Todd Akin has made his peace with his “mistake” of mentioning “legitimate rape”:
If you start to blame everybody else for something that you didn’t like that happened, it will destroy you.
In the interview embedded at that link, both the reporter and Akin treat his remarks like some kind of negligent, out-of-character accident. It’s as if long-time safe driver Todd Akin took his eyes off the road for one minute and ran someone over, or disciplined Christian Todd Akin got bit in the ass by a wasp during a prayer meeting and said “fuck” over an open mike.
What really happened is lifelong anti-abortion radical Todd Akin explained what he really believes about rape in public when he should have kept that shit private.
Villago Delenda Est
So, I guess this is a Kinsley gaffe, eh?
Morbo
Apply this statement to Libertarians and a funny thing happens.
Cassidy
And we couldn’t be better for it. Please Mr. Akin, continue to tell us, as a representative of the Republican Party, what you really think about rape, abortion, single moms, wimmens, gays, etc. Just come speak your mind into this here microphone.
Fanshawe
In the future, on the eve of the Todd Akin Library dedication ceremony, studies will show that people have a much more positive opinion of Mr. Akin, so suck it libs.
MomSense
The thing is that if our media actually performed their necessary function in our democracy, he would have been asked repeatedly to explain his position on abortion and reproductive health since his views on rape were in writing, contained in actual legislation he had sponsored!
Trakker
He also said: “We make mistakes, say things the wrong way.” WTF? How do say something that stupid the right way?
The important thing is that he said this before the election, not after he had won and was explaining his vote to deny abortion to rape victims.
c u n d gulag
1941 News of the World!!!:
Adolph Hitler publicly regrets using the words “Filthy Jews.” *
Says it was out of character.
*Apologies to Mr. Godwin.
Omnes Omnibus
@Trakker:
Now you start to see his difficulty. I really feel for him.
scott
Reminds me of how Mel Gibson blamed his anti-Semitic slurs on being drunk. So, when you’re trashed, THAT comes out…..because?
scott
Reminds me of how Mel Gibson blamed his anti-Semitic slurs on being drunk. So, when you’re trashed, THAT comes out…..because?
NotMax
AFAIK, no right-wing soda bottlers have come out with a flavor named Legitimate Grape … yet.
Villago Delenda Est
@c u n d gulag:
Did you know that this individual openly blamed “the Jews” for starting WWII?
Man, those guys are powerful, being able to order the entire Wehrmacht to cross the Polish border, not to mention invade the Soviet Union! They also successfully ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the bastards!
Villago Delenda Est
This ties right in to the thread below, where Rogoff claims now that he never emphasized the 90% debt to GDP “tipping point”, but actually, he did. On numerous occasions. It wasn’t just Eddie Munster getting carried away with boyish enthusiasm.
Cacti
Speaking of rape philosophers, we have a future GOP politician honing his craft at the University of Arizona…
Villago Delenda Est
@Cacti:
If this twit’s body is found broken and bleeding behind a dorm, I don’t think any investigation is required.
After all, he’s asked for it, hasn’t he?
PsiFighter37
@Cacti: Don’t think that guy is going to be welcome at many/any parties on campus. And just when he turns of legal drinking age as well! What a shame.
c u n d gulag
@Villago Delenda Est:
And don’t forget, now they also run the Trilateral Commission, and Hollywood!
Like Jon Stewart said the other night, to Egypt’s Jon Stewart – something to the effect of, ‘If it was true that Jews run TV and movies, don’t you think I’d be on something besides Basic Cable?’
JPL
@Cacti: One might wonder how Saxton feels about hijabs.
Cacti
@PsiFighter37:
I couldn’t help but notice the complete lack of women among his sign-holding compatriots.
I doubt any of them will experience the touch of one any time in the near future.
Davo
He’s not sorry he’s too fucking stupid to know that eggs cant fucking think to know if said wee-wee was invited or not.
He’s just sorry he aint teh Senator.
Fuck him.
28 Percent
@Cacti: If you look carefully at the signs, they’re not supporters, they’re counter-protesters.
Boudica
@Villago Delenda Est: My daughter is a junior there. I’ll see what she can do….
Certified Mutant Enemy
@Davo:
I think he believes the Baby Jesus makes that decision….
NotMax
@cacti
Jeez. Prob thinks* a cap and gown is a burqa without a hood while exuding the rancid stench of Compassionate Conservatism.
*Though assigning the word “think” to this loon is stretching it.
JGabriel
mistermix @ top:
Fixed that for you. I’m sure I’m not the only one here who is grateful — despite my appreciation for the anonymity of modern sewage treatment — that Akin did not keep his shit private.
Villago Delenda Est
@Boudica:
I would not want her to devote so much as five minutes of her no doubt copious spare time to this clown.
If she and some friends can deal with him in less than that, of course, then by all means, proceed!
? Martin
Story of the GOP right there.
RobertDSC-iPhone 4
@NotMax:
But there is a Japanese product called Tentacle Grape.
/hangs head in shame for this knowledge.
NotMax
@RobertDSC-iPhone 4Tres bizarre.
What hath Urotsukidoji wrought?
piratedan
glad that the Toddster had the courage of his convictions and stated his position publicly. The people of Missouri then made their decision known at the ballot box. Scary thing is, the fucker still had people vote for him, which just shows that some R’s don’t give a fuck what you’ve done and said just as long as you’re not a Democrat.
Shrillhouse
Hmmm, 31 comments and no one has pointed out that wasps sting, rather than bite?
Just Some Fuckhead
Wasps sting.