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Ann on The Biology Challenged Akin
Missouri: The ‘Show Me Another GOP Candidate’ State
by Ann Coulter
Relying on Todd Akin’s sense of decency has not worked. Within hours of his idiotic comments about “legitimate rape,” Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS pulled out millions of dollars in funding for the Missouri Senate race. Akin didn’t get the hint.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, withdrew all funding from the Missouri race. Akin still refused to quit.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a major Christian and tea party favorite, immediately called for Akin to withdraw from the race — nothing.
Even Sean Hannity, the most true-blue conservative and defender of all Republicans, pleaded with Akin to withdraw. Still nothing.
This guy Akin is more selfish than Eliot Spitzer. After being caught in a prostitution scandal, Spitzer spent two days looking for anyone who would come to his aid. When no one did, he resigned.
Not Todd Akin!
True, what Spitzer did was worse, but not in the Democratic tradition. Moreover, Spitzer was the sitting governor! Akin won a highly contested Republican primary only a few weeks ago and thinks he’s got a God-given right to be the Senate candidate from Missouri.
Republicans are not asking Akin to step aside because they suddenly found someone better. They are asking him to step aside because, by his own volition, he said something monumentally stupid, destroying his own candidacy.
No Republican can ramble on about “legitimate rape” and what happens to a woman’s body after a rape when asked the de rigueur “rape or incest” question and not step aside.
Akin isn’t a well-meaning person who slipped up under relentless cross-examination by a ruthless MSM reporter. He was trying to show off — “Look at me! I can not only make that half-court shot, I can do it facing away from the basket!”
He missed.
Akin was not even the clear choice of conservatives. In the primary, John Brunner was endorsed by both Missouri Right to Life and the National Right to Life. Sarah Steelman was endorsed by Sarah Palin. Akin was endorsed by the Democratic Party.
The Democrats carefully nurtured Akin with millions of dollars in campaign money because he was the candidate they most wanted to run against. (Akin thinks all those Democrats voting for him in the primary merely shows that he’s got tremendous crossover appeal!)
There’s no rehabilitating this guy. It’s a waste of money. His comments are going to cost Republicans an easy Senate seat in a moment of crisis for the nation. This one man’s stubborn refusal to bow out could cost us control of the U.S. Senate, House seats in Missouri, Senate seats elsewhere and maybe even the White House itself.
Other than that, there’s not all that much riding on this.
Our miracle senator, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, wasted no time in repudiating Akin and calling on him to withdraw. I promise you, the Democrats’ campaign against Brown will be: “Do you want to vote for the Brown-Akin ticket?”
The media finally got their evidence for the “Republican War on Women” from a Democrat-supported congressman no one had ever heard of until Monday. All their other evidence was so laughable, it was hardly worth responding to.
By contrast, Akin’s pointless disquisition on rape could stick.
But this selfish man has decided to play a game of chicken with the Republican Party. He thinks that by stubbornly refusing to step aside, Republicans will be forced to give him money simply because they need that Senate seat.
Republicans should call his bluff. This is no time to be counting on people to check the FEC reports to see that the GOP has cut off his money.
It’s time for a nuclear bomb. Republicans should stage a write-in campaign for a popular Republican, such as Kit Bond, former governor and senator from Missouri.
If Akin had done the decent thing and dropped out, he could have been replaced with one of the stellar pro-life primary candidates. But for a write-in campaign to work, it has to be a well-known and loved Missourian — someone whose name people know how to spell.
It will be much better for Republicans to be seen as having a zero-tolerance policy on stupid rape comments than counting on people to notice that Republicans universally repudiated this narcissist.
We need Republicans out there saying, “Akin’s not our candidate; our candidate is Kit Bond.”
Republicans are going to lose with Akin anyway; mounting a write-in campaign at least gives them a shot. Don’t forget: It worked just two years ago for Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. By contrast, mortally wounded politicians never win. And we really need that Senate seat.
Short of an untimely hunting accident, a write-in campaign is the only way out of this mess. (And if he’s too selfish to quit, let me tell you, Akin is not going to voluntarily die in an untimely hunting accident.)
Yes, there’s a double standard. Yes, the non-Fox media are Democratic flacks. Yes, if Joe Biden had said it, it would be a harmless “gaffe.” That’s the world we live in. Now let’s concentrate on taking back the Senate so we can repeal Obamacare and get some decent justices appointed to the Supreme Court.
Cän I honestly say I don’t understand why this is such a big deal. Here’s why:
1. I think the body is an amazing thing and does strange things when faced with trauma, so I find the comment plausible if not provable. Perhaps he should have left that out for lack of evidence.
2. The word “legitimate” to me means it wasn’t statutory, and it wasn’t a fabricated story. Isn’t that what the word means anyway?
Just my thoughts.
Well, honestly, after some serious thinking, after the chin drop of course, I finally figured out what he was referring to. If most people would use the gray cells God gave ‘em, it really shouldn’t be that difficult. There are so many women who cry rape, for such a variety of reason, and after it’s ruined someone’s life, they recant, or are found out to be the liars they are.
Now, as for that biology stuff…. well, I would have thought the man was smarter than that. There are babies born, or aborted sadly, every day, who are the result of rape. Where he got the idea that a woman’s body shuts down is beyond me.
The first statement was a seriously regrettable choice of words. The second… well, most men don’t understand females, biologically or otherwise (:D), so rational people should take that into account. The RNC, etc, instead of pulling their support, and falling into the leftists playbook is even MORE disturbing, IMHO. Do I support him? I have no idea. Don’t know much about him, other than he is VERY pro life, which is NOT a bad thing at all. The rest… I just don’t know enough.
Should he withdraw? I keep getting the feeling this isn’t as much about the election as it is about his ego. And that I do NOT like. Just an impression I’ve gotten from the interviews I’ve seen.
Haven’t seen interviews to know about the ego. The RNC definitely is off the mark, though, and has made a big deal about nothing.
Its like Rush Limbaugh said, the dems circle the wagons, repubs circe the firing squad.
Yeah…that they do! I lost all respect for ‘em when they pulled money from Tim Michels senate race again Feingold. He might have been able to win, but didn’t have the money, or coverage that ol’ Russ had. They screwed us then, and they continue to screw us over. We shout to the rooftops who we support, and they tell us, no…you don’t…you support this guy. UGH!
The fact that he may have made a misstatement about human biology is hardly grounds for crucifying him. He does not claim to be an MD as far as I know. His statement is really that the penalty for improper intercourse (rape or otherwise) should fall on the adults involved, not on the resulting child. Back in the days when we were a more rational society, rape was a mandatory death sentence and we had a lot fewer of them. Now that it is a slap on the hand or less, the idea is, “yeah, why not?”
Nope Doc, I don’t think they should. If you stop and recount the numerous ‘stupid statements’ made by the left, this guy is a piker. LOL His strong pro life stance is what got him elected in the first place. Just saw a “poll’ that has McCaskill up by 10. Why? Is she that great? Don’t think so. Just too many bozos buying into the lame stream leftard talking points.
Oh…I really wish they’d bring back public hangings. Destroying another person’s life should be a hanging offense. And that’s what rape does….destroys lives. Some women are strong enough to work through it, others… well…It ain’t pretty.
1) There are 11 weeks left until the election. How much of this will be remember by then?
2) swiped from Judge Napolitana:
What has gone unmentioned, however, in the cacophony of condemnation by Republicans and Democrats, is the implication in Akin’s comments that rape is not a moral justification for abortion. In that, he is correct: It is not.
Abortion takes the life of innocent human beings who are the most vulnerable in our society. Abortion is today the most frequently performed medical procedure in the United States. American physicians perform about two abortions every minute of every hour of every day: about 1 million a year since 1973. In my home state of New Jersey, abortion is permitted up to the moment of birth, and the state will even pay for it if the mother meets certain financial criteria.
Jeeez! That long? sigh… Don’t know if my nerves can handle it. LOL And yes, they’ll remember, because the lame stream will make sure of it…reminding on a daily basis.
IMHO, the abortion business, and that’s what it is…a blood business…makes the Nazis look like amateurs. Disgusting!