http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/claire-mccaskill-todd-akin-legitimate-rape_n_1810351.html
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) warned top Republican officials on Monday that any efforts to push Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) out of the Senate race against her,following his galling remarks about "legitimate" rape victims not getting pregnant, would backfire.
"I think for Washington party insiders to come in and try to invalidate the votes of Missourians would be radical," McCaskill said in a phone interview with The Huffington Post. "I think that would be a very radical thing to have happen, and I can't imagine how the Republican primary voters would think about that in Missouri."
"I think there would be a significant backlash," she added. "I'm not sure that would have a good ending for the Republican Party."The comments were some of the first McCaskill has made in the wake of Akin's interview with KTVI-TV, in which he said that doctors had told him it was rare for rape to result in pregnancy."If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," said Akin, who was explaining the basis of his rigid pro-life stance. "But let's assume maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist."
i say leave the warrior against women in place and let them try and spin that, would a last minute entrant win they are still of that mindset same thought different hater.
McCaskill challenged Akin to name a doctor who would actually back up his claim, saying his comments were born from a deep ignorance of women's issues.
"I have a hard time imagining a woman uttering the phrase 'legitimate rape,'" McCaskill said. "It is not something that would ever come out of a woman's mouth, because it is something every woman is fearful of. I think every woman knows someone who has had to deal with sexual assault."
that IMO is tantamount to that right wing standard "a lady came up to me today and told me........., who the hell believes that they would have called out the press for a do over or their own hand camera, audio tape. it's BS, of the republican kind.
