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Scott Brown calls for Todd Akin to drop out of Senate race
Twitchy ^ | 08/20/2012 | Twitchy Staff

Posted on 08/20/2012 10:25:40 AM PDT by nhwingut

As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong. There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin’s statement was so far out of bounds that he should resign the nomination for US Senate in Missouri.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: abortion; akin; akin4mccaskill; akin4obama; chiefslingingbull; elizabethwarren; legitimaterape; massachusetts; missouri; mo2012; rape; sarahsteelman; scottbrown; toddaikin; toddakin; waronwomen
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To: chae

Is that not true? I’ve heard for decades that “psychic trauma” may reduce the change a woman has to become pregnant, or for the pregnancy to come to full term.


41 posted on 08/20/2012 11:19:59 AM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: nhwingut

Part of Akins’ difficulty is that he obtusely used the word legitimate instead of the word actual. The worst part of his double gaffe was the off-the-wall notion that a woman’s body can turn off a pregnancy at will. Where did he get that???


42 posted on 08/20/2012 11:20:35 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: mrsmith

thanks for some real political insight, first i’ve seen. that liberal republican women’s vote is also real important to romney and all rinos. explains all the screaming.


43 posted on 08/20/2012 11:20:53 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: nhwingut; holdonnow
I could care less about Todd Aikin. I want Claire gone and to take the Senate to get rid of Obamacare. He needs to take a hike.

I agree. I didn't know much about this Aikin character before this comment. Is this the best candidate the GOP in Missouri could have run against McCaskell?? Ugh...

Step down now, Aikin!!

44 posted on 08/20/2012 11:23:31 AM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz: "ABO"/Ryan 2012)
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To: nhwingut

From Wikipedia:
“In 12 years in the state house, Akin voted for carrying concealed weapons, voted against the parks and soils sales tax, voted against the 1993 tax increase and education spending increase. Akin sponsored legislation to prohibit casino companies from contributing to Missouri state lawmakers. In 1995, he fought Democrat Governor Mel Carnahan on state-funding for abortion, which Akin opposed.”

So, Masshole liberal RINOs who are against gun carry rights, and pro- abortion and proromneyobamacare (one of who is for state’s rights only if it’s what he wants federally)— they drift left MSM in their message to save that everloving “middle of the road” undecided. Big damn help. Akin is, by the way a graduate of divinity school and has industrial management experience and a solid social conservative background. Perfect target for RINOs


45 posted on 08/20/2012 11:23:40 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: AC86UT89

Since this is a Republican, it is likely already too late. I believe Missouri has an 8/21 ballot date. Republicans follow the rules.


46 posted on 08/20/2012 11:25:11 AM PDT by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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To: luvbach1
The worst part of his double gaffe was the off-the-wall notion that a woman’s body can turn off a pregnancy at will. Where did he get that???

I thought I was hearing things when I heard his actual statement. I needed to hear it a couple more times to believe what I heard.

Where does the GOP find such *stoopid* candidates like this one?

Step down NOW, Akin!! We really need this seat in the Senate...

47 posted on 08/20/2012 11:26:20 AM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz: "ABO"/Ryan 2012)
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To: dadfly

If Akin loses 5 points at the polls for this- well, he has it to spare.

And if 10 other R Senate candidates and 30 R House candidates can gain 2 or 3 points by ‘refudiating’ it- so much the better!


48 posted on 08/20/2012 11:30:26 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Sola Veritas

This guy isn’t as pro-life as you think.

The only reason he said what he did was so he wouldn’t have to say that, yes, the life of a child is still valuable even when a woman gets raped.

He tried to handwave the whole scenario altogether so he wouldn’t have to a principled pro-life stand. Sorry.


49 posted on 08/20/2012 11:31:23 AM PDT by Cruising For Freedom
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To: Ingtar

I’m no squish either and I think this guy has to go. This guy is nothing special and can easily be replaced. The Tea Party lead Republican purge should not only include RINOs, it should include the idiots too.


50 posted on 08/20/2012 11:33:03 AM PDT by gore_sux (Al Franken - Preferred by Minnesota Educated Somali Pirates and Suicide Bombers Everywhere)
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To: mrsmith

I heard what he said in context, I shouldn’t be a problem. Then again I’m not a purse swinging drama queen! Dems are desperate!


51 posted on 08/20/2012 11:35:02 AM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: mrsmith

I heard what he said in context, It shouldn’t be a problem. Then again I’m not a purse swinging drama queen! Dems are desperate!


52 posted on 08/20/2012 11:35:20 AM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: Fawn
Is Akins that stupid?

Apparently so... and arrogant.

53 posted on 08/20/2012 11:37:38 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If Obama is reelected, America will deserve every mockery that follows.)
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To: nhwingut

This illustrates a key difference between us and the liberals.

If this same s***storm was going on about a liberal, they’d close ranks and none of them would speak out against that liberal.

We actually hold our own to our standard. We want them gone if they are found lacking.


54 posted on 08/20/2012 11:40:02 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Behind enemy lines in the city where it's illegal to buy a Big Gulp)
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To: Sola Veritas
If the rural votes in Missouri were that powerful, how did McCaskill get in before, over an incumbent???

You are right about one thing, I don't vote in Missouri and know little of how they think but I would consider this were I you: McCaskill is a woman, barely. Women voters across the country are not flocking in droves to Romney. Perhaps things are far different in Missouri but when a candidate utters such a blunder, I doubt it goes unnoticed.

In your mind I guess they will overlook his ridicules comment. So, while not strongly supporting Romney will voters support Aken?? I don't see it.

So, don't short yourself out with rhetoric debasing my opinions. I am not the enemy, the dems and Obama are. I just think your support for this guy is myopic.

Sparky

55 posted on 08/20/2012 11:42:21 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Ingtar
I see the squishy segment of the GOP is the first to call for him to withdraw.

Of course they are. I'm sure they have someone even more moderate in mind that will appeal to their own democrat base.
56 posted on 08/20/2012 11:47:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: nhwingut

Well there ya go: the great defender of the conservative cause, Scott Brown.

LOL.

You bedwetters are such sheep.


57 posted on 08/20/2012 11:47:31 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sola Veritas

Hear, hear, Sola. I couldn’t have said it any better. (Yes, I live in Missouri so I have a say in it!)


58 posted on 08/20/2012 11:47:31 AM PDT by misharu (US Congress: Children without adult supervision.)
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To: nhwingut

Akin needs to take one for the team and bail out. You can’t tee off 80% of women and thinking people and expect to survive politically.

Not enough people are going to listen to his nuances for speaking stupidly and the media will insure his defeat if he is stupid enough to stay in.


59 posted on 08/20/2012 11:47:31 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Sola Veritas
Missouri voters decide this race, not you. The rural voters of Missouri, where he is popular, WILL NOT be bothered by his verbal mess up. ONLY city voters may, and they typically vote democrat anyway.

Exactly --

60 posted on 08/20/2012 11:52:09 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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