Can any of you "cons" defend this piece of crap or is he now a typical repubublican?

[missippiphotog]

This guy seems to think a woman's body magically doesn't get pregnant if she's "legitimately raped" so I guess she's "blessed" if it's not legit? A swear a woman who votes republican is like a chicken going to KFC. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/us...e-comment.html

PS
Hey Ralphie,
Please note I did not use a link for the Huffington Post.
In kind regards,
missippiphotog

[Lazlo Toth]

Why would anyone -- liberal or conservative -- defend a stupid and asinine statement just because they might agree with a candidate on other issues?

[Clever Login Name]

Because that's how the game is played around here?

[Lazlo Toth]

The game of demagoguery?

[Marty McFly]

Have you had the mashed potatos at KFC?! What chicken wouldn't want that?!

[Clever Login Name]

Originally Posted by Lazlo Toth

The game of demagoguery?

Also, failure to respond can only be interpreted as a whole-hearted endorsement of the remarks.

[wx or not]

Gotta love how he retracted his earlier whimsy. What a tool. Karma is waiting in the wings...

[buckpasser]

Originally Posted by Lazlo Toth

Why would anyone -- liberal or conservative -- defend a stupid and asinine statement just because they might agree with a candidate on other issues?

Diplomat defended George Allen after he called that kid, "macaca".


He did so because Dip agrees with Allen on the issue of being a Republican.

[Ralphie the buffalo]

He's from your state, Buckie. can't you keep your people under control?

But, seriously, I don't know how anyone could defend comments like that. They are reprehensible.

[missippiphotog]

Originally Posted by Marty McFly

Have you had the mashed potatos at KFC?! What chicken wouldn't want that?!

Yes I have and they're nasty. Then again it's not I should have really high expectations over fast food mashed potatoes.

[writer2]

Originally Posted by missippiphotog

Yes I have and they're nasty. Then again it's not I should have really high expectations over fast food mashed potatoes.

The sodium content alone will kill ya!

[buckpasser]

Originally Posted by Clever Login Name

Also, failure to respond can only be interpreted as a whole-hearted endorsement of the remarks.

June 7, 2010:

Originally Posted by Clever Login Name

This does present an interesting situation for the WHPC ... do they allow Thomas to stay? Lanny Davis and Ari Fleischer are already calling for her to get the boot. If someone had made similar remarks about blacks or Muslims, would they retain their credentials? How the WHPC handles this -- and to this point, the silence has been deafening -- will speak volumes about their collective bias.

November 1, 2010:

Originally Posted by Clever Login Name

President George Bush said recently, "America is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation." The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued an immediate objection to the President's reference to "Islamic fascists". Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR protested, "We have to isolate these individuals because there is nothing in the Koran or the Islamic faith that encourages people to be cruel or to be vicious or to be criminal. Muslims world wide know that for sure." In light of this objection, we are left to ponder why every Islamic leader in the U.S., and the world, does not publicly condemn every terror action being undertaken in the name of the god of Islam. Their silence is deafening...

Clever's post caught my eye because I know he's lectured the board on silence, and the whole-hearted endorsement it brings with it.


Of course, his flip flop happened to coincide with an event that came from his precious team....the New York Giants.....I mean the Republican Party.

[writer2]

Obama's response. What a piece of wishy wash...

"President Barack Obama weighed in today on the controversy over comments by Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin, saying "rape is rape" and that Akin's suggestion that only "legitimate rape" results in pregnancy is "offensive."

Offensive? Try outrageous, ridiculous, an insult to any woman who's been raped, and an insult to those who care about them

I get so tired of Obama playing it careful.

IMHO, Romney did better. Here's his statement:

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Mitt Romney condemned the comments about rape and abortion by Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate candidate in Missouri, calling them “insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong.”

[buckpasser]

Romney had to do it.


Ryan and Akin are joined at the hip. Check out their work on the "Personhood Bill".

Axelrod correctly stated that Akin's words are not inconsistent with the Republican Party's position.


When you vote Romney, you buying the idea that women can't get pregnant if they are "forcibly raped".

[New York'rr]

Why do Democrats funnel billions of your tax dollars into the organization who supports statutory rape (still "Legitimate", though), Planned Parenthood? Hmmm? Every day, men bring their underage pregnant girlfriends in to Planned Parenthood, and they never, ever call the authorities like they are supposed to by law, just perform the abortion and send them on their way so the man can resume raping his underage girlfriend. Or daughter!

Democrats support and subsidize rape and incest with taxpayer money. Lots of it. Every day.

[Lazlo Toth]

Originally Posted by New York'rr

Why do Democrats funnel billions of your tax dollars into the organization who supports statutory rape (still "Legitimate", though), Planned Parenthood? Hmmm? Every day, men bring their underage pregnant girlfriends in to Planned Parenthood, and they never, ever call the authorities like they are supposed to by law, just perform the abortion and send them on their way so the man can resume raping his underage girlfriend. Or daughter!

Democrats support and subsidize rape and incest with taxpayer money. Lots of it. Every day.

If demagoguery were a sport, this would be the play of the day tonight on Sports Center.

[News Is Broken]

So because Planned Parenthood performs abortions, Todd Akin gets a pass, is that your argument, Tool Bagg'rr?

Do you have evidence that older men walk in and claim "she's underage and I knocked her up. Don't call the cops"? Or is it that you believe that every Planned Parenthood employee should assume that if an older man brings in an underage girl for an abortion that he's a statutory rapist and they should call the police? Maybe you think that only psychics should work there or that incoming patients and their family members should be waterboarded for information on the age and whereabouts of the father. How about that, would that be Okie Dokey?

Honestly, we're not talking about Planned Parenthood. We're talking about some right wing tea party gas bag who'd clearly rather force a woman to have a rapist's baby then (heaven forbid) allow the woman to have an abortion so she could go on with her life.

Either defend the remark or condemn it. Don't change the subject, Toolz.

[buckpasser]

Posted Aug 20, 2012 2:47pm EDT
Missouri Republican Todd Akin has begun moving toward ending his candidacy after his remarks on rape and abortion provoked a firestorm.
"Akin is taking concrete steps to withdraw by tomorrow at 5:00 p.m.," a senior Republican told BuzzFeed, adding that Akin could still change his mind.
Tomorrow afternoon is an important deadline: If he files papers to end his candidacy in Jefferson City tomorrow he can end his candidacy unilaterally; after that, he would have to file an application in court.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/rep...ng-to-withdraw

[News Is Broken]

Originally Posted by buckpasser

Posted Aug 20, 2012 2:47pm EDT
Missouri Republican Todd Akin has begun moving toward ending his candidacy after his remarks on rape and abortion provoked a firestorm.
"Akin is taking concrete steps to withdraw by tomorrow at 5:00 p.m.," a senior Republican told BuzzFeed, adding that Akin could still change his mind.
Tomorrow afternoon is an important deadline: If he files papers to end his candidacy in Jefferson City tomorrow he can end his candidacy unilaterally; after that, he would have to file an application in court.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/rep...ng-to-withdraw

Gee, I don't understand WHY he would do such a thing, Buckpasser! After all, Planned Parenthood does abortions to hide and protect statutory rapists! With taxpayer money! EHMAGERD!

Yeah, see that Toolbagg'rr? It doesn't really hold water in this instance, does it? Clearly Akin screwed the pooch and now must withdraw his candicacy as a result. Today.

"HA HA!!!"

[buckpasser]

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex.) informed Rep. Todd Akin on Monday that the national GOP will not spend money to help elect him to the Senate after Akin’s controversial comments about “legitimate rape,” according to an NRSC aide.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...010_story.html

[Sultanosurf]

Originally Posted by buckpasser

When you vote Romney, you buying the idea that women can't get pregnant if they are "forcibly raped".

Sorta hard to fit on a bumper sticker...

Originally Posted by Marty McFly

Have you had the mashed potatos at KFC?! What chicken wouldn't want that?!

The chicken's probably not that excited about being at KFC either...

[Pro]

This WAS a race where the Republicans may well have picked up a Senate seat:

Missouri's contentious U.S. Senate race has been unexpectedly jolted by U.S. Rep. Todd Akin's comments that victims of "legitimate rape" will rarely become pregnant, causing some pundits to predict it could shift momentum and put U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill back in the lead.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...9bb30f31a.html

[Diplomat]

Dumb thing to say, for sure.

[Kace]

Is it really fair to guilt-by-association someone over something stupid that was said?

[Pro]

Originally Posted by Kace

Is it really fair to guilt-by-association someone over something stupid that was said?

This isn't "guilt by association". Akin SAID this and doesn't deny it.

If you are referring to casting guilt on Mitt Romney, I don't think anyone has or will do that. But it is an unwelcome - for him - distraction from his campaign. And it does call into question some of the legislation that Paul Ryan has co-sponsored with Aikn in the House.