Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has apologized for his suggestion that women who have suffered a “legitimate rape” cannot be impregnated, admitting his serious error in biology.Much of the pressure for this move has come from Republican figures who have called on him to resign, including Senator Ron Johnson, S.E. Cupp, former Rep. Heather Burns, Adam Hasner, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Ric Grennell. But several prominent Republicans and right-wing organizations have come out in support of the beleaguered Senate candidate. Here, in no particular order, is a list of five of them:
why not it's the republican platform plank of shame, why shouldn't they defend it, their base doesn't care how reprehensible their candidates are.
6. Glenn Reynolds. The popular pundit and law professor simply wrote “BY THE TIME I NOTICED THIS STORY, IT WAS OVER, but Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” remarks pale in comparison with Whoopi Goldberg’s.”
WTF does what someone else said have to do with the topic on the table, she is not running for office.
She said: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and when they let him out he was like 'You know what this guy's going to give me a hundred years in jail I'm not staying, so that's why he left.'"
IMO she was distinguishing rape from statutory, but the right finds a divergence and a Black person to qualify as not that bad? Whoopi is a comedian they tend to say those kinds of things insensitive or not, but politicians it's their real feelings not an act.
