How so?
Because he's the one who brought it up. Why change the subject away from the important issues? Why bring up a topic nobody asked you about? This is pretty basic stuff. Like it or not, the ability to effectively communicate matters in a political campaign.
Really? He was too dumb to handle it? I don't see it that way. I think he answered it perfectly. He made it clear that rape, in his mind and the minds of tens of millions of other Americans, is NO LONGER going to be accepted as an excuse to murder children.
He did no such thing. He blabbered some barely coherent sentence about how pregnancy from rape is rare, which is utterly irrelevant to the point you think he made. You can describe his answer in many ways. "Clear" is not one of them.
Even he doesn't defend his statement. Why do you?
First of all there is nothing to defend. He did nothing wrong. Second.... I defend it because anything he says will be twisted to make him out to be worse than obama just like you're doing here.
If people with a spine do not support him he will be left to spin in the wind and I can't allow that to happen. If I can bring some levity to the discussion I will. If I can shame friggin idiots for embarrassing themselves by pushing this good, honorable man under the bus then I will.
Was that a clear enough answer for you?