The Politician "What?" thread

AmuN · #1 08-20-2012, 07:08 AM

This is my second thread on a similar subject. The first was Romney making himself looking like a fool. It seems there's no shortage of politicians saying really dumb things these days so I thought it may be easier to put them in 1 place.

The "What?" politician of the day is Todd Akin of Missouri:

[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/20/todd-akins-bachmann-esque-problem/"]Todd Akin’s Bachmann-esque problem[/URL]

[QUOTE]The Missouri congressman’s claim in a local TV interview airing Sunday morning that “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy immediately elevated his race with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to the level of national news.[/QUOTE]

Why would he say this? He's ahead in the polls, all he had to do was cruise to an easy victory but it seems like he wasn't content with that.

CPT. Badmotherfarker · #2 08-20-2012, 07:09 AM

[quote=AmuN;306437]This is my second thread on a similar subject. The first was Romney making himself looking like a fool. It seems there's no shortage of politicians saying really dumb things these days so I thought it may be easier to put them in 1 place.

The "What?" politician of the day is Todd Akin of Missouri:

[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/20/todd-akins-bachmann-esque-problem/"]Todd Akin’s Bachmann-esque problem[/URL]

Why would he say this? He's ahead in the polls, all he had to do was cruise to an easy victory but it seems like he wasn't content with that.[/quote]

Crazy people can't help sounding crazy.

semipenguin · #3 08-20-2012, 07:35 AM

I wonder how many women worry during a rape if it's legit or not? :rolleyes:

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**HecticArt** · #4 08-20-2012, 08:02 AM

The guy is a moron.

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TX WJ · #5 08-20-2012, 10:10 AM

What an incredibly ignorant comment.

[url=http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/20/the-todd-akin-mess/]The Todd Akin mess[/url]

Ugh.

Over the weekend, GOP Rep. Todd Akin — the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Missouri — said some really, really stupid things. (Twitchy has comprehensive coverage. Click here and keep scrolling.)

There’s no sugar-coating or whitewashing this. It wasn’t a “gaffe.” It was ignorant, garbled nonsense. Asked about his views on abortion in the case of rape, he claimed that “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Akin’s opponent, incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (who is currently 11 points down in the polls), moved in quickly to capitalize on the comments by claiming that Akin was blaming the victims of rape. In the video clip above, however, you’ll note at the end that Akin makes clear that the rapists should be punished, not the victims.

It’s about the only clear, sensible thing he said.

The “legitimate rape” phrase may have been a short-hand way, a la Whoopi Goldberg, of distinguishing between forcible rape and other types of rape or between real and phony claims of rape. Whatever he meant, he made a mess of it.
The cringe-worthiest part of his statement is this: “…the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

I don’t know what kind of biology classes Akin took, but rape-related pregnancies occur with significant frequency. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

And here is something the feminists who are making great hay of Akin’s remarks won’t tell you: There is most likely significant undercounting of those rape-related pregnancy figures, given what we know about Planned Parenthood’s cover up of child rape and child sexual abuse and what we know from the invaluable investigative work of Lila Grace Rose and Live Action into Planned Parenthood’s advice to young clients to hide statutory rape cases.

I understand the outrage many of my friends and fellow conservatives feel about the double standards the Right faces when it comes to media/political treatment of other politicians’ stupidity (looking at you, Bozo the VP). But the question Akin faced wasn’t some obscure, gotcha question. It was basic abortion politics 101. His statement about the remarks issued yesterday doesn’t even acknowledge the worst part of his botched answer.

GOP candidates in critical races that could swing the balance of the U.S. Senate ought to be ready for prime time. Period.
The Left, unsurprisingly, is now trying to hang Paul Ryan for Akin’s idiocy. Pro-abortion groups are already fund-raising off of it and every last celebrity on the planet is tweeting about it.

The Senate race in Missouri is still winnable. Big-spending, Obamacare cheerleader Sen. McCaskill has been in peril for months before the GOP nominee was decided.