Defiant Akin Is Defiant

During the eleven o’clock broadcast, local news station WHDH reported that Todd Akin told Dana Loesch what he really meant by “legitimate rape” was that “women will claim they’ve been raped, lie about the circumstances, just so they can get an abortion”. Such a statement would lift up yet another rock under which the ugly Talibangical beliefs of Rethugs like Akin hide, but at the moment the video of that clip “is unavailable“...

... “I misspoke one word in one sentence on one day, and all of a sudden, overnight, everybody decides, `Well, Akin can’t possibly win,”’ he said on a national radio show hosted by former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. “Well, I don’t agree with that.”

Akin predicted he would bounce back from the political crisis threatening his campaign and capture a seat that is pivotal to Republican hopes of regaining control of the Senate.

“I’m in this race for the long haul, and we’re going to win it,” he told radio host Dana Loesch in St. Louis…

“The stakes in this election are far bigger than any one individual,” said Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. By staying in the race, Akin “is putting at great risk many of the issues that he and others in the Republican Party are fighting for.”...

Akin’s campaign released an open letter Tuesday from Jack Willke, former president of the U.S. National Right to Life Committee, stating he was “outraged at how quickly Republican leaders have deserted” Akin.

Akin “remains a strong and courageous pro-life leader—and awkward wording in one sound bite doesn’t negate that,” Willke’s statement said…

As the circular firing squad assembled, bold Red State Strike Farce Force leader Erick Erickson made his position abundantly clear:

... Congressman Akin said something dumb and inarticulate. But God bless him for trying to explain why so many Christians do not believe in an exception for rape and believe that to have one could see an increase in the number of claims of rape that are not actual rapes (“legitimate” rapes in his words), but are claims of rape used to justify an abortion when abortion is otherwise prohibited…

Todd Akin should not have to withdraw from the Senate race in Missouri. But given how quickly party leaders sought to distance themselves from Todd Akin and pull money from Missouri, there is not much left for him to do. By 5 o’clock today, Todd Akin must withdraw…

Given the way party leaders from Mitt Romney to John Cornyn have run from Todd Akin in the past 24 hours, Todd Akin must be willing to overcome his pride and realize that to advance his world view, he must end his campaign. The fight to take back the Senate runs through Missouri. It is a terrible burden to be now in Todd Akin’s position, knowing by staying in he could cost the Republicans the Senate and even be a drag on Mitt Romney’s chances to win Missouri.

Should he stay in the race, he will be the boogeyman in the Democrats’ false claims about a war on women and the man every Republican blames should they not take the Senate.

Every politician thinks he can win. Some times he just can’t. By 5 o’clock this evening, Congressman Aiken needs to withdraw so his party can unite behind a new nominee.

Erick “Voice of the GOP Gated Community” Erickson, Pragmatist, no doubt thanks his Heartland Jesus™ that he and his fellows are not (shudder) moral relativists like us pagan Democrats.

And speaking of Dana Loesch, the Pride of CNN , tweetmaster TBogg also unearths this amazing fuster of cluck:

That’s about one Joe Scarborough or Glenn Kessler away from the smoking lump of evil at the end of Time Bandits...

via Balloon Juice http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/22/defiant-akin-is-defiant/