Who loves you, Larry?! We do!
Posted on 08/23/2012 5:12:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Which is worse, Rep. Todd Akin's, R-Mo., ignorance about human anatomy -- or the way Republicans jump, run and hide when the Democrat-media complex decides they should?
Akin is the Republican candidate for a crucial Senate seat in Missouri. In an interview, he said that he believed that pregnancy following an act of rape is "really rare -- if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down."
Incredibly dumb. The married father of six, including two daughters, apologized the next day and then recorded an ad apologizing yet again. That, at the very least, should have satisfied his Republican supporters. But, no.
Akin's opponent, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Democratic PACs spent $1.5 million on behalf of Akin to ensure his Republican primary victory over two other Republicans that experts considered surer bets to beat her. Unfortunately for McCaskill, Akin was leading in the polls before the gaffe. Akin's stupid comments were just what she was hoping for.
Never mind that the "offended" McCaskill rode to election in 2006 by calling President George W. Bush a murdering racist. Oh, yes, she most certainly did. Bush, said McCaskill during the campaign, "let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black"!!!
After this hideous smear, why didn't the race-card-playing McCaskill resign from the race? But, yawn. Crickets. Media mute.
Republicans, hoping to take back the Senate by picking off the vulnerable McCaskill, also drop-kicked Akin. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urged him to "step aside" and "let someone else run, to actually give ourselves a better chance of winning." Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of the National Republican Senate Committee, threatened to withhold $5 mil previously promised to the Akin campaign.
President Obama, whose party chair routinely accuses the GOP of engaging in a "war against women," condemned Akin's remarks as ignorant: "Rape is rape, and the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me."
"Rape is rape," said Obama.
President Bill Clinton plans to speak at the Democratic convention in North Carolina. Clinton, some might vaguely recall, was accused of rape by a woman named Juanita Broaddrick. "Dateline NBC" aired her allegations against the then-Arkansas attorney general and gubernatorial candidate.
Here's what Broaddrick alleged: "I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.' ... He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. ... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.' ... He wouldn't listen to me." To this day, former ABC reporter Sam Donaldson is the only national reporter to ask Clinton about Broaddrick's allegation.
Then there's Kathleen Willey, who on "60 Minutes" made a credible allegation of sexual assault against Clinton. Willey, a Clinton campaign volunteer, says that Clinton, in the Oval Office, took her hand and place it on his aroused genitalia: "He touched my breasts with his hand ... and then he whispered ... 'I've wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.' ... He took my hand, and he put it ... on his genitals." Willey said she managed to push him away.
Let's not forget Paula "drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find" Jones. Alleging that then-Gov. Clinton propositioned her and exposed himself in a Little Rock, Ark., hotel room, Jones sued him for sexual harassment. Jones alleged that a state trooper escorted her to a room at the Excelsior Hotel to meet Clinton. Clinton dropped his pants and, according to Jones, asked her to "kiss it." Clinton later paid Jones $850,000 to settle the sexual harassment lawsuit that Clinton long claimed lacked merit.
Akin is supposedly a chauvinist retrograde. But there is an absolute, media-observed no-fly zone over Clinton, a man variously accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment by three different women. Why Republicans show so much deference is bewildering.
What about the allegations of sexism -- in the supposedly pro-women Democratic Obama White House? Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind was given approved access for his book "Confidence Men." White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, whom Suskind recorded, complained about the anti-woman "frat house antics" atmosphere in the Obama campaign: "This place would be in court for a hostile workplace ... because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women." What?!
But, crickets.
Many folks are fed up with cowardly Republican leadership that crumbles before the Democratic-media complex rather than shines a light on its hypocrisy. My advice to Akin? Hold a press conference and announce, "I'll resign when Bill Clinton apologizes to Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey." Then watch the contributions pour in.
Game on.
Akin would never vote to let babies die who were accidentally born alive during an abortion - Like Barack Obama and his lickspittle Claire McKaskill
Everybody says something stupid every once in a while.
Its what they say deliberately and intentionally that we should be concerned about.
Rape victim says:
“I was forcibly raped in 2001. It happened while I was ovulating. I was scared to death that I would become pregnant. When I asked the physician what my chances of being pregnant, he handed me a AMA journal that highlighted a study done in 1999. That study was done concerning all the reported rape cases in Minnesota. Not a single case resulted in a pregnancy. I also did not get pregnant, and thankfully I didn’t get an STD either.
I now work in a rape recovery center in a major city. I have met with women who claim to have gotten pregnant while raped. These women tend to be 16 or 17 year old girls with their parents standing over them. When I get them alone and they open up, all of them said the sex was consensual. They were going through the motions because they didn’t want to upset their parents. In the last 6 years, I have never seen a true rape case result in pregnancy.”
Feb 18, 2009
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090218150126AAsqUQu
You are right. In a perfect world, Akin would apologize and we'd move on. But we live in a world where Akin made an incredibly stupid statement that plays right into the Dem playbook about the Republican War on Women and which may cost us the Senate and perhaps even the presidency because the MSM will flog this on a daily basis. That his Akin's true crime. Not realizing that the deck is stacked against us and that we have to gaurd against these types of statements. For that alone, he needs to go.
So tell me. Should Scott Brown go too?
Just yesterday he declared that he’s a pro “choice” republican and calls on the GOP to be more inclusive of his pro abortion brethren. He didn’t misspeak. He said it deliberately and intentionally.
Seems to me that GOP silence on that signals agreement and acceptance.
The real offense by Akin was talking publicly about a plank on the GOP platform that Mitt doesn’t really want stand on. This gives the fifth-column MSM buttboys and media whores something to divert the sheeple’s attention from the gang rape of America and the Constitution by Traitorobama and his thugs, aided and abetted by the Demonicrats and RINO low-lifes in Congress, the Senate, and the SCOTUS.
The discussion on whether or not Akin was accurate in his statement not with standing, why aren’t the pundits and bloviators on our “side” pointing out the hypocrisy of the dims by having Clinton speak, hmmmm?
Epic fail of our guys in this argument...too busy beating up on their own.
Get rid of ‘em all.
Who loves you, Larry?! We do!
I’m kind of curious to know if anyone thinks it was a stupid statement when Pete Hoekstra said last week that he supports overturning the 17th amendment.
Who are you going to get in Massachusetts to keep that seat out of the hands of a Democrat? I’m Pro-Life and I don’t like a lot of what Brown says but we aren’t getting a conservative in MA. I’d rather have Brown that the flaming Communist Warren, who will vote for the most extreme abortion bills and will vote to turn us into the Soviet Union too.
Missouri is a seat that a conservative can win. Hey, I think Akin is being railroaded too. He made a stupid statement and he apologized. That should be enough and would be enough if he was a Dem. But in the world we live in, he is going to drag everyone down if he stays in.
See post #4, and then realize that Akin and Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill focusing on "forcible" rape as opposed to "statutory rape."
Akin is being alinskyd by cowering or pro-abortion Rinos and Cinos.
Great post. Well stated.
Better put some ice on that.
For Christ sake, when are we going to stop apologizing for offending liberals?
I ENJOY offending liberals.
Peter Schiff has some perspective on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NeMJ1zQf8
Repubs need to get Akin elected. Stop yapping about stepping down and move the conversation back to democratic destruction of our American values.
When you let the media nationalize every state and local candidate, there is no end to what you may end up talking about.
The right answer for everyone is “The voters of MO will decide whom they wish to elect, based on whatever criteria they decide, including what they may say or do”
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