Posted on 08/20/2012 9:29:47 AM PDT by StevenFlorida
In a phone interview this morning, Mitt Romney told National Review Online that Representative Todd Akin’s recent remarks on rape are “inexcusable.”
“Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.”
Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, controversially claimed on Sunday that a woman’s body can block an unwanted pregnancy.
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down,” Akin said in an interview with KTVI-TV.
“I have an entirely different view,” Romney said. “What he said is entirely without merit and he should correct it.”
Akin thinks the election should be over abortion for rape victims, not the economy.
Well if its Rape Rape ...........
This happened in TX. Forget the name of the Republican nominee for gov but his crack was similar and gave TX Ann Richards.
Not too late to push him out, if there’s enough pressure on the Missouri GOP, they’ll put enough pressure on Akin to walk, especially if they threaten to cut him off, with no more funding period.
boy, rinos really hate us conservatives. just another reason i can’t support romney.
I think that this statement from Mitt = Sayonara Todd
Dammit Mitt! Why not comment on the msm / demo feeding frenzy over a verbal foot fault instead of providing the rope to the lynch mob?
As always - The Stupid Party rolls on - stupidly.
The guy obviously misspoke.
So, when conservatives make a mistake, there done, when libs make a mistake they are Vice President.
Man up, apologize for the words and move on. We need that seat !
Tell that to Jaycee Dugard, who bore two children by the man who abducted and raped her. And incidentally, she bore no malice against the children, but accepted them as her own. A human being who is the product of rape is still a human being, and we should be encouraging others to see things that way.
Mittens is no King-maker. You must be thinking of Sarah Palin.
Come on. The Akin interview was potentially the dumbest move during an election season I’ve seen. This seat was 99.9% sure to flip to the GOP. Not only is that seat now wide open, but the idiotic quote is going to be used to try to trap everyone else running this year. Romney handled it perfectly.
Don’t ever discount the possibility of the GOP saving defeat from the jaws of victory and that’s exactly what it appears that Akin has done here.
What was this guy thinking. Mitt was right to disavow the guy. When was the last time Baraq’s or one of his supporters ever disavowed any outrageous statement uttered by a fellow traveler?
“I have an entirely different view,” Romney said.Yeah, he believes in abortion for cases of rape. Like that's any better than making the wrong word choice? What a hypocrite! The unborn don't like where you stand, Romney.
All Mitt said was “clarify your position”
Akin is absolutely wrong on this. Women most certainly CAN get pregnant from rape.
The farther you are from the actual news event, the more likely you are to believe the press report.
Akin did seriously misspeak and did not do anyone any favors. He has admitted his bad statement and has offered a correction. He did go on to stand by his position against abortion and differentiate himself from Clair who is a loud abortion proponent. If you are melting ice cream, you will want to throw him overboard. If the GOP is an inclusive party, we will accept a little sharpness and look at the rest of what Akin has to offer.
Romney’s people did exactly what pubbies always do. They pissed themselves when somebody made a stupid statement. They got ahead of the press and any attempt to smear them with the mud. Now, lets see if Akin has the moxie to use this to beat Clair around the head with her baby killing ways.
If I were a murdering Progressive abortionist I guess I would find such comments offensive as well as they would prick my conscious and make me feel guilty.
Not to make excuses for the idiot, but I assume he was trying to say that a pregnancy is less likely to result from a single act of rape than from a single act of consensual intercourse.
I don’t exactly see how this is relevant to the discussion, even if true. But whether it is true or not is a matter of biological fact, which can presumably be determined by appropriate use of the scientific method.
IOW, nobody seems to be in the slightest bit interested in whether what he said is true.
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