Posted on 10/15/2012 9:04:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why not pitch in? The Rove-led GOP establishment wants their ilk to win, not conservatives.
Come back? Was he ever behind?
McKaskell needs to GO. Rove and other IDIOT GOP bigshots need to wise up and start using PAC money to funnel support to him.
He said something stupid and apologized. He didn’t drive a woman he got pregnant into a pond while dead drunk and then leave her there to drown.
He didn’t send pictures of himself a la Weiner to somebody on the Internet.
He didn’t get involved with a male Congressional intern.
He wasn’t a serial sexual predator who profaned the Oval Office.
PERSPECTIVE!!!!!!!
RE: Come back? Was he ever behind?
If we are to believe the polls, he was behind by 10 the weeks after he made the “legitimate rape” gaffe.
McCaskill is in trouble. Has a commercial with a supposed right leaning pro-life rape victim supporting her. There are even PACs running ads. So, if she is a lock to win, why is she running desperate commercials and PACs involved?
Those ads were beyond disgusting! "Hi, I am "pro-life" but I am going to support the pro-abortion Claire McCaskill and her party that is rabidly pro-death!"
The problem is on a national level. Democrats all over are using Akin as part of their “GOP = war against women” strategy.
“Why not pitch in? The Rove-led GOP establishment wants their ilk to win, not conservatives.”
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Quite right folks—contribute and/or volunteer if you can.
The moderate bed wetters aren’t gonna like this...
Well, I raked Akin over the coals back when he made his “comment.” And frankly it’s not like he didn’t deserve all the flak, for the sheer political ineptitude of making the most skin-crawlingly grotesque mistatement of the year.
But he’ll be a solid conservative vote, and I sure hope he prevails against Rove and all the other degenerate scumbags of the GOP-E, who’ve been doing everything they can to undermine actual conservatives in the Party. Anything to put a dagger in the skull of those bastards is a cause for celebration.
My daughter has a friend who swears that Mitt Romney said a woman can choose whether to get pregnant after being raped - says she heard it on the NEWS so it has to be true. We’ve tried explaining to her that the person they were talking about was Todd Akin not Romney, and that he never said there was a conscious choice of anything. But she has to believe “the news” - even if they are dead wrong on every fact this girl thinks she heard.
The problem isn’t Akin, although he could have been more careful in what he said and how he said it. The problem is a media that lies, and people who believe them even when they are shown to be liars.
“Well, I raked Akin over the coals back when he made his comment.””
“I sure hope he prevails against Rove and all the other degenerate scumbags of the GOP-E, whove been doing everything they can to undermine actual conservatives in the Party.”
LOTS of people were doing “everything they can to undermine” Akin who have now turned tail and run back. Sorta like you?
There is a picture for smug in the dictionary, and it’s of Karl Rove!
“turned tail and run back”...?
No, I still think Akin is pretty much a damned doofus as a politician.
But the GOP-E is abject scum. Did anyone read the thread yesterday about a million being spent on Tisei, that gay-activist in Massachusetts running as the GOP candidate for Congress? Big supporter of gay-marriage. Yep, the GOP-E supports and funds this sick perv, while treating actual conservatives (both social and Tea Party types) like diseased cretins. Anything that is a defeat for the GOP-E, like an Akin win, is a victory as far as I’m concerned. As far as the GOP-E, I’d like to collectively see their blasted necks broken.
I know. I guess women will have to choose between the state paying for an abortion and the state blocking life-saving medical care for the elderly or people with long term physical problems (Obamacare).
But we are not going to let the GOP establishment win.
“But even if Akin does ultimately get last-minute assistance from the national GOP, he will still, should he win, owe very little to his partys establishment. That would be a rather unusual situation for a freshman senator. And it could allow him to become a uniquely powerful proponent for the Tea Partys agenda on Capitol Hillnot to mention a serious headache for the Senates GOP leadership.”
Beautiful, ain’t it?
Go Todd GO!!
I happened to be watching the Akin interview that Sunday morning and was not taken aback by his notorious comments. I understood Akins words to imply forced rape, as opposed to statutory rape.
And as a woman, I understand the complex female reproductive system and am aware that impending ovulation may possibly be delayed or halted during an occurrence of stress or trauma. This could certainly include the horror of rape. For those who still question the rational of Akins tenet, there are medical sources to substantiate his comments .
Important Facts to Know About Ovulation:
An egg (ovum) lives 12-24 hours after leaving the ovary.
Normally only one egg is released each time of ovulation.
Ovulation can be affected by stress, illness or disruption of normal routines.
http://netwellness.org/healthtopics/pregnancy/pregmenstrualcycle.cfm
Stress can definitely interfere with conception.
Thats because stress can affect the functioning of the hypothalamus the gland in the brain that regulates your appetite and emotions, as well as the hormones that tell your ovaries to release eggs. If youre stressed out, you may ovulate later in your cycle or not at all.
Its important to differentiate between constant and sudden stress. The body often acclimates to constant, everyday stresses, so youll probably ovulate fairly consistently each cycle. Its sudden stress a death in the family, an accident, divorce that can throw your cycle off and interfere with ovulation.
Toni Weschler
Fertility Educator
http://www.babycenter.com/404_can-stress-get-in-the-way-of-getting-pregnant_1336350.bc
The Science of Stress and Fertility
Pisarska tells WebMD that the effects of stress may be different for each woman.
Stress may cause one set of reactions in one woman, and something else in another, so ultimately the reasons behind how or why stress impacts fertility may also be very individual, says Pisarska.
While doctors may not know the exact links between stress and fertility, a series of studies shows the impact is hard to ignore.
http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/features/infertility-stress
Stress and Fertility
By Michael C. Darder, MD & Susan L. Treiser, MD, PhD
Q. Can emotional stress affect fertility?
A. Severe stress can prevent ovulation, and that, of course, makes it impossible to get pregnant. Significant stress can affect the hormones in the brain that direct egg development; the eggs stop growing and theres no ovulation.
http://www.conceiveonline.com/articles/stress-and-fertility
Todd Akins gaffe was not worthy of destruction of his political career. He did not do anything illegal or immoral or malicious. He did not deliberately disparage women who were impregnated by rape. His words were sadly misconstrued by some people and deliberately distorted by political operatives in efforts to affect the November election.
I agree.
Either the media doesn’t know the difference between conscious choices and basic physiological chemistry, or they chose to distort what Akin said. Whether it was incompetence or deliberate misreporting, the effect is the same: people who wouldn’t think twice about reading the kinds of sources like you cited all of a sudden think those medical statements are terribly controversial.
The same thing happens when people say they believe that homosexuality is not caused by genetics - and it gets twisted into meaning that the person says people consciously choose to be homosexual. Twins studies have pretty much shown that while there is probably a genetic component to homosexuality, “nature” doesn’t explain the differences between identical twins. “Nurture” clearly has an impact. That doesn’t mean that a person consciously chooses to be homosexual. It may mean that there is a non-conscious response to something - something the person may not even consciously remember. The same thing happens in a variety of situations. Abused children don’t consciously choose to be drawn to abusers as adults - but it happens, over and over again, because there’s something subconscious going on. If the person was aware of it they could deal with it; part of the problem is that it ISN’T a conscious choice.
In so many instances, the science gets trumped by politics, and the media people are the great spoilers, who take what is said and turn it into something else, in order to cause rifts between people who might otherwise stand together.
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