Whoaaa—It hasn’t even been ARGUED, much less established, that anything Akin said was wrong. At worst, and I do mean at worst, his use of “legitimate” did indeed set off a fire storm. But who has defined that term, ANYwhere? Screams of “rape is rape” are no argument. Statutory rape certainly doesn’t qualify, and the “meanings” of date rape are wide enough to drive tankers through. His citings of doctors who believed that in cases where rape is actually rape biological resistance set in are at least as true and as available and academic as those that deny it. The fact that the GOP chose to “legitimize” the left’s findings on the matter is absolutely reprehensible.
If our rights are granted by Nature’s God, how can those who support that definition of “rights” so quickly succumb to arguments that so egregiously contradict it? The right to abort—under ANY circumstances—was granted by government and government alone. As such, there’s no such right. No one’s even made a case for the logic that prevailed prior to Roe: mitigating circumstances. Hard-liners aren’t going to accept even that, but surely secular types can agree that abortion WAS legal under certain, mitigating circumstances. But Roe waived all that, giving us an ersatz right to kill unborn children under any circumstances at all.
Now is not the time to hash out definitions, should have happened long, long ago... besides, it wasn’t just a single word that set off the firestorm. In context what Akin said seems to diminishes the gravity of rape... and a politician, unless he is a doctor and researcher has no business trying to sound like one. if he fudges up in a debate he will be totally and forever branded, the worst that Mo has ever had to offer.
The fact that the GOP chose to “legitimize" the left’s findings on the matter is absolutely reprehensible.That's SOP for the GOP-e these days. And in the past.
Any chance they have to keep a Conservative out of Congress, they will take it.
Even if it means losing the Senate.
If they wanted him to stay in, they would have jumped in in the beginning explaining what was meant and that would have been the end of it if they threw their support his way.
It wouldn't matter what the media and (their helpers the) democrats spewed. They are absolutely giddy because none of the Tea Party candidates won in the primary.