I can’t believe this!
He has to withdraw now.
Do you have someone ready to go who can take his place ???
what a fool.
how on earth do these idiots make it to public office?
Claire is going to use this to cover up all her failings and short comings. She will use this all the way to November.
Now we will see the Obama Media trying to brand every Republican running for office with these ignorant comments.
Looks like quite the setup to me.
To everyone demanding that he step down and be replaced by someone else......is this even possible in Missouri?
McCaskill spent a great deal of money to help Akin’s get the Republican nomination. It seems that she knows what she is doing.
McCaskill is a menace to the human race and would have a hard time winning a race for dog catcher. But, maybe all she needs is the Missouri Republican Party.
What he said was correct it was just misspoke in phraseology. What he was saying was a real rape rather than statutory or fake rape the woman’s reproduction shuts down so pregnancy is rare. He should explain his statement.
The check from Soros must have cleared his bank account.
Google Ann Richards / Clayton Williams if you want to see how this turns out.
Google Ann Richards / Clayton Williams if you want to see how this turns out.
I am so pleased that these idiots can’t wait to jump on any conservative for a badly worded expression. The Democrats have no problem doubling down on baby killing and all we hear is crickets. Clair and her minions will pump this for all it’s worth, but it still doesn’t change who Clair is nor does it give anybody reason to suck up to the democrats. Ya’ all just keep wearing those, our candidate must be perfect chains and the Dems will in deed have Ya’ all back in chains soon.
I am so pleased that these idiots can’t wait to jump on any conservative for a badly worded expression. The Democrats have no problem doubling down on baby killing and all we hear is crickets. Clair and her minions will pump this for all it’s worth, but it still doesn’t change who Clair is nor does it give anybody reason to suck up to the democrats. Ya’ all just keep wearing those, our candidate must be perfect chains and the Dems will in deed have Ya’ all back in chains soon.
MO GOP Primary Results
US Senate
Todd Akin 217,404 36.05%
John Brunner 180,788 29.98%
Sarah Steelman 176,127 29.20%
It was always extremely vexing the way the GOP would toss their own under the bus over the most minor, innocuous gaffes, as in the cases of George Allen (maccaca) and Trent Lott (the Thurmond comment). The GOP always folds like cowards the moment the scum in the media tried to do this, instead of fighting back. Always burns me up.
However, this comment by Aiken is really, REALLY awful. It’s already a wildly toxic thing to put the words “legitimate rape” together. That might constitute a gaffe, but it’s about as bad as a gaffe can be. But then, to add to it this: “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut the whole thing down” ... well, that’s ten times worse. An absolutely ghastly thing to say, especially politically. To many it carries the implication that a woman who is raped and a child conceived wasn’t actually a victim of a “legitimate rape.” Just sick. Even if Aiken likely just garbled his wording, what came out is just about as bad as it gets.
I don’t see how he can win. Not to mention, the Dems will be using this as effective ammo as part of their idiotic war-on-women theme, nationally. Damn, but I sure wish MO had taken Palin’s advice instead, and gone with Steelman! This is just putrid.
According to women interviewed by David Reardon of the Elliot Institute for his book, Victims and Victors: Speaking Out About Their Pregnancies, Abortions, and Children Resulting from Sexual Assault, women who abort pregnancies caused by rape have a "more difficulty getting over the rape" than those women who carry the baby to term. The abortion is a second act of violence upon their bodies - one to which they, themselves, consent (unlike the rape).
It may take an ad featuring some of those women saying that about rape, but this could help expose another horrendous aspect of the abortion debate AND help Todd Akin win the Senate race in Missouri.
This guy might be a moron, but his heart is in right place. Why punish the innocent baby for the crime of a rapist?
Akin would have won a landslide had he sat in his house for three months. Now if he doesn’t step aside we’re probably stuck with congress critter McCaskill for six more years.