Sickoflibs is basically right. I'll cut Angle a little slack because she was a political neophyte. Akin and Mourdock were not. They blew easy election wins because they provided the jaw-droppingly stupid sound byte to allow the RAT b*st*rds to make the election about abortions for rape exceptions.
I have a hard time believing they could possibly be that dense. I find it easier to believe they were paid to take a dive.
An answer you might get to that here is ‘Well we should have made the election about rape exceptions as that is the #1 issue facing this country’.
My answer to that is that they trivialized life based social issues by handing Dems a reality commercial (of them) showing that so-cons dont even know the basic biology of a female’s reproductive systems, and completely nuked ‘their own’ prolife cause and made those who champion it the laughing stock of the country by becoming a caricature of them.
so-cons should despise them more than anyone Else rather than defend them.