If you're one of the thousand or ten thousand or thirty thousand wome - take your pick - who became pregnant as a result of rape then it isn't rare to you. Akins' dismissal of what they are going through has drowned out whatever valid point he was trying to make on not compounding rape with taking another life. He screwed up, big time.
2. Bring Norma McCorvey to this news conference too. Norma, as many of us know, is the original "Roe" of Roe v. Wade. She will tell the story of how she was induced to claim she was gang-raped. This was a lie of the Left, and perjury to the Court. But it worked; and all our states' abortion laws were struck down, partly on the strength of the lie that pregancies resulting from rapes were common. McCorvey will tell the truth about the use of "rape" as a red herring by the Left.
So then you're going to have Akin imply that all women who claim that they became pregnant through rape are lying? Having shot himself in the foot you want him to take careful aim and then blow the sucker clean off.
3. Akin must stick to his guns. Stand up, and do it with conviction. Voters admire a candidate who has the courage of his convictions.
I'd like to think that voters have little tolerance for idiots but history would prove me wrong. Still, there is a limit to the level of idiocy they will vote for and Akins is dancing right on the edge with this comment and his other ones.
No. Norma McCorvey would be the person to bring perspective to this issue. She admitted the rape story was a lie that she was induced to tell by Sarah Weddington and the other radical Leftists who used McCorvey to radically change American law. (Sound familiar?)
And of course McCorvey would not be "implying" that all women who claimed pregnancy as a result of rape were lying.
But it may take a tiny dose of logic to understand that "some claims are lies" ≠ "all claims are lies."