"Legitimate Rape"?
Mothership_Greg ·
August 20, 2012 at 2:53pm
Who says stuff like this? Time to get ready for some fake outrage.
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Comments:
Feb '12
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Open Mouth, Insert Foot, .... No both Feet!
FOOL. I see what he was trying to say, however he should have said that to someone first off camera, to see how bad those words sound, when its not coming from your head. at least he came back with the following knowing he blew it:
Oct '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
It's very poor way to say that of the total number of abortions each year, very few of them are performed on women who have been raped. All anyone is going to care about is that he said "legitimate rape". Isn't the the guy that McCaskill ran ads in support of during his primary race?
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Yeah.
I don't know much about Missouri politics, but every pro-life politician in this country HAS to be ready to give a reasonable answer to the "Should abortion be legal in cases of incest and rape?" question. You've gotta know it's coming.
Mar '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Unfortunately, the full quote is even worse than the phrase alone:
How can someone serve in Congress for 10 years and still make such an idiotic statement? Stupid, stupid stupid.
Oct '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Mendel
Unfortunately, the full quote is even worse than the phrase alone:
How can someone serve in Congress for 10 years and still make such an idiotic statement? Stupid, stupid stupid. · 5 minutes ago
That does sound pretty ridiculous. He's not a doctor, is he?
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
I have to wonder if pro-choice politicians are routinely asked about parental consent laws (I would guess that support for these is on par with support for the abortion/rape exception for abortion). Was Obama ever asked about this during the last campaign?
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Mendel
Unfortunately, the full quote is even worse than the phrase alone:
How can someone serve in Congress for 10 years and still make such an idiotic statement? Stupid, stupid stupid. · 13 minutes ago
Stupid is exactly right. Knowing the way the media works, I'm guessing that Paul Ryan will be asked about these comments, given the "Paul Ryan is an extremist" meme being floated by the Left currently. He'd better be prepared.
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Seems extremely likely, considering this.
Apr '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Mothership_Greg Mendel Unfortunately, the full quote is even worse than the phrase alone: If it’s a legitimate rape,the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. How can someone serve in Congress for 10 years and still make such an idiotic statement? Stupid, stupid stupid. · 13 minutes ago Stupid is exactly right. Knowing the way the media works, I'm guessing that Paul Ryan will be asked about these comments, given the "Paul Ryan is an extremist" meme being floated by the Left currently. He'd better be prepared. · 31 minutes ago
Ryan will be prepared; he's good at this stuff. Akin made it easier by apologizing. Not too hard to say that he misspoke and should have apologized, did apologize, and that it's a shame he said the dumb thing. It's hard for anyone to get angry over that.
Edited on August 20, 2012 at 1:30amJul '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Romney/Ryan need to distance themselves from this issue as much as possible. All social issues will be irrelevant if we lose this race.
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Why can't people like this say things before the primaries, so that we know not to nominate them? Thanks, Missouri.
Apart from the stupid wording, you don't explain your position by arguing that it doesn't happen very often. It does happen. It's not relevant to anyone's opinion how often.
You emphasize your compassion and stress that it's a deeply painful issue and that no woman should have to go through it, and acknowledge that the pregnancy makes it harder. And then you very gently point out that --no matter the circumstances -- it's still a child, and in good conscience you can't support causing its death even in those circumstances.
Then you acknowledge that good people disagree, and that nothing is changing at the federal level anytime soon anyway. And you pivot back to Claire McCaskill.
Aug '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Lucky us! So thrilled to have this man running for the senate here in MO. Not. But you can thank McCaskill for this candidate, she got exactly what she was hoping for. Three months ago, John Brunner was the frontrunner in the GOP three-way race between Sarah Steelman, Todd Akin, and Brunner. McCaskill knew she couldn't beat Brunner so in the last moments of the race, she came up with a brilliant strategy: paint Todd Akin as the "most conservative" candidate in the race. Her ads portrayed Akin as "too conservative" for MO. Between truly conservative voters and those Democrats who crossed over in the primary to vote for Akin, he won. I desperately want McCaskill to lose but at what cost? Akin is a loose cannon, apology or not. You can expect more of the same for the remainder of the campaign and Claire will come across as the moderate...especially when she starts playing her "I'm just like Harry Truman" card. The GOP truly had this won and now...I think it's lost.
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Somebody on HotAir was buzzing about him being forced to withdraw his candidacy -- is there any remote chance of that actually happening?
Aug '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Leigh
Somebody on HotAir was buzzing about him being forced to withdraw his candidacy -- is there any remote chance of that actually happening? · 7 minutes ago
Too early to tell. We shall see how it plays out over the next week but I doubt it will go away soon. His comment was picked up nationally and is all over Twitter. He's got supporters and they are already trying to play down the damage. Not sure it will be enough but I can guarantee that the state party will be discussing it and looking for a solution.
Apr '12
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Yes, dumb thing to say. I understand what he meant-- forcible rape, not "I was too drunk to remember if I said yes or not" date rape.
Should've stuck to something along the lines of "because of the damage done to the lady's body during rape, conception is incredibly uncommon in cases of rape-- less than (.0whatever%) of abortions."
Nov '11
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James Of England:
Ryan will be prepared; he's good at this stuff. Akin made it easier by apologizing. Not too hard to say that he misspoke and should have apologized, did apologize, and that it's a shame he said the dumb thing. It's hard for anyone to get angry over that. · 2 hours ago
Edited 2 hours ago
I think you're right about Ryan. It's good that Akin apologized, but I really have to wonder at the mental capacity of someone who says things like
I'm glad I don't have to vote against Claire McCaskill in Missouri this year.
Edited on August 20, 2012 at 3:43amOct '10
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
And Claire McCaskill is so vulnerable this year. As much as I hate pop psychology, I have to wonder if this guy doesn't want to win on some level.
Aug '12
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The MO-GOP should withdraw their support of him and put up somebody else. There simply is no honorable alternative.
Apr '11
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His fundraising will die tomorrow anyway.
Nov '11
Re: "Legitimate Rape"?
Here's the hook into Ryan:
I second the motion of this guy:
I retract my previous statement about Akin's apology. It wasn't really an apology (although there was an acknowledgement that he did something wrong - "misspoke" - you won't even get that out of Obama or Biden).