I guess it runs in the family.
"Rep. Todd Akin’s wife, Lulli Akin, says the Republican Party’s attempts to push her husband out of the Missouri Senate race — over his false assertion that women who are raped rarely get pregnant — are like rape itself."
"She also believes the GOP’s abandonment is on par with the tyranny that launched the American Revolution. "
"Akin’s wife isn’t the first one to compare Akin’s explosive rape comments, and the ensuing fallout, to rape: Bryan Fischer said the party’s treatment of the embattled candidate had made Akin “a victim of forcible assault.”
"Lulli Akin made the charge in a new National Journal profile, which reveals a family affair of a campaign — Akin’s campaign manager is his son, and Lulli is also a key player."
"Lulli Akin says in the profile that she is not turned off by the refusal of national Republicans to contribute money to the race. She says small donations — and God’s will — will help her husband win,
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/todd-akins-wife-compares-gop-against-him-to-1776-tyranny-and-rape.php?ref=fpb
So if Akin is the victim of "forcible rape" is he allowed an abortion? Does this mean he can get the GOP leadership thrown in jail? Remember for Akin-and Ryan-forcible rape is "real rape."
Mrs. Akin's comments prove that you don't have to be male to be clueless about this subject. It tells you a lot about Missouri that this race is still so close.
"Todd Akin said his wife’s comparisons to 1776 were “a little more grandiose than the way I would say it” — but he did say that there is a “this tremendous sense of uprising I feel among the people I talk to.”
Yep, her comments were just a little too grandiose.
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