Posted on 08/22/2012 5:52:51 PM PDT by SmithL
Democrats are working to make a Missouri congressman's controversial comment about rape an issue in the heated 7th Congressional District race.
Republican Rep. Todd Akin has come under fire from politicians on both sides of the aisle for saying in a televised interview that a woman's body has the ability to block pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape." He has apologized for the remarks, but rejected calls from Republican leaders and politicians, including presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, to drop his U.S. Senate campaign against Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, denounced the comments in a statement posted to his campaign Twitter feed Tuesday.
"As a husband and father, I was deeply disturbed by the recent comments of Todd Akin," he said. "The ideas he expressed are simply incomprehensible."
His opponent, Elk Grove Democrat Ami Bera, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sought to tie the Republican incumbent to Akin. Bera, who has worked as a physician, targeted Lungren's support for legislation aimed at cutting federal funding for abortion in a release issued Tuesday.
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I have it on a high authority that you don’t need abortion for “legitimate rape”. You only need to “put some on ice on that”.
Yes. Women are also people, and people are really sore about the economy.
The Dems are fighting the wrong battle. They need to spend a lot of money lying on economic issues.
No -- they would have still used it because they saw how hot and bothered the pro-abortion wing of the GOP and Mittens was about it. If Mittens had only kept out of it and kept his mouth shut about it, it would have been a local Missouri issue and that is all.
You are mistaken.
Romney expressed no position on Akin until after Limbaugh, Hannity, Levine and about 2/3 of the FReepers had gone off on Akin. And none of the above are members of the pro-abortion wing of the GOP.
Needless to say, the MSM was already in full-throated cry.
Akin's problem is not that he is pro-life. It is that he evidently isn't bright enough to express a coherent defense of the pro-life position and has put an otherwise winnable Senate seat at risk.
Rather than defending Akin, we should all be asking him to resign so that a reliable pro-lifer who can express themselves coherently can actually win the seat.
IT’S THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY . . and I repeat T-H-E E-C-O-N-O-M-Y!!!!!
1) We just came off the Chick-fil-A triumph
2) Dems says stupid things all the time
3) Let’s stop running from the Media, and what people say/think
We can win this, and cut the heart out of Media attacks on Conservatives.
That is not at all accurate - it was a major national issue long before Romney said a word about it and it was viral on the net and being covered by all networks devoting a huge amount of time to the story. Allen West, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, etc. are not a "pro-abortion wing" of the GOP.
i highly suspect “SeminoleCounty,” who joined just two months ago, is a election-time meddlesome troll.
What I’ve found esp. with liberals is that they don’t understand the difference between a person being a liberal, conservative, moderate, libertarian, etc. having their own opinions and beliefs about so many different issues and how they vote. So I just find the most outlandish thing a democrat ever said about something (which isn’t hard because there’s so much) and say well you must agree because they are a democrat. Sometimes they get it.
It’s all they have to talk about. They sure don’t want to talk about the economy of socialist Mexifornia!
I disagree.
The mantra would have been look the Republicans force Akin out because he exposed to the world what Republicans really beleive.
I have heard several people surmise this is the case.
I don’t know him very well except he has served a long time and is very conservative.
How would the dems take a guy like Akin and flip him?
No clue how that could happen, do you know something or just speculating?
The scenario of him flipping sounds like a movie script, and blackmail.
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