Posted on 08/23/2012 6:09:46 PM PDT by Red Steel
Something needs to stop this psycho reaction from people.
We have our very own fellow FReepers saying Akin is destroying the country and is responsible for ObamaCare and the total demise of the United States.
This is what’s insane!
Newer studies show a 5% rate of pregnancy in cases of rape, so relatively rare but not exceedingly, however that wasn't the core issue of contention.
He was tone deaf using the crass phrase "legitimate rape." Worse he claimed there was a physical mechanism of the female body that was prevent pregnancy.
The "DES" in the study you link to is Diethylstilbestrol, which was approved as a postcoital contraceptive in emergencies, like rape cases, in the mid 1970s.
That didn’t take long.
That something if for Todd Akin to exit the race by Sept 25th and pay for new ballot printing so the state party can put forth a pro-life constitutional conservative who isn't tainted, can defeat Claire McCaskill and won't harm elections across the nation.
Akin's being used in new ads by Democrats in races from one coast to the other, in House and Senate seats. Whatever his voting record, he is now poisonous. We cannot afford one man's ego putting this critical election in jeopardy.
We care more about the direction of this nation, and the values Akin claims to espouse, and stopping the Obama agenda than we care about his bruised ego. Sarah Palin understood she had become a distraction in Alaska, stepped aside, and called on Akin to do the same here. Akin himself, once upon a time, called for another congressman to resign to avoid distracting from the legislative agenda.
Not a single person supporting Akin will rationally explain WHY AKIN and not another candidate in his place. Even Akin himself, talking to Hannity Tuesday, said there were "thousands" in MO who could step in and do as well on the issues.
If he stays Akin will surely lose; how many others will he take down with him?
Of course they are, otherwise the campaign would’ve had no comment. His campaign wants sympathy now. It’s all about generating campaign dollars.
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I just wish they’d stop the minor blizzard of campaign contribution solicitations with which they’re inundating my home email inbox. One of the more recent ones included a message from Huckabee—like a message from that self-centered creature is going to loosen my purse strings
Thanks Red Steel.
It just shows that congresscritters will do ANYTHING to keep their jobs.
>No one has any f’ing balls but Akin.
He is rolling three steel balls in his hand while he is wondering who stole his palm tree and strawberries.
No.it was his choice of words. thats all.
Liberals showing just how classy they truly are. Get a CCW ,a pistol,training on how to shoot & carry on .
In case anyone wonders what the PCA reference means, here are two posts by me on what it means that Akin is a conservative in the Presbyterian Church in America:
Todd Akin is a PCA member and Covenant Seminary graduate
(Vanity)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2921258/posts
Being a Pastor and Speaking Out in Today’s Culture
By Dr. Michael Milton, Chancellor, Reformed Theological Seminary
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2922254/posts
Personally, I'm a member of an even more conservative denomination, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The PCA is too broadly evangelical for me, but I'm the first one to say that both of our denominations have their problems.
To prove that Democrats can get some things right, go read Senator Webb's work on the Scots-Irish role on the settlement of the American frontier. One could make a good argument that Scottish blood makes Old School Presbyterians a pretty ornery bunch, and that's Webb's view. I personally think it has much more to do with a very high view of the role of the Old Testament that is shared by Calvinists whether they're Scots Presbyterians, English Puritans, Dutch Reformed, Swiss Reformed, Hungarian Reformed, Korean Presbyterians, or any of the other ethnic groups which have come to have large percentages of Calvinists either now or at some point in their history.
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