lol, Dems having Todd Akin moments?

Controversial statements are generally avoided by candidates and, whether legal professionals or farmers are better equipped to deal with the intricacies of the legislative process is a matter about which folks might differ. (Some of the 5% of Iowa's populace whose business is agriculture may even regard pointing out that they are not readily interchangeable with lawyers as a compliment.)

Is it a very dumb thing to say if you're running for office? Indeed. Does it display Akin's monumental ignorance? Some like to pretend it does.



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Yeah, it's that damn mainstream media that caused Todd Akin to say something horribly idiotic and offensive. Damn you media! Akin is a genius and you stole the election from him. Benghazi.

 

Taxcutter says:
Akins' comment were about legitimate rape CASES not the act of rape itself being somehow "legitimate."

Anybody who knows jack about criminal law knows that a fair subset of rapes cases are not legitimate. They are instances of a vindictive woman recruiting the criminal justice system to bedevil a man who she perceives has "wronged" her somehow. Experienced prosecutors know this and vet the cases vigorously. If it looks like the case is valid, prosecutors call the CASE "legitimate." Nobody ever claimed the act of rape is legitimate.

Why do you post partisan lies made by the MSM?

 

You only confirmed my answer. None of the links you provided asserted that "it was only Republicans that make campaign killing gaffes."

You can try again, but I seriously doubt you could find anyone else posting such a fallacy.

 

So a body can shut down a legal case? Interesting. Can a body shut down parking tickets too?

(Psst you realize Todd Akin referred to the body "shutting down" rapes that occurred by making the girl unable to get pregnant from it via biological voo-doo. Ergo, your legal argument makes no sense at all in this context. Ergo, it's not the media, it's you living in a bubble detached from reality. If it was really a simple slip of the tongue, the entire Republican Party wouldn't have turned against him. Please come back to reality)

 

Pretending he said "cases" is one ploy that could be tried, certainly. (He didn't, of course.)

How do you spin the rest of his lunatic notions: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down"?

 

In fairness, it should be noted that whilst a fanatical element actually tries to defend Aiken's offensive ignorance, some GOPers ran away from him as if they grasped how repugnant his sputtering such nonsense was for intelligent Americans: “Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin’s statement,” the campaign said. “A Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape.”

 

Bingo. And the general public as a whole doesn't like it when campaigns get personal and ugly.

 

yes, but why did he get personal with his opponent? Because you don't want someone who is a farmer on the senate judiciary committee. If that's not any kind of elitist, I don't know what is.

The outrage over quotes like Romney's were not that he used stats to mislead people, it's that people were offended by it. This quote isn't saying, "oh, you wouldn't want a farmer in that spot, would you" it's saying, "oh, you wouldn't want a guy who didn't go to law school in that spot." Big difference.

 

A political opponent is, theoretically, someone who offers the public an alternative approach to governance.

In actuality, he's that villainous scoundrel stock figure who appears in grainy back & white mug shots in tv ads bought by the other jamoke's fat cat sugar daddy puppet masters whilst some puker-voiced reviler luridly spews some shamelessly embellished aspect of his consummate depravity whilst damsels fear for their virtue and the righteous hiss in scornful revulsion.

We've all come to know that guy all too well.

 

Never said "it's the exact same thing as what Todd Akin said," I've been extremely clear and have repeated myself multiple times on this. To see the comparison so simply as to say that you wouldn't want a farmer in that spot is just silly. It's a non-lawyer vs. a lawyer, as he's phrased it, and you want to tell me only 5% of the population fall in the first category?

 

Stupid to insult voters, but Akin is in a category to himself. I don't think anyone has, or ever will say something that idiotic. Correct me if I'm wrong. I already predicted the GOP to win the Senate 52-48. All seven went for Romney in 2012, and apathy from Democrat voters will give the Republicans the Senate. I said this in other threads, but the Democrats best chance is for the Tea Party to win their primaries.