exactly— people who do not know me are telling me i am not prolife and might as well be a democrat because i am a realist and deal in pragmatism. mindboggling as i said. Akin is flushing the prolife cause down the toilet with his hubristic refusal to get out of a race he cannot win, and which will cost us the Senate [and therefore overturning of Obamacare and the chance to put prolife justices on the sup ct]. i can no longer tolerate the purists. i believe in the power of prayer, but i also know that God uses even the IMPERFECT to effectuate His will. He didn’t use only the purists!!
BINGO!
We may not like it- it may not be fair, but perception in politics is reality- unless and until it is countered with an equally strong and convincing perception.
My initial perception was this guy is uneducated and ignorant but well-meaning. Then I listened to him on Hannity and realized he’s something more than ignorant and something a good deal less than well-meaning. He has a degree of pride and denial of reality I remember in Nixon, Clinton and most recently, Obama. He’s pathological.