[hcmama]

"If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

His pro-life views not withstanding, that is what Aiken said

It defies biology.

It defies logic.

It defies common sense.

It sounds like something Joe Biden would say.

Joe Biden is an idiot.

Aiken sounds like an idiot.

[Diamond]

I know Todd Akin personally. He is not stupid and he is not an idiot. He is not a typical politician. He has humility, courage, honor and integrity. He not just espouses, but lives the same conservative principles espoused by this website. I have personally witnessed these character traits manifest in him for over 24 years.

One of the senses of the word "legitimate" is "established (vs. unestablished), constituted".

Perhaps you didn't know that. I think that logic and common sense would dictate that the word ought to be understood in that sense, in light of the context in which it was used, but Charles Jaco style red-shirts, et al are not interested in logic and common sense. They have an agenda, which is the antithesis of what Todd Akin embodies.

What I would like to know from those here calling Todd Akin an idiot and stupid is, just how do logic and common sense dictate the exclusion of an accepted meaning or sense of a word?

Cordially,