TODD AKIN - I'M ON THE SAME PAGE AS PAUL RYAN

[kpete]

TODD AKIN DOUBLES DOWN: IF SHE GETS PREGNANT, IT WASN'T REALLY RAPE--I'M ON THE SAME PAGE AS PAUL RYAN AND THE OTHER REPUBLICAN SPONSORS OF HR 3

Kaili Joy Gray:

Todd Akin clarifies: he's on the same page as Paul Ryan on 'forcible rape': As [Akin] explained on Mike Huckabee's radio show:

I was talking about forcible rape. I used the wrong word.

Ohhhh. Well, obviously talking about "legitimate rape" is totally out of line. But talking about "forcible rape"? That just makes everything better, doesn't it? It also puts him in line with… Paul Ryan:

Paul Ryan also co-sponsored HR 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" bill in which Republicans tried to redefine rape so that it only applied to "forcible" rape….

Now Akin has explained that he holds the same position as Romney's running mate: that there is a distinction between "forcible rape" and not-really-rape. So, Mitt, are you still offended? Do you still disagree? Still hold an "entirely different view"?

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[freshwest]

1. K & R

[Ezlivin]

2. A Senate Page?

Just want to clarify that...

[rocktivity]

14. DUzy candidate!

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[Lucy Goosey]

22. So wrong...

...and made me laugh out loud!

[Ellipsis]

26. Wow.

What's worse is the "tag team" image you just put in my head.

The quick wit around here amazes me.

[ecstatic]

3. Perfect. Mr. Ryan, clarify your stance

We're waiting...

[spanone]

4. please, take the floor and keep speaking mr akin

[berni_mccoy]

5. McCaskill is correct: Akin did not apologize. He clarified. And there is little difference between

"Legitimate Rape" vs. their legal definition of "Forcible Rape".

And it makes no difference... they're for NO EXCEPTIONS on Abortion Bans *except* the Mother's Health (i.e. tubal pregnancy). Regardless of what kind of rape it is, Akin/Ryan are against a woman having an abortion for *any* kind of rape.

[Segami]

15. It won't be long before we see the official GOP ' gag rule ' remedy be ushered out for Akin.

[hifiguy]

17. The good Doctor was highly intelligent, educated,

and cultivated. None of which describes Akin. Doctor Lecter just didn't suffer well the "free-range rude" very well.

[rocktivity]

6. OH, NO, HE DIDN'T!

I love the smell of vindication in the morning -- which is when I made this:





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[loyalsister]

7. romney, ryan, akin ticket

Every time women's issues come up in this debate dems can put akin on the ticket. It's a gift.

[genxlib]

8. Keep Talking

Mr. Akin really needs to keep enlightening us with his wisdom. We are learning so much.

[HillWilliam]

9. I can smell the RMoney campaign crapping up their collective backs

as they try to "clarify" and damage control this one. The GOP PTB are spilling their martinis and groping for their smelling salts in complete panic.

Freaking awesome.

If stupid were toxic waste, they'd have to designate Missouri a superfund site after Akin's spew. Lyan must be grinning from ear to ear to have "validation".

If that's what it takes to shake people from their torpor, I say let the moran spew on. May this albatross rot round their necks. They created this monster. They can pin it on and wear it home.

[Segami]

10. LOL! I can hear the FLEET of republican buses starting up their diesel engines....

head for the hills Akin,.....

[Solly Mack]

11. Keep talking, pus-pocket.

[hifiguy]

12. The late, great Molly Ivins had a Rule of Holes.

This cretin has obviously never heard it.

Gads, would Molly and her pal Ann Richards be having a field day with the current Repuke collection of mouth-breathers, knuckle-draggers, finger-sniffers and fart-eaters.

[Tennessee Gal]

23. Molly would have plenty of material right about now!

I really miss her .........

[Initech]

13. Keep talking Akin. There's no justification for that.

[enough]

16. I wish Akin had actually said "I'm on the same page as Paul Ryan."

What he said was bad enough, but he didn't say that, at least not in the linked story.

[randome]

18. He is toast.

He will be gone.

[progressivebydesign]

19. Did I also read that Ryan coSponsored the bill requiring vaginal ultraSounds?

So many threads today, but I was sure I saw that as one of Ryan's greatest hits.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[RoccoR5955]

21. Did someone give him a backhoe?

He sure seems to be digging himself a deeper hole.

[DFW]

24. OK, I want a recording of the Romney campaign when they heard that one

It'll be Les Barker's "Jason and the Arguments" all over again

[louis-t]

28. Gaaa!!! Jason and the ...

[DFW]

33. I heard it on BFBS about 25 years ago.

http://www.wildewood.co.uk/lyrics/jasonandthearguments.php

[Historic NY]

25. Akin throws Ryan under the bus.

[louis-t]

27. Ohhh, that's gonna hurt!

Mr. Akin should expect a phone call or 2 over this. "Will...You...Shut...Up..!!!"

[unblock]

29. this seals his fate. there's no way i see rmoney/ryan standing by this guy.

no matter that he's right, ryan IS on the same page as him.

but this guy is sufficiently toxis that rmoney will have no choice but to get the party to drop this guy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. "... and his name was Akin Dumb"

[HockeyMom]

31. Women years ago had to PROVE rape

Yes, it used to the VICTIM had to prove rape by "fighting back" and showing physical signs of a beating. SHE was the one on trail. The woman had to prove that she wasn't "asking for it". I think this is what this moron thinks we should go back to as "legitimate" rape.

Only extremely young girls under the age of 10 were immune to "illegitimate" rape back in those days.

[1StrongBlackMan]

34. Yep ...

It is trial lore that in a 1960s rape trial, a defense attorney gave the victim a broom and he held a milk jug. The defense attorney, over the loud objections of the prosecutor, instructed the victim to give her best effort at putting the broom into the mouth of the milk jug. Apparently, he had used this trick before and was able to argue that because the victim (in his first use of the trick) had been unable to did it, she must have "wanted it."

However, in the subsequent trial, the victim was a fire cracker. After a couple unsuccessful attempts, she whopped the defense attorney between the legs and then told him, "Now ... move that damn jug again!"

[1StrongBlackMan]

32. ryan's response to akin ...

"What you mean we pale face man?"

[napkinz]

35. 5 ways Ryan is too extreme for women ...