Akin takes the morally correct and courageous stance, and now Repubs are running around like scared little bunnies... the so-called “pro-choice” cabal loves to talk about “rape and incest”, and continues to hammer away with this canard... it was time someone pushed back. Maybe Akin’s words were a little clumsy, but the main point is, do we want to protect innocent life or not? Let’s not be sidetracked by the Dem’s overheated reaction. Voters want strong candidates who take a stand...
If that’s the case we’d have a few more Senate seats in the R column from 2010.
Saying that his words were a little clumsy is like saying the Titanic had a little scratch from an iceberg.
I want to see some science.
Re:”Akin takes the morally correct and courageous stance”...”
Huh? When it did become moral and courageous to be a complete moron?
The problem is that given the stakes right now we can’t afford candidates who make “clumsey” off the cuff remarks. Especially the kind that play to the Dem’s strengths, get nationalized, start dominating news cycles and throw all the other candidates out there off message. And, to add, do so a week before the national convention.
I don’t really care whether this guy was “clumsy”. What I do care about is that we’re no longer talking about the economy or the statist policies the Dems have been implementing the last four years. Those are the issues we need to be talking about, and the ones we’ll win on. This undisciplined jack@ss needs to be gone and gone right now.
I am a pro-life Republican who rejects abortion in cases of rape and incest. The issue is not his stance, but the argument that he made for it. To the modern ear it sounds ignorant, superstitious and callous. Worse, such a fumbling, unrehearsed justification for his position indicates that he's not really thought much about it. While frantically casting about for a response he pulled out some vague half-remembered bit of frathouse doggerel and ran with it, to his ruin and to ours if he stays.
Well said.
What’s morally correct about being generally and politically idiotic—and offensive while he’s at it?
If he had come out opposing abortion in all cases and with a thought out stance, I would have donated to his campaign. Instead, all he did was provide ammunition to destroy him (and likely others). The idea that the stress of rape shuts down the pregnancy, while it does have some truth to it, should be anathema for a politician. It leaves them open to the argument that they are saying, “If there is conception, she must have secretly wanted it”.
I agree. I’m calling these whining, dump Akin people bedwetters. That is what they are.