His little faux pas cost us a senate seat.
Like a status quo Republican winning it would make a difference....
The pro-life cause needs spokesmen who are articulate and capable of sound moral reasoning. Akin expresses himself badly and his much-mocked position there is a mechanism by which women who are victims of forcible rape will not conceive was mocked for the wrong reason — the belief there is no such mechanism, when in fact elevated cortisol levels due to trauma do make conception less likely. The real reason to mock it is that he is too dim to see that a mechanism that merely decreases the likelihood of conception is not relevant to the moral calculus around a “rape exception” to a ban on abortions. To be morally relevant the mechanism would have to always prevent conception, and we know this is not the case.
As someone else wrote, Akin is damaged goods. Find someone else to primary Blunt.