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Tea Party Express calls on Akin to step down
WMTW ^ | 8/20/2012 | CNN NewSource via WMTW

Posted on 08/20/2012 9:03:41 PM PDT by Qbert

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1 posted on 08/20/2012 9:03:48 PM PDT by Qbert
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This is becoming a major dilemma.


2 posted on 08/20/2012 9:09:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Qbert

This is what happens when we Elect Popes.


3 posted on 08/20/2012 9:11:23 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I don’t think he misspoke and neither does anyone else. He’s toxic.


4 posted on 08/20/2012 9:14:03 PM PDT by RC one
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“This is becoming a major dilemma.”

It can become a minor kerfuffle by noon tomorrow if Akin just does the RIGHT thing and steps aside.

Otherwise forget dilemma, it’s got TITANIC written all over it.


5 posted on 08/20/2012 9:16:00 PM PDT by jocon307
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Word has it that Mister Akin will return to private life as professor of forensic biology.

Oh, wait, I made that statement in error....

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6 posted on 08/20/2012 9:16:30 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Agreed.


7 posted on 08/20/2012 9:22:58 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Qbert
He obviously meant "actual" rape, not that rape was "legitimate".

I think he was differentiating a situation where there is no question that a rape had occurred, as in clearly non consensual sex. As opposed to a situation where two people went on a date and had sex and the woman is claiming rape leaving a question as to whether it was consensual or not and whether a rape occurred or not.

Why is this so hard for people to figure out?

8 posted on 08/20/2012 9:26:42 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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And still, there are people who want him to stay in. Will this convince them?


9 posted on 08/20/2012 9:33:11 PM PDT by Radiarm
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No.


10 posted on 08/20/2012 9:34:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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The problem is that the logical conclusion to his argument is that if a woman is pregnant, then chances are she wasn’t actually raped. After all, had she been raped her body would have used one those “ways” to prevent the potential pregnancy. Sorry, but this was a goose cooker, and everyone from Allen West to Mitt Romney wasted no time in pointing it out.


11 posted on 08/20/2012 9:35:21 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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Hopefully he is done. We need to win that seat.


12 posted on 08/20/2012 9:36:35 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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That’s probably what he meant to say - but if you replace it with that word I don’t see how that makes it any better either logically or politically.


13 posted on 08/20/2012 9:47:14 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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If he just said "legitimate rape" as a poor phrasing of stranger/assault rape, he'd survive, but what he said in the same sentence about a women's body shutting it down was stupid and tone deaf and inaccurate.

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors that is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

14 posted on 08/20/2012 9:48:10 PM PDT by Wayne07
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I believe what he meant was “proven” rape instead of some liberal skank demanding an abortion and saying, “Uh, I was raped. Yeah, that’s it. I was raped.” With no evidence to the contrary she may receive one under false pretenses. I think that’s what he meant anyway. So yeah, kinda like you said.

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15 posted on 08/20/2012 9:51:59 PM PDT by rktman
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Just WHO is the Tea Party Express and Sean RINO-lover Hannity to tell anyone to step down?


16 posted on 08/20/2012 9:52:39 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Clinging to my Bible and my HK.)
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Word has it that Mister Akin will return to private life as professor of forensic biology.

I thought he was an OB/GYN?

17 posted on 08/20/2012 9:59:16 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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18 posted on 08/20/2012 10:11:51 PM PDT by Baynative (A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for others)
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"If he just said "legitimate rape" as a poor phrasing of stranger/assault rape, he'd survive, but what he said in the same sentence about a women's body shutting it down was stupid and tone deaf and inaccurate. "First of all, from what I understand from doctors that is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” "

He was just saying that IF a woman is raped and a pregnancy does occur, DON'T TAKE IT OUT ON THE UNBORN DEFENSELESS BABY!

19 posted on 08/20/2012 10:11:51 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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No one neither Akin is suggesting that there is such a thing a “legitimate” rape. What he meant by legitimate rape - or what he he was really saying was proven or ACTUAL rape. Furthermore it is a documented fact that EMOTIONAL STRESS DOES PLAY A SIGNIFICANT part in ones health INCLUDING weather one gets pregnant or not.


20 posted on 08/20/2012 10:16:40 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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