[Impy]

Well isn’t this the perfect pile of bullsunni.

I saw a newslink “GOP Senate candidate blah blah rape blah” and I was thinking to myself “please be the guy from Washington State or something so this doesn’t matter”. But no it has to be Akin and the media just had to decide to make it the world’s # 1 news story. Harry Reid would have to shoot a guy on the street to get this kind of coverage. I guess you were right Clintonfatigued when you called him “second-tier”, he’s a second-tier mind anyway.

There once was a man named Felix Grucci, a freshman Congressman from NY elected in 2000. His first reelection was won, he faced a nobody, some College President jerkoff named Tim Bishop. All Grucci had to do to win was ignore him. Instead he decided to say that Bishop (whose existence before this nobody was aware of) didn’t properly investigate claims of sexual assault on campus or some such, I don’t know the truth but there was no proof so the media decided it was a smear against Bishop. Boom, Bishop narrowly wins, 10 years later and fresh off a stolen 2010 reelection that bastard is STILL there.

Not the exact same thing but close enough. Akin should have been thinking about how he could snag himself one of the better Senate offices and how he should decorate that office. Instead he gives an interview and talks about RAPE and lets the world know that he flunked Pys Ed cause women’s eggs apparently know rapist sperm from boyfriend or husband sperm. I bet those eggs could run NORAD then.

Now I don’t care one whit about what he said (not at all, I don’t give a duck), half of Washington is much stupider than that (I myself once believed that 15th Century Europe really thought the Earth was flat cause that’s what my friggin worthless grade school history book said) but I imagine a lot of women aren’t pleased nor. This plays right into the “ignorant of science” stereotype social conservatives are tagged with by the left and lets Claire play the girl power sisterhood card.

What matters is the seat.

If the deadline for him being able to quit and be replaced is really TUESDAY as freeper Scbison posted then there is no damn time to poll this to see if this faux paux can be overome. Our reactions are irrelevant, the reactions of the ignorant swing voters are what’s important here. Does it turn a layup into a tossup? Or is it even worse? Is he DOA even against the unpopular hag Senatrix? Does the GOP have the stones to DEMAND he quit? (Reid would have his mobster buddies pay a visit) Does he have the sense to listen if they do? There is just a day and half to decide?

Republicans need to learn to handle hostile media questions without shoving their feet so far down their throats that they can still walk. And Akin’s handlers should be ashamed of themselves cause that’s their JOB. He is PAYING them.

I hope this doesn’t work out as badly as it could.

[sickoflibs]

From post above :“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV, in an interview first reported nationally by Talking Points Memo. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

???? Another Sharon Angle moment???
Is this moron going to lose yet another Senate seat to Dems? this one what should be an easy win.

You know if Romney was to win and can't get things through the Senate without Reid's OK Republicans here thinking Romney is the solution with be in for four very painful years as Romney sucks up to Reid and Ryan works over House Republicans to 'get something done'.

[Radiarm]

You said it best. People who want to “stand by” Akin like the liberals do their officials are DELUSIONAL. The media give liberals a pass. We don’t get that luxury. Even FOX will be forced to run this crud. THE SEAT IS WHAT MATTERS. What’s more, the DNC is jumping all over this and there is no way to combat it. Looking at twitter, it’s also hyping the libtard base (NOT what we need right now). Obangalore was waiting for something like this to occur so he could roll out Sandra Puke again. Akin needs to be replaced quickly, and we need a new distraction to dampen the media reaction. Anything, a prison escape, Lincoln’s ghost, Tamara Holder caught in bed with Bob Beckel. ANYTHING to draw attention away from the turd this man just laid on our senate chances!

[LS]

If I was a GOP strategist, I don't know what I'd do here. First, this is beyond a "stupid statement"---this guy really thinks that a raped woman can will a pregnancy away without n abortion. Second, trust me, the explanations will only expose this more. If he had gotten the seat, it would come up and probably be forced to step down.

On the other hand as per Dems, we CANNOT lose this "gimmie". I think I'd probably have this guy step down and bring in the next highest candidate.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Not the exact same thing but close enough. Akin should have been thinking about how he could snag himself one of the better Senate offices and how he should decorate that office. Instead he gives an interview and talks about RAPE and lets the world know that he flunked Pys Ed cause women’s eggs apparently know rapist sperm from boyfriend or husband sperm. I bet those eggs could run NORAD then.”

It looks like he was trying to make a point that women who use rape as a loophole to get abortions are phonies ( a dangerous thing to say when running for Senator) but in a clever sort of way, trying to be funny like that House Republican who made the ‘aspirin between my legs’ joke.

I guessed Akin missed the part where the other guy was forced to apologize.

He did a great job helping those (Democrats) who want our federal money to pay for abortions.

[randita]

Akin may be a perfectly nice guy, but politically, he is light years out of touch with the electorate - especially women. His comments show that he lives in a bubble surrounded only by people who think like him.

It’s probably not fatal to just make the statement that you are against abortion in all circumstances on religious or moral grounds. If you’re Catholic or fundamentalist Christian, you would be true to your faith with this view.

But to support your views by saying that there is some kind of magical physiological change that occurs in a woman’s body when she’s raped that prevents pregnancy is Neanderthal.

You can bet this will be the news headline for the next couple of weeks and every GOP candidate running will be asked if he/she agrees with Akin. What a horrible waste of time in the week leading up to the convention!

This could truly become the Mark Foley moment of this election unless Akin just goes away. Foley even went away but his remaining stench threw the election to the Rats.

I feel very sorry for Akin. MO gave him the opportunity of a lifetime and he blew it.

[Clintonfatigued]

When Todd Akin won the nomination, I feared that something like this would happen. I don’t believe Akin is a hater or misogynist, but he’s certainly guilty of being inept. In a way, Akin has lived in a political bubble, always running in safely Republican affluent neighborhoods and never facing a competitive general election, so he’s never had to watch what he said. This is one of the reasons I supported Sarah Steelman, who in spite of her flaws has won competitive general elections (and is quite a beauty, as well). I hoped that I would prove wrong about Akin. Sometimes, there is no joy in being proven right.