My apologies. I had intended to put "Scare Quotes" around that term, but I see that I forgot to do so.
Beyond that, the left regards a lot of people as "Scary Ideologues" that I find to be perfectly reasonable and normal.
The biggest problem with Todd Akin is that he didn't realize that "reporters" are nothing but propaganda agents for the left, and they are always looking to find something which they can use to portray their political opponents as extreme.
Every Republican candidate should understand that the Reporters may smile to your face and shake your hand, but deep in their heart they hate you, they want to destroy you, and they will stab you in the chest if you give them half a chance.
Akin should have realized instantly that the question was a deliberate attempt to get him to say something which they could use to paint him as an extremist.
I’ve said before that many Conservative GOP candidates for office ought to go to candidate school (or that our side should set one up) in order to train candidates how to deal with loaded questions and how to deflect them (and remind them, as you said, that the media is not their friend — they’re merely the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party).