I can give you a laundry list of politicians who have made stupid statements, including the current occupant of the WH. This has less to do with substance than it does with gaining a political advantage. In the politically correct world we now live in, any statement that even hints at disparaging women, gays, race, and ethnicity invokes a torrent of phony outrage and overblown rhetoric.
And Reps are held to a much different standard than those in the Evil Party. Can anyone imagine a Rep Senator who was a former Klan wizard? Or be allowed to stay in office after talking about “white ni***ers” on national television? Or a senator who left a girl to die in a car he was driving during a drunken foray in the MA night. He waited a long time to report the incident, more concerned about preserving his political career than saving the girl’s life. Or in the case of a race baiter like Al Sharpton whose escapades included inciting mob violence that killed two people. Or a sitting President who was a sexual predator that involved sex with interns in the WH, raping a woman, and exposing himself to an employee in AK while governor. None of the above have been banished from the public scene. Quite the contrary, they have been lionized and elevated in both position and power.
Akins committed no crime or indiscretion. He made an inartful statement and apologized immediately for it. The fact that he now faces political exile says more about the society we live in than Akin the man who by all appearances has led an exemplary life. This is just a lynching in the court of (manufactured) public opinion.
Intellectually bankrupt? You mean his 97.24 ACU rating?
Some candidates and their supporters become blinded and start believing God will save the day for them if they just pray a whole bunch. They lose all perspective and can't see political realities for what they are.
Akin has voted the right way most of the time in the past, but this Senate seat is bigger than he is. We need to take this seat from the Democrats. Period. That means putting up the most conservative candidate that CAN win. Fair or not, Akin can't win so he has to go.