I say Akin was right; and AIN'T I A WOMAN?**

the conservative circular firing squad | August 22, 2012 | me

[Christie at the beach]

—>>>The overreaction to Akin’s words is one of the worst I've ever seen. Some conservative women are amongst the worst overreactors. I am especially furious with Michelle Malkin, who has been going on air parroting the “Magic Uterus” meme to ridicule Akin.

There's no class and respect in Michelle to do this. Anyone that could listen to that is totally off and must have some freak -ness to think that it's ok. I think we may lose since the pundits are inferring in the worse possible way. Write ins-third party-flip flops-blackmail all for making the conservative move further to the middle. The worse part people can't understand what they are doing.

[EGPWS]

He knows nothing about the biology of a woman’s body. He is callous and ignorant about rape.

He isn't an ObyGyn, he's running to take a seat in the senate. Not what I would consider a prerequisite to being a senator and voting to protect our sovereignty as a nation.

Is he a conservative and a patriotic follower of the US Constitution?

[Snickering Hound]

It was wrong and if he drops out, he'll have more time to spend working on that combover.

[SnakeDoctor]

This isn’t really a matter of opinion for you to agree or disagree with. This is a matter of fact. Womens’ bodies either shut down during rape, or they don’t. Since pregnancies occur from rapes ... clearly they often don’t.

He was factually wrong, and an idiot for even bringing it up. How women physiologically respond to rape is entirely irrelevant to the question he was asked.

His point was that abortion is wrong, even if the woman was raped. Why in the world does he need to add commentary about which rapes are legitimate, and how he thinks womens’ bodies respond when his answer is the same regardless of the circumstances of the pregnancy?

SnakeDoc

[camle]

if the rapist is inelligible for the death penalty, why should the child be? what did the child do to merit the death penalty?

[RichInOC]

Akin could be one hundred percent right on this and still lose because he’s too freaking stupid to get out of the way of his own mouth.

[Uncle Slayton]

“I know my opinion will be unpopular with many on this site, but in my opinion, no woman should be forced to bear a child that is the product of a rape.”

If that is your belief, do you also believe that a mother of a five year old child that was conceived by rape should also be alowed to murder that child?

If not, why not?

[shhrubbery!]

For the life of me, I don’t understand why he said what he did.

His guard was down. He attempted an earnest answer to a gotcha question, not realizing it was a gotcha question.

This happens to practically every politician at some point. If it hadn't happened to Akin, it would've happened to some other GOP candidate later on this year, before the election. (And all other GOP candidates can thank Akin for reminding them to get their answers to "gotcha" questions ready!)

Even so I don't see anything terrible in what he said. In fact, I agree with it, which is the point of this post.

[DallasSun]

Excellent questions.

[ElectionInspector]

And you wonder why we do not get the woman’s vote

...well I guess it’s cause you’re demonstrating how irrationally emotional the women voters are. You have NO scientific proof to back your feelings, yet you are sure the winner of the vote has to go... ahhh the Stupid Party that I too often have to support. Let’s go all out for pro Abortion Romney and throw the conservative respect Life and wives guy under the bus... great move in Dallas

ymmv

[DallasSun]

What was wrong with it? Everything. He was wrong. About everything. Not just wrong but ignorant.

[brytlea]

If we don’t get “the women’s vote” it’s probably because we never stand up for our principles but instead wilt away and refuse to make our case. Is abortion wrong? If so, why? If it’s not wrong then it should be legal no matter what the reason. If it’s wrong, why is it ok sometimes? We don’t like to talk about that stuff, but we had better because right now the left owns this issue.

[RaisingCain]

The herd does not think. It just emotes. Even conservatives, as this election cycle shows, are prone to emotionalism and hasty (and ignorant) decisions.

[brytlea]

I wonder what the majority opinion would have been had the media started the opposite meme (which gets to the crux of what bothers me about this whole affair).

[Tennessee Nana]

Also, I do not know one republican woman who does not agree that Akin is ignorant and stupid.
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You dont get out much doya kid ???

These threads have quite a few..

You sound like Willard and his phony sanctimonious “millions of Americans were offended” by Akin and so Willard de3cided he too was “offended”

However as a woman who was rapped years ago Akin did not offend ME

What the ignorant pathetic We Willie had to say was offensive to me...

If Willie hadnt oped his big ugly stupid mouth this would have blown over as a local occurrance in MO

but NOOOOOOOOOO Willie has to make it into a crisis so he could use it to get rid of a future truly conservativce pro-life opposition in the Senate to his liberal agenda..

This travesty that Wilie made it into has kept going because he put his 2 bits in...

Conservatives needed the 100% Akin in the Senate and now we may have to put up with another liberal voting RINO..

Thanks Willard you really know how to advance Conservative principals..

[Tax-chick]

I don’t understand why he said what he did.

I think he wanted to say - wanted to have it be true - that pregnancy as a result of rape happens very rarely. That's because he's not confident in saying that an unborn baby should not be killed because of evil actions of his father, even though nobody would say that a 2-year-old should be killed because his father raped either his mother or someone else. It always comes down to dehumanizing the unborn child because we really can't "see" him in the way we see a born child.

He also wanted to say that forcible rape is a subset of rape-legally-defined, which is true but irrelevant.

[DallasSun]

Because he is not an Ob/Gyn is even more reason for him not to say what he did. He was wrong. Period. I do not want a Senator who is so ignorant about any subject who does not know when to shut up.

[brytlea]

Someone who gets it.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I say we settle this once and for all and ask Bill Clinton if it’s possible for a woman to become pregnant after she’s been raped.

[trisham]

We have the Left talking about the "war on women" and then what happens?

This older politician decides to talk about "legitimate rape". What other kind of rape is there? It's incredibly offensive to women. It's either rape, or it isn't.