While many people are calling for Todd Akin to resign, I would prefer he didn't. Not because I want to see him get trounced, although I do, but because in the GOP of this day and age, he's not an outlier, but one of millions who inhabit the GOP now. And I'm sure most of the people who will vote for the GOP this year don't know this. No, not their local Representative. I'm sure they know their beliefs. But I talking about everyone on the GOP ticket this year. Think this is harsh? Well think again.
Under this group of GOP leaders, they have tried to pass a bill that would say that life begins at the moment of conception, the Personhood Amendment. This would make illegal not only any abortion, but a miscarriage (If it's a life at conception, then it's a form of killing anytime afterwards), some birth controls used by women, and several forms out-of-body fertilization. Think this is extreme? Well, the sponsor of the bill was Paul Ryan, the GOP Vice-Presidential candidate. So yes, taking away a woman's medical decisions is a plank of the mainstream GOP.
Think this is just an unusually dumb and stupid man running for the Senate, a first-time fringe candidate? No, he is already a member of Congress, a Representative from Missouri. And think his views have been totally renounced? No, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Center and the leader of the social right of the GOP, has said that Rep. Akin was correct and is saying he shouldn't step down or resign.
So why are so many GOPers asking him to step down and let someone elser run for the Senate in Missouri, because they disagree with him or they know almost all Americans find his view repulsive and all those who agree unworthy of holding office? Well, I have my thoughts, but I'll let you make up your own mind. Think he just mis-spoke, GOPers? Well, I'll say the same thing to you that you said about Biden's "chains" comment: A politician's gaffe is that person saying what they belief is really the truth.
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