Wake up America, this is not just Atkin's view, this has been the republican parties view for years!

[still_one]

[Berlum]

1. Chickenhawk Republicans will not serve America, but will make War on Women

[HereSince1628]

2. Public ignorance usually makes it possible for the r's to use made up 'facts' as needed

The congressman was employing propaganda that's been floated for decades. I suspect in his desire to support ideology of the right (that stuff that makes his 'heart right') he became trapped in a decades old suspension of belief in the biological basis for human reproductive function.

This time, the public wasn't so ignorant.

For the R's this is probably evidence that it's time to push sex ed out of public schools and get more money into voucher programs for more fundamentalist parochial schools.

[atreides1]

3. The public is still ignorant!

The man still leads in the polls in the only place that counts, Missouri!

So far the Republicans have only pulled some money...only because they realize that the Democrats can tie Akin and Ryan together.

They need to get rid of Akin but he won't go...and from some inside reports, his wife is the catalyst for him staying in the race...could be she likes the taste of power and prestige that she gets from her husband's office and feels that more would come her way if he wins the senate race.

[HereSince1628]

4. Yes, I will admit that the public is still pretty ignorant...but

I think the reaction that we've seen-- former RNC chairman saying Akins isn't ready for the senate, the GOP and Crossroads bailout etc.--suggests that on this topic Akins exceeded the margin of public gullibility--by a margin even recognized by propaganda artist Karl Rove.

The spring offensive of the R's war on women was a disaster for the R's and it's still fresh in many minds. The R's don't want that as an issue to be bludgeoned by all Fall. Clearly, Dems want to point out that many R's, including their VP candidate, are storm-troops in that cause.

That said, we are a nation with very well developed partisanship. That partisanship would provide some measure of support for a republican turd running for office.

Will that support hold for Akins in Missouri? Maybe, maybe not. We are still in the early days of reaction to it.

Last night's evening news was the first national news many people had seen about it.

[qb]

5. This explains the minimal poll shift in Akin's state.

The true believers share the abhorrent views... but most of them are careful not to speak them aloud.

[just1voice]

6. But, but, but I need to post it on facebooktwitterdiggredditimgur

in my never ending propaganda recital I call "news", lol.

You make an excellent point, it's pretty hard to believe that people are the least bit surprised by some bigoted (R)'s statement on anything. Sadly, a writer at the NY Times was correct, a lot of people have simply become "defacto mouthpieces for conservative agitprop" and they don't even realize what tools they've become for the very people they supposedly disagree with.