“So let’s stop this shallow, wrong analysis based on a misunderstanding of the definition of words.”
Ok, how do you tie the words “illegitimate” and “forcible” as having the same meaning without also inferring that there are a lot of women out there who are claiming rape falsely to justify an abortion.
Not don’t take me to the woodshed on that precept, because as a n absolute statement, I admit women hold an awful lot of leverage when they invoke the word rape.
My point is this is a political campaign that will result in over half the electorate being women.
Want to get into a extremely heated discussion just make that statement about illegitimate rape to a group of women, and see how popular you are received.
His statements showed him to be an insensitive and totally uninformed person, who felt he had the right to express his views on rape , in an official manner (candidate for US Senate), as a male, lecturing women on a subject,(rape) which they hold as a subject that men don’t truly understand or sympathize with.
I don’t accept the premise that men don’t hold a right to express their views on rape, abortion, etc. I don’t buy into gender politics. A woman who’s never been raped doesn’t know anything more about rape than a man who’s never been raped. And men can be and are raped too.
We agree his statement was ill-conceived and didn’t show a great command of the facts. We agree it was a gaffe. So no point in explaining how it was a politically damaging thing, unnecessary, etc. We all get that. That’s beating a dead horse.
All I’ve been saying is that he deserves a second chance, he didn’t commit an illegal or immoral act, the GOP party should have accepted his apology and turned their campaign around to McCaskill’s record, and his funding from the RNC and Rove should be restored because winning the Senate seat is definitely not possible without that money. The party doesn’t get to decide whether he drops out or not so they need to either support him or show me some other brilliant plan for winning the seat. If they have a 3rd party candidate they think can win and they want to back, put that plan on the table. If they don’t, then back Akin unless he chooses to drop out. Anything else is an unconscionable concession of the Senate seat to one of Obama’s #1 sycophantic lackeys in the Senate.