Barack Obama.. bla bla bla... "For him, a rape is a rape."
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Posted on 08/21/2012 8:14:12 PM PDT by randita
They phoned. They wrote. They rebuked him publicly from coast to coast. They cut off funding and support.
Yet Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin didn’t cave. He refused to withdraw by the initial 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline, sticking with his November race against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill.
His choice means women’s health and abortion remain top issues, causing a debate the GOP had hoped to avoid.
Akin, who says he misspoke when he said “legitimate rape” victims can prevent pregnancy, has a long voting record against abortion in any circumstance.
Akin also is in line with U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, with whom he co-sponsored abortion legislation, in favoring an amendment providing rights to fetuses at the moment of conception. This effectively stops all abortions, including in the cases of rape or incest.
For Republicans objecting to Akin’s misstatements, it gets more complicated at their national convention next week when the final party platform is adopted.
Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and now-running mate Ryan are on record in support of abortion in cases of rape. Yet, the proposed platform espouses the no-exceptions position held by Akin. In addition, Romney’s positions on abortion have ranged from an early pro-choice posture to the current promises to defund Planned Parenthood and ban abortions.
President Barack Obama clearly stated the difference this week. For him, a rape is a rape. And in a welcome addition, he said it’s wrong for predominantly male lawmakers to make these kinds of health care decisions for women.
Amen.
While the anti-government, free-the-individual GOP often argues against government interference, they are all in for government control and limited access on abortion and birth control.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Heard Akin this morning on GMA. Said his only mistake was using the word legitimate. George S. then put up the quote and asked if the sentence would be true without the word legitimate. Akin responded, “No. I was medically wrong.”
BREAKING: Akin now states he is medically wrong.
Will the Akin proponents so keen on defending him by saying he’s medically/scientifically correct in his statement please cease and desist. Your candidate has spoken (again, and again, ad infinitum).
Google “Akin GMA”, you’ll find the vid. It’s almost 6 minutes, but the medically wrong statement occurs @ ~3:30-3:40, for those who can’t quite stomach listening to the whole interview.
Part of the lead in to the interview showed a clip of poor Claire, who just couldn’t understand why all the ‘big wigs’ want Akin to leave the race.
Stay tuned to see how Akins fields “have you stopped beating your wife” questions. </sarc>
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Akin is in. Its too late to get out.!!
It’s too late to get out without penalties and reprinting ballots. However, even he left the door open a little on that this morning during his interview with GMA.
My request was for the people who keep saying he’s medically accurate about
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” to stop defending it as accurate.
He is now on the record as saying that he was medically wrong about that.
People need to stop claiming his statement was accurate. Even he’s not claiming that now.
You are a monomaniacal loon
Typical liberal response. You have killed quite a few babies in your lifetime so I am not surprised.
I’ve killed no one. I am pro-life and almost invariably vote that way.
But my main issues have always been economic and defense issues. No way will I sacrifice being the financially secure powerhouse and having the strongest military in history to end abortion. Doing that reduces us to a third-world nation, and that’s not the kind of nation ANY child should be born into.
Liberal? Pal, if you bothered to read the majority of my stuff here over the years you’d find out I was actually more libertarian on scial issues than anything else.
True conservatives are supposed to believe in small government and liberty. What you socons seem to want is a government that is another nanny-state - in a theocratic/moral guardian sort of way.
Again, you have not disproved my claim that you’re so blinded by a single issue that you’d risk a Communist takeover of this nation because of it.
“You all make the foolish mistake believing his replacement will necessarily be anything other than a common sense, pro-life, conservative. He might be the last two but he falls well short on the first criteria.”
You are NOT familiar with Missouri politics. If he drops, he GOP establishment decides who runs. The “establishment” here is NOT pro-life, they are NOT pro social/moral conservatism. They are just a smaller part of the bigger GOP establishment that only wants votes for moral conservatives...NOT their values.
The persons floated by the Missouri GOP establishment as persons to put on the ballot WERE not social/moral conservatives. They weren’t even giving serious consideration to the other two candidates that lost to Akin in the primary. Any of the three that won would have been fine....but they WERE NOT considering any of these.
So, I am certain they cannot be trusted to put a true social/moral conservative on the ballot, because they hold us in contempt just as the large GOP establishment does.
Besides, at the end of the day, only the opinion of ONE group of people matter in this election....the voters that are RESIDENTS of Missouri. A great many of us have urged Akin (both by petition and donations) to stay in the race. That is what counts.
Those persons that are pro-life are those that voted for Akin (do NOT be so foolish into buying that nonsense of “cross-over” democrats). His verbal mistake will NOT keep us from voting for him. Also, McRascal is deeply disliked in Missouri. Only the die hard liberals that vote for Obama will vote for her. In the same way that hatred of Obama is causing many to vote for Romney (whom they normally would oppose)....hatred for McRascal will cause many to vote for Akin.
Today I heard a co-worker say, “I don’t care who is runing against McCaskil, I’m voting for them.” He is not “pro-life” (he is an indifferent nominal Roman Catholic), and is fully aware of what Akin said. He DOES NOT CARE, he is voting for Akin anyway. MANY are just like him. MANY are just like me....hardcore moral conservatives that are backing Akin....and more so now because of the way the GOP turned on him. He is being seen as a slap at the GOPe at the state and national level.
Akin still has a very good chance of beating McRascal....and a real irony is that since the state is leaning towards Romney....Akin will actually get a coat tail boost from Myth. I find that to be really funny...and like I said...ironic.
“Social issues more important than national security and defense? Okay, you’ve convinced me that you’re a nut.”
You have convinced me that you aren’t really a conservative if you put money ahead of morality, or if you trust more in military strength than in pleasing God by being on HIS side of an issue like abortion (modern day child sacrifices).
“I’ll interfere in any state’s business I want to. Got it?
And there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it.”
Ok....how? You cannot vote here. What can you donate funds to that won’t make matters worse. Are you going to send money to McRascal to fight Akin?
Grow a brain. The more you rabble rouse, the more entrenched Akin supporters become....you either be quiet, support them/him, or cause a serious rupture that ruins ANY chance of a GOP victory. Akin is doing better than you realize, and I have talked to those telling me they are going to vote for ANY republican over McRascal....the same talk as those saying ABO to vote for Romney.
Plus, there are a significant block of moral conservatives here in Missouri that will back Akin to the death because they resent the GOP establishment and the state and national level telling us who should or should not run.
So keep it up sparky and you will ENSURE the very thing you claim to dread...McRascal being reelected.
Pretty funny coming from someone in a state that hasn’t sent an intelligent politician to Washington since Harry Truman.....and HE was a Democrat.
Stick to beer and baseball, MO.....leave the statecraft to those who know what they’re doing.
Excuse me, but if we allow 0bama to destroy the economy irreparably and reduce us to a poverty-stricken third-world nation or weaken our defense enough to allow attacks and invasion, then we’ve created a world in which I wouldn’t want ANY child to be born.
We must be strong, secure, and restore our national and personal treasuries first, then we can deal with the abomination of abortion.
But you DON’T make it an issue in a national election. You have it in your platform, but you never mention a political third rail. Why? Because Joe Lunchbucket, who decides elections, not the base, doesn’t give a damn about abortion, not when he’s about to be laid off and he’s gotten a foreclosure letter in the mail from the bank.
VERSTANDEN? IST KLAR? CAPISCE? GET IT? YA FOLLA?
No he does not get it. Furthermore, he also makes up a big line of bs about his knowledge of MO politics, which is all incorrect.
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