[MamaTexan]

The only thing that's embarrassing the Republican party IS the Republican party.

And yes, Akin should shut up. First, for being dumb enough to walk into a trap laid by the media, and second for being cowardly enough to start apologizing when they turned up the heat.

A simple explanation that he was trying to distinguish between the physical act of rape and a 'statutory' rape would have sufficed.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The RINOs were as against Akin, or any other conservative, as the Democrats were.

The RINOs are the enemy.