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.
“All I’ve been saying is that he deserves a second chance”
This is where the problem lies. There are too many people out there who are not going to give him a second chance and I’m not talking about conservatives, pro-lifers etc.
I’m talking about the moderate-independent voter. Their minds are already made up
He doesn’t now nor will he have anywhere near enough money to try and change the perception these people now hold of him.
Did you watch any of the morning political shows this morning?
The MSM/Dems are like a hungry mongrel dog with a juicy new bone, they ain’t letting go of it for a long long time.
“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.”
My point is, you don’t make a stated opinion on women faking a rape charge in a political campaign and then follow that up with a lesson on the female reproductive system. It came off as condescending and misogynistic.
A fatal gaffe. Not a gaffe, a fatal one.