““I have been posting here since 1999, and I was not aware that saying that women who get pregnant while being raped must have been asking for it was a social conservative position.”
What on earth? Akin said no such thing. He said conception was rare in the case of a ‘legitimate’ (he meant forcible, not ‘ok’) rape.
Never did he even imply that a raped woman asks for pregnancy. What a notion.
The controversy is that it sounded like he thought some rapes are legitimate. Of course that is not what he meant.
No. The implication is that if the woman becomes pregnant, the rape was not forcible. The rape is the “it” she was asking for, not the pregnancy.
Given that the War on Women is the only arrow left in the Democrat’s quiiver, this was a really, really (really-really-really) stupid thing to say.
It was this stupid statement that required the GOP to build a firewall around this guy to protect the rest of the party. This strategy is working very well, and the Democrat’s War on Women attacks have been ineffective.
And now it looks like Akin might actually win. Better still...
But if the National GOP had embraced Akin, they oould have lost it all, including the Missouri Senate Seat. We’re The Stupid Party, but we’re not that stupid.