Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
This prick better step down, but the asshole sounds like he will stay until he’s dragged out.
This is leading the news instead of the economy on every news channel.
I want him gone now, and he needs to feel the wrath of the party bigtime.
Opposition to abortion in all cases and forms is the litmus test in my voting. The rest can go to hell.
1. Akin has to go. Now. Better still, yesterday, were that possible. It's too late for him to jump back into the race for his House seat, of course. The Republican National Senate Committee, or the Missouri GOP could scramble around and promise him some political post, I suppose, but he's 65 years old. Here's a good option: retire.
2. The obvious choice to step in is Brunner. I say this with no knowledge whatever about his qualifications -- other than that I gather that he was largely self-financed, and that he ran as an economic and social conservative, as did, more or less, Akin and Steelman, but he finished second in the primary. If Akin withdraws, and assuming Brunner wants the nomination, it should be his.
Who ultimately would call the shot in the event of Akin's withdrawal? The Missouri GOP?
nuff said
He said something dumb. That’s his crime.
He should stay. Republicans need to quit hanging their own.
Is Rush eligible?
It doesn’t matter if he’s right on the facts.
It doesn’t matter if it was only one mistake.
It doesn’t matter if he’s truly sorry.
It doesn’t matter if everyone is mis-construing his comment.
The ONLY thing that matters is that his continued presence in the race jeopardizes Republicans’ ability to re-take the Senate and RR’s chances as well. There is nothing Akin can do to change that political reality. He has to get out and he will if he is capable of acting in accordance with the principles he espouses.
So he can get out after the deadline, if he goes to the courts.
That’s a minor relief in case he makes a foolish selfish choice tomorrow.
funny how really stupid statements are a prerequisite for Dhimmicrat candidates...
(think any number of Dhimmis from Sheila Jackson Lees Mars Rover finding the flag Neil Armstrong planted on the moon...to just about anything Biden has said...)
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
He absolutely needs to step down. My sister and I are both very conservative, but he completely alienated us with his asinine statement. He is not only factually wrong, but politically tone deaf. I voted for Sarah, and wish the rest of Missouri had followed suit.
He didn’t have the sense to articulate the position that unborn children should not pay for the crimes of their fathers with their lives. This is a reasonable position, that no unborn child is deserving of death. He could have even stated rape victims comprise a very small percentage of abortions in America. This is a fact, backed up by statistics.
However, stating a “legitimately” raped woman can “shut down” a pregnancy is completely unsupportable by fact. I can’t believe there are actually men on this site that support such nonsense. I don’t know why I feel the need to educate the ignorant, but here goes. True, not a huge percentage of raped women become pregnant, for the following reasons:
1. They are past child bearing years.
2. They are on oral contraceptives.
3. They are not ovulating at that moment in time.
4. They took post-rape measures at a hospital.
However, for the remainder of these women, a pregnancy is very likely. If a woman is ovulating, she probably will get pregnant. Even if I grant you the possibility that stress might prevent ovulation, if a woman has already begun ovulation, this will not matter. The body makes no “magical” distinction, and biology takes over.
The woman most likely to get pregnant during a rape is a woman who is not on oral contraceptives and who is morally opposed to the morning after pill.
It’s good to have Rush back. As soon as Akin goes, it’s time to start hammering the Bill Clinton angle of this controversy. Are Juanita, Kathleen, and Paula “legitimate” in the eyes of the Dems?
