[af_vet_rr]

Perhaps others won't be as disinclined as you. You never know.

Well people who make stupid comments about rape generally don't do well in elections, so we'll see. Really wonder if the guy was drinking, because that sounds like something somebody with a little too much to say.

Being a professional politician for over 20 years, you'd think he'd be able to know when to shut up. Most people prone to make stupid comments, tend not to last too long, unless their last name is Biden.

[philman_36]

Most people prone to make stupid comments, tend not to last too long, unless their last name is Biden.
Then he must not be prone to making stupid comments.

Being a professional politician for over 20 years, you'd think he'd be able to know when to shut up.

Too funny, especially when you read 'em in the order in which you wrote 'em.

[Strategerist]

I actually saw Akin speak at the end of the day at a defense industry conference a couple years ago - even though I largely agreed with his content, for some reason he struck me as a rambling idiot and I left early.

This one is just the same as an unrecoverable stall in an airplane - you either bail out or hit the ground.

GOP is extremely fortunate that this happened before any possibility of campaign appearances where Romney or Ryan appeared with Akin.

[sam_whiskey]

My mother has always believed this. She says she did a paper on it back when she was in college. Something about the stress of the rape preventing conception from taking place. I’ve never researched it myself, but I always thought it sounded like it made sense. In light of that, I definitely can’t condemn this guy for saying this. Guess you’d classify me as an idiot then...