. Dude is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Another Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell.
He said
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”You want to ask him for his scientific references for that bonehead statement? As a poster above said, he should have stated his position and shut up, instead of claiming this medically ridiculous statement. Plus, any woman who was raped and did get pregnant will see it as a terrible insult - that he's saying her rape was not legitimately rape. Wanna guess how that will go over?