Akin: "I said one word in one sentence on one day, and everything changed."

[pnwmom]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/08/todd-akin-abortion-missouri-senate-race-/1#.UDQGCI73CYM


"I said one word in one sentence on one day, and everything changed," Akin told former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. "I believe the defense of the unborn and a deep respect for life ... are not things to run away from."


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It's funny how the Republicans are hanging him out to dry, when there's not a bit of difference between his position on abortion and that of the GOP platform --neither allows any abortions in the case of rape or incest.

The only thing that's changed is that he pulled the mask off his own party, and they're now revealed as the zealots that they are.

[Ezlivin]

1. It's NOT one word

It's a way of thinking that doomed you, asshat.

[hedgehog]

2. +1

[SirRevolutionary]

3. Our condolences Todd...

and the world's smallest fiddle for an ignorant politician with twisted reasoning.

[HereSince1628]

4. Half truth that...it was a sentence he'd actually said on many days.

He's just discovering a new world after having for decades been a useful idiot believing the twisted 'facts' used by the rightwing.

[arcane1]

5. That's been the spin all day: focus on the one word, and not the rest of the idiocy

After all, he also said that magic lady parts can prevent conception

[LiberalFighter]

11. Don't they have to wear the magic Mormon underwear to prevent pregnancy?

Or is it suppose to increase fertility?

[meow2u3]

17. ROFL

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. Sorry Mr. Akin but nothing has changed.

You always were and always will be a Dick.

[Cha]

7. Oh, was that word

"legitimate" that pulled the curtain back from your ugly facade? Only to reveal an even uglier interior?

Keep pulling, akin.

[Cha]

9. "Legitimate"..

ht The Obama Diary~

[coalition_unwilling]

21. Legitimate Neanderthal:

[dkf]

8. He exposed himself as a complete ignoramus.

I accept that he does not believe in exceptions for rape or incest. But making up biological science to suit an agenda is completely whacked.

[surrealAmerican]

10. This proves he has learned absolutely nothing ...

... from this whole event. What he said was cruel and ignorant, with or without any single word.


A person who is incapable of learning from his mistakes has no business making decisions for others.

[Hydra]

12. Irony

He doesn't realize that in saying one word of truth that everything changed.

Yes, Todd, the truth IS that powerful!

[Proud liberal 80]

13. Paul Ryan's comments Saturday

Since all the attention has been on Akin's dumb comments this weekend, no one (especially the "liberal" media) has called Ryan out for saying "I vote to send people to war", when trying to explain is foreign policy credentials.

[Skittles]

14. stupid asshole

that ONE WORD speaks VOLUMES

[progressivebydesign]

15. Oh Bullshit Akin. It's your ENTIRE career, and Ryan's, too!!

It's not like you used the wrong word, you're using the wrong brain.

[pnwmom]

16. And the whole GOP party. This has been part of their platform for decades. n/t

[qwlauren35]

18. Um, which word was it?

Everything you said was offensive.

[Blue Idaho]

19. Poor dumb bastard...

He's used to talking to the right wing echo chamber where stupidity like his is cheered at every turn. No wonder he's confused - ignorance like his rarely survives the daylight of the real world.

[Zoeisright]

20. Because it exposed you as an ignorant jackass, you asshole.

God, he's stupid. As is ANYONE who ever voted for him.

[JHB]

22. It's not one word one time. That would be Obama saying "that" instead of "those"...

...having one sentence extracted by political foes to paint him as saying the opposite of what he said, and building a campaign theme around the lie.

What you did took years of believing crap about biology because it was more ideologically acceptable to you. Kind of what the Soviets did with Lysenkoism.

Then there's the part where you think of rape as a dodge, as a loophole, like "medicinal" alcohol during prohibition. You want to make crime victims prove they fit your view, your mental pigeonhole of rape, and if they don't meet your narrow checklist they must not have been "really" raped. Then they were just sinning and have to pay the wages of sin, right? You don't have enough humanity to take them at their word, because then you would be failing in your "defense of the unborn and a deep respect for life", right?

It's not one word one time, Mr. Akin, it's that your mental pidgeonhole of yourself doesn't recognize that you're a zealot, and people don't want you in a position of power over them.

(And you've become a threat to your own party's retention of power. That's why they want you to quit. Otherwise they'd be happy to have you.)

[mojo2012]

23. What's Akin got to lose?

I think Akin is staying in the race in defiance. 1) all his once professed "buddies", even Paul Ryan have stabbed him in the back 2) if he leaves the race, his political career is in the toilet 3) if he stays in the race and loses, his political career may still be in the toilet, but by staying he can only hope he has some slim chance of winning. What does he have to lose?
All of his turn-coat "friends" are urging him to drop out for the sake of the Party and the sake of the Romney/Ryan ticket. Why should he do that when they all turned on him? However, he is naive to think that most of Republican clicks wouldn't say one thing to your face and then do the opposite behind your back. We are seeing that more clearly with Ryan's congressional history. I'm glad that Ryan (and Romney) have a huge paper and video trail that can't be disputed or blamed on the President Obama.
I wish the media would either disclose or give a resource to go to for a list of of Republican congressman's NAMES and the states in which they represent on how they voted on the bills that are currently relevant to the issues that are being discussed now.