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#52 Aug 22 2012 at 8:02 AM Rating: Good
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I'm sure his token resistance will make all the difference.


They're neck & neck and his TV adds predominately feature Democrats endorsing him, so this doesn't hurt him.
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#53 Aug 22 2012 at 8:13 AM Rating: Excellent
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Ah, I meant difference in regards to the GOP. I don't doubt that he'd use his "independence" as a talking point for the election.
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#54 Aug 22 2012 at 11:07 AM Rating: Good
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Looks like he's slowly buckling, or just going with the "I'm doing it my way" facade.
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#55 Aug 22 2012 at 1:53 PM Rating: Good
The deadline was 5PM yesterday for him to quit "in time." If he quits now, he stays on the ballot in November and they'd have to do a massive write-in campaign to get anyone else elected.
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Actually he can drop out between now and Sept 25 but the Sec of State has to approve it. I know that if he had dropped out yesterday the state GOP could select someone else for the ballot. I don't remember how they'll fill the slot if he drops out before the 25th.

I believe Akin also has to personally shoulder the state's printing costs for new ballots if he drops out.
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#57 Aug 22 2012 at 3:55 PM Rating: Good
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I believe Akin also has to personally shoulder the state's printing costs for new ballots if he drops out.


Good thing he's got all those new campaign donations.
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According to Ryan, rape is rape is rape...
CBS Pittsburgh wrote:
Delano: “You sponsored legislation that has the language ‘forcible rape.’ What is forcible rape as opposed…”

Ryan: “Rape is rape. Rape is rape, period. End of story.”

Delano: “So that forcible rape language meant nothing to you at the time?”

Ryan: “Rape is rape and there’s no splitting hairs over rape.”

...especially when you're dodging questions about your support and co-sponsorship of a bill that explicitly redefined rape to NOT be "rape is rape is rape". I guess the language "meant nothing" Ryan. Or else he didn't know what it meant. Or maybe he just never read the bill.

More likely, "rape is rape" because Ryan only considers it to be "rape" when the woman has enough bruises to show for it.
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That's just his ways of saying "I don't want to talk about my embarrassing past actions that could hurt me politically right now." Has very little to do with what he truly thought then or truly thinks now.
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Well sure. The legislation he signed his name to tells us what he truly thought. What he says now to hide his true thoughts just shows his character, such as it is.
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No, cause he didn't leave marks.
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No, cause he didn't leave marks.


But he is leaving bad impressions on everyone.
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Todd Akin: He won't abort this election.
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Todd Akin: He won't abort this election.


At least until he gets the hook.


Edited, Aug 22nd 2012 8:19pm by Shaowstrike
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I had a German machine in the shop once that was roughly translated to English by the German Engineer who made it. There was one button on a screen, very large, that said ABORTION (it was the Stop button).

Someone got offended by it... they called me to the machine to complain and asked me to change it.
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#67 Aug 22 2012 at 9:05 PM Rating: Decent
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Oops. Already posted.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2012 10:06pm by Paskil
#68 Aug 23 2012 at 7:02 AM Rating: Good
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Was it a clothes hanger attached to a piston of some sort?
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#69 Aug 23 2012 at 9:05 AM Rating: Excellent
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For all that they are mockable in the extreme, his stupid remarks are pretty much in keeping with the pretty ignorant segment of society he is courting for votes. Pity.

Also, in another totally boneheaded move, he is spinning himself as the hunted and bullied underdog that needs help to fight those nasty party bosses oppressing him:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-todd-akin-the-underdog-asks-for-help-to-fight-the-party-bosses-20120822,0,5777246.story
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"The media is against us. The Washington elites are against us. The party bosses are against us," Akin says in an email plea to supporters. "Will you help my fight back by chipping-in $5 today?"
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For all that they are mockable in the extreme, his stupid remarks are pretty much in keeping with the pretty ignorant segment of society he is courting for votes. Pity.

Also, in another totally boneheaded move, he is spinning himself as the hunted and bullied underdog that needs help to fight those nasty party bosses oppressing him:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-todd-akin-the-underdog-asks-for-help-to-fight-the-party-bosses-20120822,0,5777246.story
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"The media is against us. The Washington elites are against us. The party bosses are against us," Akin says in an email plea to supporters. "Will you help my fight back by chipping-in $5 today?"


That first link of yours led to many more links, resulting in a chain of increasingly distressing reads.

Smiley: um
#71 Aug 23 2012 at 10:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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Atomicflea wrote:
For all that they are mockable in the extreme, his stupid remarks are pretty much in keeping with the pretty ignorant segment of society he is courting for votes. Pity.

Also, in another totally boneheaded move, he is spinning himself as the hunted and bullied underdog that needs help to fight those nasty party bosses oppressing him:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-todd-akin-the-underdog-asks-for-help-to-fight-the-party-bosses-20120822,0,5777246.story
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"The media is against us. The Washington elites are against us. The party bosses are against us," Akin says in an email plea to supporters. "Will you help my fight back by chipping-in $5 today?"


That first link of yours led to many more links, resulting in a chain of increasingly distressing reads.

Smiley: um

I was happy to see that the word "whackadoodle" has made into main stream media. The world can only be a better place for this.
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#72 Aug 23 2012 at 11:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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That first link of yours led to many more links, resulting in a chain of increasingly distressing reads.

Smiley: um

Yeah, I'm sort of at my limit with the way blatant stupidity is celebrated on the right. I realize that many in his own party are calling for his withdrawal, but his donations alone speak to the sort of underground (for lack of a better term) support and it's disturbing. It's truly alarming to think of the willful, pervasive ignorance of basic biology.
#73 Aug 23 2012 at 11:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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And in other news that makes me want to vomit...

cnn.com wrote:
‎"... in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. When no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights, a woman may feel forced to bargain away her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for the rapist dropping the bid to have access to her child. "

#74 Aug 23 2012 at 11:51 AM Rating: Good
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And in other news that makes me want to vomit...

cnn.com wrote:
‎"... in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. When no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights, a woman may feel forced to bargain away her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for the rapist dropping the bid to have access to her child. "


Even worse are the post-article comments denigrating her situation on the sole basis of wilfull ignorance and disbelief.

Edited, Aug 23rd 2012 12:52pm by BrownDuck
#75 Aug 23 2012 at 12:11 PM Rating: Good
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I think all this anti-rape talk is just hate speech, trying to fear-monger men into being afraid of vaginas. So what, is a man supposed to think, "Well, there's this ****** here, and my ***** thinks it wants me inside of it. But wait, where is the rape line??" That's just too much thought to expect men to have under such duress.
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