Akin buried himself. Understand THAT, Tennessee Nana!
He’s an idiot, with his primary run largely funded by McCaskill’s PAC!
Onyx what he said I heard 30 years ago when the pro-abortion crowd were wailing But what about women who are raped ???
They wanted women to be able to go to a doctor 3 4 5 monthsa after an unreported “rape” and get an abortion based on Im pregnant because I was raped 3 months ago...
Akin was just repeating that old argument and saying it was used as an excuse to get an abortion by women who had never reported in rape previously and may not have been raped...
Though not exactly crystal clear and serling grmmar wise when he said it, he was not repugnant or offensive to me...
What was unnecessary was Willard making an unsolicited statement about Akin...
If Willard had not gotten involved dragging his yes man goons with him I think this would have had a chance to blow over with just silly ribbing from the Obama camp if they even noticed...
and we would have had 1 more very welcome concservative pro-lifer on the R side of the Semate aisle to vote to repeal ObamaCare and to pass other Constitutionally sound legislation..
Now Willard is doing a CYA that he himself started...
Willard and his hysterical gang would rather get rid of a Conservative and replace him with one of their own dependable RINOs than care whats good for our country...
We need to get rid of the RINOs in congress not breed more of them...
In one foul swoop Willard saw a way to kill Akins pro-life legislation that RYAN had co-signed with him...
While pushing Ryan and the Republicans to the left on abrtion...
Feet to the fire anyone ???
Exactly. Not to mention that he’s given the opposition a truckload of free ammo. The party platform committee was working independently of Akin, but came up with a platform that does not have the exceptions of rape and incest. The Democrats have already dubbed it the Akin plank. We’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg of mileage the democrats are going to get out of this one.
I wasn’t offended bu this guy. I was DUMBFOUNDED.
If I believe what he does and I’m running for the US Senate, I’d better damn well be grounded THOROUGHLY in my thinking and be able to express it clearly using my PRINCIPLES and not some hocus-pocus crap about the magical reject-a-sperm knowledge hiding in my body.
The longer this man talked on Hannity the more enraged I became..until eventually I felt just pity and wished someone would get him some help- he’s delusional.
But that doesn’t address the damage he’s done SINGLEHANDEDLY to the pro-life cause. People here who are sticking up for him sometimes forget that our job is to persuade pro-choice or neutral people to see pro-life views in new ways. People at FR don’t need convincing. Certainly people who are on the fence are NOT going to be convinced by browbeating or self-righteous holier-than-thou attitudes.
I don’t pretend to know what’s going on in this man’s mind- but his advisers have done him and our country a great disservice and should be ashamed of themselves. We are on the BRINK of losing our country and what matters to him is his damned PRIDE.