Just over the past few months, Republican Todd Akin, the U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, has said victims of "legitimate rape" have magical abilities to prevent pregnancies, defended employers who choose to pay women less than men for equal work, and critiqued Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D) ability to be "ladylike."
Any chance the right-wing congressman can make matters a little worse? As a matter of fact, yes.
At a fundraiser on Saturday night, Akin decided he should compare Claire McCaskill to a dog. "She goes to Washington, D.C., and it's a little bit like one of those dogs, you know 'fetch,'" Akin said. "She goes to Washington, D.C., and get all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and she brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri."
Rick Tyler, a former aide to Newt Gingrich who's now working to get Akin elected, said his candidate "made an analogy -- probably could have made a better one."
Yes, Rick, given his track record, Akin probably could have avoided comparing the woman he's running against to a dog.
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"Stupid is as stupid does" That phrase fits Akin to a T....
Also as stupid sounds with his hillbilly accent.
It's so ironic that Akin is a "legitimate" candidate.
If this moron ever goes to prison, he'll know what so-called legitimate rape is all about. The GOP has cornered the market on morons. I almost miss Tom Delay.
I'm sure his system is equipped to expel the unwanted pregnancy. lol
Too funny!!
Perhaps Akin is ignorant. Perhaps he plays the ignorant fool to distract people from the truly evil GOTP. Perhaps it is a combination of both. Missouri is the 'show me state'. They have shown all of us that a good many living there are ignorant or do not care about most of the population.
Now, now, it's not just Missouri, just look Bachman from Minnesota, Kyl from Arizona, McTurtle from Kentucky, Paul from Texas & Kentucky, Gohmert from Texas - aww dayum the list is too long but you get the point! What I want to know is who are these empty headed voters that obviously aren't paying attention to anything that are voting these people into office?!
He has a preexisting condition fortunately Obamacare covers it:
Akin Syndrome: A turrets like disorder that manifests as the inability to not say incalculably inaccurate things usually associated with reproductive biology and/or violent crime. Patients may also display temporal dissociation and believe that it is 1955 and that what they are saying is perfectly acceptable.
Good one.
Maybe he was raped?
Not a complaint but it's actually Tourette's Syndrome
TC what can I say I am not an actual Dr. but I play one online.
I've been looking for House, I know I've got something, I've seen the combination of symptoms in about 5 of his patients. My case would be bigger than that Mermaid they found.
I'm beginning to think the only jobs that are being created by the Repubertycans, are the ones they pay to their gophers, the ones they yell "Fetch" to. His dogs have to constantly make up excuses for him. Come on, now. Does Missouri really need a guy who has to be excused every time he opens up his mouth. Does it make him feel more like a man when he puts women down? It is actually making him appear more like a whimp.
Well, we are in danger of getting a president that backtracks.......or flips.....or flops......or...hopefully NOT!
You know that Akin's supporters are disappointed that he couldn't remember the word for female dog.
Yes because the technical term for female dog is exactly what he wanted to call her...
@jjm-3261835: I figured that all of the stuttering before he said "fetch" was his attempt to avoid calling her a little b*tch. It's pretty obvious.
Hopefully, this misstep will dog him through Nov 6.
And what everyone is missing that no teapub will call him out for doing all this stuff. They all say he could have used a better term so you know they are supporting what he says and they think it the same way.
Missouri, you may be pro-life or pro-choice, you may feel that Federal spending on infrastructure may stimulate the economy or that only defense spending can do that, you may agree that requiring unnecessary ultrasounds is NOT government interference while preventing banks from gambling with your retirement funds is...but
The current Republican party is actively disenfranchising American citizens.
Our country was born of the idea of one man one vote. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..."
In 1937, a protestant minister, Martin Niemoller, was jailed by the Nazis for not supporting them. When the Allies freed him at the end of WWII he said, 'When they came for the communists I didn't say anything because I wasn't a communist. When they came for the unionists I didn't say anything because I wasn't a unionist... When they came for me no one said anything because there was no one left.'
The current Republican party apparently thinks the Nazis had a good idea.
Do you believe in representative government or not?
So she's female, not "ladylike," acts like a dog ... Is there a word he's "pussyfooting" around?
Rachel, I wonder almost everyday why Abortion is not brought up as an economic issue as well as a social one. If the Republicans get their way, then what? What happens to all those unwanted children, who get put into an over loaded system? It is difficult to adopt in this country i know people waiting for years, and yet if abortion is outlawed who is going to take care of those children that are given up by a mother or family who just cannot take care of them. Do the Republicans have a plan for that? They already want to cut funding for services so that means more on the state taxes side, so where does the tax cut come in when the Fed Gov cuts and cuts it puts a higher burden on the States, which then leads to an increase in State taxes. Or am i out of my mind for thinking about this stuff. Is this the trickle down the Republicans are talking about? I think the Republicans need to live in the real world where the rest of us live and walk in my shoes with the holes in soles. I watch you everynight, you give it straight out no matter who it is and try to reason why things are the way they are. I even watch you before work on the rerun from 0400 to 0500.
Or was it a strategic move? Gave them a chance to remind everyone that Obama eats dog. Check out ObamaEatsDog.com and be sure and check out the recipe.