[txrefugee]

When a GOP candidate is ahead in the pols against a Democrat incumbent, STAY OFF THE AIR!!! KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, AND RESIST THE URGE TO RISE TO THE ENEMIES’ BAIT.

The Republican Party really does need a training program for these basics because some candidates can’t control themselves.

[ScottinVA]

When a GOP candidate is ahead in the pols against a Democrat incumbent, STAY OFF THE AIR!!! KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, AND RESIST THE URGE TO RISE TO THE ENEMIES’ BAIT. The most costly part of all this is the pivotal nature of the Missouri Senate race. It could make the critical difference as to who controls the Senate next year.

Damn him!!! No "contextual explanation" is going to fix this!

[polstar123]

This is horrible...defeating McCaskill is important. Is there any way to salvage this guy now? The two words ‘legitimate rape’ should never be strung together in a sentence unless you're defense counsel for the Duke lacrosse team. I think he was trying to inject some weird medical science in there to say that if it is really rape (aka it was legitimate as opposed to a false claim/consensual situation) then the female body has a way of shutting down its system and is less likely to get pregnant. If such medical research has ever taken place it was probably government funded, and should not have made it into Akins brain.

[TomGuy]

ANOTHER Republican pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

They never learn.

This is the kind of thing that happens when they go off-script.