[sam_paine]

What percentage of the voters would vote for a candidate who used her talking points?

[Joe 6-pack]

"What percentage of the voters would vote for a candidate who used her talking points?"

After Santorum made the remarks she pointed out above, he shifted his response to basically mirror those exact talking points.

He proceeded to clean up in Missouri, in both their caucuses and primary.

[tanknetter]

What percentage of the voters would vote for a candidate who used her talking points?

Talking pure political mechanics here, that's not really it. What matters is that her talking points effectively neutralize (or maybe "depolarize" is the right term) the issue and allow the candidate to focus instead on the bread/butter economic and statist issues.

There are two problems with the Missouri Jack@$$'s comments. The smaller one is that he verbally fumbled the ball in using the term "legitimate rape".

The much BIGGER one is that he claimed a uterus is smart enough to realize that a rape has occurred and will reject the zygote/embryo. Which is utter insanity and something the very existence of the woman writing this thoughtful commentary directly contradicts. While he's at it, why doesn't he just go ahead and claim that the world is really flat too?