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Rep. Todd Akin, GOP candidate for the Missouri Senate, recently famous for his "legitimate rape" comments told NBC News that he's "totally in" and has no plans on dropping out of the Missouri Senate race despite many calls from leading Republicans to do so.
A cheerfully upbeat Akin said that internal polls conducted by his campaign showed a close race, one that he was "confident" he could win.
When asked whether the loss of national money from the Republican National Committee and right leaning Super PACs would hurt him, Akin responded, "people don't like the party bosses telling them to put somebody in after they have already elected somebody." He continued, "Everywhere I go, people come up to me and say keep up the fight, so I'm serving them."
Akin then drove his late 90s Ford Explorer off the Capitol grounds, on the rear bumper was a sticker "One Nation Under God" with an American flag.
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Todd Aiken: Still making bad decisions!
todd akin is still an horse's behind, won't change, still ignorant, and still a fine fellow for the gop, stay in the race, wait until the ads come out and if there is a debate, watch the worm squirm. does anyone know whether akin gave up his rep. seat to run for the senate, much like ryan did for vp, not.
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Akin has already showed his incompetency in holding office. His "legitimate rape" cheapshot and his belief a woman's body can perform an "Immaculate Rejection" to prevent pregnancy from a rapist goes down in history as a near-perfect example of the Right's regression. Essentially, the U.S. political discourse nowadays is a dog and pony show; the bar has gone so low it threatens to drop on the ground. The utter political stupity of Akin makes me want to coin the following expression, "Pulling an Akin." Akin's name just may equate with that kind of expression, and thus the word "stupid.
It's one thing to be taken out of context, say something off the cuff, make a mistake and apologize. But the republicans, these right wing, religious ideolougues, tea parties are so god awful arrogant. They truly feel they can say and do anything and it is not only OK, it's their gift to the immoral, the lazy, the out of touch, the lost, the liberals, the criminal sympathizer. IF the people in that state elect him AFTER all this, they deserve what they get. There is no political spin on what he said. It is plain and simple and he won't apologize because he believes it.