Todd Akin folks:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/19/g ... ate-rapes/

He's probably going to win too. And if you've been following him, this wouldn't make a top 10 list of awful things he's said.

OMG, I clicked the link but I just couldn't stomach it.

Oh....my....god....

There are certain terms that are coming into the GOP lexicon with respect to women. (if 'with respect to women' is a legitimate phrase within this context). 'Legitimate' rape, 'Forced' (versus unforced) rape.

I guess if you're 'legitimately' raped, it's impossible to have an 'illegitimate' child. Hasten to prepare your chastity belts, all ye maids and maidens! Forsooth, we shall endeavor to perambulate backwards in time!

I saw that on the HP. What a crock. What's with this term "missspoke"? They are certainly attacking women.

Other scientific claims by Republicans:

Pregnancy from rape occurs as frequently as snowfall in Miami.

Women who are raped don't get pregnant because the juices don't flow.

Women 'secrete a certain secretion' when they are raped that tends to kill sperm.

How all this makes me feel:

Where's bcspace...

I want to know where republicans draw the line between a legitimate and an illegimate rape?

Does it have anything to do with the size of the tool? Or maybe the difference is one black eye as opposed to two?

Maybe it has to do with money. Only upper middle lass to rich people can be raped and any other woman middle class and below are just getting what they deserve.

What's sad is that I half-way expect bcspace and ldsfaq to step up and defend this idiot.

Of course, the idiot was simply saying out loud what Ryan's personhood bill tried to sneak in, anyway. And now Ryan is going to have to backpedal once again. lol

If Backpedalling were an Olympic sport, Romney and Ryan would be the new Wiggins and Hoy...

thank you Tea Party!

for the second election cycle in a row, you all are my only hope for keeping the Senate from flipping.

If you think about it, Todd Akin's statement shows he actually has much more heart and compassion than Paul Ryan. At least he tried to justify in his mind his position that rape victims should be forced to have the babies of their rapists, by believing in the imaginary female reproductive functionality made up by Dr. John Willke (the "spastic tubes" guy).

It was clearly an effort to assuage his conscience by claiming that rape pregnancies are very rare. Ryan didn't bother with such niceties when he and Akin pushed for a new law that would require rape to be "forcible" for a victim to deserve an abortion, and another that would declare a fertilized egg to be a "person" entitled to 14th amendment protection.

By the way, Ryan's "forcible rape" terminology is what Akin had in mind when he said "legitimate rape."

The Dems have noting to talk about. No solutions, no record to run on. You'll see this come to the fore at the Dem Convention when they concentrate on Akin. Btw, Akin's opponent is so disliked he may very well win anyway.

So this isn't worth discussion, eh?

No it isn't. "Legitimate rape" in Akins' mind is a rape that actually happened. At least that's what he has subsequently claimed. One of the "problems" these guys have with allowing rape victims to have abortions is that a woman might lie and say she was raped in order to be allowed to abort. This alleged rape would not be "legitimate".

That all makes sense to that particular kind of mindset. To me what stands out is that a state could exist where a woman having an unwanted pregnancy would have to claim she was friggin raped in order even to be allowed to abort.

Well sure, that too. But the manifestation of force and violence (black eyes, split lips, vaginal tearing, etc.) is what they are looking for as the evidence that it really happened. And I think they are also united in discounting what they called "consensual" rape (statutory, incestuous, etc.) as not legitimate.


Yeah, they think certain women are willing to make up just about any lie to get out of a bothersome and inconvenient pregnancy. Ryan made a house speech complaining that allowing abortions for "health of the mother" reasons would allow lying, baby-killing women and their baby-killing accomplice doctors to come up with all kinds of health reasons to finagle an abortion.

It's an incredible level of disrespect, and it's no coincidence that the champions for the cause are almost all men.