Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Why Rep. Todd Akin scares the crap out of the Republican Party

Well, let's see, first there was thinly veiled (legitimate rape?) suggestion that most rapes aren't really rape.  If you have not been beaten to within an inch of your life, and have the cuts and bruises to prove it, then it wasn't really rape.  Hell, even then, you may just like it rough.

Then there was that whole thing about how you cannot really get pregnant from a rape.  After all, if was really, really a rape the the body would kind of shut itself down and you couldn't get pregnant.

So what you have here is that most women would lie about being raped in order to get an abortion, because you know women are lying sluts cannot really be trusted.  Add to it that wing nut conservative opinion carries much more weight than actual science.  And there you would have encapsulated the current state of Republican delusion thought.

But Todd Akin said it out loud.  It is not that they don't think the same way, look at the current Republican platform.  But you are supposed to use code that your moronic loyal base understands, but ambiguous enough that the cowardly mainstream press will not call you on it.