It wasn’t made up out of thin air in terms of “somebody else apparently BELIEVES this”, but it was terminally STUPID and a terminally STUPID thing to say in an interview.
Akin himself now says it was FALSE. That what the source says is WRONG. And he should not have said it.
In an interview he’s asked what is your view of abortion in cases of rape. And he blurts out the doozy, well, I understand that a woman’s body has ways of shutting down the process (of conception) if it’s a legitimate rape.
That is the purely dumbest thing a politician has said, that I know of, since Clayton Williams was running against Ann Richards in TX for governor, had the race won, then said as a metaphor for something else, that a thing was kind of like rape, if you can’t do anything about it, might as well lay back and enjoy it.
Hello, Ann Richards, Governor of Texas.
Don’t get me started. Oh, too late, you already did.
Try to see this...it isn’t so hard unless you resist the obvious truth...it isn’t all about the stupid statement. It’s as much about the fact that someone who would say that in the heat of an election campaign can’t be trusted to become the governor or senator of your state, because who knows what else lies in that feeble brain just waiting to pop out.
Already this guy has run around making himself a hero against the “establishment”.
Who cares? Is Sarah Palin the “establishment”? Are shocked and angry voters the “establishment”?
He’s made himself into God’s chosen, by his subsequent words.
If I were there in MO, of course I would vote for the turkey against Claire. But I’m not the same as all these moderate fence sitters.
For example, I have seen very few lifelong civilians who have not made idiotic statements about rules of engagement should they be running a war. Statements which indicate they would innitiate the sort of rules of engagement Obutthead has us using now - which have drastically increased our casualty rate.
You seem to be of the opinion that an “I was wrong” is never enough.
How is that working for you?