It doesn’t matter what his ‘positions’ have been. If he can’t play the game of POLITICS to our advantage, he can take up another job!
He has to go! He’s made an embarrassment of our cause, and has lost the support of many conservatives, so he’s ‘toxic’ now. Unfortunately, that is the bottom line in politics.
NO need to sacrifice our war against these devils for one single soldier!
Why is it that when a Rep says something stupid, the calls for this organization or that to distance themselves from the person come out from every angle ... yet when someone on the left says something stupid, we hear crickets?
Why did the Obama administration let Roman Polanski walk? Oh wait, that wasn’t “rape rape”. So speaketh Whoopi Goldberg.
There is no question Todd Akin misspoke. He has said that, and he has apologized. Conservatives should not “pile on” him - that is the job of liberals and the GOP Establishment!
There comes a time when you stay loyal to your friends even if it costs you something in the short term. All the conservative political “realists’ ought to remember Akin’s misspoke when discussing innocent human life that came forth from a very vile act. Difficult to discuss in sound bites. What is not difficult is to remember how Kennedy, Clinton,Edwards and other Democrat heroes actually treat women. Also let’s not forget the Democrats have given Clinton a prime role at their convention.
There are two problems with Akins’ statement.
1) Yes, it is *statistically* improbable (but not impossible) that pregnancy will result from a rape. But to think that the woman’s body somehow “shuts down” is what is referred to in children as “magical thinking” (thinking something is true just because you want it to be true). And in adults, it is just called “stupidity.” A woman’s body does not have any wonderful, magical way to reject the sperm of a rapist. And the LAST thing the GOP needs is someone stupid to be actually ELECTED to the legislature. Then you have another Slow Joe Biden on your hands. That does NOT help the GOP or our causes.
2) The reason Stupid Akins’ comment is insulting to women is because if you believe it, then it makes any woman who *does* get pregnant because of a rape look as though she somehow wanted the rape or accepted it. Because after all, if she REALLY was upset about the “legitimate” rape, her body would have “shut things down,” right? So his comment was insulting to women who have been raped and still became pregnant, and is also toxic to the whole discourse. Because *blaming* a women for a rape she has suffered (by insinuating that she must have really wanted or accepted it) is just reprehensible.
Akins needs to go. Now. While they can get someone else onto the ticket.
Leave it the hell alone. The comment made a problem for the utterer. Self Righteous Conservatives are making it a much bigger problem for Akin’s election chances and for conservatives’ and Republicans’ chances. Akin reduced his chances to beat McCaskill and Republicans are going all out to ensure that his chances are wiped out altogether. The only comment due is “not my position,” or “to each his own,” then let it lie. Shut up.
“The Pro-Life Movement Must Disavow Akin Comment”
WOW, with a record like that, he MUST go! (sarc)
“the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
This is as badly stated as the “legitimate” quote.
I’m sure he doesn’t think that the female body has anti rape genes. Getting pregnant isn’t easy. Many stars have to align for this to happen. Emotional state, hormones, etc. can have an effect on pregnancy occurring.
Common sense tells us that the trauma from a “legitimate rape” could be a real factor in whether a pregnancy results from a rape, among many others.
EVERYONE is blowing this all out of proportion. Conservatives, pro lifers, and Republicans in general, should all be ashamed of themselves.
Well after all, he got drunk, ran his car off a bridge and left a woman to drown in 3 feet of water. Of course he shouldn’t be a senator.
Todd IS the MO RTL candidate.