Legitimate takedown: Todd Akin meets the women of the Internet

[Viva_La_Revolution]

You gotta hand it to a guy who wakes up, checks the weather and decides, Today’s the day to opine about rape! Last month, the comedian Daniel Tosh attempted to silence a heckler at the Laugh Factory, saying, “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now? Like right now?”

Five weeks and one Twitterstürm later, put “Daniel Tosh” into Google. Suggested searches are “rape joke” and “Daniel Tosh gay.”

Over the weekend, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri saw a chance to follow suit and bullocks up his own Google standing on the eve of an election. Pregnancies from rape, Akin said, are scarce because if “it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

“Rep. Akin Must Resign” says a paid anti-Akin ad on Google today. That’s the first return on an “Akin” search. Feminists decried the comment. Democrats did, and Barack Obama. Then Republicans, then Mitt Romney. Now almost everybody wants Akin out of the Missouri Senate race.

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[MADem]

1. We need to be careful what we wish for...

What's John "Let the Eagle Soar" Ashcroft doing these days?

It would not be a good thing if he were persuaded to pull a Frank Lautenberg and return to the Senate. He's a lobbyist now, but he could put his firm under blind management or hand it over to a kid, and come back to renew those sleazy little relationships.

I know that many are pulling their money out of the Aikin campaign, and that might end it for old Todd. He is down millions today from where he thought he was two days ago.