Todd Akin makes even bigger mistake [fixed picture]

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You're not your . I can no longer support him.

Bump to restart.

I was this close to working to get this guy elected but now that you've pointed that out....

The GOP is making me lol right now. James Carville wrote their strategy 20 years ago. It's called, "it's the economy, stupid". Apparently he used too many words or spoke in some kind of elitist fashion that they can't comprehend. They generate a new distraction every week. They are supposed to talk about the economy and then get in and pursue a far right wing agenda that they didnt tell anyone about. The first rule of right-wing club is that you don't talk about right-wing club in a general election.

I know. I was kidding about supporting him.

Republicans want him out bad. He's introducing off-message nonsense, putting a Senate seat at risk, and he has a tie to Paul Ryan. Ryan co-sponsored his bill to prevent medicaid money from funding abortion in rape cases that are not "forcible rape". Ryan himself seems to want to roll back abortions to only cases where the mother's life is in danger. So not for incest or any kind of rape. He's a "personhood" supporter.

God only knows what other crap this clown would pull if he were to get in. Makes me ashamed of my home state of missouri. Will be voting against him though.

Brunner was a better candidate, Akin should drop out now. What he said was of the stupider things I've heard a politician say.

Even a large part of the GOP has disavowed him. He's an ignorant fool.

That said, he does not represent the entire GOP anymore than Joe Biden's racist comments should represent the entire Democratic party.

i want him to keep on being the gift that keeps on giving.

His statements were just a clumsy way of expressing what many Republicans believe. That fertizlied eggs are people and that there should be almost no way, or absolutely no way, to prevent their development. That's the root argument of the "personhood" movement. This dumb guy just got bogged down in a dodgy argument about why rape pregnancies shouldnt be terminated by suggesting that they are rare enough so as not to worry about making exceptions for them. Others social cons might just say that the fertizlied egg didnt rape anyone and so the woman is obligated to protect the zygote.

No exceptions for rape is part of the official GOP platform.

So, on a page where he apologizes for using words in the wrong way, he uses the word your in the wrong way. This guy is just bad with words, I guess.

His comments on abortion were junk science, but his positions on abortion mirror those of his party. The platform only makes an exception for the life of the mother, not rape.