Mark Levin goes nuclear, says Todd Akin chose himself over the country (Audio)

The Right Scoop ^ | 08/21/2012 | Staff

[nhwingut]

Mark Levin is clearly not happy with Akin’s decision, saying that he put himself over that of the country at a time when we are trying to win the Senate with the country at stake. And how we have to try and win the Senate with a weaker, wounded candidate who did it to himself.

But at the end of the day Levin says we still have to fight to beat McCaskill and if it’s with Akin, then so be it – we must support him.

Listen below:

[ncalburt]

did you hear that moron on Hannity today ?
he is a delusional nut and a liar.
he had the nerve to peddle that push poll by PPP as an excuse to stay in the race.
Hannity told him the poll was slanted and the clown
was left speechless.

[PhxTM06]

Stress can terminate a pregnancy, definitely, it does nothing to prevent one. There is absolutely ZERO scientific proof of any kind that a woman who is ovulating and ends up getting raped, has any sort of magical "protection" against pregnancy.

Statistically, miscarriages increase slightly percentage-wise in pregnancies that were due to rape, but not a tremendous difference over the norm(15-20% vs 10-20%)

“If a woman’s ovaries have already released an egg, she’s just as likely to get pregnant from a rape as she would be from a voluntary encounter,” Dr. Barbara Levy, vice president for health policy at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told NBC News. “From the biological standpoint, a woman is at risk for pregnancy if she’s at a vulnerable point in her menstrual cycle when the rape occurs.”

[supremedoctrine]

I don’t know what “statistics” bear out Akin’s statement.
But I do know that the reaction against him was immediate,
and total, from the current Republican “establishment” whose overwhelming concern now is to win the upcoming election.
Akin is a fundamentalist on this issue, regardless of how well he can pass himself off as someone who “misspoke”, but the fact remains, that he played right into the Republican “war against women” the Dems are currently promoting, and is doing nothing to explain how he’s not guilty of that. Akin is like Rick Santorum, and I thought the process got rid of Rick Santorum, there being some good and obvious reasons he didn’t win the R nomination. Akin, like Santorum, is one of those people who in effect would choose to FORCE victims of rape and incest to keep and bear an unwanted child, a child who was the result of NO choice of her part, and that is just plain BIG GOVERNMENT WRONG. Slice it and dice it any way you want, these Fundamentalists are the idiot enforcers of the WRONG side of the Pro-Life argument. And I say that as someone who is ardently pro-Life. We should pick our battles , and be able to recognize that when someone as much of a liability as Akin comes along, and provides the Left with so much red meat at so crucial a time, he should GO, and we should explain just WHY he must GO. This is not a matter of sticking with someone who is “principled”, it’s a matter of rejecting someone who is too stupid and heedless not to know
the nuances of this whole pro life argument and issue, and not to recognize how we should pick our battles.

[Windy City Conservative]

Note that Akin didn’t say that women who are raped NEVER get pregnant, he said they rarely do. What if he said he thought there was a link to abortion and breast cancer?

[Uncle Chip]

<>Other people are disagreeing with what Akin said because they’re not stupid, and its been pointed out ad nauseum just how wrong he was. He made about as dumb a statement as he possibly could have when he stated that “women’s bodies can shut the whole thing down” in reference to pregnancy as if rapist’s sperm is any different from regular sperm.<>

Yeh — a lot of people making that mistake these days including the science and health writer here:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/rape-results-more-pregnancies-not-less

[muawiyah]

Preibus is directly responsible for much of the problem with all sorts of primaries, and here he's directly responsible for failing to make sure new Senatorial candidates had some advisors on hand to tell them to NOT grant interviews with MSM hard core Democrats.

Could be he's simply ignant, but more likely Preibus is interested only in his buddy Romney and doesn't care what happens to the party down ticket.

I"d say his mistakes of omission and commission are of serious enough nature we should be dumping him and having the National Committee pick a new Chairman.

[Perkalong]

Everyone needs to remember the focus needs to be on McCaskill.

[TFMcGuire]

Yes, Let us obey our Liberal masters and dump Akin. Some of you don’t have a testicle between you. God help us!

[JerseyanExile]

There is also the Missouri Libertarian candidate. Conservatives and Libertarians may not see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but on the most critical matters coming up, like Obamacare and such, he could probably be considered to be a reliable vote. In 2010, the Libertarian senate candidate took 3 percent of the vote.

[Steely Tom]

"Isn't it obvious that Akin is a plant?"

"No."

Well he's sure doing a mighty good imitation of one.

[DarthVader]

I predict that Akin will be kicked out of the GOP by this time tomorrow.

[plain talk]

Aiken is a strong candidate will win this race by a mile and will be a strong advocate for Life and the face of the Pro Life Movement in Washington.

Aiken is a weak candidate who will lose this race big time and is an embarrassment to conservatives and advocates for life. Pro Life movement in Washington? ha ha ha Now that's a joke. There is no pro-life movement in Washington. It's full of RINOs and socialists.

[TFMcGuire]

Sorry for reposts. Guys. :(

[TonyInOhio]

Akin's interview with Sean Hannity this afternoon was more than enough to convince me that he has no business in the Senate; I wonder if he is in complete control of his mental faculties.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The SOB Akin could cost us the White House.
What a moron.

[Pilsner]

Isn't it obvious that Akin is a plant? No.

Akin is patsy. A dimwit picked to be the fallguy in a plot. And boy, is he doing one heck of a job.

Expect Democrats to keep spending millions to help the Angles and Akins to win Republican nominations, and lose general electons. Especially so long as people like you feel the need to nail your flag to the mast of the guy Harry Reid selected to lose the race on your behalf.

[ncalburt]

This guy is loose cannon and ego maniac and isolated and
potential to do massive damage .
He election staff is his wife and son.
He was on Hannity radio show and went on strange rants and rambling on on on.
And then had the Gaul to try to push the PPP as a reason to stay in . When he confronted about this slanted poll.
He was either clueless or ran out of excuses.

[PhxTM06]

Dr Willke has long been discredited by mainstream medicine and seen as peddling junk science. By all accounts he's a nice guy, and has done a lot for the Pro-Life movement but his claims on rape and pregnancy have been repeatedly proven wrong, as has Mecklenburg. I cringe whenever I see pro-lifers citing them because it doesn't ever help the case. It's like the naturalists who cite Mercola who's also a bit nutty.

"No one really knows” how often those emotional effects prevent pregnancy, Willke said, but he estimated that there are just one or two pregnancies for every 1,000 rapes. That contradicts research published in the 1990s in the Journal of American Obstetrics and Gynecology, which found that the occurrence of rape-related pregnancies is 5%. More than 32,000 women experience rape-related pregnancy every year, the research found. Bottomline, getting into this argument is a sure loser every single time. You've already seen a legion of doctors paraded out on the networks, calling Akin a backwards thinking moron basically. The pro-life argument needs to stop getting bogged down on periphery topics such as this, arguing about what is or isn't "legitimate" rape and whether or not a woman gets pregnant as a result of rape. Both arguments have the same endpoint ultimately, accusing women of being liars when they get pregnant after claiming to have been raped. You're never going to win anything suggesting that a women who is the victim of sexual assault is a liar.

[Windy City Conservative]

Wait a minute. Here’s one quote from the Popsci writer:

“Rapists subsconsciously target victims based on their likelihood of conception.”

And yet Akin is the one who is nuts?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Isn’t it obvious that Akin is a plant?"

I'm thinking a cabbage. Possibly a rutabaga.