I'm doing it today because I find it very disturbing that many conservatives seem to be running for the hills on this issue. Don't retreat. STAND UP AND FIGHT.
I only hope that woman in this country aren’t half as stupid as the media and the DNC think they are.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, the “we must retreat” crowd has taken over FR. I don’t know when I’ve seen so much hand wringing and bed wetting. I find it more than disturbing, I find it truly sickening.
Sometimes I think we deserve to lose.
too late.
Romney’s campaign..i.e. Romney, has already ‘commented’.
Good quote from another forum. Not mine
“There’s a way to make his argument, which is something like: “The unimaginable emotional trauma of being raped does not excuse the killing of an innocent child, who did not choose these circumstances anymore than the victim herself.”
You can say that—agree or disagree, it’s a consistent way to express your position. Instead. . .he comes up with some utterly bizarre pseudo-medical explanation.”
For every Dr. this guy brings out, the left will find one that refutes it. Stick to morals.
4. _Blame_ _the_ _women_ _who_ _want_ _abortions_ _._
Akin is safe as he's running in a conservative area. The media is after bigger game here.
It's not a matter of running for he hills. Akin's comment was just plain ignorant and he absolutely deserves to be called on it.
Ordinarily, I would agree with you, I hate the fact that Pubbies don’t back up their candidates very well but I’m having a tough time with this one. Maybe, it’s partly due to the fact that Aiken was my least favorite of the three candidates (he didn’t seem too bright to me even then). Maybe it’s because there was an apparently large crossover vote in the primary to help him & a few others down ballot. Maybe, it’s because this opens up the whole “war on Women” distraction with vengeance. I’ve been on his FB page & would ascertain he hasn’t a chance to recover. I’m sure Claire Bear probably didn’t expect him to screw up so soon, but I’m inclined to think he needs to go........wish it weren’t so.......
He failed the fundamental test of being a politician...the ability to convince others to agree with you. In fact, he did the opposite. People are running to get away from him. He's managed to drag the entire party into his statistical blabbering. He's hurting the Pro-Life argument.
He needs to STFU and go away.
This is amazing!
Folks are demanding that an adamantly pro-life nominee should withdraw. Why aren’t these same folks demanding the withdrawal of Romney, an (as yet) unnominated candidate with a pro-abortion history?
Akin will do better in his race than Romney will do in his doomed presidential candidacy. In two weeks, no one will remember exactly what Akin said; they will remember only that he is pro-life at all times in all cases. In two weeks, Romney will still be Romney, a loser.
Wake up, folks!
Akin’s comments are indefensible. He needs to go. This Conservative isn’t running to the hills, I am chasing Akin to the hills.
Nobody is running for the hills, we’re just calling an idiot....an idiot. When Whoopie made her moronic comments, even as a woman, people here called her out on it, now you have a GOP politician who basically pulled out a .45, shot through his foot about 5 or 6 times.
A guy who was clearly in the lead, now that’s questionable and he may have single-handedly revived McCaskill and left the Senate in Democrat control.
I’m entirely on the side of social conservatism, and would probably support and agree with just about all of Akin’s voting record. But good grief, his statement is such a grotesque, garbled mess. It’s just skin-crawlingly offensive to the sensibilities, putting the words “legitimate rape” together and talking about wombs magically shutting down conception (which leaves the implication women who HAVE gotten pregnant via rape are somehow not genuine victims).
If this were the case of the media doing its usual unfair hit-job on a Republican, like they did with George Allen and Trent Lott, I’d agree to stand firm and FIGHT like hell! The GOP invariably wimps out, cowering in fear, and come off like pathetic losers. But, this isn’t that sort of case. Akin did this to himself, with his incredibly dingbat wording. He himself has done damage to the pro-life, social conservative cause with his stupidity. It’s not the media to blame. He might be a good guy on the issues, but the resulting carnage to himself and his Party thanks to his statement merits not his support, but demotion. Down to the rank of buck private, if you ask me.
Should have listened to Sarah Palin and voted for Sarah Steelman and you wouldn't have this problem. Or Akin can quit and she can replace him.
But social issues weren't important back then...
Traumatic rape is rare, so of course pregnancy from traumatic rape is also rare. And in fact, pregnancy is “rare” as well, happening only a small percentage of the time one has intercourse.
However, there is nothing about forcible rape that makes it particularly MORE rare to get pregnant. There is not “forcible rape response” in a woman’s body that prevents pregnancies. That was an absurd statement, and devastating.
Further, the argument against allowing abortion has nothing to do with how rare it would be needed. Saying that we can ban abortion because it would only affect a few thousand women is an absurd argument as well, and works directly against the real argument.
Abortion should be illegal because it kills a human being. It makes no difference how that human being was conceived.
The liberals including Romney called Akin’s words inexcusable. All the liberals are getting on board.