[JediJones]

But when push comes to shove, I’ll vote for the R behind the name - even if the candidate is intolerable.

For crying out loud, Akin is not intolerable. His voting record is exactly what we need more of. He stood up to his own party when they went for big-government programs and idiocy like the military-cutting sequestration budget. He's 97% conservative. Letting one gaffe define a candidate is exactly what the liberal media tries to do to all of our candidates, Palin for example. It's utterly and totally shocking that so many on FR would fall for it.

[Just mythoughts]

How much money have you sent to the Akin campaign? You got what you wanted so stop itching about how mean the GOP-e is and send your tithes to Akin’s campaign. GET-r-done!!!!!!

[MplsSteve]

“For crying out loud, Akin is not intolerable.”

Yes, he is. Anyone who thinks that a woman can resist a rape-induced pregnancy is intolerable and possesses the knowledge of a sixth grader.

I don’t think this was a gaffe at all. Akin meant exactly what he said. His “apology” is a thinly-veiled attempt at political damage control.

Worse yet are the apologists for Akin - those who waver between saying it was only a “gaffe” and then later say that he was right.