**UPDATED**
TODD AKIN is staying in Missouri Senate race.
“We are going to continue with this race for the US Senate.” – Todd Akin on the Mike Huckabee radio show
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Just got off a call with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Nancy Keenan and others. They weren’t acting gleeful, but the GOP platform that codifies the Todd Akin-Paul Ryan no exception for abortion, not even for rape or incest, just strengthens the current narrative that Republicans don’t respect women and our right to self-determination. It was happening just as Akin said he was staying in.
The most insulting aspect of the language in the GOP platform is religious conservatives call it the “human life amendment,” excluding the woman from the human right to consider her own life first. It’s such a stunning pronouncement that should send a clear message to everyone.
It’s a beautiful moment of serendipity that will aid Democrats until November, unless Romney can wrestle the narrative back to the economy, without stepping on his taxes.
“Today, Republican leaders passed the Akin amendment as part of their party platform, banning abortion for all women even in the case of rape. Several Romney supporters and advisers were present and stood silently while this vote took place. This should come as no surprise, as Mitt Romney supported this exact language in the 2004 and 2008 Republican platforms and Paul Ryan fought to ban abortion even in cases of rape. Women across this country should take note of the Republican Party’s position, and not trust any of the false promises made by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on the campaign trail.” —Lis Smith, Obama-Biden campaign spokeswoman
This post has been updated.
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I’m going to quote you on that, Art
The most insulting aspect of the language in the GOP platform is religious conservatives call it the “human life amendment,” excluding the woman from the human right to consider her own life first.
We women are not human beings to the fundamentalists. We are breeding machines.
Again, this whole conversation in the middle of high unemployment, food stamps being cut, Afghanistan, Iraq, is disgraceful for a country that’s supposed to be leading the world.
We can’t even build things anymore.
We have no BIG IDEAS that will transform our economy, our trading power & the people’s ability to compete financially or intellectually in the world.
Our leaders are not leaders in any sense.
It really saddens me when I see what foul things we do in this country as are so called leaders care nothing about money and power and do nothing except fan the flames of hatred to gain that power.
I then look in wonder as I watch a handful of people land a rover on another planet, and I see what we are capable of doing when we put our minds and bodies together and work for a common good.
There still could be greatness in this country if we only had the will for the common good of our citizens instead of the greed, hatred and the constant drive for power.
SAD…
Beautifully stated, angels81.
We the people do not give the government the right to force dead people to use their bodies to keep others alive, through forced harvesting of organs from the deceased. Why do these yahoos want to give the government the power to force pregnant women to use their bodies to keep a zygote alive?
Women deserve the same rights we give to dead people. You know, equal protection under the law, and all that.
THAT is an EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcellent point!!!!!!!!!!
They always put these names on stuff like Healthy Forests that has nothing to do with “healthy forests”. They really should name that the zygote protection amendment.
OH! Too cru-el.
They should REALLY name it The misogynistic, superstition addled repugnantklan/teabagger war on women amendment.
Eventually, crazy bites itself in the a$$. Go Mr. Akin, Go!
Radio moron Tom Sullivan started his show on a “Todd Akin is the most selfish human being on the planet” riff, even declaring that “Akin has never held a private sector job,” trying to convince his audience that he wasn’t 100 percent for Akin all the way up to the moment Akin made himself unelectable. It was disgusting, as it couldn’t be more obvious that the ONLY think Sullivan cares about is the GOP getting a Senate Majority. The MOMENT Akin became a deteriment to that sacred cause, he was persona non grata to Sullivan- and Hannity, and all the rest.
Akin’s best reason for staying in the race is that he’s already spent a ton of money to win the primary, and he owes the people who have turned on him NOT A DAMN THING. My guess is this is a negotiating ploy, and he’ll withdraw as soon as he can make a deal to get his primary campaign paid for by the usual corporate sources.
On the other hand, if Akin is tied with McCaskill a month from now, all the “get out now” yakkers will spin on a dime again and demand that Akin gets funded by the RNC. Bank on it.
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They always put these names on stuff like Healthy Forests that has nothing to do with “healthy forests”. They really should name that the zygote protection amendment. Ga6thDem
Ah, yes, the word salad war whose chief Frank “the grifter” Luntz and his “words that work” three-card monty sham has done lots of harm to hide the real effect of Republican policiesmaking turning their monsters into lambs for the 99%or for that part of the populace who would believe the lies. From privitizing social security, to kicking the stuffing out of medicare, to permanently maintaining the Bush tax cuts, to the never ending wars, etc.
How very apt, this image: http://tinyurl.com/8fcj9y9
And, with this next example, I’m not equating Luntz wih the horror show of the Nazi’s but I do agree with those who equate him with their propaganda machine as is annotated here: http://tinyurl.com/8jxx4wa