Agree, it makes no difference how conservative Akin was now, does it?
I won’t say I’m glad he lost, but I will say that if we don’t put forward conservative candidates who are smart enough to not shoot their mouths off like Akin and Mourdock did, we are not going to win elections.
Being a good conservative is not the same as being a good candidate.
Your Post #10 is spot-on.
Both Mourdock and Akin were more than likely gonna win seats in the US Senate until the connection between mouth and brain shorted out.
Akin’s most egregious comment was about a woman being able to biologically fend off a rape-induced pregancy. There’s really no wealth of medical knowledge that can back up a stupid statement like that.
Both these guys should have been smart enough to realize that the media would spring an abortion-related question on them. But they weren’t - and now we have two fewer seats in the US Senate because of it.