As if Mitt Romney wasn’t already going to have a bad week, Rep. Akin was summarily tossed into the RomneyShambles news cycle pyre by his wife, Lulli Akin, who claimed that the GOP’s abandonment of her husband was akin to the British raping American colonist’s daughters and wives… or something. It’s tyranny!
Rep. Todd Akin’s wife, Lulli Akin, says the Republican Party’s attempts to push her husband out of the Missouri Senate race — over his false assertion that women who are raped rarely get pregnant — are like rape itself.
She also believes the GOP’s abandonment is on par with the tyranny that launched the American Revolution.
~snip~
Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections “by the people and for the people” with “tyranny, a top-down approach.” She added, “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way.”
She cited colonists who “rose up and said, ‘Not in my home, you don’t come and rape my daughters and my … wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?”
[read full post at ABLC]
Villago Delenda Est
I’m afraid the wingnut well is bottomless. Just when you think they can’t get any crazier, they pull something like this.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGrrrl)
Could this Lulli be Palin’s long lost sister? What an idjit!
JCT
This needs Tbogg’s “SHUT UP DUMB LADY” tag line.
At this point the stupid doesn’t just burn, it’s a fucking raging inferno.
MoeLarryAndJesus
What the hell kind of name is Lulli?
Quicksand
To the GOP, everything is just like rape, except rape.
rlrr
Funny how stupid women are attracted to stupid men (and vice versa): http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7kg0eh6p71qlb1bho2_500.gif
JGabriel
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TPM:
According to the GOP, Lulli, it’s not rape unless it’s forcible.
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comrade scott's agenda of rage
The fact that all three major components of the modern Republican Party (Talibangalists, Teatards, Corporate Suits) have no sense of irony is well…ironic.
Lulli, I’m sure you’ll scream and yell about free speech rights, your moran of a husband is living proof of that. Now deal with the consequences of that free speech.
Again, she won’t get it.
My Milquetoast Senator, Blanche McCaskill, has to be the luckiest Senator in a lotta years. She was gonna be killed in November, hell, she still might given how totally batshit, insance this state has become over the last 15 years. But this guy was the candidate gift from Heaven. Oh wait, more irony.
TenguPhule
This wife is called “trade income” and the daughter is called “Fleecing the Locals with Shiny Beads”.
The Red Pen
I know that the Boston Tea Party was staged to protest taxation without representation.
Which revolutionary event marked the first open protest against the constant rapes? Considering that colonization started more than 150 years before the revolution, American colonists must have endured quite a lot of rape before rebelling.
Wingnut history: now with more rape!
pk
I did not get what I wanted for breakfast this morning! That was just like being raped.
Darkrose
I would just like to say that Jason Isaacs as the evol Colonel Tavington in The Patriot can come burn my church any day of the week.
NorthLeft12
That was the most intelligent analysis that I have heard coming from a Republican so far this election.
I am assuming that Ms. Akin is Republican.
GxB
Apparently Lulli is the natural secretion that Todd is using to prevent being elected.
Villago Delenda Est
@GxB:
WIN!
Where do you want your intertubes delivered?
Woodrowfan
wow, Todd Akin is not married to a woman with an actually functioning brain. whoodathunk
Mart
Being the only liberal in my Missouri neighborhood, this woman’s inflammatory talk could get me shot. I do agree with my neighbors on one thing – the numbskull Akin is representative of MO core conservative values and beliefs. If I was Rove, I would keep him on the ballot, and support him w/$. His religious based stupidity is a feature not a bug. I think he will still beat blue dog Claire. Her current ad campaign consists of – on the scale of 100 being ultra liberal, and 0 being ultra right, I’m rated 50, and that is what MO needs. I am voting straight Dem, and hope Claire wins; but geez those backstabbing blue dog votes that got her to 50/100 makes me want to cry.
PeakVT
Stupid, stupid conservative is stupidly stupid.
Shawn in ShowMe
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
The McCaskill campaign created their own luck by ratfucking the Republican primary with their pro-Akin ads.
hep kitty
@pk: I didn’t have time to fix my hair this morning and felt completely violated.
Legalize
I’m not trying to be a dick (ok, maybe I am), but Todd and Lulli look like brothers.
different-church-lady
In other news, idiots tend to marry other idiots. Film at 11.
Corner Stone
I can’t believe you just used the word “akin” as a synonym for “same as” when describing the link for this story.
That has been seen.
MD Rackham
Well, in all fairness, her husband is being abandoned by Republicans and the head of the Republican party is an unwanted dick.
the Conster
@Quicksand:
That would make a great bumper sticker.
Corner Stone
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: I’m still laying money that Sen McCaskill will lose her Senate seat.
She is just awful, and there is something really ugly going on across the country.
mdblanche
This has been today’s edition of “You’re not helping.”
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Shawn in ShowMe:
I was one of those who held my nose and took a Repup ballot (I live in the second reddest county in the state so anyone taking a Dem ballot is immediately spotted and targeted for hangings later on) and dutifully voted for Akin.
However, I’m not at all convinced most Dems in the state did that. We usta try and pull that same crap in VA back in the 90s, never seemed to have a measurable outcome on the race.
If Blanche were creating her own luck, she’d be working the Akin issue hard but as noted above, nope, she’s doing her usual “I was for both sides of that issue” tactic thinking it’ll help. I’ll pull the lever for her but that’s it.
quannlace
Jesus, exactly how long has she and her husband been in politics?
More hothouse flowers!
Shawn in ShowMe
@Mart:
Missouri’s core values are beer, The Cardinals and pork barrel defense projects.
piratedan
I guess if Lulli could have been bothered to listening to other members of her party, her husbands’ campaign should just lay back and try to enjoy it and afterwards his candidacy should be busy making lemonade out of the situation instead of sour grapes….
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Corner Stone:
I think that the only thing which will get her elected is fairly lackluster turnout in Alabama, aka, the areas outside the immediate city limits area of STL and KC. The Talibangalists are torn: Akin’s their guy but Rmoney might as well be the anti-christ, thus, they might just sit this one out. Same for the Teatards, again because Rmoney simply ain’t their guy.
They stay at home and the Dems get enough turnout in STL and KC (Claire still needs every rurl Dem, all 13.456 of us, to come out and vote) and Blanche might squeak thru. I feel that if she does win, it’ll be by less of a margin than her 2% or so over (no)Talent in 06.
Betsy
OT because I wanted to hit ABL fans with a request for advice:
I have $100 to invest in key Congressional races that could swing with a bit of help. I’d like to apply the money in the most strategic way.
Which ones and how to divide it up? Give to DNCC (House)? Senate? One race or two or three?
Which races and how much to each?
quannlace
And another Republican who proves Santorum right.
Ruckus
Isn’t there an old saying:
Intelligence has it’s limits, stupidity has no bounds.
Maybe not that exact quote but many with the same concept. It’s been said so many times it can’t be attributed to anyone in particular.
OK this one perfectly sums up the republican party.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
Will Rogers.
Steeplejack
Shorter Lulli Akin: “Was it over when the Germans raped Pearl Harbor?!”
Gex
The problem with nurturing the “everyone is the enemy” instincts of these people is that they don’t know when to turn it off.
He wasn’t far from the rest of the GOP on policy. He just said in plain English what they usually hide. In a way he is being betrayed by the party because he believed there were principles and not election year dogwhistles driving the policies.
So the true believers are finally coming to realize they’re being played. Good. I love the infighting, and really enjoy eating popcorn.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Shawn in ShowMe:
The eastern 2/3s of Missouri’s core values actually. Areas west of Whiteman AFB hold on to the beer core value but don’t see much in the way of defense pork and although they’re sadistic to hold to it, they remain Royals fans.
Tonybrown74
Oh, for the love of Pasta …
For HER sake, I do hope that there is no such thing as Fate or Karma.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
1776 really is the only date in history any of them can remember, isn’t it? I bet they all have their ATM pin#s set to 1776 too; note to Republicans: do not ever, I repeat ever lose your ATM card. Not to mention the codes to their luggage.
Geeno
So, was it legitimate rape?
Just askin’
mdblanche
@Mart: I know an almost surefire way to make sure Senator #50 won’t be a blue dog next year: lose control of the Senate.
Chris
“Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance in politics” describes to a tee the way things worked AFTER 1776. Boss Tweed? Soapy Smith? E. H. Crump? Huey Long? Tom Pendergast? Richard Daley? No? Nobody?
Probably less applicable since Citizens United cut out the middleman, too.
Ash Can
@Geeno: Todd Akin didn’t get pregnant from it, so it must have been.
Culture of Truth
Breaking: Wife of Candidate Who Made Inappropriate Comment About Rape Makes Inappropriate Comment About Rape
GxB
@Villago Delenda Est: Heh, that wasn’t half bad was it? I’m just glad Roger Moore didn’t sneak in something similar, and better phrased, before me.
Bort
I know they are re-tooling the Romney-bot this week. I think he needs to use rape analogies for like everything. That would be rad!
hep kitty
Behind every [email protected]@rd is a stoopid byotch.
aimai
@Quicksand:
Take the damned internets then, for the rest of the day.
aimai
Punchy
And yet Akin will almost certainly win the Senate seat. Kinda makes you wonder if any Republican candy exists that Mizzou Pubs wont vote for.
patroclus
@Betsy: I’d suggest Jon Tester – he’s not perfect, but he’s a good Dem and $100 goes a lot further in Montana than elsewhere. If you’re thinking the House only, check out Charlie Cook’s list for various options. Here in Illinois, there’s 4 seats that might shift R to D with a little help.
Sparrowgal
From The Daily Beast, this precious description of ‘Our Lulli’, and how she narrowly escaped the perils of the leftie life by marrying Todd:
Who Is Mrs. “Legitimate Rape”? Meet Todd Akin’s Wife, Lulli
Culture of Truth
Within 10 years the GOP will only be able to speak in confusing metaphors like that alien Star Trek: The Next Generation
“Tenagra – when the walls fell!”
“1776 – when the party-boss-gay-muslim-rape-abortions happened”
Mart
All us Missouri Dems will vote for her. Of course we want congressional majorities. I just think we need to primary the blue dogs ’cause they are effective as trojan horses. She essentially has the seat of Mel Carnahan, whose wife beat Ashcroft when she was named his replacement in the 2000 election. (After he died in a tragic campaign plane crash.) Mel Carnahan was a liberal, but his wife was not ready for prime time. Claire took the seat in 2006. Aside from being an early Obama supporter, she sucks compared to Mel. Maybe a liberal cannot win in MO anymore, but I do not see how blue dogging helps her at all.
Dork
Wait…..what? They had party bosses (they had political parties?) in 1776? Did not know that.
Culture of Truth
Who do you think was in charge of refreshments at the Boston Tea Party?
Anoniminous
@Culture of Truth:
The best StarTrek® episode ever.
Suffern ACE
Do we have any less violent metaphors than rape to describe feelings of unjustified abandonment? I guess left at the alter…why doesn’t she just say Reince Preibus is a small dicked cowardly weenie for dumping her husband? The vienna sausage of party leaders if there ever was one. We might have something about which we somewhat agree with her.
Lurking Canadian
Romney, his wallet open, his eyes shifting!
The Other Chuck
Vote Darmok/Jalad in 2012!
The Other Chuck
@Anoniminous:
Naw. That one goes to The Inner Light. A tear jerker episode of _Star Trek_ of all things.
ranchandsyrup
If I can find some fat mannequin heads I’ll confabulate the Breitbart Rape Alarm with a simple STOP RAAAAAAAAPING PEOPLE recording.
If these idiot wingers are going to be around, may as well grift ’em. They’re eminently griftable.
rikyrah
they are out of their fucking minds
Linda Featheringill
@Betsy: #33
I actually have an answer:
Take back the house
Competitive house races
[September 2012]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/13/1130295/-Taking-Back-the-House-List-of-Competitive-House-Races
Nice study of current House races.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Punchy:
Sure, the person running against our moderate, Republican governor, Jay Nixon-D. Robin Carnahan slaughtered her last SoS opponent then of course ran a pathetic campaign for the other Senate seat.
So, it can happen…for a state-level job. Federal takes it to another area entirely.
And yeah, I believe the demographics and economics of this state, combined with a moribund state Dem party, will make it nigh on impossible for a Dem to get elected to statewide Federal office anytime soon.
And that’s part of Claire’s problem, she looks at Jay Nixon and says to herself “well, he might as well be a moderate Republican and he’ll slaughter his opponent come November. Yeah, that’s a winning stragetery for me!” She constantly misreads the tone of this state, constantly. She’s so fearful of the Repub machine and the wingnuts, she forgets just how pissed off the base is about her.
We’re not firebagging here, nor do we expect our purity ponies in a state that’s not simply trending red but rushing headlong into joining the rest of the SEC in something other than collegiate althuletics. But we also expect her to know when to STFU when it comes to undermining the party. And that’s something she’s never learned how to do.
Anoniminous
@Lurking Canadian:
Romney, Darmok on the ocean; Shaka when the walls fell.
Litlebritdifrnt
FYI Rush played a “fake” news conference on his show today which featured an Obama impersonator blaming the economy and everything else on the anti-muslim film maker. I would not be at all surprised if some goobers thought it was real so you may start to see some comments over at the usual haunts saying Obama blames the economy on youtube or something. Just thought I would give you a heads up for those of you that are brave enough to get out of the boat.
Kathy in St. Louis
Yesterday, I attended church in Todd Akin’s district, the one he represented for years and years. I now know why he kept winning. I was treated to a lecture on abortion, abortion, abortion. The pro-birth movement had a speaker there telling us that this was the issue upon which your vote must be decided. This was a captive audience, because this was a part of the actual church service, so it would have been awkward to get up and leave. No actual candidates were named in this fiasco, but it was pretty clear which was the “pro-life” party that they were seeking votes for.
I’d like to say that I was surprised, but it was more that I was flabbergasted but not surprised. I always knew that this was how this yahoo kept getting elected….the churches are pushing him and his useless party.
Chris
@The Other Chuck:
Not going to say they’re my favorite, but I’ve always been fond of the two Romulan episodes in TOS. One of Star Trek’s good attempts to tackle military themes, and written back before the Romulans became lame.
amk
@Sparrowgal: Oh boy. Pun intended.
Kathy in St. Louis
@Mart: Me, too. And there may be more than one lib in your neighborhood. There are 5 or 6 in my subdivision and I live in Chesterfield.
GregB
Mrs. Akin needs to get her metaphors in order. How can she be accusing the Republicans of rape. The GOP pulled-out, therefore there is no pregnancy, therefore no rape.
LanceThruster
Lie back and think of peak wingnut.
Kathy in St. Louis
@Shawn in ShowMe: You forgot farm subsidies and old time religion without that pesky, “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” passage.
jibeaux
So her argument is:
Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, hide yo husband, because Claire McCaskill’s rapin’ everybody in here?
Shawn in ShowMe
@Mart:
The Carnahan political dynasty started with Mel’s father, Albert, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1944. Back in those FDR was the president and a hotheaded Missourian named Truman was his right-hand man. Carnahans have gotten elected in Missouri because their last name was Carnahan, even when the Reagan Revolution made “liberal” a bad word.
Maybe Claire’s granddaughter will have the luxury of being a card-carrying label because she bears the McCaskill brand. But as far as some no-name liberal winning a Senate seat in Missouri in the present – fuggedaboutit.
Kathy in St. Louis
@Sparrowgal: I just nearly threw up. Did he brainwash her? It certainly couldn’t have been his looks or intellect that brought her around to “seeing the light”.
Spatula
Weird that Amani would post this on what she has described as a rape culture-enabling blog or some such other bullshit.
Strange, even.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Shawn in ShowMe:
Fixed.
Jewish Steel
@Betsy: My advice? Consult Science! Princeton Election Consortium’s high leverage picks:
https://secure.actblue.com/page/pec2012
Chyron HR
@Spatula:
Hey, Tim. Have you stopped beating your husband for being a “botulist” yet?
Tom65
queue Cole’s infamous takedown of MyIQEatsPaste…
Cacti
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Some wingnut blogger made an unsourced claim that the US Ambassador in Egypt refused to let Marine guards carry loaded weapons.
Completely false, but made it to Fox News all the same.
nemesis
Bitch, please.
Ben Cisco
@Anoniminous: Heh. Nicely done.
patrick II
If that were actually true, Todd Akin would not have been the Republican nominee for senator from Missouri in the first place.
Suffern ACE
@Cacti: Well if true (which is isn’t, but let’s say it is), at least in Egypt, that would probably have been for the best because the breach, while scary, didn’t result in anyone being shot by US embassy staff.
They honestly think we should meet all rioters with bullets. That’s not what embassy’s do. If we want to be a power, people are going to protest. People who can’t handle that need to go home and reflect what foreign policy is supposed to be about. Many things, I suppose, but making people love you isn’t exactly it.
patrick II
If that were actually true, Todd Akin would not have been the Republican nominee for senator from Missouri in the first place.
Chris
@Cacti:
I’ve heard the same thing, even more ludicrously, about soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sparrowgal
@Kathy in St. Louis: I had the same green feeling when I read it…she was actually given a “fine academic and athletic education” in France (gasp!) and Norway, and became a Systems Engineer at IBM before Kaa the Snakin turned his hypnotic gaze on her. Funny thing is, I read elsewhere that Akin thought her ‘rape’ statement even too hyperbolic for his taste. Go figure.
Chris
@Suffern ACE:
Aside from Libya, which most people are saying was a terrorist attack that just used the demonstration as cover – how many people have actually been killed or critically injured by rioters? I don’t think there were any in Cairo. Elsewhere?
The Ancient Randonneur
I guess Todd Akin should just “lay back and enjoy it.”
WereBear
@Sparrowgal: She might have suffered a psychic shock of some sort; the death of someone close to her, a destabilizing upbringing that continually undercut her sense of worth, or missing out on some opportunity she wanted very much.
Being unable to deal with adversity as an adult, as an adult would, can take two paths.
We can seek help and succor from like-minded beings, and grow up.
OR
We can throw in the towel and find some external authority who loves to tell us what to do and simply take over our life so that we never have to feel this way again.
By the time someone figures out that the latter plan has some serious side effects, they are in deep and must grow up enough to admit they made a further mistake. This is why so many of them have a hair-trigger and froth at the mouth when they feel threatened, which is all the time.
Everything she threw her own life away for is now at stake.
Chris Higgins
”You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
–Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
Suffern ACE
@Chris: I think there were two in Tunisa who were possibly killed the way rioters are.
Afghanistan is a different story, mainly because, well, people are shooting at each other all the time in Afghanistan.
That’s all I’ve heard so far. It’s been rubber bullets and tear gas. This isn’t to say that these aren’t violent protests that couldn’t go horribly wrong.
I think I read in the 2005 riots over the cartoons, there were about 150-200 total worldwide.
Bubblegum Tate
@Quicksand:
Holy Internet win, Batman!
Sparrowgal
@WereBear: While I’m certain there are psychological rationalizations to be made for each and every Akin, Teapartier and other Hyper-conservative out there, and I commend you for your efforts to understand this woman, I frankly have no longer have any desire to understand or empathize with the daily (it seems hourly) spews coming from their general direction. Perhaps it’s a sign of my own immaturity, but honestly, after dipping my toe numerous times a day in reports emanating from that quarter, I feel my only sane response is to mock, and in so doing, distance myself from that insanity. Otherwise, no kidding, I feel that my head is going to explode! very! soon!
Chris
@Suffern ACE:
Yeah, that was my impression.
I’m not trying to minimize the harm riots can cause or the stupidity of the reason for these riots, but – Jesus Christ, can we get a grip? Angry riots with property destruction and clashes with police aren’t exactly unknown in the “civilized” “law-abiding” West, they pop up pretty regularly in point of fact, and every now and then a few people die in them. Yet civilization goes on.
That’s what this seems to be. Again, I’m not trying to minimize the damage the riots are doing, but fucking Christ, this isn’t the Second Coming of the Iranian Revolution. I don’t even think it matches our own urban riots from the sixties. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if I could find British soccer riots that’ve killed more people than the two in Tunisia.
Kathy in St. Louis
@Sparrowgal: Aw, she probably met him at “Fellowship” at some hats and horns fundie church and her clock was ticking. I usually find that if you can’t be with the one you love, you love the one that’s available when it’s time to get married.
Sparrowgal
@Kathy in St. Louis: Thanks for the laugh.
Betsy
Hey @patroclus: @Linda Featheringill: @Jewish Steel:
Hey, thanks. That really helped! The money has been allocated and I feel good :)
Tommy D Cosmology
Someone needs to ask the Akins how old Earth is. They will answer something like 5,000 or 6,000 years old. This is truly what they believe. I live in Missouri, I have heard these views from these nutjobs.
Geeno
@Anoniminous: @Anoniminous: I liked that one too
kc
These people are messed up.
Mea
Very odd on so many levels. ” our daughters and wives” — she has internalized the patriarchy to such an extent that she assumes a male perspective in her comment. To be a woman and not be able to even view other women except in their relationship to men…that is sad and pathetic and just plain weird.