Posted on 08/25/2012 8:06:08 AM PDT by Jonah Vark
(Reuters) – Missouri conservatives say they are rallying around U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin despite his controversial comments about rape because they are outraged that “establishment” Republican Party leaders tried to railroad him out of the race.
A backlash has set in here in Akin’s suburban St. Louis congressional district, where supporters said the national party had no right to attempt to force out a duly-elected candidate.
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So, yes, you are wrong.
Please be more descriptive in exactly what it is you assume I'm wrong about.
He is insufficiently conservative for my taste.
So that gives you the right to "fabricate" an interpretation that suits your fancy just like you're fabricating an interpretation of me that suits your fancy?
You necessarily support him from the Left!
BS! That is your opinion because we're not in agreement this time on this issue.
From my point of view you stand to the Left of me on a number of issues as well yet I'm not going around calling you a leftist or insinuating you're "from the Left", am I?
you will need to adjust your point of view in the future then
You must like picking at scabs.
The Crystal Mangums of the world make it harder for real victims like VG’s friend. Just like illegal Mexicans make it more difficult for those who are here legally. To attack illegal immigration is not the same thing as attacking legal immigrants. The left wants us to lump them all together and make it illegal or “insensitive” to find out which a person is, so we can be comfortable with them and they don’t have to have questions hanging over their heads.
I guess one of the ways that the frequency of pregnancy from “legitimate rape” plays into the question of whether abortion should be legal in cases of rape is what you mentioned in the analysis of rape statistics before Roe v Wade. If there is a rape exception, pretty soon we’ll have 1.5 million women pregnant as a result of a rape that they didn’t report to law enforcement. Just like the “health” exception resulted in not fitting into the cheerleading outfit being an acceptable “health reason” to abort a 3rd-trimester baby.
Wherever you leave a loophole, there the vultures will gather. But there will also be people there who are real, and their hurt will be all the more because unless people know them and their personal stories deeply, they won’t be known as real. And they might feel the questions hanging over their heads. I can understand why that would be hurtful, and I do grieve for the struggle these women have between privacy and vindication. It has to be tough.
When it comes to legitimate rape, I can understand why people are torn about it. In Muslim countries, for instance, a man will rape a woman knowing that if she gets pregnant she has no options and will have to marry him, convert to Islam if she’s not Muslim, etc. How would women be protected from that? In reality, probably a society which allows women to have jobs to earn a living, or that reaches out to her when she’s in a crisis pregnancy to help her through it AND EXECUTES JUSTICE ON THE BASTARD WHO RAPED HER is probably the best protection.
Corruption is such a tough thing. Somebody posted here that a police officer who investigates rape accusations estimated that about 45% of reported rapes are without a question false. If that was how women could get abortions can you imagine how many false rape claims would be filed? There’d be no way to investigate them all so we’d never know which were which and we’d never see rapists prosecuted and taken off the streets.
What a mess. We humans are a sad, sorry lot.
On this, I hope, we all agree. I would add, though, that since he is not dropping out, I definitely would vote for Akin if I lived in Missouri.
Grow up. Akin was nominated by his Constituents and he needs to be supported. He has broken NO LAWS and his comment is, once again.... NOT RESPONSIBLE for the current situation obama has put our country in. He has a long record of endorsing and promoting good Conservative legislation and you, if you really are a Conservative, should be behind him 100% instead of worrying about what some loud-mouthed, unwashed occupiers think of him.
Yet somehow they don't all babble out such silly responses.
Yeah, it's "rare" to even get an answer as "they" usually avoid the question altogether so nobody knows where they actually stand on the issue.
There's nothing as satisfying as finding out exactly where the person you're voting for stands on the issue, is there?
Well, that is, when you can get an answer instead of "I won't answer it as it may cost me votes".
I think that’s probably what most conservatives would say also. Right now the polls reflect people wanting him to drop out, which is a different thing than how they would vote if he is their only choice against McCaskill.
Some are more concerned with whether the anti-woman story will successfully be pinned onto R&R or other R’s or conservatives. I just tend to think that if people are too stupid to figure out that R&R are not at war with women, then this country is too stupid to continue its own existence and it might be merciful for us to get Obama in there and all die a quick death at the hands of the Muslims rather than live as mindless, lifeless vegetables for a long, miserable time.
Ultimately this election is a verdict not on the candidates but on the American people. Specifically whether we deserve to keep living or deserve the death we choose. That’s what’s at stake here.
Nope, I still see all of this as a created and contrived event that some people on both sides of the aisle are using against a man in a hotly contested election with national implications.
First of all there is nothing to defend. He did nothing wrong. Second.... I defend it because anything he says will be twisted to make him out to be worse than obama just like you're doing here.
If people with a spine do not support him he will be left to spin in the wind and I can't allow that to happen. If I can bring some levity to the discussion I will. If I can shame friggin idiots for embarrassing themselves by pushing this good, honorable man under the bus then I will.
Was that a clear enough answer for you?
This 65 year old , 12 term politician needs to step aside, and let some other conservative have a turn.
Besides, I admit that I don't know much about the magical powers of the Uterus, but I've seen some Vagina's that would put Houdini to shame. Now you see it, now you don't.
I'm going outside now to see if there are are any of those magical Silver Birds way up in the sky.
Oh, yeah, I hate 'em so much 'cause I'm thoroughly enthralled with the wonders of their bodies.
I hate 'em so much 'cause they endure pain and discomfort for months on end so that their children may be born.
I hate 'em 'cause they're such beautiful creations that even the angels desired them and left Heaven to be with them.
I could just go on for days about how much I hate 'em.
Do I need an /sarcasm or do you think it'll be recognized for what it is?
$1.5 million that the Dems spent to boost Akin was more than his entire underdog campaign. His conservative bona fides are flawless, but facts are facts.
One interesting characteristic of such “sleepers/saboteurs”...
Well it's a good thing that I'm a prolific poster with several years here under my belt, isn't it!
It's kind of hard to put a label on somebody who doesn't fit your criteria, isn't it?
Maybe you should look into "retreads" too while you're considering such things.
How so?
Brunner led Akin 40-20 on June 25th, 2 days before the $1.5 million ad onslaught by Dems touting the Huckabee endorsement and citing that Akin was "too conservative", etc, hit the airwaves. My choice was Steelman, and she can't run now, so I have no dog in this hunt. But again, facts are facts, Akin owes his victory to Harry Reid's machinations.
My, my, haven't you suddenly become the sanctimonious one.
Matthew 7:16 “Ye shall know them by their fruits.....”
As a bible believing Christian I couldn’t possibly improve on the language in that verse, but, if I can, I’ll adapt it to the situation at hand.
Ye shall know them by their fruits AND THEIR POSTINGS ON FREE REPUBLIC.
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