Now is the time for courage (Akin, abortion)

WND ^ | August 22, 2012 | Janet Porter

[Perseverando]

Exclusive: Janet Porter joins pro-life leaders as they stand with Rep. Todd Akin

Want to know why the Republican Party is in such trouble? I believe it comes down to one word: courage.

When Democrats misspeak, we make them vice president. When Republicans misspeak, Republicans are the first in line to throw them under the bus.

When Rep. Todd Akin stood for protecting all innocent human life in a recent interview, he used a word with more than one meaning. He used the word “legitimate” before the word “rape” to mean “real,” “forcible,” a tragic event that “really took place.” Anyone who doesn’t think false claims of rape can be made should check with Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of Roe v. Wade. The infamous abortion case, based on her false rape claim, has resulted in the deaths of 55 million innocent human lives.

But because “legitimate” could also modify the word rape, some in the Republican Party are practically writing Willie Horton ads about it, pretending that the congressman is “pro-rape” and wants to let rapists out on furlough. This “interpretation” of the congressman’s words doesn’t resemble reality, and everyone knows it.

If Republicans love their country, they will quit using fiction to shoot their own and focus on the real enemies of life: Democrats Claire McCaskill and Barack Obama, who stand for legally sucking the brains out of half-born babies in a procedure called partial-birth abortion.

In America, we shouldn’t kill people for the crimes of their father. And in politics, we shouldn’t kill statesmen for a badly worded sound bite.

Thankfully, there are men and women of courage who stand with Rep. Akin, beginning with the founder of National and International Right to Life, Dr. Jack Willke, who said:

“Congressman Todd Akin remains a strong and courageous

[skeeter]

Thats the implication the media and democrats would like to draw, even though it clearly was not Akin's intent.

Do you accept that was what Akin was implying?

[catnipman]

“IT HAS TO STOP.”

It stops by winning, not whining.

[chris37]

Why don’t you go ahead and name the other guy who can defeat Obama in 2012.

Go!

[gettinolder]

Well said.

What a bunch of PUSSIES many on this forum are.

[Eagles6]

Exactly.

[skeeter]

He made an ignorant and ill-considered remark that destroyed his ability to get votes outside his base, thereby shooting his campaign not in the foot but through the head - and no amount of defense or support will change that.

Going on the attack would. If the GOP had the stomach for it.

[chris37]

No, the fault lies with those who refuse to back their own team, those who think there is some worth in dying on the Hill of Principles, those who refuse to make the moves that can be made when they can be made.

In other words,

You.

[House Atreides]

“A time for choosing.

Stand with a man who said something stupid but means very well or stand with someone who supports abortion.”
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Do you have the intelligence and insight to realize that the stars have perversely aligned in such a way that standing “with a man who said something stupid but means well” (i.e., Akins) has, as a practical reality, truly come to be equivalent with standing “with someone who supports abortion” (i.e., McCaskill).

Who would have thunk it? Keeping Akin on the ticket (i.e., standing with him) will now result in the election of McCaskill). And while it’s a very painful and sad reality, IT IS THE REALITY FACING US.

Of course, not everyone here lives in Realville (as Rush puts it) and thus not everyone here is capable of recognizing this truth.

[jurroppi1]

I come to the same exact conclusion. This is a tempest in a teapot!

[wardaddy]

folks that actually take the time to do what you and I did will likely come to that conclusion if they are old time culture warriors

freepers God love em..are like whale watchers running from one side of a narrow beam boat to the other to see Moby Dick

not just on this issue..but anything contentious

man...I should make a list...starting with Bush 2000 campaign and Elian and go forwards

me...I prefer the doldrums here..easier to stay buddies with folks

in any event at least Akin did not proclaim to hate Sarah Palin and love Mormonism

now that would bring out the real pistols and rapiers

[MestaMachine]

I never heard of Todd Akin before the MO primary. Steelman only because of Sarah Palin. Really didn’t pay much attention after that. Then the abortion comment. At first, all I saw was feigned outrage so I decided to check out the guy before I dumped on him.
What I have seen since then is a fullblown LYNCHING of a good, decent, honest man, a true Conservative, and it just makes me sick!

[spirited irish]

So he said something stupid and immediately backtracked
which politician hasn’t? Are we really going to allow the MSM and leftists in both parties choose our candidates this way?

Spirited: Bravo! Why hasn’t it occurred to Conservatives and Republicans as yet that the most morally evil people are also the ones who hold Conservatives to the highest standards? From the lowest depths of their slime pits, they who have long since become pathological liars scream foul whenever a Conservative or Rep. misspeaks. One misstep and they shriek, “Off with his head!” And for the most part, Conservatives and Reps. comply.

[PhxTM06]

I love how this lady blatantly ignores the second part of his comment which arguably is the part that riled the most people up due to its abject stupidity. "The woman's body has a way to shut that whole thing down."

The "legitimate rape" could have been apologized for as a poor choice of words and as a slip of the tongue, however when you insinuate that women have a magic vagina fairy that prevents them from becoming pregnant, there's no coming back from that level of stupidity.

[Eagles6]

Exactly.

[skeeter]

Of course, not everyone here lives in Realville (as Rush puts it) and thus not everyone here is capable of recognizing this truth.

I rather think the difference is between those who are conditioned to react to a perceived reality and those who think that tomorrow's reality can be shaped by todays words and actions.

[Signalman]

Do you have the intelligence and insight to realize that the stars have perversely aligned in such a way that standing “with a man who said something stupid but means well” (i.e., Akins) has, as a practical reality, truly come to be equivalent with standing “with someone who supports abortion” (i.e., McCaskill).

Exactly right. Those who are defending Akin are, unwittingly, supporting the pro-abortion candidate.

[Just mythoughts]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2918588/posts

Apparently you have not seen who Boehner is willing to fight.

[PhxTM06]

What I've learned is you pick your battles wisely. If you're forces are covered from an elevated position, you don't engage in a pointless firefight that will kill off most if not all your men, you retreat and try to fight a better vantage point to conduct that fight from.

That "better vantage point" right now is another candidate, a smarter, more competent candidate.

[skeeter]

The "legitimate rape" could have been apologized for as a poor choice of words and as a slip of the tongue, however when you insinuate that women have a magic vagina fairy that prevents them from becoming pregnant, there's no coming back from that level of stupidity.

I was under the impression that as there are conditions conducive to conception, the opposite must also be true.

Then maybe I'm criminally stupid as well.

[nhwingut]

Yep. Just like Akin, they think it was a “misplacement of one word in one sentence.”

Nice spin there. The damage was the magical ways woman “can shut down this whole thing.” That thing would be rape.

It was an embarrassing display of ignorance relative to biology and science. And while it may hurt all Republicans, it hurts the pro life movement even more in the long run, i.e. “Is this the way they all think?”.