Posted on 08/20/2012 3:20:03 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
I won’t hate Todd Akin officially unless he refuses to withdraw from the Missouri Senate race. If he does withdraw, honorably sacrificing his personal interests to save the country, it will be time for all good men to rally around Akin as an American patriot.
Akin was one of nine GOP candidates in the primary to challenge Missouri’s left-wing, tax-cheat sitting Democratic senator, Claire McCaskill. McCaskill is Chuck Schumer in a dress. Totally out of step with the good voters of Missouri, her seat should be an easy win for Republicans this year.
Curiously, Democrats ferociously supported Akin in the GOP primary. McCaskill’s supporters spent $2 million to make Akin her opponent and also crossed over to vote for Akin in the Republican primary – and that’s been admitted in The New York Times.
Now we know why. The rape comment was a totally unforced error on a day that should have been a smashing triumph for the Romney-Ryan ticket.
Akin wasn’t asked some out of the blue question no Republican candidate has ever been asked: He was asked the most jejune, obvious question every Republican is asked in any race for any office. How can a Republican not have an answer for: “What about abortion in the case of rape and incest?”
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Instead, Akin rambled about “legitimate rape” – violating an ironclad rule of politicians that the word “legitimate” should never appear within 15 yards of the word “rape.” And he talked about the medical possibility of becoming pregnant from a single traumatizing rape.
He’s not a talk radio host. He’s not sitting around shooting the breeze in a college dorm room. This is a politician who should have a clear, nonthreatening answer at the ready for the most cliched question in the MSM’s playbook.
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Kind of one-good-abomination-deserves-another, and another, and another. It’s not enough that rape is evil. It can be mitigated (so they say) by abortion. Then, when you’ve got someone “imbecilic” enough to point out the compounded evil, pile on with another evil by subverting the truth.
I agree that it’s unfair and it stinks. But to think that the Conservative movement, almost in a single voice, condemns a truth-teller is heartbreaking.
OMG! Amazing! Like incredible! You hit the nail right on the head! BINGO! (Did I forget anything?)
You obviously don't get it. It's not about telling the truth.
I would explain to you what it IS about, but you already know, and are simply in denial.
That’s quite the high maintenance tagline you have!
I hope to be on a a completely new side—any day now.
He’s not so special that the political capital it would take to rehabilitate him (even if it were feasible to do so) would be worth it.
Are you really telling me that he’s so great that anyone who might replace him would be a vastly inferior pick?
We’re all RINOs now. Been that way since bobdull.
With the most profound regret, I DO get it. Don’t trash my disgust. I’ve earned it.
His withdrawal looks imminent, and in one respect, I’m not sorry (I’d have preferred Sarah’s pick). It’s the reasoning and the politics and the hypocrisy involved in this withdrawal that I rail against. It’s just one more pseudo-”political reality” (like talking Social Security in an election year) that needs correction SOME DAY. Maybe now’s not the time.
Your argument implies all wealthy folks should be disqualified from running on the Republican ticket.Romney is not a conservative but would you be criticizing him for not releasing his tax returns if he were a conservative rich guy.What Romney has done that is “awful and bizarre” is that he is wealthy with most of his income generated by capital gains on his investments thus taxable at the 15% capital gains rate. He has said he never paid less than 13% in tax.He has provided 2 years of tax returns and Obama wants 12 for his fishing expedition and to reinforce his campaign optic that Romney is a 1 percenter who will be the sole beneficiary of his proposed tax policies.Romney will not be losing this on the basis of his tax returns. But Akin will be losing it on the basis of his fatal foot in mouth disease.Akin was not in gaffe mode when he did state that he understands that forcibly women rarely get pregnant because he heard some doctors have told him the biological system shuts down.There is no scientific evidence of that other than his hearsay.
You can take heart, though. Someone does agree with you that it was a “simple gaffe”.McCaskill was on making a statement that he should stay in and not let the party bosses undemocratically choose another candidate over a simple mistake.
My apologies for the harsh words. You do get it, and they were uncalled for.
However, this is how politics works, and I imagine it always has, no matter how far back you want to go, or how far forward.
We are battling the evil side, in these cases the truth is irrelevant.
Thankfully, in the Mediscare issue, we have time to make our case.
“The only thin(k)g Akin did wrong was give a poor explanation of factual information.”
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I concur with your sentiment.
Sorry, but the whole idea of forcing a woman to bear a rape child is an absolute dead loser at the polls. Not only with voters as a whole, but to a substantial cross-section of conservatives.
“The Goddess of Infanticide is greedy, she doesn’t care if fornication or rape brings her prey.”
Would this also apply to a morning-after pill? Akin believes that it would.
No offense taken, at all.
It’s BECAUSE it’s “how politics works” that I frequently despair.
Why would anyone want to join a party like this that doesn't stick up for its own people but instead piles on them when they're down? The "what would Jesus do" test does not include throwing more stones on someone who is in the process of being stoned in the hopes that you can keep your popularity up. What's being done to Akin from both sides is as sinful as anything I've seen in a political campaign. I won't participate in that for political gain or any other reason. It's just wrong.
Coulter and Hannity can’t stand for LIFE. Neither can the GOP’s Romney. Might as well come out of the abortion closet and put in a “Choice” plank at the Convention.
This guy said exactly what he had to say. The Baby shouldn’t be killed, but the rapist should be punished.
One thousand dead babies a day. Is that the price the GOP will pay to win this race?
In no way, shape, or form did I imply anything of the kind. I didn't imply anything. I SAID Romney should release his tax returns because A. IT'S EATING UP GOBS OF MEDIA TIME that needs to be devoted to telling the awful truth about Barack Obama and the Democrats, B. the Republican party gets NO GAIN out of him keeping his tax returns private. He's doing it purely for selfish reasons and C. It's a TERRIBLE POLITICAL STRATEGY.
More on the last one. He's already said he paid 13% tax. So if there's a political price for that, which I don't think there is, he's paying it already. If there's something horrible in those tax returns such as cheating, etc., THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS TO KNOW NOW, so that we can kick him off the ticket just like they're trying to do to Akin. And if there is nothing bad in there, then why the hell keep them private and allow Democrats a HUGE opening to make accusations, demagogue the issue and create fear of the unknown? Do you REALLY want to lose this election by standing on the "principle" that Romney shouldn't release his tax returns? That's THAT important to you that you're willing to turn America into a socialist nation that's effectively legally merged with the South American third world? Hey, freedom as we know it and national prosperity may have ended for all of our lifetimes, but at least we proved that Mitt Romney didn't have to release his tax returns!
Bottom line, Romney is a POS candidate who should be rejected and reviled by all conservatives and Republicans. Always was, always has been, always will be, since he lost to Ted Kennedy, since his approval rating sank in the toilet as governor of Massachusetts so much that he declined to try to run again, and since he can't get his poll numbers consistently above one of the worst presidents of all time in one of the worst economies of all time. If you really want to win, DUMP ROMNEY. Akin is teensy, tiny, small potatoes compared to the real albatross around the neck of the Republican party that WILL lose this election, Willard Mitt Romney.
Very well said.
But then I believe that Romney is ProAbortion and this just proved it even more.
Very well said.
But then I believe that Romney is ProAbortion and this just proved it even more.
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