“..my thesis that Christian conservatives get thrown under the bus by the GOP elites for stuff that RINOs never would.”
There is no double standard. Akin threw himself under the bus. Akin did this to himself. He made the ultimate asinine statement.
If this were 2002 and Romney, while running for Governor, made a comment like Akin made, he’d have been pilloried for it.
Please. He used an accurate, but ambiguous word that could be interpreted different ways, and is being done so disingenuously by Democrats and even some Republicans who want to roast him because he's a Christian conservative. End of story. That's the truth. Any other interpretation is totally bogus and has no basis as far as I'm concerned. Akin is far more likely to win his election than Romney, so I say we sign a petition to make Romney quit.