When Akin was in the MO House, he claimed women can't get HIV

[proud2BlibKansan]

because their bodies are "self-flushing"

True story.

Yes, this man really is that stupid.

[sakabatou]

1. ...

[barnabas63]

24. +1 nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Wow.

The more I hear, the more amazed I am by his lack of intellect. Seriously.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. He had a colleague who proposed a plan

for the state to only fund pelvic exams every two years, but pap smears every year.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. As a woman this makes no sense to me.

Since you're already "there" a poke of my ovaries and a prod of my uterus is nothing. Especially considering how deadly ovarian cancer is if not detected very early.

What an idiot!

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. As a person with a functioning brain, this makes no sense.

[freshwest]

3. Wow! Women truly have super powers! Who knew? Guess he's jealous.

[niyad]

10. and there you have it--the REAL problem is WOMB ENVY, not penis envy

[freshwest]

17. There is power there, and the GOP interest in the womb is not ALL religious, but quite practical:

Last edited Mon Aug 20, 2012, 11:54 PM - Edit history (1)

The GOP Agenda: Controlling the Means of (Re)Production

Sometimes it takes me a while, but the pieces have finally slid into place. Like a lot of others, I have been mistakenly thinking that the GOP’s legislative campaign against women is about domination or subversion or repression or some other kind of man-woman conflict. It’s not at all. It is about dehumanization: the puppet party of business seeking dominion over the population by controlling our reproduction.

Consider that the ideal environment for multinational corporations is pretty much the opposite of what benefits humans:

Corporations would like to drive down the worldwide cost of human capital in order to own and manage a world economy. We have already seen how this is accomplished. On the production side, corporations play leapfrog, moving factories from country to country based on marginal labor savings. On the revenue side, they drain the private assets of countries whose citizens still have money. With no resources, the citizens are ripe to be exploited as the next labor force.

More at the link:

http://www.politicususa.com/the-gop-agenda-controlling-the-means-of-reproduction.html

Controlling the Means of Reproduction: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/print/9629

[banned from Kos]

4. A search found no evidence of such a comment

Please cite or delete.

[xmas74]

6. I'll look around for it

but I do remember something along those lines a few years ago. I don't remember exactly what it was but it was about how women can't get AIDS.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. I know several people who were there when he said it.

Heard about it then and they were talking about it again yesterday.

He's amazingly stupid.

[xmas74]

23. Someone at work brought it up a year or so ago,

long before all of this ever happened. She referred to it as "you can't fix stupid."

I tried to find a link online but no luck-it's just too many places to search and I don't have the time to read through it all.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. This was long before the internet

back in the 80s I believe.

And no, I won't delete. Dad.

[jorno67]

7. WTF?

was he home schooled?

[Liberal Veteran]

9. It's an added benefit to their anti-"rape baby" system.

Good lord, this man doesn't need to be anywhere near a position that he can influence women's health care legislation.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. He already is.

He's been in Congress for 12 years.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. He's given that up now to run for senate though.

We have a real chance to get him out. Thank goodness!

[spanone]

13. and so are the voters that kept him in office

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. He's had a long career in MO politics.

No, I don't get it either.

Akin was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1988, representing Town and Country and much of West County (St. Louis area). He won re-election in 1990 (59%), 1992 (100%), 1994 (70%), 1996 (67%), and 1998 (66%).

He's been a US House representative since 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin

[speedoo]

15. How can his wife stay with him?

Maybe she just pretends he does not say these idiotic things?

[loyalsister]

16. ewww

These insights into what he believes about women are really disturbing. That he has given my body and processes this extensive thought really disgusts me.

[citizen blues]

19. We got our DUMBASS OF THE YEAR!!!