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Office of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) (per Todd Akin)
Todd Akin sure has a way with words.
Back in August, it was his “legitimate rape” comment that caught everyone’s attention, and now PolitiMo has this report on Akin’s remarks last Saturday evening:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin said Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill has fetched expansive government policies “like a dog” during her tenure in Washington.
Akin made the comparison during a fundraising event in Springfield, where he featured support from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of the few national Republicans still backing Akin after much of the party establishment distanced themselves from his candidacy following the controversy earlier in the race surrounding his comments about “legitimate rape.”
“She goes to Washington, D.C., it’s a little bit like one of those dogs, ‘fetch,’” he said. “She goes to Washington, D.C., and get all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri.”
For a guy who was upset that Claire McCaskill was “unladylike” at their first debate, this strikes me as a rather impolite thing to say.
When Akin made his “legitimate rape” comments back in August, he tried to apologize and walk it back as the controversy grew. Will he do the same here, after the audio of his comments gets around?
Well . . . let’s see what Rick Tyler, Akin’s campaign spokesman, had to say this morning:
If Claire McCaskill were a dog, she’d be a “Bullshitsu”,
— Rick Tyler (@rickwtyler) October 22, 2012
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When reached for comment, Tyler replied with “It was a joke. Get it?”
Oh, I think we got it, Rick. We heard your dogwhistling just fine, thankyouverymuch.
If Todd Akin were a dog he’d be……
Whoops, that couldn’t happen. Dogs are smarter than this guy.
Gen J.C. Christian applied your unfinished sentence to Rick Tyler in his own subtle and understated manner.
Peter, I don’t understand why the stupid keeps going. Exept to say that Most People, and I’m sorry if that sounds like You People, for what Ever reason don’t pay attention.
I spoke to a check out clerk this morning, a nice woman who I have develped a kindly realitionship to. At the end of the transaction, and as there was no one behind me in line, I asked if she was going to watch the debate tonight. She said she hadn’t followed any of the politics going on.
I don’t know. I can’t figure a lot of this out.
Thanks for the post though.
PS, I do know that I don’t like the [words] coming out of that Akin man’s mouth.
(And, best to you and your family, Peterr. Trying times, and I believe best wishes make a difference in the universe.)
Classy – that’s what I like about the Rs. Ever classy.
Guess what? Akin will prolly get elected. It will show to go you the really smart voters we have out there.
Leslie Gore has a better way with words……
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101770467
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Keep fighting the good fight. Thank you.
Polling right now is leaning the other way, with TPM’s poll tracker giving McCaskill an 8.7% lead — 47.8% to 39.1%.
The key, though, will be turnout. If Akin’s comments stir the rightwing into action to defend their hero, and McCaskill’s supporters think it’s in the bag and get lazy, you could very well be right.
Is linking to FDL allowed on DU?
This reminds me of the dustup over Obama’s comment from the last election regarding Palin, “You can put lipstick on a pig . . ..”
BTW, I checked it out and Akin did recant his earlier comments about rape and pregnancy, which was more than just “trying to walk them back.” He said in a televised commercial, “Let me be clear: rape does lead to pregnancy.” I noticed when I looked at it that the YouTube video had over 257,000 hits, so it’s not that obscure.
Akin did nothing of the sort, and I’ve watched that video a dozen times.
You tried trotting that out a couple of weeks ago, and it still doesn’t fly. As I wrote on that earlier thread:
Akin may have walked back the notion that rape victims can’t get pregnant, but that’s not the most offensive part of his statement. It’s just the part that was so laughably and provably false. He didn’t recant his belief that after being raped by the rapist, women ought to be raped again by the legal system.
He certainly recanted the part of the comment about rape not leading to pregnancy, which I thought is what everyone was talking about, in addition to the “legitimate rape” phrase.