Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pro-family, Tea Party leaders coalesce around Todd Akin
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:39 EST | Ben Johnson

Posted on 08/24/2012 4:51:36 AM PDT by huldah1776

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160 ... 261-263 next last
To: xzins
A study I read yesterday said the odds were actually only 2-4% with a rape, and they did not distinguish between types of rape. (For instance, a 16 year old girl and her 19 year old boyfriend constitute a statutory rape in many places, but go into the stats only as "rape".)

Exactly! Put that with the one who 'claimed' to be raped [but actually weren't] the number gets even smaller.

-----

DISCLAIMER:
The above doesn't mean that I think all women who claimed to be raped are lying, it's just that there is a segment of the population who will lie at the drop of a hat to prevent from putting their own ignorant actions in an unfavorable light.

121 posted on 08/24/2012 7:28:00 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: surroundedbyblue

“If you’re so worried about how Akin is going to make up the 12%, then I suggest you stop actively campaigning against him. I suspect, though, that that will never happen because you are a pro-abort troll.”

So I see, no legitimate answer to my 12% question is there?
Only the tired, trite recourse to personal insult.

Hey I have an idea for you, all you pro Akin supporters pool you money and run an ad stating that anyone who is asking Akin to step down is a, how did you phrase it oh yes...”A pro-abort troll”

Lets see how that argument works for you outside the safety of an internet post.

Akin a dead man walking.


122 posted on 08/24/2012 7:30:36 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 117 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL
akin used the word legitimate rape, meaning there must be a category of illegitimate rape.

As even your comment illustrates he used the expression legitimate rape.

So it is up to you to defend illegitimate rape.
My job, as I see it, is to expose the game you're playing.

123 posted on 08/24/2012 7:31:22 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 118 | View Replies]

To: philman_36

“Playing the victim is the sign of a desperate man.
So you’re claiming the threats aren’t real?”

So are you saying getting a death threat is an extremely rare event that doesn’t happen?

The fact that he went public with it tells the whole story.


124 posted on 08/24/2012 7:32:36 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL
Akin a dead man walking.

Police investigating reported threat against Akin


Not too bright, though.

125 posted on 08/24/2012 7:33:37 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 122 | View Replies]

To: philman_36

“My job, as I see it, is to expose the game you’re playing.”

Ok, then tell me why he had to issue an apology for his statements.

If he was on solid ground, he would have defended what he said using different terms.
He said what he said, and he meant what he said.


126 posted on 08/24/2012 7:35:51 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 123 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL
So are you saying getting a death threat is an extremely rare event that doesn’t happen?
From where in my comments do you presume that I've done so?
127 posted on 08/24/2012 7:40:28 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 124 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL
The fact that he went public with it tells the whole story.
What story is that?
128 posted on 08/24/2012 7:41:36 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 124 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL

“If you’re so worried about how Akin is going to make up the 12%, then I suggest you stop actively campaigning against him”

Face political realities here, Akin has 2 million dollars for his campaign, McCaskill over 12 million and now that it looks like she will win, she will really have the money and support pouring in.

He has, in the latest poll, 38% which is his core support in Mo as far as Republicans are concerned.

He has to win by winning over moderates and independents, the very people he drove away with his remarks, and no matter how much he apologizes, he will not win back enough of them to win.


129 posted on 08/24/2012 7:42:06 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 122 | View Replies]

To: McGavin999
what I can’t forgive his his utter selfishness.

Maybe some unborn children will forgive him in the future because the circumstances of conception is an irrelevant basis for inflicting capital punishment on the conceived. All of his misunderstandings notwithstanding, we know for certain that he understands this basic fact. Does Romney? Not at all!

I always think of this:

Rob Roy (1995)

Mary MacGregor: Robert, there is more. I am carrying a child and I do not know who is the father.
Robert Roy MacGregor: Ach, Mary...
Mary MacGregor: I could not kill it, husband.
Robert Roy MacGregor: It's not the child that needs killing.

130 posted on 08/24/2012 7:42:32 AM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: surroundedbyblue

“If you’re so worried about how Akin is going to make up the 12%, then I suggest you stop actively campaigning against him”

Face political realities here, Akin has 2 million dollars for his campaign, McCaskill has over 12 million and now that it looks like she will win, she will really have the money and support pouring in.

He has, in the latest poll, 38% which is his core support in Mo as far as Republicans are concerned.

He has to win by winning over moderates and independents, the very people he drove away with his remarks, and no matter how much he apologizes, he will not win back enough of them to win.


131 posted on 08/24/2012 7:43:36 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 117 | View Replies]

To: philman_36

There are some people here who would have any woman who is raped put on trial to see if she is lying.

If a young girl who is raped and then has an abortion, they would put in jail for life because she has committed murder.

I think we might get further in the pro-life movement if we educated people about alternatives, rather than legislate every detail. A life saved is a life saved.

I’ve proposed making late-term abortions pretty much illegal (impossible to obtain) as a step in that direction, but no, they accuse me of being pro-abortion. I think that step would save many many lives. But that’s not enough for “them”.

We didn’t get into this murderous culture overnight and I don’t think we’ll get out of it overnight. It’s got to be step by step and lots of educating people.

This Sharia-style legislation just isn’t going to cut it, in my humble opinion.


132 posted on 08/24/2012 7:43:40 AM PDT by Reagan69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 123 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL
Ok, then tell me why he had to issue an apology for his statements.
You take the time to post his apology and then we'll discuss it.
133 posted on 08/24/2012 7:45:27 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 126 | View Replies]

To: Reagan69

“This Sharia-style legislation just isn’t going to cut it, in my humble opinion.”

I think its Sharia style judgement going on here by some.


134 posted on 08/24/2012 7:45:27 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies]

To: LuvFreeRepublic
The TEA Party should stick to strictly financial issues. It gets harder and harder to defend the TEA Party when pro-life, anti-gay, and other causes attach themselves to the TEA Party.

The country IS dying because the pro-life and pro-family causes are not succeeding completely. Lack of morality directly results in financial disaster. American democracy does not work unless it's based on a moral foundation. Without that, a selfish, narcissistic population will simply vote to loot the treasury and distribute the money to themselves.

The pro-life and pro-family positions are morally correct in the first place because they promote population growth. Without population growth, the country is doomed to be top-heavy-by-age, demographically imbalanced, and in a permanent state of economic decline. If population growth comes solely through immigration that will change the country's character in ways we can't predict. Our country would assimilate to the new population instead of vice versa. And that is unlikely to have good results, since few other countries' citizens are educated with Judeo-Christian and capitalist value systems.

135 posted on 08/24/2012 7:46:37 AM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: WILLIALAL
“If you’re so worried about how Akin is going to make up the 12%, then I suggest you stop actively campaigning against him”

Akin has 2 million dollars for his campaign, McCaskill has over 12 million and now that it looks like she will win, she will really have the money and support pouring in.

Which is why the conservative campaigning and complaining should be directed at the RNC to make them restore his funding. His money deficit is due to their choice.

136 posted on 08/24/2012 7:53:12 AM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 131 | View Replies]

To: Reagan69; Dr. Brian Kopp; trisham; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah; Coleus; narses; Lesforlife; ...
There are some people here who would have any woman who is raped put on trial to see if she is lying.

Hey troll, where has ANYONE suggested that?

If a young girl who is raped and then has an abortion, they would put in jail for life because she has committed murder.

No troll, the pro-life movement OPPOSES the "rape exception" favored by people like you.

I think we might get further in the pro-life movement if we educated people about alternatives, rather than legislate every detail.

The left has been telling us for forty years that they want to limit the number of abortions. More than 53 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS HAVE DIED AS THE RESULT OF YOUR METHOD.

I’ve proposed making late-term abortions pretty much illegal (impossible to obtain) as a step in that direction, but no, they accuse me of being pro-abortion. I think that step would save many many lives. But that’s not enough for “them”.

Late-term abortion already is illegal. But it still occurs everyday. Again, YOUR APPROACH is to preserve the status quo while pretending to be pro-life.

We didn’t get into this murderous culture overnight and I don’t think we’ll get out of it overnight. It’s got to be step by step and lots of educating people.

Actually we did. On New Year's Day 1973 abortion was effectively illegal throughout almost all of America, one month later it was legal.

The only way to end the holocaust is to end it overnight.

The incremental approach was tried with the pro-choice-on-slavery crowd (a group that mirrored your views exactly) and it nearly destroyed America.

This Sharia-style legislation just isn’t going to cut it, in my humble opinion.

I knew it was only a matter of time before you compared conservatives to Islamofascists.

137 posted on 08/24/2012 7:54:13 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies]

To: JediJones

Which is why the conservative campaigning and complaining should be directed at the RNC to make them restore his funding. His money deficit is due to their choice.”

My solution, is for the GOP to announce now who they want to replace Akin with.
That way we could at least then make a knowledgeable decision on whether he should stay or leave.


138 posted on 08/24/2012 7:55:35 AM PDT by WILLIALAL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies]

To: huldah1776

And Rasmussen today just came out with his first poll of Missouri since the event, and now Obama is up 1. And a Poll yesterday came out showing Akin down 10. Believing this guy will win is denial. Genie can’t go back in the bottle.


139 posted on 08/24/2012 7:55:39 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Reagan69
There are some people here who would have any woman who is raped put on trial to see if she is lying.
Who? Where?

If a young girl who is raped and then has an abortion, they would put in jail for life because she has committed murder.
Who? Where?

I think we might get further in the pro-life movement if we educated people about alternatives, rather than legislate every detail.
If we use your sources to educate them they'll remain ignorant.

I’ve proposed making late-term abortions pretty much illegal (impossible to obtain) as a step in that direction, but no, they accuse me of being pro-abortion.
Then I suggest you take your argument up with them and stop whining to me about it.

We didn’t get into this murderous culture overnight and I don’t think we’ll get out of it overnight.
BS! All it takes is passing the right legislation to get us out of this overnight. In one day, signing day, it would be done. Getting to signing day, however, wouldn't be an overnight thing.

It’s got to be step by step and lots of educating people.
Again, if we use your sources to educate people they'll remain ignorant.

This Sharia-style legislation just isn’t going to cut it, in my humble opinion.
Exactly what legislation are you saying is Sharia-style legislation?

140 posted on 08/24/2012 7:56:44 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160 ... 261-263 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson