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Romney calls on Rep. Akin to drop Senate bid over 'rape' comments

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It appears that Romney has asked Akin to stop running for his senate bid amid his comments. It's nice to see Romney and other Republicans attempting to hold their party accountable by asking Akin to drop his seat amid his ignorant comments.

Mitt Romney joined several other Republicans Tuesday in calling on Missouri Rep. Todd Akin to give up his bid for Senate over his controversial comments on rape, as the Republican congressman continued to hold his ground and vowed to stay in the race.Romney added his voice after five past and present Missouri Republican senators urged Akin to step aside. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, they said his presence does not serve "the national interest.
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Romney calls on Rep. Akin to drop Senate bid over 'rape' comments | Fox News
 
Romney and every other GOP bigwig has an eye on winning a majority in the Senate and this Missouri race is now an obstacle to it. To pretend otherwise is to play ostrich.
 
haymarket said:
Romney and every other GOP bigwig has an eye on winning a majority in the Senate and this Missouri race is now an obstacle to it. To pretend otherwise is to play ostrich.
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Sometimes doing the right thing is also politically expedient.
 
How is it Romney's business?
 
I commend Romney for basically telling Akin he is not needed by the Republican Party.

If you have someone in your family who has been raped you find this backassward's comments repulsive.

It was not a gaff. A gaff is mistaking a foreign country's leader's name or a number.

With his talk about "legitimate rape" it once again puts more pressure on a woman to just keep quiet about being raped. It makes you wonder if he has not had a personal experience with forcing himself on some young woman .
 
digsbe said:
It appears that Romney has asked Akin to stop running for his senate bid amid his comments. It's nice to see Romney and other Republicans attempting to hold their party accountable by asking Akin to drop his seat amid his ignorant comments.



Romney calls on Rep. Akin to drop Senate bid over 'rape' comments | Fox News
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I hope Akin tells Romney to go **** himself. A RINO like Romney has no room telling someone they should step down. Akin was not suggesting that there is a legitimate time to rape someone. Only a ****en retard believes that. The only thing he did wrong was poorly articulate that if there was a rape exception that many would lie about being raped in order to get an abortion and suggested that pregnancies rarely happen from rape. He did not suggest that there is a legitimate reason to rape someone as many die hard abortionists are trying to suggest.
 
jamesrage said:
I hope Akin tells Romney to go **** himself. A RINO like Romney has no room telling someone they should step down. Akin was not suggesting that there is a legitimate time to rape someone. Only a ****en retard believes that. The only thing he did wrong was poorly articulate that if there was a rape exception that many would lie about being raped in order to get an abortion and suggested that pregnancies rarely happen from rape. He did not suggest that there is a legitimate reason to rape someone as many die hard abortionists are trying to suggest.
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No, that is exactly what he was saying. It wasn't poorly articulated at all. We got what he said. This is the same guy who believes a woman got what she deserved.
 
rathi said:
Sometimes doing the right thing is also politically expedient.
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Sometimes doing the politically expedient thing is still the politically expediently thing to do and that is why you do it.
 
Good lord, how can someone poorly articulate with the words legitimate rape???? And I really do not think that Romney needs any kudos for telling the guy to step down. Anyone of any type of functioning brain should be able to say this. You can slip a sentence here or there, I get that, but not when you say something the way Akin did. And it wasn't just some sloppy babble that came out wrong when he meant to say another word because he went on to talk about some bat **** craziness about a woman's body shutting down the pregnancy. WTH?
 
Everyone has asked this guy to step down.
GOP is pulling all support and conservative PACs are yanking ads.

If the establishment tries to double around and back this guy, there will be hell to pay in more than one way.
 
Another Lurker said:
Really? Then what do you call Uncle Joe's foibles?
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Today he compared the GOP to squealing pigs. Squealing pigs who want to reinstitute slavey, I assume.
I love our Uncle Joe. He's the gaffe that keeps on giving. It chills me to picture him as President, though.

ChuckBerry said:
Because November election that's why.
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Pretty much, because had he not denounced Akin's comments it would have been headline news for the rest of the week, the main topic of discussion on the Sunday morning political shows, and the subject of at least three attack ads. Michael Moore would have probably made a movie.

Akin is a moron, not just for his comments, not just for his willingness to spew them out to millions of voters, but also because he's just stupid, politically speaking. If you want to succeed in politics, you need a filter between your brain and your mouth. I guess Biden would be the exception that proves the rule.
 
Re: Akin
Meh, so what? These are just the sorts of things I've come to expect extreme social conservatives think and say. This isn't much more reprehensible than Republicans urging us to kick seniors and the poor out of the hospitals and into the streets to pay for a small fraction of the tax cuts they plan to give banksters.
 
I think Akin's only shot is to play the role of principled rebel. Double down on what he said and accuse the GOP -- which already cut support -- of being weak-kneed moderates when defending the unborn. He should state that rape should not excuse the murder of the innocent unborn. It won't fully undo the damage he caused himself by mentioning "legitimate rape," but the pivot might win back support from the social conservatives while the streak might convince some tea partiers. Not that I agree with such a stance, but if I were his campaign manager, I can't think of a better move right now.
 
I don't see why Akin has to quit the race. Most republicans beliefs are inline with Akin. The only reason this is an issue now because Akin got caught. I say let him run.
 
Vallista said:
I don't see why Akin has to quit the race. Most republicans beliefs are inline with Akin. The only reason this is an issue now because Akin got caught. I say let him run.
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Right wingers rise up here and throughout the country as one voice to rebuke this man and you have the audacity to be such a doof?

I think the right can be commended for their swift rejection of this tool's statement.
 
cAPSLOCK said:
Right wingers rise up here and throughout the country as one voice to rebuke this man and you have the audacity to be such a doof?

I think the right can be commended for their swift rejection of this tool's statement.
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What is the problem with what I said. Paul co-sponsored a bill with Akin, I know the bill was defeated. It does prove what I'm saying. Republicans have always believe a woman should carry a birth to term even in the case of rape or incense. I'm wrong? Get a clue. If Akin believes in his this then why can't he continue to run? Why does he have to bow his head to Republicans at ever wimp? :waiting:please.................
 
cAPSLOCK said:
Right wingers rise up here and throughout the country as one voice to rebuke this man and you have the audacity to be such a doof?

I think the right can be commended for their swift rejection of this tool's statement.
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They rejected Akin not because of what he said, but because it would be political suicide to run the election on abortion and not the economy. It is the same reason they have been calling him to resign (and by-pass the democratic process)... because as long as he is in the race, the Akin-Ryan linkage will continue and the Dems will be able to eat away at the GOP women's vote.

Dont think for a second that Romney or Ryan or the GOP dont agree with Akin, because they do. They have said so much, in more politically correct terms... many and many times. Ryan and Akin are joined at the hip when it comes to this issue, and that is a problem.

Right now the GOP has some major problems. Romney's tax returns (which still has not gone away) and now this. They simply can not focus the message on what they want, and that is because of their own incompetence or that of others in the party. This election was suppose to be about the economy.. so when are they going to start talking about that instead of Romney's taxes and flipflops, Ryans draconian economic policies that Romney does not agree with (at the moment at least), and random GOPer acting like a total moron on national tv?

And it does smart, because that seat was one of those that the GOP were wanting to pick up. Now at best it is going to be a toss up, but more likely a slam dunk for the Dems.

I suspect that this GOP convention next week is going to be critical for Romney/Ryan.. err Ryan/Romney.. whatever... because they need to be forming the talking points and not be the talking points.
 
Vallista said:
What is the problem with what I said. Paul co-sponsored a bill with Akin, I know the bill was defeated. It does prove what I'm saying. Republicans have always believe a woman should carry a birth to term even in the case of rape or incense. I'm wrong? Get a clue. If Akin believes in his this then why can't he continue to run? Why does he have to bow his head to Republicans at ever wimp? :waiting:please.................
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I believe incensed pregnant women should find ways to relax, personally.

That aside, I believe the difference between that stance and Akin's expressed views, to be fair to your typical pro-lifer, is that most pro-lifers don't believe that victims of rapes that don't fit Akin's definition of "legitimate" pretty much had it coming, which is what Akin's ridiculous commentary implied.
 
Vallista said:
Republicans have always believe a woman should carry a birth to term even in the case of rape or incense.
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lol

In any event, you know what, as one of the people that agrees there should be no rape exception, and someone who is terrifically annoyed at the exaggeration of the incredibly rare occurrence of rape pregnancy and how pro-abortion people use this statistic irrelevancy to try and define the issue at large...

... what Akin said not just stupid, it was deplorable. No, one cannot somehow magically not become pregnant because it's rape. And that doesn't make sense as a gaffe; that wasn't bad connotation, that was bad denotation - the words he said mean something that is untrue and offensive. Granted one is unlikely to become pregnant from one sexual encounter at random to begin with, and then a lot of people take routine birth control medication. So it's extremely unlikely, but it can and does happen. It's still no excuse for abortion, which he can and should say, but whatever the **** he was on about there, I don't know and I don't want him to hear him talk anymore.


Although now I'm seeing your signature, :roll: so I regret even responding to such audacious and obvious trolling.
 
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Vallista said:
Republicans have always believe a woman should carry a birth to term even in the case of rape or incense.
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1. that is not true

2. being pro life does not require being pro crude ---hole.
 
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