[Strategerist]

I actually think this is the part of Aiken's statement that is idiotic. Or can you enlighten me on the ways women have of spontaneously shutting down their ovum during the course of a "legitimate rape?"

It's tough when you have such fierce competition for stupidest clause in what Akin said, but I agree that in the long term this will end up being the most damaging part of what Akin said - it wasn't the result of poor word choice or a single slip; it fits all too easily in the meme of old white Republican men not understanding female reproductive functions.

[muawiyah]

Let's go back and review the case of one Sandra Fluke. The leftists made more hay out of Rush Limbaugh's response to her stupidity than they did out of the stupidity itself, but she was undoubtedly right up there with the stupid people who know nothing of female sexuality.

(That's 'cause she's a modified guy)

The piece of stupidity that had the country in an uproar was her expressed belief that women in lawschool needed $3,000 a year to purchase birth control.

Of course we laughed at her and finally the Democrats figured out just about everybody who heard her thought she was stupid so they've more recently pulled the plug on her top end sponsorship.

But that $3,000 would provide sufficient condoms to keep those girls busy several times a day ~ for hours on end! Or, that'd be several lifetimes worth of birth control pills.

Limbaugh simply took the wrong tack ~ but she was S T U P I D.

What we have here is another one of those bits of apparent discontinuity with reality that suggests stupidity.

Sometimes it only takes one time ~ "I was brainwashed" ~ to get yourself booted.