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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 09:04 AM Dec 2012

Senate Republicans Quietly Backed Akin

This tells me a lot; no conscience, no morals, no problem.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/12/07/senate_republicans_quietly_backed_akin.html

December 07, 2012

Senate Republicans Quietly Backed Akin

The National Republican Senatorial Committee "quietly sent $760,000 to the Missouri Republican Party in early November, just as the state GOP was mounting a last-minute TV ad blitz to boost Rep. Todd Akin's sagging Senate campaign," Politico reports.

"The disclosure is highly significant because the Senate GOP campaign committee promised to abandon Akin after failing to push the conservative congressman out of the race following his August declaration that 'legitimate rape' rarely leads to pregnancies because female bodies often shut down."

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