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Did the GOP Throw Away a Pro-Life Senate Seat?

mjohansen Wrote: Oct 16, 2012 6:21 PM

Once again, the Republican elite takes a stand on principle: The principle that they don't want to be associated with those smelly peasants who insist on talking about "social issues", i.e. morality. At best, they'd rather not talk about abortion, gay marriage, creation vs evolution, homeschooling, etc. Often the Republican elite is little different from the Democrat elite in their views on such issues. They desperately want to regain control of the Senate, but if the price of such a victory is that they have to associate with the "Christian right" and "Tea Partiers", well, it's just not worth it.

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Did the GOP Throw Away a Pro-Life Senate Seat?

The pro-abortion ranks were absolutely jubilant about the mega-gaff made by Congressman Todd Akin, the Republican senate hopeful that was comfortably beating one of their own, Senator Claire McCaskill, in the swing state of Missouri. Akin tangled his words so badly in answer to an abortion question about exceptions for rape that he invented a nonsensical phrase: legitimate rape.

What Akin said was, “From what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare [the conceiving of a child during a rape]. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But...