Posted on 08/20/2012 8:19:56 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
The mainstream media have gleefully pulled the "RAPE" card. We conservatives should recognize this for what this is:
There is no real issue, no real "outrage" over what Akin said. In fact, what Akin said is generally true, albeit inartfully said.
No, what is really going on here is the Left's campaign of distraction. Dangle a shiny object, blanket the airwaves and other media with non-stop "discussion" of this "controversy," and distract voters from real issues.
Here is what Akin should do:
1. Call a news conference. Have a pro-life ob/gyn/physiologist stand up and answer questions on this topic. I.e., tell the world the truth that pregnancy as a result of traumatic rape IS, in fact, RARE.2. Bring Norma McCorvey to this news conference too. Norma, as many of us know, is the original "Roe" of Roe v. Wade. She will tell the story of how she was induced to claim she was gang-raped. This was a lie of the Left, and perjury to the Court. But it worked; and all our states' abortion laws were struck down, partly on the strength of the lie that pregancies resulting from rapes were common. McCorvey will tell the truth about the use of "rape" as a red herring by the Left.
3. Akin must stick to his guns. Stand up, and do it with conviction. Voters admire a candidate who has the courage of his convictions.
And here is what we conservatives should NOT do:
We should NOT join the msm pile on. We should NOT ridicule and condemn Akin like the rabid Left and their henchmen in the msm are doing right now.
You know, we have just seen Paul Ryan show the courage of his convictions in taking on another hot button issue ... Medicare.
How about we take a lesson from Ryan and NOT run away like scared little children every time the Alinsky-ites pull a shiny object out of their bag of sleazy tricks.
I believe in picking my fights. This isn’t one of them.
He pulled the rhetorical equivalent of standing on a street in Harlem and shouting, “Nigger! Nigger! Nigger!”
Not only will it cost him the election if he stays, but it could drag down the national ticket and other conservatives as well.
I wish we could. But you can't always pick your battlefields. The MSM and the Left sometimes choose them for us.
We're on that battlefield now and we have a choice: Fight, or cut and run.
He pulled the rhetorical equivalent of standing on a street in Harlem and shouting, “Nigger! Nigger! Nigger!”
No, sorry, you are flat out wrong on that. To do such a thing would be consciously malicious.
What Akin said was not malicious, not even remotely.
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