Akin is not competent to represent pro-life conservatives.
What he said was not a “two word tempest in a teapot.”
He actually believed that there was some kind of magic uterus. He has now admitted he was wrong.
He could have endorsed a non-stupid pro-life conservative, Steelman or Brunner. Instead he’s providing a touchstone for the country to associate irrational ignorance with pro-life conservatives.
He is either monumentally stupid and naive, or he is an exceptionally effective democrat plant.