[ilgipper]

There is more to being a winning candidate than being prolife. Akin made one of the greatest campaign blunders of all time. Just because he shares that view with some single issue voters doesn’t change that.

[andyk]

Part of what bothers me is that people actually consider it to be one of the biggest campaign blunders of all time. It’s pretty clear he was distinguishing between forcible rape and statutory rape. I don’t know about the science, but forcible rape has a very low incidence of pregnancies as a result. He apologized. Apparently the GOP are not allowed to make mistakes.

[Mach9]

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.

[timestax]

Sounds like this career politician feels like the political world just can't survive without him. He must feel he is just SO important, that Missouri, and the USA, can't function without him and that everybody loves him . pfffffftt , what a joke this Akin is!

This 65 year old , 12 term politician needs to step aside, and let some other conservative have a turn.

[Tennessee Nana]

There is more to being a winning candidate than being prolife.
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Oh yeah ???

Its the best start I know of...

Its ALWAYS my first litmus test...

I wont vote for a child abuser like Willard...